[hobbit] Problem to check logs with Hobbit

Kauffman, Tom KauffmanT at nibco.com
Mon Sep 15 19:58:17 CEST 2008


I checked - the allinone patch has significant changes for logfetch.c, the client-side program that processes the log file.

Tom

-----Original Message-----
From: L.M.J [mailto:linuxmasterjedi at free.fr]
Sent: Saturday, September 13, 2008 1:58 AM
To: hobbit at hswn.dk
Subject: Re: [hobbit] Problem to check logs with Hobbit

Le Wed, 10 Sep 2008 13:34:46 -0400,
"Kauffman, Tom" <KauffmanT at nibco.com> a écrit :
> On your hobbit server -
>
> 1) set up etc/client-local.cfg to reference the logs you want AND any exclusions. For AIX, I have:
> [aix]
> log:/var/log/syslog:10240
>         ignore 3004-004
>         ignore 3004-035
>         ignore 3004
> log:/var/log/console.log:10240
> log:/var/log/dsmsched.log:10240
>
> 2) set up etc/hobbit-clients.cfg to create your alerting criteria. For AIX, I've got these set:
> HOST=%.*
>           LOG /var/log/syslog %.*crit.su.*to.root red
>         LOG /var/log/syslog %.*crit.su   yellow
>         LOG %/var/(adm|log)/console.log %.*not.responding.still.trying yellow
>
>
> Change client-local.cfg first. Allow 15 to 20 minutes for this to propagate to the client; look for a file
> called logfetch.<hostname>.cfg in client/tmp. This should match your entries in client-local.cfg.
>
> Once the logs sart coming in, play with the client-local.cfg and a test system, to track what you're
> interested in.


Hi & thanks once again for you tutorial but that's crazy, I still can't see any log reported to the server!
I'm monitoring oracle & mysql databases, Netapp filers, DNS, DHCP, smtp, imap, firewall via devmons, SAP via
CheckMySAP plugin, a lot processes on 4 different OS, etc... but I'm incapable to monitor a nasty log
file :-/
 Is there some well-know bugs about this issue? I'm using Hobbit 4.2.0 without allinonepatch.

  Thanks for any help

    Best regards,

      LMJ




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