<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:8pt"><div style="" class="">Hi all.<br style="" class=""></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 10.67px; font-family: "Arial"; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;" class=""><br style="" class=""></div><div class="" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 10.67px; font-family: "Arial"; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">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.</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 10.67px; font-family: "Arial"; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;" class=""><br style="" class=""></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 10.67px; font-family: "Arial"; background-color:
transparent; font-style: normal;" class="">In the client I have the following files in ~/client/etc</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 10.67px; font-family: "Arial"; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;" class=""><br style="" class=""></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 10.67px; font-family: "Arial"; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;" class="">client-local.cfg:<br class="" style="">log:/var/log/messages:4096<br class="" style=""></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 10.67px; font-family: "Arial"; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;" class=""><br style="" class=""></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 10.67px; font-family: "Arial"; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;" class="">localclient.cfg:</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 10.67px; font-family: "Arial";
background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;" class="">LOG /var/log/messages warn COLOR=red<br class="" style=""></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 10.67px; font-family: "Arial"; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;" class=""><br style="" class=""></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 10.67px; font-family: "Arial"; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;" class="">The actual msgs report in the xymon web page says</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 10.67px; font-family: "Arial"; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;" class=""><br style="" class=""></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 10.67px; font-family: "Arial"; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;" class="">"
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<td class="" style=""><h3 class="" style="">System logs at Fri May 30 10:29:38 BST 2014 : No log data available</h3><pre class="" style="">The client did not report any logfile data
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</center>"</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 10.67px; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-family: "Courier New";" class=""><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 10.67px; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-family: "Courier New";" class=""><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 10.67px; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-family: "Courier New";" class="">I need a dummies guide to msgs monitoring!</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 10.67px; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-family: "Courier New";" class=""><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 10.67px; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-family: "Courier New";" class="">If anyone could provide such a beast i would be immensely grateful.<br><br>cheers<br></div><div style="color:
rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 10.67px; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-family: "Courier New";" class=""><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 10.67px; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-family: "Courier New";" class="">Ian</div></div></body></html>