[Xymon] backticks not working in client-local.cfg

[deepak deore]

You rock!

One last question, my analysis.cfg entry seems to be wrong, xymon not
alerting for below entry which has backtrick.

 LOG %/mnt/logs/access.`date +%Y-%m-%d`.log "%Exception:" COLOR=red


On Fri, Apr 12, 2013 at 8:03 PM, Michael Beatty
<Michael.Beatty at sherwin.com>wrote:

>  Actually.... I didn't know you had to close the backticks after the
> message size either... My original reply was a typo, I thought it should
> have gone after the ".log"  Hmm??? If it works, it works I guess.
>
> For your second question, it can be done, but not the way you have shown.
> the client-local file won't work with multiple hostnames.  What id does
> work on, however, is a CLASS names which are defined in your hosts.cfg.
>
> So in your hosts.cfg file:
> 1.2.3.1    server1  # CLASS:myclass
> 1.2.3.2    server2  # CLASS:myclass
> 1.2.3.3    server3  # CLASS:myclass
>
> In your client-local.cfg
> [myclass]
> log:....
>
>
>  Michael Beatty
> Sherwin-Williams
> IT Analyst/Developermichael.beatty at sherwin.com
> 216-515-7374
>
> On 04/12/2013 08:59 AM, deepak deore wrote:
>
>   Hi Michael, this worked!
>  Thanks a ton. I didnt know that we have to close the backtick after the
> message size.
>  One more question, can I add multiple servers for common log file
> monitoring like below?
>
> [server1,server2,server3]
>  log: .....
>
>
>
> On Fri, Apr 12, 2013 at 5:03 PM, Michael Beatty <
> Michael.Beatty at sherwin.com> wrote:
>
>>  Try:
>>
>> log:`find /mnt/logs/access.$(date +%Y-%m-%d).log:10240`
>>
>>  Michael Beatty
>> Sherwin-Williams
>> IT Analyst/Developermichael.beatty at sherwin.com
>> 216-515-7374
>>
>>  On 04/12/2013 06:20 AM, deepak deore wrote:
>>
>>  Xymon version: - Xymon 4.3.10
>> OS: - Ubuntu 12.04 LTS
>>
>> I am using the below entry but it is not converting the date command to
>> the value.
>>
>> [server-name]
>> log:/mnt/logs/access.`date +%Y-%m-%d`.log:10240
>> ignore INFO
>> trigger SEVERE
>>
>>  I tried many things but no luck, on the log page I see the date command
>> as it is instead of the actual date value.: -
>>
>> log:`/mnt/logs/access.`date +%Y-%m-%d`.log`:10240
>> log:$(/mnt/logs/access.`date +%Y-%m-%d`.log):10240
>> log:$(echo /mnt/logs/access.`date +%Y-%m-%d`.log):10240
>> log:/mnt/logs/access.$(date +%Y-%m-%d).log:10240
>>
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