Search HTTPD Log Links Macro

=search_httpd_log_links() is a script macro to report search links in the HTTPD log file.

search_httpd_log_links(site, s)
 
        init
                status =piktstatus
                level =piktlevel
                task "Report new search httpd log links"
                input logfile "=httpd_logdir/access_log_(site)"
                filter "=httpd_cgibin_root/webstats.pl -f -(s) -sl |
                        =sort | =uniq -c | =sort +0n"
        rule
                output mail $inlin

webstats.pl is a Perl script (not shown) to filter HTTPD log files and output certain types of information in various formats.

You might invoke the =search_httpd_log_links() macro in your alarms.cfg for more than one website log file thusly:

///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
 
SearchHttpdLogLinksEMC
 
        =search_httpd_log_links(emc, e)
 
///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
 
SearchHttpdLogLinksPIKT
 
        =search_httpd_log_links(pikt, p)
 
///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////

Output from the SearchHttpdLogLinksEMC script might look like, for example:

INFO:
    SearchHttpdLogLinksEMC
        Report new search httpd log links
              ...
             
              ...

And output from the SearchHttpdLogLinksPIKT script might look like, for example:

INFO:
    SearchHttpdLogLinksPIKT
        Report new search httpd log links

              ...
            
              ...

For more examples, see Samples.