[hobbit] Re: New to Hobbit --- file monitoring

[Scott Mohnkern]

Thanks for the help.  I edited /etc/hobbit/hobbit-clients.cfg so the line
reads:

FILE /etc/passwd GREEN noexist

still no joy.

Is there anyone on the list that has an example of a FILE line in their
hobbit-clients.cfg file?

On 11/1/07, Hubbard, Greg L <greg.hubbard at eds.com> wrote:
>
>
> Try removing the TRACK keyword, and then change NOEXIST to lower case.  I think Henrik has reported that there are a few bugs in this code,
> and it is not always clear when case matters and when it doesn't, or when
> the order of the arguments matters.
>
>
>  ------------------------------
>  *From:* Scott Mohnkern [mailto:mohnkern at gmail.com]
> *Sent:* Thursday, November 01, 2007 3:10 PM
> *To:* hobbit at hswn.dk
> *Subject:* [hobbit] Re: New to Hobbit --- file monitoring
>
>  When all else fails, nuke it and start over.  I did an apt-get remove
> hobbit, and then a dpkg -- purge.  Then I removed any files I could find.
> Then I downloaded the Ubuntu deb file and installed it.  It put the
> configuration files in /etc/hobbit and it started fine
>
> I edited /etc/hobbit/hobbit-clients.cfg and added the following line:
>
> PROC ntpd 1 99 green "TEXT=NTPD is up"
>
>
> Restarted hobbit, and in a few minutes, it started reporting as expected.
>
> Then I added:
>
> PORT "LOCAL=%(:8888)" TEXT="Gnump is up"
>
> To the same file, (/etc/hobbit/hobbit-clients.cfg) and restared hobbit.
>
> A few minutes later, the ports section started reporting, as expected.
>
> (Though I realize that its a bit off, which I need to fix)
>
>
> Then I added:
>
> FILE /etc/passwd GREEN NOEXIST track
>
> Reading the documentation inside hobbit-clients.cfg I edited
> /etc/hobbit/client- local.cfg and added the following line:
> file:/etc/passwd
>
> restarted hobbit, waited 5 minutes.  No luck.
>
>
> I'm pretty convinced that either:
>
> 1. the format of the line  in /etc/hobbit/client-local.cfg or
> /etc/hobbit/hobbit-clients.cfg is incorrect, or
> 2. There's something else I need to edit.
>
>
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