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

[Gary Baluha]

Our standard /var/adm/messages check is below:
LOG     /var/adm/messages %(?-i)NOTICE|WARNING|Error COLOR=yellow

We use the (?-i) case-sensitive feature so we can edit the log files and
change WARNING to wARNING (or such) to quiet specific alerts that pop up and
are taken care of (instead of waiting for Hobbit to just read in more log
data until these errors "scroll by").

Of course, some of our hosts have different tests, based on what we're
looking for.  It really depends on what sort of errors you are interested in
catching that will determine what you want to look for.  But the above
should catch most errors Solaris will detect (such as non-correctable ECC
errors/etc).

On 1/10/07, James Wade <jkwade at futurefrontiers.com> wrote:
>
> What is everyone else putting in the hobbit-clients.cfg
> for monitoring /var/adm/messages... I'm looking for an
> overall default.
>
> Thanks....James
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: James Wade [mailto:jkwade at futurefrontiers.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, January 09, 2007 5:21 PM
> To: hobbit at hswn.dk
> Subject: RE: [hobbit] /var/adm/messages, Not noifying
>
> I swapped out both the Client and Server. Totally Hobbit now.
>
> I added a default to monitor all clients /var/adm/messages
> which it is doing.
>
> I checked and see that I didn't configure any default in the
> hobbit-clients.cfg
>
> Can you recommend a general setting for all systems?
> A default...
>
> Thanks....James
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Henrik Stoerner [mailto:henrik at hswn.dk]
> Sent: Tuesday, January 09, 2007 3:44 PM
> To: hobbit at hswn.dk
> Subject: Re: [hobbit] /var/adm/messages, Not noifying
>
> 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
>
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