[hobbit] Re: New to Hobbit --- file monitoring

Here is something I use that works. This is a "bookend" problem -- both parts have to be done correctly. Hobbit tends to silently ignore errors in configuration files.

In client-local.cfg

[myserver.mydomain.com] file:/opt2/log/syslog.log file:/opt2/log/security.log file:/opt2/log/snmptrap.log

in hobbit-clients.cfg

HOST=myserver.mydomain.com FILE /opt2/log/syslog.log mtime<600 size<2G TRACK FILE /opt2/log/security.log TRACK FILE /opt2/log/snmptrap.log mtime<600 size<2G TRACK

Some things to note

a) the host names match exactly, and they are not enclosed in double quotes.

b) the file names match exactly

c) this example is lifted from my running system, with the host name changed to protect the guilty. I have some other examples that use color in the "COLOR=color" format, which I believe is required, but I would have to edit them more before I can post them.

d) the client-local.cfg file has some predefined sections in it. Don't use them. Make new ones. Only one section can be applied to a host, so cut and paste will be your friend.

From: Scott Mohnkern [mailto:mohnkern at gmail.com] 
Sent: Thursday, November 01, 2007 4:00 PM
To: hobbit at hswn.dk
Subject: Re: [hobbit] Re: New to Hobbit --- file monitoring


Nope, no joy there either.  the man page seems to think it

should be:

FILE <full path to file><color> <condition>

and that's pretty consistent with the other things I've put into

the same file, which come up.

I also tried:

FILE "/etc/passwd" green noexist TRACK

and 

FILE "/etc/passwd" green noexist


Scott




On 11/1/07, Hubbard, Greg L <greg.hubbard at eds.com> wrote: 

	Try this
	 
	FILE /etc/passwd noexist COLOR=green TRACK

		From: Scott Mohnkern [mailto:mohnkern at gmail.com]

		Sent: Thursday, November 01, 2007 3:39 PM
		To: hobbit at hswn.dk
		Subject: Re: [hobbit] Re: New to Hobbit --- file

monitoring Well, at least its replicatable. Scott On 11/1/07, Scott Mohnkern < mohnkern at gmail.com <mailto:mohnkern at gmail.com> > wrote:

			Thanks for the help.  I edited

/etc/hobbit/hobbit-clients.cfg so the line reads: FILE /etc/passwd GREEN noexist still no joy.
Is there anyone on the list that has an example of a FILE line in their hobbit-clients.cfg file? On 11/1/07, Hubbard, Greg L < greg.hubbard at eds.com <mailto:greg.hubbard at eds.com> > wrote:

			Try removing the TRACK keyword, and then

change NOEXIST to lower case. I think Henrik has reported that there are a few bugs in this code, and it is not always clear when case matters and when it doesn't, or when the order of the arguments matters.

			From: Scott Mohnkern

[mailto:mohnkern at gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, November 01, 2007 3:10 PM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: [hobbit] Re: New to Hobbit --- file monitoring

			When all else fails, nuke it and start

over. I did an apt-get remove hobbit, and then a dpkg -- purge. Then I removed any files I could find. Then I downloaded the Ubuntu deb file and installed it. It put the configuration files in /etc/hobbit and it started fine I edited /etc/hobbit/hobbit-clients.cfg and added the following line: PROC ntpd 1 99 green "TEXT=NTPD is up" Restarted hobbit, and in a few minutes, it started reporting as expected. Then I added: PORT "LOCAL=%(:8888)" TEXT="Gnump is up" To the same file, (/etc/hobbit/hobbit-clients.cfg) and restared hobbit. A few minutes later, the ports section started reporting, as expected. (Though I realize that its a bit off, which I need to fix) Then I added: FILE /etc/passwd GREEN NOEXIST track Reading the documentation inside hobbit-clients.cfg I edited /etc/hobbit/client- local.cfg and added the following line: file:/etc/passwd restarted hobbit, waited 5 minutes. No luck. I'm pretty convinced that either: 1. the format of the line in /etc/hobbit/client-local.cfg or /etc/hobbit/hobbit-clients.cfg is incorrect, or 2. There's something else I need to edit.