[Xymon] How to setup msgs and file column ?

[Jeremy Laidman]

On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 12:17 AM,  <Thomas.Weber at ses.com> wrote:
> Or do msgs work only in the centralized mode ?

By default, msgs only works in centralized mode, and you define the
parameters in client-local.cfg on the server (as you have done).  For
non-centralized mode, you must add "--local" into clientlaunch.cfg
after "xymonclient.sh".

Are you unable to use centralized mode for some reason?  I can't tell
if you're trying non-centralized mode because centralized mode is not
working, or because of some other reason.

Assuming you'd want to get centralized mode to work, have a look for
the logfetch tempfile in $XYMONTMP (which is /tmp for me).  The file
will be called "logfetch.name-of-server.cfg".  Check that the content
looks OK (same as the matching [servername] stanza from
client-local.cfg), and check that the timestamp is within 10 minutes.
[There's also a logfetch.name-of-server.status file that might contain
clues.  Not sure of the format, so dunno how useful.]

If the logfetch tempfile is OK, try running logfetch against it and
see what it shows.  Something like this:

  sudo -u xymon /usr/lib/xymon/client/bin/logfetch
/tmp/logfetch.`uname -n`.cfg /tmp/test.status

It should show output for each entry in the .cfg file.

Cheers
Jeremy