[Xymon] monitoring msgs

[Ian Diddams]

I treied to find the version of xymon but cioldn;t find anythuing obvuious - apologies.

That entry is in  hobbit-clients.cfg already  







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 From: "Root, Paul T" <Paul.Root at CenturyLink.com>
To: 'Ian Diddams' <didds3 at yahoo.co.uk>; "'xymon at xymon.com'" <xymon at xymon.com> 
Sent: Friday, 30 May 2014, 16:17
Subject: RE: [Xymon] monitoring msgs
 


Ah, you have a very old version of xymon running then. In the future, let us know what version you are running.
 
So, I can’t remember which file it is. How soon we forget.   It must be hobbit-clients.cfg is the old name for analysis.cfg.
 
Paul.
 
From:Ian Diddams [mailto:didds3 at yahoo.co.uk] 
Sent: Friday, May 30, 2014 10:12 AM
To: Root, Paul T; 'xymon at xymon.com'
Subject: Re: [Xymon] monitoring msgs
 

hmmm...
 
I have nio analysis.cfg!  9which is possibly why its not working!)
 
here's the contents of the xymon server server/etc directory
 
 
$ ls
bbcombotest.cfg 
bbwarnrules.cfg 
columndoc.csv 
hobbit-alerts.cfg 
hobbit-clients.cfg 
hobbit-nkview.cfg 
hobbitserver.cfg
hobbit-apache.conf 
hobbitgraph.cfg 
bb-services 
client-local.cfg 
getw.cfg 
hobbitcgi.cfg 
hobbitlaunch.cfg 
hobbitpasswd
 
cheers.
 
didds
 

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From:"Root, Paul T" <Paul.Root at CenturyLink.com>
To: 'Ian Diddams' <didds3 at yahoo.co.uk>; "'xymon at xymon.com'" <xymon at xymon.com> 
Sent: Friday, 30 May 2014, 15:31
Subject: RE: [Xymon] monitoring msgs
 
This is the file you want to monitor and what you want to monitor.
 
From:Ian Diddams [mailto:didds3 at yahoo.co.uk] 
Sent: Friday, May 30, 2014 9:26 AM
To: Root, Paul T; 'xymon at xymon.com'
Subject: Re: [Xymon] monitoring msgs
 

sorry paul - when you say
 
"So you’d want this in the client-local.cfg and the analysis.cfg on the server."
 
what is "this"
 
cheers
 
didds
 

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From:"Root, Paul T" <Paul.Root at CenturyLink.com>
To: 'Ian Diddams' <didds3 at yahoo.co.uk>; "'xymon at xymon.com'" <xymon at xymon.com> 
Sent: Friday, 30 May 2014, 14:40
Subject: RE: [Xymon] monitoring msgs
 
Is your xymon setup in central mode or local mode?
 
By default xymon is setup in central mode.
 
So you’d want this in the client-local.cfg and the analysis.cfg on the server.
 
From:Xymon [mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com] On Behalf Of Ian Diddams
Sent: Friday, May 30, 2014 4:44 AM
To: xymon at xymon.com
Subject: [Xymon] monitoring msgs
 
Hi all.
 
I am really struggling to understand how to monitor msgs in xymon. I have read the man pages over anhd over and nothing I am doing seems to work.
 
In the client I have the following files  in ~/client/etc
 
client-local.cfg:
log:/var/log/messages:4096
 
localclient.cfg:
LOG /var/log/messages warn COLOR=red
 
The actual msgs report in the xymon web page says
 
" 
System logs at Fri May 30 10:29:38 BST 2014 : No log data available
The client did not report any logfile data 
"
 
 
I need a dummies guide to msgs monitoring!
 
If anyone could provide such a beast i would be immensely grateful.

cheers
 
Ian
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