Can we monitor logs where logfile extension is based on the date and it is keeps changing everyday using logmon probe

Products

• DX Unified Infrastructure Management (Nimsoft / UIM)

Issue/Introduction

Can we monitor logs where logfile extension is based on date and it is keeps on changing everyday using logmon probe

xxxx.%Y%m%d 

eg: log.20170919, log.20170920 

How do we monitor such logs?

Environment

UIM 8.x
UIM 9.x
UIM 20.x

Resolution

Yes.The below pattern should work with logmon 

xxxx.%Y%m%d 

eg: log.20170919, log.20170920 

Use Time Formatting Primitives 

https://techdocs.broadcom.com/us/en/ca-enterprise-software/it-operations-management/ca-unified-infrastructure-management-probes/GA/monitoring/systems-and-service-response/logmon-log-monitoring/logmon-im-configuration/logmon-advanced-im-configuration.html