Not sure why the last reply was truncated. What I intended to say was that all my other tests have double quotes around them as they all contain spaces. I don't think it's the quotes that's the issue although it may be something to do with the escaped double quote just before the word WebContainer
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The clientlocal.cfg entry was already in place as this is a standard test log that we use for testing new log monitors.
All my other tests which all
-----Original Message----- From: usa ims [mailto:usaims at yahoo.com] Sent: 11 September 2014 13:04 To: xymon at xymon.com; Neil Simmonds Subject: Re: [Xymon] msgs not matching
On my xymon 4.3.7 I also modified the client-local.cfg.
The client-local.cfg file contains settings that are used by each Xymon client when it runs on a monitored host. It provides a convenient way of configuring clients from a central location without having to setup special configuration maintenance tools on all clients.
The client-local.cfg file is currently used to configure what logfiles the client should fetch data from, to be used as the basis for the "msgs" status column; and to configure which files and directories are being monitored in the "files" status column.
Note that there is a dependency between the client-local.cfg file and the anaysis.cfg(5) file. When monitoring e.g. a logfile, you must first enter it into the client-local.cfg file, to trigger the Xymon client into reporting any data about the logfile. Next, you must configure analysis.cfg so the Xymon server knows what to look for in the file data sent by the client. So: client-local.cfg defines what raw data is collected by the client, and analysis.cfg defines how to analyze them.
On Thu, 9/11/14, Neil Simmonds <neilsimmonds1808 at gmail.com> wrote:
Subject: [Xymon] msgs not matching To: xymon at xymon.com Date: Thursday, September 11, 2014, 7:14 AM
I’m trying to get a match on a log file string but seem to be struggling. In my analysis.cfg I have the following, LOG /xymon/server/etc/test.log "%Thread \"WebContainer.{1,75} and may be hung*" COLOR=yellow On the msgs column on the relevant server I get, No entries in /xymon/server/etc/test.log No entries in /tmp/xymontest/ATPReceiptDiag.log
Full log /xymon/server/etc/test.logThread "WebContainer : 23" (0000006f) has been active for 686236 milliseconds and may be hung. Full log /tmp/xymontest/ATPReceiptDiag.log I’ve tested my string in my usual regular expression tester and it seems it should work ok. Is there something obvious that I’ve missed? -----Inline Attachment Follows-----
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On 11 September 2014 22:31, Neil Simmonds <neilsimmonds1808 at gmail.com> wrote:
Not sure why the last reply was truncated. What I intended to say was that all my other tests have double quotes around them as they all contain spaces. I don't think it's the quotes that's the issue although it may be something to do with the escaped double quote just before the word WebContainer
Yes, the token matching code looks for tabs or spaces as separators, or for double-quotes as book-end terminators for the tokens. It doesn't know about escaped double-quotes, and so you cannot use them in your regular expressions. Instead you can could match with a dot, or an equivalent to a quote, such as:
LOG /xymon/server/etc/test.log "%Thread \x22WebContainer.{1,75} and may be hung*" COLOR=yellow
The "\x22" adds the ASCII character for hex 22, which is the double quote.
J
FWIW, on things like that I usually make my life easier and just put something like
LOG /yadda/yadda %.*Thread.*may.be.hung.*
there's always a remote chance of matching something else, but I can live with that.
Good tip that. Also I'm pretty sure the leading and trailing ".*" are not required.
J On 14/09/2014 11:27 AM, "Betsy Schwartz" <betsy.schwartz at gmail.com> wrote:
FWIW, on things like that I usually make my life easier and just put something like
LOG /yadda/yadda %.*Thread.*may.be.hung.*
there's always a remote chance of matching something else, but I can live with that.
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