New to Hobbit --- file monitoring

Well, at least its replicatable.


Scott


On 11/1/07, Scott Mohnkern <user-1386a26b8c7d@xymon.invalid> 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 < user-d970b5e56ec9@xymon.invalid> 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:user-1386a26b8c7d@xymon.invalid]
*Sent:* Thursday, November 01, 2007 3:10 PM
*To:* user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
*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.