[Xymon] monitoring msgs

[Ian Diddams]

ultimately, yes, I do want it for all hosts.

and the client xymon user can indeed read the /var/logs/messages file.


so the permissions are correct, its in the corrects ection (in effect), and both the client and server fiels are correctly configured.


I am at a loss then as to why msgs remains white.


:-(



didds



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 From: Galen Johnson <Galen.Johnson at sas.com>
To: "Root, Paul T" <Paul.Root at CenturyLink.com>; 'Ian Diddams' <didds3 at yahoo.co.uk>; "'xymon at xymon.com'" <xymon at xymon.com> 
Sent: Friday, 30 May 2014, 19:31
Subject: RE: [Xymon] monitoring msgs
 


Also, are your permissions allowing the xymon user to access the log file you are monitoring?  I've seen on some systems that /var/log/messages permissions disallow world read... 

Also, I think if you set it in the DEFAULT area, it will enable it for all hosts...you may want that.  Fairly certain it doesn't have to be associated with a specific host to work.


=G=





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From: Xymon <xymon-bounces at xymon.com> on behalf of Root, Paul T <Paul.Root at CenturyLink.com>
Sent: Friday, May 30, 2014 12:24 PM
To: 'Ian Diddams'; 'xymon at xymon.com'
Subject: Re: [Xymon] monitoring msgs 
 
Yep.
 
First, the LOG line needs to come before the DEFAULTS section.
Second, you need to tell it what machine to operate on:
 
HOST=<machine name>
                LOG …
 
 
 
From:Xymon [mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com] On Behalf Of Ian Diddams
Sent: Friday, May 30, 2014 11:01 AM
To: xymon at xymon.com
Subject: Re: [Xymon] monitoring msgs
 

and for clarification, msgs report still returns a white button and the follwoing in the megs page itself
 
The client did not report any logfile data 
cheers
 
didds
 

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From:Ian Diddams <didds3 at yahoo.co.uk>
To: "xymon at xymon.com" <xymon at xymon.com> 
Sent: Friday, 30 May 2014, 16:28
Subject: Re: [Xymon] monitoring msgs
 

This is my  hobbit-clients.cfg 
 
 
..
 
on the server in hobbit-clients.cfg I also have
 
DEFAULT
# These are the built-in defaults.
UP 1h
LOAD 5.0 10.0
DISK * 90 95
MEMPHYS 100 101
MEMSWAP 50 80
MEMACT 90 97

LOG /var/log/messages warn COLOR=red
 
 

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