[hobbit] HowTo monitor log files

Hello guys, I encounter the same problem that "linuxmasterjedi" :s My hobbit server says also "No files checked"

Do you have a good advise for this problem embarrassing ???

Thanks by advance

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2008/6/2 L.M.J <linuxmasterjedi at free.fr>:

Hi,

I'm trying to monitor LOG files on a Linux OS via the Hobbit client monitor 4.2.0. I have some issue : file information are not send back to the server. I've checked the ML & the conf file : # ************ IMPORTANT *************** # To monitor a logfile, you *MUST* configure both client-local.cfg # and hobbit-clients.cfg. If you configure only the client-local.cfg # file, the client will collect the log data and you can view it in # the "client data" display, but it will not affect the color of the # "msgs" status. On the other hand, if you configure only the # hobbit-clients.cfg file, then there will be no log data to inspect, # and you will not see any updates of the "msgs" status either.

BTW, client-local.cfg & hobbit-clients.cfg does not exist anymore ;). Anyway, I put this on my client side localclient.cfg file :

   # FILE Check
   FILE /var/log/messages  SIZE>0 MTIME<1200 yellow
   FILE /var/log/messages  red     "timed out!"
   FILE /var/log/messages  red     "abort!"

   # LOG
   LOG %/var/log/messages %(I/O|read).error COLOR=red

ll /var/log/messages -rw-r----- 1 root adm 5530 May 29 16:25 /var/log/messages

Hobbit is in the "adm" group, it can read the file. So why my Hobbit server keep saying "No files checked" ?

Thanks by advance!

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