[hobbit] /var/adm/messages, Not noifying

[Henrik Stoerner]

On Tue, Jan 09, 2007 at 01:46:12PM -0600, James Wade wrote:

> Since I move everything over to hobbit, the messages monitoring
> seems to have changed. I get no alerts on /var/adm/messages file
> anymore. 

When you say "everything" - do you mean the Big Brother/Hobbit server, 
or did you also swap out the client side installations ?

If you've switched clients, then the log file monitoring setup is
quite different from what you have in BB. With the Hobbit client,
all of the configuration is done on the Hobbit server; you need to
add an entry to the client-local.cfg file to define which logfiles
you want data from (the /var/adm/messages is in the default setup, 
so that should be OK), AND you must configure the hobbit-clients.cfg
file with the strings (or rather, regex patterns) you want to look for
in the logfiles.

If you're still running the BB clients on your servers and your "msgs"
column actually went red, then it must be a problem with the alert setup.
Check the current alert setup for each host - you can see it on the
"info" column webpage for each host - and make sure there's an alert
defined for the "msgs" status. If not, then you must define one in the
hobbit-alerts.cfg file.


Regards,
Henrik