# Alert on events

**URL:** <https://forums.suse.com/t/alert-on-events/26961>\
**Category:** SLES Configure-Administer\
**Created:** [April 21, 2015, 5:16pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/alert-on-events/26961 "2015-04-21T17:16:34Z")\
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**Author:** ![tzwaj](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e95f7d/32.png) [@tzwaj](https://forums.suse.com/u/tzwaj)\
**Post date:** [April 21, 2015, 5:16pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/alert-on-events/26961/1 "2015-04-21T17:16:34Z")

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Hi,

What is the easiest way to alert on certain events in the message file?  
For example “Accepted keyboard-interactive/pam for xxxx”  
It is ok to e-mail when it happens.

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**Author:** ![smflood](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/user_avatar/forums.suse.com/smflood/32/10576_2.png) [@smflood](https://forums.suse.com/u/smflood)\
**Post date:** [April 21, 2015, 6:28pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/alert-on-events/26961/2 "2015-04-21T18:28:35Z")

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On 21/04/2015 15:24, tzwaj wrote:  
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> What is the easiest way to alert on certain events in the message file?  
> For example “Accepted keyboard-interactive/pam for xxxx”  
> It is ok to e-mail when it happens.[/color]

Which version of SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) are you running?  
Please post the output from “cat /etc/\*release”.

There are a few options though some depend on the version of SLES. One  
option could be to use syslog-ng (SLES11 and earlier), another is Nagios  
or some other monitoring system.

## HTH.

Simon  
SUSE Knowledge Partner

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