[Xymon] XyMon msg metric - how to check log entries only since last check?

[Andrey Chervonets]

One my friend using old Hobbit 4.x version told that it always check new 
entries only.
I am using XyMon 4.3.4.

Can anyone test your versions/installation for this behaviour?


In clientclient-local.cfg I has found:

# The following configuration items are currently possible:
#   "log:FILENAME:MAXDATA"
#       Monitor the text-based logfile FILENAME, and report  back at 
most MAXDATA bytes. The Xymon client will
#       only report back entries generated during the past 30 minutes, 
so MAXDATA is an upper limit.

But my exprience show - it just reads up to MAXDATA and analyse and show 
all, not just last 30 min.
Or may be it expected timestamp in file in some known format?
If yes, then more questions:
a) Is it possible to define ather timestamp formats xymon can understand?
b) is it possible  to change check interval 30 min to some other - for 
ALL logs/hosts or just some?

Thanks in advance!

Best regards,

Andrey Chervonets
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http://www.cominder.eu/





On 05.02.2012 13:00, xymon-request at xymon.com wrote:
> Is it possible to setup xymon to check log-file (msg metric) only for
> new entries since last check (or 5 min)?
> For now I see it is only possible to specify how much data in log-file
> xymon will parse.
> But, depending on activities it can be big or small - so the same bad
> entry can be reported for 2 or more check intervals and some (when quite
> much activities in log-file) can be missed.
>
> Really I do not realise how it can be implemented w/o writing timestamp
> tags to that log-file,
> but may be You know some secret?
>
> -- 
> Best regards,
>
> Andrey Chervonets
> -------------------------
> SIA CoMinder
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