Clouseau said, 'and another thing....'

-bash-3.00$ cat logfetch.yourhostnamehere.cfg log:/var/log/messages:10240 log:/var/log/kern:10240 file:/bin/su:md5

If you really are set on using $HOBBITCLIENTHOME/bin/hobbitclient.sh --local then you will need the contents above inside of the logfetch.$hostname.cfg file. Seems really a real cludge, but it works.

From: Tim McCloskey Sent: Tuesday, July 27, 2010 9:19 AM To: xymon at xymon.com Subject: RE: RHEL5 and xymon client monitoring log files

Cathy,

Looks like you are running in client local mode. See the difference in the etc/clientlaunch.cfg: CMD $HOBBITCLIENTHOME/bin/hobbitclient.sh --local

Try adding a $HOBBITCLIENTHOME/tmp/logfetch.hostname.cfg file, chown to the hobbit user and restart the client. Also, what does the server client-local.cfg look like for this host/OS/class? (eg. [redhat] log:/var/log/messages:10240 log:/var/log/kern:10240 ignore MARK file:/bin/su:md5)

Server Mode.

The main client task

[client] ENVFILE $HOBBITCLIENTHOME/etc/hobbitclient.cfg CMD $HOBBITCLIENTHOME/bin/hobbitclient.sh LOGFILE $HOBBITCLIENTHOME/logs/hobbitclient.log INTERVAL 5m

Client mode

The main client task

[client] ENVFILE $HOBBITCLIENTHOME/etc/hobbitclient.cfg CMD $HOBBITCLIENTHOME/bin/hobbitclient.sh --local LOGFILE $HOBBITCLIENTHOME/logs/hobbitclient.log INTERVAL 5m

#LOG %/var/log/(kern|messages) "%(ext3_journal_start_sb|Detected aborted journal)" COLOR=yellow

Regards,

Tim

From: Smith, Cathy [cathy.smith at pnl.gov] Sent: Tuesday, July 27, 2010 7:45 AM To: xymon at xymon.com Subject: [xymon] RHEL5 and xymon client monitoring log files

Folks

With your help, the RHEL5 server is now showing up in the hobbit display correctly. This is the xymon client reporting to a hobbit server. Now I have a question about monitoring log files. I have included below, my localclient.cfg file. I want to check /var/log/messages for anything with the word ERROR. Hobbit displays a white smiley face in the msgs column with the message: The client did not report any logfile data

I'm running all processes as root, so there shouldn't be any permissions issues.

Can you tell me what I've done wrong in the config file?

Thanks.

Cathy

Cathy L. Smith IT Engineer Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Phone: 509.375.2687 Fax: 509.375.2330 Email: cathy.smith at pnl.gov

-----Original Message----- From: root [mailto:root at pnlelm1.pnl.gov] Sent: Tuesday, July 27, 2010 7:35 AM To: Smith, Cathy Subject: localclient.cfg

localclient.cfg - configuration file for a LOCAL Hobbit client.

By default, Hobbit clients send raw data to the Hobbit server,

which in turn converts the data into status messages.

In that case, THIS FILE IS NOT USED and you should IGNORE it.

The special DEFAULT section can modify the built-in defaults - this must

be placed at the end of the file.

HOST=foo.pnl.gov MEMSWAP 70 90 PROC crond PROC http PROC sendmail PROC sshd PROC syslogd LOG /var/log/messages ERROR COLOR=red

DEFAULT # These are the built-in defaults. UP 1h LOAD 16.0 30.0 DISK * 95 99 MEMPHYS 100 101 MEMSWAP 50 80 MEMACT 90 97

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