I treied to find the version of xymon but cioldn;t find anythuing obvuious - apologies.

That entry is in  hobbit-clients.cfg already 

From: "Root, Paul T" <Paul.Root at CenturyLink.com> To: 'Ian Diddams' <didds3 at yahoo.co.uk>; "'xymon at xymon.com'" <xymon at xymon.com> Sent: Friday, 30 May 2014, 16:17 Subject: RE: [Xymon] monitoring msgs

Ah, you have a very old version of xymon running then. In the future, let us know what version you are running. So, I can’t remember which file it is. How soon we forget.   It must be hobbit-clients.cfg is the old name for analysis.cfg. Paul. From:Ian Diddams [mailto:didds3 at yahoo.co.uk] Sent: Friday, May 30, 2014 10:12 AM To: Root, Paul T; 'xymon at xymon.com' Subject: Re: [Xymon] monitoring msgs

hmmm... I have nio analysis.cfg!  9which is possibly why its not working!) here's the contents of the xymon server server/etc directory $ ls bbcombotest.cfg bbwarnrules.cfg columndoc.csv hobbit-alerts.cfg hobbit-clients.cfg hobbit-nkview.cfg hobbitserver.cfg hobbit-apache.conf hobbitgraph.cfg bb-services client-local.cfg getw.cfg hobbitcgi.cfg hobbitlaunch.cfg hobbitpasswd cheers. didds

From:"Root, Paul T" <Paul.Root at CenturyLink.com> To: 'Ian Diddams' <didds3 at yahoo.co.uk>; "'xymon at xymon.com'" <xymon at xymon.com> Sent: Friday, 30 May 2014, 15:31 Subject: RE: [Xymon] monitoring msgs This is the file you want to monitor and what you want to monitor. From:Ian Diddams [mailto:didds3 at yahoo.co.uk] Sent: Friday, May 30, 2014 9:26 AM To: Root, Paul T; 'xymon at xymon.com' Subject: Re: [Xymon] monitoring msgs

sorry paul - when you say "So you’d want this in the client-local.cfg and the analysis.cfg on the server." what is "this" cheers didds

From:"Root, Paul T" <Paul.Root at CenturyLink.com> To: 'Ian Diddams' <didds3 at yahoo.co.uk>; "'xymon at xymon.com'" <xymon at xymon.com> Sent: Friday, 30 May 2014, 14:40 Subject: RE: [Xymon] monitoring msgs Is your xymon setup in central mode or local mode? By default xymon is setup in central mode. So you’d want this in the client-local.cfg and the analysis.cfg on the server. From:Xymon [mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com] On Behalf Of Ian Diddams Sent: Friday, May 30, 2014 4:44 AM To: xymon at xymon.com Subject: [Xymon] monitoring msgs Hi all. I am really struggling to understand how to monitor msgs in xymon. I have read the man pages over anhd over and nothing I am doing seems to work. In the client I have the following files  in ~/client/etc client-local.cfg: log:/var/log/messages:4096 localclient.cfg: LOG /var/log/messages warn COLOR=red The actual msgs report in the xymon web page says " System logs at Fri May 30 10:29:38 BST 2014 : No log data available The client did not report any logfile data " I need a dummies guide to msgs monitoring! If anyone could provide such a beast i would be immensely grateful.

cheers Ian