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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Is your xymon setup in central mode or local mode?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">By default xymon is setup in central mode.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">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"><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""> Xymon [mailto:xymon-bounces@xymon.com]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Ian Diddams<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Friday, May 30, 2014 4:44 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> xymon@xymon.com<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [Xymon] monitoring msgs<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.<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">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.<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">In the client I have the following files in ~/client/etc<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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log:/var/log/messages:4096<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">The actual msgs report in the xymon web page says<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"><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black">I need a dummies guide to msgs monitoring!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black">If anyone could provide such a beast i would be immensely grateful.<br>
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cheers<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black">Ian<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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