ZE CLI Tool

ze is Zebrium's command line interface for uploading log events from files or streams. Please visit the official ScienceLogic's docs page for the full documentation.

Getting Started

Installing

• Download the corresponding release from the releases page
• Unzip the downloaded file in
• Set up your path in your shell config to include the new binary
• Start a new terminal and test your installation ze -v

Configuration

The ze cli tool supports a variety of ways to set its parameters. All parameters are settable via args. To find out the args available and required for each call, use ze -help or ze <subcommand> -help When leveraging the configuration file or ENV variables, ze cli will use the following precedence: Config File -> Env Files -> Command Line Args

Configuration File

The ze cli tool does support setting global variables in a .ze file for easy configuration. The default location of this is $HOME/.ze, however this can overridden with passing a new path with the --config option. The contents of that file is as follows:

auth: XXXXXXXXXX
url: https://cloud.zebrium.com

Environment Variables

The ze cli supports setting the following env variables

ZE_AUTH: XXXXXXXXXXXX
ZE_URL: https://cloud.zebrium.com

Upload Commands

The ze up command is used to upload log event data to your Zebrium instance from a file or stream (STDIN) with appropriate metadata. To see a full list of upload options, please run the command:

ze up --help

Example Usages:

Ingest three log files associated with the same support case "sr12345" (does not assume a .ze configuration file exists):

ze up --file=/casefiles/sr12345/messages.log --svcgrp=sr12345 --host=node01 --log=messages --url=<ZE_LOG_COLLECTOR_URL> --auth=<ZE_LOG_COLLECTOR_TOKEN>

ze up --file=/casefiles/sr12345/application.log --svcgrp=sr12345 --host=node01 --log=application --url=<ZE_LOG_COLLECTOR_URL> --auth=<ZE_LOG_COLLECTOR_TOKEN>

ze up --file=/casefiles/sr12345/db.log --svcgrp=sr12345 --host=db01 --log=db --url=<ZE_LOG_COLLECTOR_URL> --auth=<ZE_LOG_COLLECTOR_TOKEN>

Ingest a continuous tail of /var/log/messages. When reading from a stream, such as STDIN, rather than from a file, ze requires the –log flag (assumes a .ze configuration file exists):

tail -f /var/log/messages | ze up --log=varlogmsgs --svcgrp=monitor01 --host=mydbhost

Batch Commands

Please see zebrium batch documentation

Migrating from the perl based ze-cli

The existing perl based application can be found here

.zerc file

The .zerc file is now replaced with a .ze file that accepts the configuration in yaml. This is described here This means that configs that was specified as

url=<ZE_LOG_COLLECTOR_URL>
auth=<ZE_LOG_COLLECTOR_TOKEN>

will now need to be

url: <ZE_LOG_COLLECTOR_URL>
auth: <ZE_LOG_COLLECTOR_TOKEN>

ENV Variables

We now support setting env variables. currently we support the following list:

ZE_URL = <ZE_LOG_COLLECTOR_URL>
ZE_AUTH = <ZE_LOG_COLLECTOR_TOKEN>

Issues

If you are having issues or need assistance with your Zebrium deployment or POC, please reach out to support@zebrium.com If you are reporting a bug in the software, then feel free to open an issues on this repository For Security Issues, please see SECURITY.md

Contributors

• Braeden Earp (ScienceLogic)