[collectd] collectd tail plugin regex

[Ewing Greg (ITG)]

Hi,

I'm having issues getting the tail plugin to produce any meaningful output, and wonder if I can ask for some help and support.

I have been fiddling with it for a few hours now and have to admit that I don't understand enough about regex to make it work, or perhaps I'm doing something else wrong.

I'm trying to get tail to follow /var/log/secure to count the rate of ssh failed and successful connection attempts, in a similar manner to the example in the documentation.  However I cant get any data to be captured in the rrd what so ever. I conclude that I am doing something wrong, please can you help?  The regex examples in the documentation did not provide anything more than the example below.  Please let me know if you need more information.

Eventually I want to use the tail plugin to monitor DHCP Address Allocations too.

The System is RHEL5.2

The plugin configuration I am using is as follows (trying just to capture anything at present):

LoadPlugin tail
<Plugin "tail">
  <File "/var/log/secure">
    Instance "ssh"
    <Match>
      Regex "."
      DSType CounterInc
      Type counter
      Instance "ssh"
    </Match>
  </File>
</Plugin>



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