[xymon] Wants Status to change for MSGS (Log file) for Hobbit Client

[Tim McCloskey]

Richard, 

Without looking at the man pages I'll just give an example that seems to work fine for me.  I don't know if you need to apply any kind of regex to something as simple as 'error' but it probably would not hurt to give it a try.


LOG  %/var/log/(kern|messages) "%(error|ext3_journal_start_sb|Detected aborted journal|rabid monkeys|and so on)" COLOR=yellow


Regards, 

Tim



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From: Richard Quinn [richardquinn72 at gmail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, September 29, 2010 6:09 PM
To: xymon at xymon.com
Subject: [xymon] Wants Status to change for MSGS (Log file) for Hobbit Client

Hello,


I'm having a problem with getting a hobbit client to change status of 'MSGS' to Red if Hobbit finds the word "error" in /var/log/messages.

A few things to note:


 *   The Client *can* transmit data to the hobbit server for all other statuses(memory, procs, disk, etc..) without any problems
 *   The ''hobbit'' account does have read access to /var/log/messages
 *   The Client launches Hobbit with the ''-local'' option to allow use of localclients.cfg
 *   I've frequently ran ''logger -p" to force the word ''error'' into /var/log/messages.
 *   The hostname matches what's in bb-hosts and the config files on both client and server
 *   Linux client and server


Here is what I have in  /home/hobbit/client/etc/localclient.cfg on the Hobbit Client:
============================================================
DEFAULT
        UP      1h
        LOAD    5.0 10.0
        DISK    * 90 95
        MEMPHYS 100 101
        MEMSWAP 50 80
        MEMACT  90 97

LOG /var/log/messages error COLOR=red         ##This does not work
PROC "/opt/openfiler/sbin/opendev" 1 2 yellow   ##This works fine
============================================================

Here is what I have in /home/hobbit/server/etc/client-local.cfg on the Hobbit Server:
============================================================
[linux]
log:/var/log/messages:10240
============================================================


And here is what I have in /home/hobbit/server/etc/hobbit-clients.cfg on the Hobbit Server:
============================================================
UP      1h
LOAD    5.0 10.0
DISK    * 90 95
SWAP    20 40
MEMPHYS 100 101
MEMSWAP 50 80
MEMACT  90 97
LOG /var/log/messages error COLOR=red HOST=gsxxx.xxxxxi.com<http://gsxxx.xxxxxi.com>
============================================================


And  yet I cannot get the status of MSGS to go to Red for the client when I put 'error' into /var/log/messages

Thanks,