Shell script to monitor weblogic log for exception

Summary:

This script is going to monitor weblogic AdminServer.log to for any Exception and trigger email with exception stack.

WeblogiServerLogWatcher.sh:

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#!/bin/bash
#set -xv
# The script to verify the error from AdminServer.log logs

Path=/scratch/Oracle/Middleware/user_projects/domains/Testing/servers/AdminServer/logs

#removing the old scripting logs
if [ -s “$Path/script/file.txt” ]
then
rm $Path/script/file.txt
fi

#date based on the log format
date=`date “+%b %-d, %Y”`

#Log Details
log1=$Path/AdminServer.log

#checking logs
grep -i “$date” $log1 | egrep -A20 -B5 -i ‘Exception’ >> $Path/script/file.txt

#email

if [ -s “$Path/script/file.txt” ]
then
#echo ‘file has data’
cat $Path/script/file.txt | mail  -s “Exception in Weblogic Server” sxyz@oracle.com,xrct@gmail.com
# do something as file has data
#else
# do something as file is empty
fi

#cat $Path/script/output | mail  -s “Exception in Weblogic Server” sxyz@oracle.com,xrct@gmail.com

# END

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Add it to Cron job:

Type the below command

crontab -e

Add the below line to run the script for every 4 hours

0 */4 * * * /scratch/Oracle/Middleware/user_projects/domains/Testing/servers/AdminServer/logs/script/WeblogiServerLogWatcher.sh

Summary:

Above script I wrote for internal use, please customize according to your need. You can monitor multiple servers and also read email from external file etc.