[hobbit] LOG pattern not matching

[Steve Holmes]

Charles,
I had read the man page, honest. I read the following:

"logfilename" is the name of the logfile. Only logentries from this filename
will be matched against this rule. Note that "logfilename" can be a regular
expression (if prefixed with a '%' character).

to mean that %.* would match all logfilenames. Guest not, huh?

Thanks, I'll try that.

Steve.



On 5/9/07, Charles Jones <jonescr at cisco.com> wrote:
>
>  Your syntax is wrong.  For logfile monitoring you must have the following
> in hobbit-clients.cfg:
> *LOG logfilename pattern [COLOR=color] [IGNORE=excludepattern]*
>
> So, using one of your examples below, it should be:
>
> LOG /var/adm/messages WARNING COLOR=yellow
>
> If you need a reference just check the man pages, either on your Hobbit
> instance, or at:
> http://www.hobbitmon.com/hobbit/help/manpages/man5/client-local.cfg.5.html
>
> http://www.hobbitmon.com/hobbit/help/manpages/man5/hobbit-clients.cfg.5.html
>
> -Charles
>
> Steve Holmes wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> I may not be understanding how the LOG match-pattern works.
>
> In my hobbit-clients.cfg file I have under the DEFAULT section the
> following:
>
>         LOG %.* NOTICE
>         LOG %.* ERROR
>         LOG %.* WARNING COLOR=yellow
>         LOG %.* notice COLOR=yellow
>         LOG %.* error COLOR=yellow
>         LOG %.* daemon.error COLOR=yellow
>         LOG %.* warning COLOR=yellow
>         LOG %.* warn COLOR=yellow
>
> At the moment on my hobbit server I have a green status for the host
> mentor and the following messages in /var/adm/messages:
>
> [msgs:/var/adm/messages]
> <...SKIPPED...>
> purdue.edu scsi: [ID 107833 kern.warning] WARNING: /pci at 9,600000/SUNW,
> qlc at 2/fp at 0,0/ssd at w21000004cffa6698,0 (ssd1):
> May  9 11:07:36 mentor.ics.purdue.edu     Error for Command:
> read(10)                Error Level: Retryable
> May  9 11:07:36 mentor.ics.purdue.edu scsi: [ID 107833 kern.notice]
> Requested Block: 33383911                  Error Block: 33383911
> May  9 11:07:36 mentor.ics.purdue.edu scsi: [ID 107833 kern.notice]
> Vendor: SEAGATE                            Serial Number: 0317A1JGAZ
> May  9 11:07:36 mentor.ics.purdue.edu scsi: [ID 107833 kern.notice]
> Sense Key: Media Error
> May  9 11:07:36 mentor.ics.purdue.edu scsi: [ID 107833 kern.notice]
> ASC: 0x11 (unrecovered read error), ASCQ: 0x0, FRU: 0xf
> May  9 11:07:36 mentor.ics.purdue.edu scsi: [ID 107833 kern.warning]
> WARNING: /pci at 9,600000/SUNW, qlc at 2/fp at 0,0/ssd at w21000004cffa6698,0 (ssd1):
> May  9 11:07:36 mentor.ics.purdue.edu     Error for Command:
> write(10)               Error Level: Retryable
> May  9 11:07:36 mentor.ics.purdue.edu scsi: [ID 107833 kern.notice]
> Requested Block: 33982299                  Error Block: 33982299
> May  9 11:07:36 mentor.ics.purdue.edu scsi: [ID 107833 kern.notice]
> Vendor: SEAGATE                            Serial Number: 0317A1JGAZ
> May  9 11:07:36 mentor.ics.purdue.edu scsi: [ID 107833 kern.notice]
> Sense Key: Unit Attention
>
> The above is copied from the hobbit display reached by clicking on the
> [/var/adm/messages] link on the msgs page for this host.
>
> In the client-local.cfg I have:
>
> [sunos]
> log:/var/adm/messages:10240
>
>
> So why is the page green? There are at least 3 strings that should match
> to turn it yellow, right? And incidentally, the BB server I'm running on
> another host *does* show yellow. I'm trying to validate my hobbit
> configuration by making sure it matches the running BB server. And it
> doesn't for msgs, ever.
>
> Thanks,
> Steve.
>
>
>


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