RE: [hobbit] monitoring logs

["Johan Booysen" <johan (at) matrix-data.co.uk>]

Are you sure (not that I'm in  a position to question anyone else's
knowledge about hobbit..)?

 

hobbit-clients.cfg says:

 

Example: Go yellow if the text "WARNING" shows up in any logfile.

                  LOG %.* WARNING COLOR=yellow

 

So I thought it could be a simple text string...

 

From: Lars Ebeling [mailto:lars.ebeling (at) leopg9.no-ip.org] 
Sent: 08 August 2008 15:37
To: hobbit (at) hswn.dk
Subject: Re: [hobbit] monitoring logs

 

somestring has to be a regular expression (which i know nothing about),
but %Relay works for me.

 

Regards

Lars

	----- Original Message ----- 

	From: Johan Booysen <mailto:johan (at) matrix-data.co.uk>  

	To: hobbit (at) hswn.dk 

	Sent: Friday, August 08, 2008 4:28 PM

	Subject: [hobbit] monitoring logs

	 

	I'm trying to get hobbit to monitor /var/log/messages for
specific entries ("somestring" in my example below) on server1.

	 

	In hobbit-clients.cfg I've added (above DEFAULT):

	 

	 HOST=server1

	        LOG /var/log/messages somestring COLOR=red

	 

	And in client-local.cfg, I've added:

	 

	  server1

	  log:/var/log/messages:10240

	  ignore MARK

	 

	My understanding is that server1 should now collect data from
/var/log/messages, and the hobbit server will then, if it finds
"somestring" in the log file, flag it as red in the msgs column.

	 

	I can now see the entire log for server1 on the web interface,
but the msgs icon doesn't change to red.

	 

	What am I missing?

	 

	Also, does any of the defaults in client-local.cfg  match RHEL5
machines, e.g.

	[redhat]

	log:/var/log/messages:10240

	ignore MARK

	 

	or

	 

	[redhatES]

	log:/var/log/messages:10240

	ignore MARK

	 

	 

	Thanks.