[Xymon] monitoring msgs

[Jeremy Laidman]

On 30 May 2014 19:44, Ian Diddams <didds3 at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

> The client did not report any logfile data
>
>
This probably means that your client doesn't know to report the file data
back to the Xymon server.  Is your client host configured to run in central
mode?  Assuming it is, check the Hobbit temp directory (on the client host)
for two files, one called logfetch.<hostname>.cfg and the other called
logfetch.<hostname>.status.  The "status" file should have an entry for
your messages file.  The "cfg" file should have the entire
hobbit-clients.cfg section associated with this host (including comments
and blank lines).

Note that it can take up to 15 minutes for changes in hobbit-clients.cfg to
be reflected in these two files.

If you have neither of these files, you might be running in client mode
rather than central mode.  Or there might be an error in your
hobbitclient.log file.

Once these files are looking OK, the messages file details should start
showing up in your client data.  On any network test page, click on the
[Client data] link at the bottom of the page, and then search for a "msgs"
section like this:

[msgs:/var/log/messages]
Jun  2 14:39:27 servername kernel: It's cold in here
Jun  2 14:43:62 servername sendmail: Go install postfix

Cheers
Jeremy
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