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Also, are your permissions allowing the xymon user to access the log file you are monitoring? I've seen on some systems that /var/log/messages permissions disallow world read...
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<div>Also, I think if you set it in the DEFAULT area, it will enable it for all hosts...you may want that. Fairly certain it doesn't have to be associated with a specific host to work.<br>
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<div id="divRplyFwdMsg" dir="ltr"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif" color="#000000" style="font-size:11pt"><b>From:</b> Xymon <xymon-bounces@xymon.com> on behalf of Root, Paul T <Paul.Root@CenturyLink.com><br>
<b>Sent:</b> Friday, May 30, 2014 12:24 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> 'Ian Diddams'; 'xymon@xymon.com'<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Xymon] monitoring msgs</font>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; color:#1F497D">Yep.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; color:#1F497D">First, the LOG line needs to come before the DEFAULTS section.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; color:#1F497D">Second, you need to tell it what machine to operate on:</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 11:01 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> xymon@xymon.com<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Xymon] monitoring msgs</span></p>
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and for clarification, msgs report still returns a white button and the follwoing in the megs page itself</span></p>
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<pre>The client did not report any logfile data</pre>
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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"> Ian Diddams <<a href="mailto:didds3@yahoo.co.uk">didds3@yahoo.co.uk</a>><br>
<b>To:</b> "<a href="mailto:xymon@xymon.com">xymon@xymon.com</a>" <<a href="mailto:xymon@xymon.com">xymon@xymon.com</a>>
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<b>Sent:</b> Friday, 30 May 2014, 16:28<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Xymon] monitoring msgs</span><span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"; color:black"></span></p>
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This is my hobbit-clients.cfg </span><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:black"></span></p>
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