Re: [hobbit] Monitoring syslog and other log files

[Charles Jones <jonescr (at) cisco.com>]

It sounds like your missing piece of the puzzle is bb-msgstab, have you 
edited it or otherwise customized it?

-Charles

Allan.Marillier (at) dana.com wrote:

> 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.