[hobbit] 'msgs' test log content not being sent to Hobbit server

[Henrik Stoerner]

On Tue, Jul 24, 2007 at 10:36:37PM +0100, Mostardi, David  (MDL US) wrote:
> The messages file has been stocked exclusively with messages containing the
> word 'fatal'. The stanza 'logfile:/var/adm/messages' knows the file is large
> and visible, but the stanza 'msgs:/var/adm/messages' says the file is null,
> and that's evidently what gets reported back to the Hobbit server. So my
> msgs test never goes from green to red.

Remember: The Hobbit client only reports on new data being written into
the log, not old data which was there before. So if your logfile hasn't
been updated within the past 30 minutes you will not see any logdata
reported by the client.

Would that explain what you're seeing?


Regards,
Henrik