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8pt;" class=""> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, Sans-Serif; font-size: 12pt;" class=""> <div dir="ltr" class=""> <hr size="1" class=""> <font size="2" face="Arial" class=""> <b class=""><span style="font-weight:bold;" class="">From:</span></b> "Root, Paul T" <Paul.Root@CenturyLink.com><br class=""> <b class=""><span style="font-weight: bold;" class="">To:</span></b> 'Ian Diddams' <didds3@yahoo.co.uk>; "'xymon@xymon.com'" <xymon@xymon.com> <br class=""> <b class=""><span style="font-weight: bold;" class="">Sent:</span></b> Friday, 30 May 2014, 14:40<br class=""> <b class=""><span style="font-weight: bold;" class="">Subject:</span></b> RE: [Xymon] monitoring msgs<br class=""> </font> </div> <div class=""><br class=""><div id="yiv4564501115" class=""><style class="">#yiv4564501115 #yiv4564501115 --
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<div class=""><span style="font-size:11.0pt;" class="">Is your xymon setup in central mode or local mode?</span></div>
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<div class=""><span style="font-size:11.0pt;" class="">By default xymon is setup in central mode.</span></div>
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<div class=""><span style="font-size:11.0pt;" class="">So you’d want this in the client-local.cfg and the analysis.cfg on the server.</span></div>
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<b class="">Sent:</b> Friday, May 30, 2014 4:44 AM<br clear="none" class="">
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<b class="">Subject:</b> [Xymon] monitoring msgs</span></div>
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<div class="" style="background:white;"><span style="font-size:8.0pt;" class="">Hi all.</span></div>
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<div class=""><span style="font-size:8.0pt;" class="">I am really struggling to understand how to monitor msgs in xymon. I have read the man pages over anhd over and nothing I am doing seems to work.</span></div>
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<div class=""><span style="font-size:8.0pt;" class="">In the client I have the following files in ~/client/etc</span></div>
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<div class=""><span style="font-size:8.0pt;" class="">client-local.cfg:<br clear="none" class="">
log:/var/log/messages:4096</span></div>
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<div class=""><span style="font-size:8.0pt;" class="">localclient.cfg:</span></div>
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<div class=""><span style="font-size:8.0pt;" class="">LOG /var/log/messages warn COLOR=red</span></div>
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<div class=""><span style="font-size:8.0pt;" class="">The actual msgs report in the xymon web page says</span></div>
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<h3 class="">System logs at Fri May 30 10:29:38 BST 2014 : No log data available</h3>
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<div class=""><span style="font-size:8.0pt;" class="">I need a dummies guide to msgs monitoring!</span></div>
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<div class=""><span style="font-size:8.0pt;" class="">If anyone could provide such a beast i would be immensely grateful.<br clear="none" class="">
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