[Xymon] Dir monitoring

[Michael Beatty]

Well, I'm down to one problem

I figured out the first problem by reading the man pages for
analysis.cfg and client-local.cfg.  Go figure

My client-local.cfg needed a command
dir:`find /var/mqm/log/*/active`

and my analysis.cfg needed a regular expression
DIR %/var/mqm/log/*/active$ yellow SIZE<25000

So, my checks are now checking.

However, ALL of the checks for all of the directories listed in the
client-local.cfg are being listed for all of the hosts regardless of
what tags I have in the analysis.cfg.  My assumption here is that the
web page will display ALL the data that is sent from client-local.cfg,
but will only alert on what is configured in analysis.cfg?  Is this correct?

If so, it would appear that I need to setup wildcards for host names in
client-local.cfg... is this supported?

Michael Beatty
Sherwin-Williams
IT Analyst/Developer
michael.beatty at sherwin.com
216-515-7374


Michael Beatty wrote:
> 2 Problems with monitoring DIR
>
> I am trying to monitor the log directory of MQ.  I have two types of
> primary and backup systems.  On the primary system I want to monitor
> /backup/local/mq.  On the backup I want to monitor /var/mqm/log/*/active
>
> The hosts names are formatted "LAB01" for primary systems and "LAB01_2"
> for backup.
>
> In my client_local.cfg file I have:
>
> [linux]
>   log:/var/log/messages:10240 
>   ignore MARK
>   dir:/backup/local/mq
>   dir:/var/mqm/log/*/active
>
> in my analysis.cfg file I have:
> HOST=%LAB\d\d$
>   DIR /backup/local/mq yellow SIZE<250000 TRACK=Backup
>
> HOST=%_2$
>   DIR /var/mqm/log/*/active yellow SIZE<14000 TRACK=Backup
>
> Problem #1 - the DIR check on /var/mqm/log/*/active fails. "Could not
> determine size of directory".  However, if I click the link it says:
>
> [dir:/var/mqm/log/*/active]
> 49240	/var/mqm/log/QA_POSLAB05_QM/active
>
>
>
> Problem #2 - Even though I'm only specifying the DIR check of /backup/local/mq on LAB01 systems, it appears to be running on LAB01_2 systems.  Though this may not be the case as the history chart is not showing any data.
>
>