[hobbit] BBALPHAMSG

[Asif Iqbal]

On Thu, Sep 01, 2005 at 10:27:21PM, Henrik Stoerner wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 01, 2005 at 03:42:26PM -0400, Asif Iqbal wrote:
> > On Mon, Aug 29, 2005 at 10:13:05AM, Asif Iqbal wrote:
> > > Seems like BBALPHAMSG is being ignored by hobbit-4.1.1 server. I have a
> > 
> > I was wrong. BBALPHAMSG is still part of hobbit-4.1.1 but it only keeps
> > the status logs. Is that mean all msgs files are coming in as data log?
> > 
> > In that case what variable do I use with my ALERT scripts to scan msgs
> > data?
> 
> I've lost track of what you want to do.
> 
> BBALPHAMSG contains the text in a Hobbit "status" message, which is the
> only thing that can trigger an alert.
> 
> Are you referring to the data for a "msgs" status column ? The Hobbit 

I think so. In hobbit-4.0.4 and below, if a client has the word 'core
dump' in the WARNING line of its /var/adm/messages file I would ignore
that ALERT. But since hobbit-4.1.1 it is failing. 

So I think you already answered why it is failing.

Thanks for building such a good tool which does exactly what it suppose to do,
does it well.


> client does not implement data collection for the "msgs" column, so 
> that can never trigger an alert. Until I've found a good way of doing
> system log monitoring, you can use some of the BB add-on scripts from
> deadcat.net - these should generate a normal status message and hence
> show up in the normal way for your alerts (including BBALPHAMSG).
> 
> 
> Henrik
> 
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