[hobbit] Monitoring syslog and other log files

[Rich Smrcina]

Logger requires the facility and level indicators, eg:  logger -p 
local0.info ...

Allan.Marillier at dana.com wrote:
> 
> Somebody please point me at some docs on setting filters for syslog and 
> other log file monitoring, or give me some starting point. I've checked 
> the archive, browsed through the installation and config pages, looked 
> through man pages, and I'm just not seeing it.
> 
> I have the standard configs on my clients, with clientlaunch.cfg and 
> hobbitclient.cfg. I tried sending a few test messages to syslog using
> logger -p ERR test and logger -p ERROR test, but get nothing reported.
> 
> hobbitclient.cfg has the default setup with the following. This is not 
> the same as processes, disk etc. is it, where the client config is no 
> longer used, but is set on the hobbit server?
> # For the msgs check
> DOMSGS="TRUE"
> NOMSGSCOLOR="clear"
> BBMSGSTAB="$BBHOME/etc/bb-msgstab"
> CHKMSGLEN="TRUE"
> IGNMSGS=""
> MSGEXPIRE="30:60"
> MSGFILE="/var/log/messages"
> MSGS="NOTICE WARNING"
> PAGEMSG="NOTICE"
> REDMSGSLINES="20"
> YELLOWMSGSLINES="10"
> 
> Thanks.

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