[hobbit] Not getting alerts for log entries on Solaris 10 Update 3 (SPARC)

[Steve Holmes]

Ken,

I notice you have short host names in the config  as well as in the log
files. Do you have short host names in the bb-hosts file as well?

Steve Holmes

On 7/25/07, Kenneth Bourn <kbourn at adpt-tech.com> wrote:
>
>  I am having issues with getting Hobbit to report log entries from client
> log files.  The server is getting the log data but, despite a valid string
> entry in the log file, no alerts are generated.
>
> Here is an excerpt from my client-local.cfg file:
>
> [hosta-z1]
> log:/var/adm/messages:10240
>
> And a corresponding entry from the hobbit-clients.cfg file:
>
> HOST=hosta-z1
>     LOG /var/adm/messages sshd COLOR=red
>
> The status never changes for this host despite sshd entries existing in
> the /var/adm/messages file.  I used "sshd" because I KNOW that there are
> current entries in /var/adm/messages since everytime hobbit runs an ssh
> check on the server an sshd message is generated.  I have chosen this string
> just to troubleshoot this problem...
>
> Clicking on "msgs" for this host, there is a message "No entries in
> /var/adm/messages".  But if I click on the "/var/adm/messages" link it shows
> recent entries with the sshd string in the log file as the following shows:
>
>  [msgs:/var/adm/messages]
> Jul 25 16:59:34 hosta-z1 sshd[4164]: [ID 800047 auth.info] Connection closed by 10.0.0.68
> Jul 25 17:04:37 hosta-z1 sshd[4507]: [ID 800047 auth.info] Connection closed by 10.0.0.68
> Jul 25 17:09:39 hosta-z1 sshd[4857]: [ID 800047 auth.info] Connection closed by 10.0.0.68
> Jul 25 17:14:41 hosta-z1 sshd[5192]: [ID 800047 auth.info] Connection closed by 10.0.0.68
> Jul 25 17:19:41 hosta-z1 sshd[5534]: [ID 800047 auth.info] Connection closed by 10.0.0.68
> Jul 25 17:24:40 hosta-z1 sshd[5884]: [ID 800047 auth.info] Connection closed by 10.0.0.68
> Jul 25 17:29:45 hosta-z1 sshd[6222]: [ID 800047 auth.info] Connection closed by 10.0.0.68
>
> Does anyone know what the problem may be?  Is there possibly any known
> issues with Hobbit logging under Solaris 10 Update 3 for SPARC?  I have
> tried almost everything I can think of to get this to work and I am getting
> no where.
>
> Thanks in advance for any help.
>
> -Ken
>
>
>


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