[Xymon] "No entries in /var/log/messages"

On 22 January 2015 at 22:50, Ian Diddams <didds3 at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

what does that actually mean? /var/log/messages is heavily populated

I don't think it's a permissions problem on the client, otherwise you'd get "Cannot open logfile /var/log/messages: Permission denied" and the colour would change to yellow.

"No entries in..." means that there are no entries considered non-green. So either you're filtering out (with "ignore") all of the messages, or there are no remaining lines that match the "trigger") expressions, or a combination of both.

Cheers Jeremy