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It definitely works better, and monitors all the same things. You may need to modify your external tests a little bit, but just because the environment variables/names have just changed a little.
I've got a big selling point for you if you need one: you cannot configure client settings centrally on the server side if you use a Big Brother client. They will be ignored.
On 10/08/2012 01:35 PM, Nicole Beck wrote:
I just haven’t had a chance to test it much. If I recall correctly, it didn’t monitor everything that we currently monitor with big brother. I’ll have to investigate it further.
Thanks,
Nicole
*From:*Larry Barber [mailto:lebarber at gmail.com] *Sent:* Friday, October 05, 2012 4:28 PM *To:* Nicole Beck *Cc:* xymon at xymon.com *Subject:* Re: [Xymon] monitoring /var/log/messages for new occurence of a string
Is there some reason you can't use a Xymon client?
Thanks, Larry Barber
On Fri, Oct 5, 2012 at 2:00 PM, Nicole Beck <nskyrca at syr.edu <mailto:nskyrca at syr.edu>> wrote:
Hi,
The answer to this is probably in the archives already, but I didn’t find it.
I’m running Xymon 4.2.3 server on RHEL, and running Big Brother on the clients. I setup the bb-msgstab file on a Linux client to alert for a specific string in /var/log/messages. What I’m seeing is that anytime /var/log/messages is updated, we get an alert for the string we are testing for, even if that string occurred hours ago. Is there a way to parse the file to only send an alert if it is a new occurrence of the string? We only rotate this file once a week, so we might get an alert on something that’s a day old.
Thanks!
Nicole Beck
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