Hi
I'm trying to monitor all file (permissions) of all files in a directory viz:/var/adm.
I have the following entries in client-local.cfg
[sunos] log:/var/adm/%.*:10240 log:/var/adm/messages %ERROR|CRIT COLOR=red log:/var/adm/messages %WARNING|NOTICE COLOR=yellow IGNORE=lpr
analysis.cfg LOG %.* WARNING COLOR=yellow LOG %/var/adm/messages %(I/O|read).error COLOR=red FILE /var/adm/messages SIZE>0 MTIME<600 yellow FILE %.* MODE=644 red
It only reports on /var/adm/messages file.
What am I doing wrong?
Many thanks
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On 03-01-2012 08:32, Moodley, Nelandran N wrote:
I’m trying to monitor all file (permissions) of all files in a directory viz:/var/adm.
I have the following entries in client-local.cfg
[sunos] log:/var/adm/%.*:10240 log:/var/adm/messages %ERROR|CRIT COLOR=red log:/var/adm/messages %WARNING|NOTICE COLOR=yellow IGNORE=lpr
First, You should only use "log" for log-files, i.e. files where you want to have the actual contents of the files sent to Xymon for checking. If you only want to monitor file permissions, then use a "file:" definition instead.
Second, you cannot use wild-card filenames in the client-local.cfg file. As the man-page says:
"If you want to check multiple files using a wildcard, you must use a command to generate the filenames. Putting wildcards directly into the file: entry will not work."
So something like this should do the trick:
file:ls /var/adm/
Regards, Henrik
On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 3:09 AM, Henrik Størner <henrik at hswn.dk> wrote:
On 03-01-2012 08:32, Moodley, Nelandran N wrote:
I’m trying to monitor all file (permissions) of all files in a directory viz:/var/adm.
I have the following entries in client-local.cfg
[sunos] log:/var/adm/%.*:10240 log:/var/adm/messages %ERROR|CRIT COLOR=red log:/var/adm/messages %WARNING|NOTICE COLOR=yellow IGNORE=lpr
First, You should only use "log" for log-files, i.e. files where you want to have the actual contents of the files sent to Xymon for checking. If you only want to monitor file permissions, then use a "file:" definition instead.
Second, you cannot use wild-card filenames in the client-local.cfg file. As the man-page says:
"If you want to check multiple files using a wildcard, you must use a command to generate the filenames. Putting wildcards directly into the file: entry will not work."
So something like this should do the trick:
file:
ls /var/adm/
I was wondering - is it (or could it become) possible to enter wildcard hostnames? Something like:
[www.*.domain.com]
file:/var/log/xxx.logwith the intention that the file: and log: entries be sent to any host matching the wildcard.
Thanks,
Ralph Mitchell
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