[Xymon] monitoring msgs

[Root, Paul T]

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<mailto:Paul.Root at CenturyLink.com>>
To: 'Ian Diddams' <didds3 at yahoo.co.uk<mailto:didds3 at yahoo.co.uk>>; "'xymon at xymon.com'" <xymon at xymon.com<mailto: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<mailto:Paul.Root at CenturyLink.com>>
To: 'Ian Diddams' <didds3 at yahoo.co.uk<mailto:didds3 at yahoo.co.uk>>; "'xymon at xymon.com'" <xymon at xymon.com<mailto: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<mailto: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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