[Xymon] logfetch unreliable?

[Mike Burger]

(Resending, as I forgot to include the list)

Per the man page for client-local.cfg
(http://http://www.xymon.com/xymon/help/manpages/man5/client-local.cfg.5.html:

"The trigger PATTERN line (optional) is used only when there is more data
in the log than the maximum size set in the "log:FILENAME:SIZE" line. The
"trigger" pattern is then used to find particularly interesting lines in
the logfile - these will always be sent to the Xymon server. After picking
out the "trigger" lines, any remaining space up to the maximum size is
filled in with the most recent entries from the logfile. "PATTERN" is a
regular expression."

I don't see anything where it's supposed to do anything more than send
those entries to the "msgs" area in Xymon.

You'd have to actually put together something that causes that pattern to
generate a status (yellow, red) and then something in the alerts.cfg to
actually send out an alert, if so desired.
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>
> I am in the throws of replacing a commercial monitoring product with
> xymon.  (Before this product we ran  big brother. )
>
> But I am in a pickle.  The commercial product picked up a log entry last
> night, that xymon did not. I know this because both products are alerting
> currently.    My biggest issue is the non-report is not reproducible. If I
> send test messages into my fake log, it works - but I have proof it failed
> last night in the real log file. How do I even go about debugging this?
>
> My client-local.cfg  has
>
> [nemo]
> log:/var/log/fake.log:1024
> trigger "Notify Mainframe On-Call."
> log:/var/log/rmsupload.log:1024
> trigger "Notify Mainframe On-Call."
>
>
> G
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