[Xymon] How to have XYMON show FULL logs of client server? also how to show different logs for different servers?

[Tom S]

So in client-local.cfg I can have:

[hostname1]
log:/var/log/myapp1.log:10240

[hostname2]
log:/var/log/myapp2.log:10240

I don't really need any alerts, I just wish to see the last few logs in the
'msgs' column of XYMON.
We have logfiles that exist in some clients that don't exist in others.
I am hoping I can put specific hosts in the client-local.cfg ?
if not, how can I specify different logfile location on different clients?

tia.



On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 5:03 PM, Henrik Størner <henrik at hswn.dk> wrote:

> On 15-12-2011 19:18, Tom S wrote:
>
>> So I am using this method on client-local.cfg to show the logs:
>>
>> [linux]
>> log:/var/log/myapp/my.app.log:**90240
>> ignore MARK
>>
>> However even if i increase the MAXDATA (90240) it still only shows the
>> last hour or so of logging. - under 'msgs' .
>>
>
> That is by design. You normally don't want to transfer entire logfiles
> between servers every 5 minutes - not to mention that the logfile data is
> held in RAM on the Xymon server.
>
>
>  I would like to to show more than that.   how is this possible?   eg.
>> /var/log/myapp/my.app.log has logging from midnight, but only shows from
>> the last 20 minutes.  I would like it to show at least 2 hours worth of
>> logging.
>>
>
> Sorry, not possible. The "fetch the last 30 minutes of logfile data" is
> hard coded into the client utilities (the "logfetch" program).
>
> You can of course change the logfetch code running on the client ...
> that's what Open Source is about. There's a MAXMINUTES setting near the top
> which is set to "30", but there are a few places around the code where the
> number of logfile positions for the past N runs of the client assumes that
> MAXMINUTES isn't changed.
>
>
>  Also, I would like to have different logs show for different client
>> systems.
>>
>> I have tried this method:
>> http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/**System_Monitoring_with_Xymon/**
>> Other_Docs/FAQ#How_do_I_**monitor_log_files_other_than_**
>> the_default_ones.3F<http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/System_Monitoring_with_Xymon/Other_Docs/FAQ#How_do_I_monitor_log_files_other_than_the_default_ones.3F>
>>
>> but I don't see anything with hohbbit-clients.cfg -
>>
>
> hobbit-clients.cfg was renamed to analysis.cfg in Xymon 4.3.0.
>
>
>  Can I not use the HOST=<client hostname> in the client-local.cfg  ?
>>
>
> No, the hostname is the "section" marker. So it would be
>
> [client1]
> log:/var/log/myapp1.log:10240
>
> [client2]
> log:/opt/foo/logs/blabla.log:**50000
>
>
> Regards,
> Henrik
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