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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> Ian Diddams [mailto:didds3@yahoo.co.uk]
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<b>Sent:</b> Friday, May 30, 2014 9:26 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> Root, Paul T; 'xymon@xymon.com'<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Xymon] monitoring msgs<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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sorry paul - when you say<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">"So you’d want this in the client-local.cfg and the analysis.cfg on the server."<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"> "Root, Paul T" <<a href="mailto:Paul.Root@CenturyLink.com">Paul.Root@CenturyLink.com</a>><br>
<b>To:</b> 'Ian Diddams' <<a href="mailto:didds3@yahoo.co.uk">didds3@yahoo.co.uk</a>>; "'xymon@xymon.com'" <<a href="mailto:xymon@xymon.com">xymon@xymon.com</a>>
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<b>Sent:</b> Friday, 30 May 2014, 14:40<br>
<b>Subject:</b> RE: [Xymon] monitoring msgs</span><span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black">So you’d want this in the client-local.cfg and the analysis.cfg on the server.</span><span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black"> Xymon [<a href="mailto:xymon-bounces@xymon.com">mailto:xymon-bounces@xymon.com</a>]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Ian Diddams<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Friday, May 30, 2014 4:44 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:xymon@xymon.com">xymon@xymon.com</a><br>
<b>Subject:</b> [Xymon] monitoring msgs</span><span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black">Hi all.</span><span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black">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
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black">In the client I have the following files in ~/client/etc</span><span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black">The actual msgs report in the xymon web page says</span><span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<h3>System logs at Fri May 30 10:29:38 BST 2014 : No log data available<o:p></o:p></h3>
<pre>The client did not report any logfile data<o:p></o:p></pre>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black">I need a dummies guide to msgs monitoring!</span><span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black">If anyone could provide such a beast i would be immensely grateful.<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black">Ian</span><span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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