Nagios log format

Nagios
1

Hi all…
Can anyone help me with this one…
I want to set my nagios to write logs as YYYY-MM-DD
right now log are in format - MM-DD-YYYY…

I`m running nagios under FreeBSD 5.4 stable

Thanks !

2

Probably your best chance would be to set the date_format variable in nagios.cfg to something like iso8601… although whether or not that will affect the timestamp in the logs is unclear from the documentation

[blockquote]Date Format

Format: date_format=
Example: date_format=us

This option allows you to specify what kind of date/time format Nagios should use in the web interface and date/time macros. Possible options (along with example output) include:

Option Output Format Sample Output
us MM/DD/YYYY HH:MM:SS 06/30/2002 03:15:00
euro DD/MM/YYYY HH:MM:SS 30/06/2002 03:15:00
iso8601 YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS 2002-06-30 03:15:00
strict-iso8601 YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SS 2002-06-30T03:15:00 [/blockquote] nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/3_0/configmain.html

3

By default I am with iso8601 and the log format date is MM-DD-YYYY. So maybe it’s not connected with the log name.
Anyone else has other suggestions?

Thanks

4

There is not parameter you can set in nagios.cfg to change the nagios.log date format. But I suggest you use following script to change epoch time to Normal Date format for auditing resource.

#!/usr/bin/perl

------------------------------------------------------------

a script to take nagios.log records as input, and then

output them with the date field converted to something

human-readable

------------------------------------------------------------

sub epochtime
{
my $epoch_time = shift;
($sec,$min,$hour,$day,$month,$year) = localtime($epoch_time);

correct the date and month for humans

$year = 1900 + $year;
$month++;

return sprintf("%02d/%02d/%02d %02d:%02d:%02d", $year, $month, $day, $hour, $min, $sec);
}

while (<>)
{
my $epoch = substr $, 1, 10;
my $remainder = substr $, 13;
my $human_date = &epochtime($epoch);
printf("%s] %s", $human_date, $remainder);
}

exit

Run the above script as
#cat nagios.log | epoch.pl