[hobbit] monitoring logs

[Lars Ebeling]

somestring has to be a regular expression (which i know nothing about), but %Relay works for me.

Regards
Lars
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Johan Booysen 
  To: hobbit at hswn.dk 
  Sent: Friday, August 08, 2008 4:28 PM
  Subject: [hobbit] monitoring logs


  I'm trying to get hobbit to monitor /var/log/messages for specific entries ("somestring" in my example below) on server1.

   

  In hobbit-clients.cfg I've added (above DEFAULT):

   

   HOST=server1

          LOG /var/log/messages somestring COLOR=red

   

  And in client-local.cfg, I've added:

   

    server1

    log:/var/log/messages:10240

    ignore MARK

   

  My understanding is that server1 should now collect data from /var/log/messages, and the hobbit server will then, if it finds "somestring" in the log file, flag it as red in the msgs column.

   

  I can now see the entire log for server1 on the web interface, but the msgs icon doesn't change to red.

   

  What am I missing?

   

  Also, does any of the defaults in client-local.cfg  match RHEL5 machines, e.g.

  [redhat]

  log:/var/log/messages:10240

  ignore MARK

   

  or

   

  [redhatES]

  log:/var/log/messages:10240

  ignore MARK

   

   

  Thanks.

   
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