[hobbit] Monitoring file sizes

Paul Ward pnward at googlemail.com
Thu Jan 8 03:52:56 CET 2009


Thanks for your help,

I will wait for dome data to turn up now.
The other thing though is I have         DIR /home TRACK
In the hobbit-clients.cfg but no DIR are showing up in xymon under
filesystems or files?
Is there again something I have not done?

Thanks

2009/1/8 Rich Smrcina <rsmrcina at wi.rr.com>:
> Paul Ward wrote:
>>
>> Hi All,
>>
>> I a bit of a newbie to hobbit / xymon so please forgive me.
>>
>> I have been trying to get my hobbit server to monitor a file called
>> /home/xymon/test.txt, so I can log the growth on it, should I append
>> TRACK to it?
>>
>> I have modified client-local.cfg and added
>> [linux]
>> log:/var/log/messages:10240
>> file:/home/xymon/test.txt
>>
>> I have no data in hobbit to show for this what am I doing wrong?
>>
>> Thanks
>
> In hobbit-clients.cfg on the server you need to add a FILE entry.  See the
> commentary at the beginning of the file for details.
>
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