Monitoring syslog and other log files

[Allan.Marillier (at) dana.com]

Somebody please point me at some docs on setting filters for syslog and 
other log file monitoring, or give me some starting point. I've checked 
the archive, browsed through the installation and config pages, looked 
through man pages, and I'm just not seeing it.

I have the standard configs on my clients, with clientlaunch.cfg and 
hobbitclient.cfg. I tried sending a few test messages to syslog using 
logger -p ERR test and logger -p ERROR test, but get nothing reported. 

hobbitclient.cfg has the default setup with the following. This is not the 
same as processes, disk etc. is it, where the client config is no longer 
used, but is set on the hobbit server?
# For the msgs check
DOMSGS="TRUE"
NOMSGSCOLOR="clear"
BBMSGSTAB="$BBHOME/etc/bb-msgstab"
CHKMSGLEN="TRUE"
IGNMSGS=""
MSGEXPIRE="30:60"
MSGFILE="/var/log/messages"
MSGS="NOTICE WARNING"
PAGEMSG="NOTICE"
REDMSGSLINES="20"
YELLOWMSGSLINES="10"

Thanks.