<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:8pt"><div class=""><span class=""><br>hmmm...</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 10.67px; font-family: "Arial"; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;" class=""><span class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class="" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 10.67px; font-family: "Arial"; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span class="">I have nio analysis.cfg! 9which is possibly why its not working!)<br class=""></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 10.67px; font-family: "Arial"; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;" class=""><span class=""><br class=""></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 10.67px; font-family: "Arial"; background-color: transparent;
font-style: normal;" class=""><span class="">here's the contents of the xymon server server/etc directory<br class=""></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 10.67px; font-family: "Arial"; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;" class=""><span class=""><br class=""></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 10.67px; font-family: "Arial"; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;" class=""><span class=""><br class=""></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 10.67px; font-family: "Arial"; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;" class=""><span class="">$ ls<br class="">bbcombotest.cfg </span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 10.67px; font-family: "Arial"; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;" class=""><span class="">bbwarnrules.cfg </span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 10.67px;
font-family: "Arial"; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;" class=""><span class="">columndoc.csv </span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 10.67px; font-family: "Arial"; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;" class=""><span class="">hobbit-alerts.cfg </span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 10.67px; font-family: "Arial"; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;" class=""><span class="">hobbit-clients.cfg </span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 10.67px; font-family: "Arial"; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;" class=""><span class="">hobbit-nkview.cfg </span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 10.67px; font-family: "Arial"; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;" class=""><span class="">hobbitserver.cfg<br class="">hobbit-apache.conf </span></div><div style="color:
rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 10.67px; font-family: "Arial"; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;" class=""><span class="">hobbitgraph.cfg </span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 10.67px; font-family: "Arial"; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;" class=""><span class="">bb-services </span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 10.67px; font-family: "Arial"; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;" class=""><span class="">client-local.cfg </span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 10.67px; font-family: "Arial"; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;" class=""><span class="">getw.cfg </span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 10.67px; font-family: "Arial"; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;" class=""><span class="">hobbitcgi.cfg </span></div><div style="color:
rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 10.67px; font-family: "Arial"; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;" class=""><span class="">hobbitlaunch.cfg </span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 10.67px; font-family: "Arial"; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;" class=""><span class="">hobbitpasswd</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 10.67px; font-family: "Arial"; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;" class=""><span class=""><br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 10.67px; font-family: "Arial"; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;" class=""><span class="">cheers.</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 10.67px; font-family: "Arial"; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;" class=""><span class=""><br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 10.67px; font-family:
"Arial"; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;" class=""><span class="">didds<br class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><br class=""></div> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 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, 15:31<br class=""> <b class=""><span style="font-weight:
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<div class=""><span style="font-size:11.0pt;" class="">This is the file you want to monitor and what you want to monitor.</span></div>
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<b class="">Subject:</b> Re: [Xymon] monitoring msgs</span></div>
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sorry paul - when you say</span></div>
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<div class=""><span style="font-size:8.0pt;" class="">"So you’d want this in the client-local.cfg and the analysis.cfg on the server."</span></div>
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<div class="" style="background:white;"><b class=""><span style="font-size:10.0pt;" class="">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;" class=""> "Root, Paul T" <<a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:Paul.Root@CenturyLink.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:Paul.Root@CenturyLink.com" class="">Paul.Root@CenturyLink.com</a>><br clear="none" class="">
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<b class="">Sent:</b> Friday, 30 May 2014, 14:40<br clear="none" class="">
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<div class="" style="background:white;"><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="" style="background:white;"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;" class="">By default xymon is setup in central mode.</span></div>
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<div class="" style="background:white;"><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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<div class="" style="background:white;"><span style="font-size:8.0pt;" class="">Hi all.</span></div>
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<div class="" style="background:white;"><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
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<div class="" style="background:white;"><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="" style="background:white;"><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="" style="background:white;"><span style="font-size:8.0pt;" class="">I need a dummies guide to msgs monitoring!</span></div>
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