[Xymon] monitoring msgs

[Galen Johnson]

Also, are your permissions allowing the xymon user to access the log file you are monitoring?  I've seen on some systems that /var/log/messages permissions disallow world read...

Also, I think if you set it in the DEFAULT area, it will enable it for all hosts...you may want that.  Fairly certain it doesn't have to be associated with a specific host to work.

=G=

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From: Xymon <xymon-bounces at xymon.com> on behalf of Root, Paul T <Paul.Root at CenturyLink.com>
Sent: Friday, May 30, 2014 12:24 PM
To: 'Ian Diddams'; 'xymon at xymon.com'
Subject: Re: [Xymon] monitoring msgs

Yep.

First, the LOG line needs to come before the DEFAULTS section.
Second, you need to tell it what machine to operate on:

HOST=<machine name>
                LOG ...



From: Xymon [mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com] On Behalf Of Ian Diddams
Sent: Friday, May 30, 2014 11:01 AM
To: xymon at xymon.com
Subject: Re: [Xymon] monitoring msgs


and for clarification, msgs report still returns a white button and the follwoing in the megs page itself


The client did not report any logfile data

cheers

didds

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From: Ian Diddams <didds3 at yahoo.co.uk<mailto:didds3 at yahoo.co.uk>>
To: "xymon at xymon.com<mailto:xymon at xymon.com>" <xymon at xymon.com<mailto:xymon at xymon.com>>
Sent: Friday, 30 May 2014, 16:28
Subject: Re: [Xymon] monitoring msgs


This is my  hobbit-clients.cfg


..

on the server in hobbit-clients.cfg I also have

DEFAULT
# These are the built-in defaults.
UP 1h
LOAD 5.0 10.0
DISK * 90 95
MEMPHYS 100 101
MEMSWAP 50 80
MEMACT 90 97

LOG /var/log/messages warn COLOR=red



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