Yep.

First, the LOG line needs to come before the DEFAULTS section. Second, you need to tell it what machine to operate on:

HOST=<machine name> LOG ...

From: Xymon [mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com] On Behalf Of Ian Diddams Sent: Friday, May 30, 2014 11:01 AM To: xymon at xymon.com Subject: Re: [Xymon] monitoring msgs

and for clarification, msgs report still returns a white button and the follwoing in the megs page itself

The client did not report any logfile data

cheers

didds

From: Ian Diddams <didds3 at yahoo.co.uk<mailto:didds3 at yahoo.co.uk>> To: "xymon at xymon.com<mailto:xymon at xymon.com>" <xymon at xymon.com<mailto:xymon at xymon.com>> Sent: Friday, 30 May 2014, 16:28 Subject: Re: [Xymon] monitoring msgs

This is my hobbit-clients.cfg

..

on the server in hobbit-clients.cfg I also have

DEFAULT

These are the built-in defaults.

UP 1h LOAD 5.0 10.0 DISK * 90 95 MEMPHYS 100 101 MEMSWAP 50 80 MEMACT 90 97

LOG /var/log/messages warn COLOR=red

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ultimately, yes, I do want it for all hosts.

and the client xymon user can indeed read the /var/logs/messages file.

so the permissions are correct, its in the corrects ection (in effect), and both the client and server fiels are correctly configured.

I am at a loss then as to why msgs remains white.

:-(

didds

From: Galen Johnson <Galen.Johnson at sas.com> To: "Root, Paul T" <Paul.Root at CenturyLink.com>; 'Ian Diddams' <didds3 at yahoo.co.uk>; "'xymon at xymon.com'" <xymon at xymon.com> Sent: Friday, 30 May 2014, 19:31 Subject: RE: [Xymon] monitoring msgs

Also, are your permissions allowing the xymon user to access the log file you are monitoring?  I've seen on some systems that /var/log/messages permissions disallow world read...

Also, I think if you set it in the DEFAULT area, it will enable it for all hosts...you may want that.  Fairly certain it doesn't have to be associated with a specific host to work.

=G=

From: Xymon <xymon-bounces at xymon.com> on behalf of Root, Paul T <Paul.Root at CenturyLink.com> Sent: Friday, May 30, 2014 12:24 PM To: 'Ian Diddams'; 'xymon at xymon.com' Subject: Re: [Xymon] monitoring msgs Yep. First, the LOG line needs to come before the DEFAULTS section. Second, you need to tell it what machine to operate on: HOST=<machine name> LOG … From:Xymon [mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com] On Behalf Of Ian Diddams Sent: Friday, May 30, 2014 11:01 AM To: xymon at xymon.com Subject: Re: [Xymon] monitoring msgs

and for clarification, msgs report still returns a white button and the follwoing in the megs page itself The client did not report any logfile data cheers didds

From:Ian Diddams <didds3 at yahoo.co.uk> To: "xymon at xymon.com" <xymon at xymon.com> Sent: Friday, 30 May 2014, 16:28 Subject: Re: [Xymon] monitoring msgs

This is my  hobbit-clients.cfg .. on the server in hobbit-clients.cfg I also have DEFAULT

These are the built-in defaults.

UP 1h LOAD 5.0 10.0 DISK * 90 95 MEMPHYS 100 101 MEMSWAP 50 80 MEMACT 90 97

LOG /var/log/messages warn COLOR=red

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