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Need help in getting message alerts

list Galen Johnson
Sat, 12 Jan 2008 11:20:15 -0500
Message-Id: <user-c78501d11c4b@xymon.invalid>

Edward Croft wrote:
I have it set up on different machines, in different configurations trying to find the one that works.The only one that works is the one that is using the bb client. We are trying to move away from Big Brother. When it is client-side, I configure it on the client, on the server side I configure all of them whether they are client-side or not. Question, I note that the bb-hosts file isn't installed client-side, I did copy it over to /usr/local/hobbit/client/etc directory just in case, but still no go.
The important thing is for it to alert if there is the word NOTICE in the line for messages, and BREAKIN for secure.
Thanks Henrik. Other than that, it all looks great. I really like it, but I have to get this working or it is a no go and I will have to look elsewhere.


On Jan 12, 2008 9:15 AM, Henrik Stoerner <user-ce4a2c883f75@xymon.invalid <mailto:user-ce4a2c883f75@xymon.invalid>> wrote:

    Have you configured your client(s) for server-side or client-side
    configuration ? It's the first question asked when you configure
    the client:
     Server side client configuration, or client side [server] ?

    And what host are you editing the client-local.cfg and
    hobbit-clients.cfg files on ? On the client or on the server?


    Henrik


    On Thu, Jan 10, 2008 at 02:15:24PM -0500, Edward Croft wrote:
On the message page I am getting the following results.
In the client-local.cfg file it says:
log:/var/log/messages:10240
trigger NOTICE
trigger WARNING

log:/var/log/secure:10240
ignore "Connection closed by"
trigger BREAKIN

In hobbit-clients.cfg it says:
        LOG /var/log/messages WARNING COLOR=yellow
        LOG /var/log/messages NOTICE COLOR=red
        LOG /var/log/secure BREAKIN

Yet, nothing appears in the top half and it never changes from
    green.


No entries in /var/log/messages
<
    http://phanes/hobbit-cgi/bb-hostsvc.sh?CLIENT=sirona.hq.openratings.com&SECTION=msgs:/var/log/messages
    <http://phanes/hobbit-cgi/bb-hostsvc.sh?CLIENT=sirona.hq.openratings.com&SECTION=msgs:/var/log/messages>>;
No entries in /var/log/secure
<
    http://phanes/hobbit-cgi/bb-hostsvc.sh?CLIENT=sirona.hq.openratings.com&SECTION=msgs:/var/log/secure
    <http://phanes/hobbit-cgi/bb-hostsvc.sh?CLIENT=sirona.hq.openratings.com&SECTION=msgs:/var/log/secure>>;

Full log /var/log/messages
<
    http://phanes/hobbit-cgi/bb-hostsvc.sh?CLIENT=sirona.hq.openratings.com&SECTION=msgs:/var/log/messages
    <http://phanes/hobbit-cgi/bb-hostsvc.sh?CLIENT=sirona.hq.openratings.com&SECTION=msgs:/var/log/messages>>;
Jan 10 13:31:40 sirona ecroft: NOTICE

Full log /var/log/secure
    <http://phanes/hobbit-cgi/bb-hostsvc.sh?CLIENT=sirona.hq.openratings.com&SECTION=msgs:/var/log/secure
    <http://phanes/hobbit-cgi/bb-hostsvc.sh?CLIENT=sirona.hq.openratings.com&SECTION=msgs:/var/log/secure>>;
Jan 10 13:22:50 sirona sshd[5087]: Connection closed by
    10.0.14.249 <http://10.0.14.249>;
Jan 10 13:27:51 sirona sshd[5133]: Connection closed by
    10.0.14.249 <http://10.0.14.249>;
Jan 10 13:31:38 sirona ecroft: BREAKIN
Jan 10 13:32:52 sirona sshd[5181]: Connection closed by
    10.0.14.249 <http://10.0.14.249>;
Jan 10 13:37:53 sirona sshd[5227]: Connection closed by
    10.0.14.249 <http://10.0.14.249>;
Jan 10 13:42:54 sirona sshd[5273]: Connection closed by
    10.0.14.249 <http://10.0.14.249>;
Jan 10 13:47:55 sirona sshd[5319]: Connection closed by
    10.0.14.249 <http://10.0.14.249>;
Jan 10 13:52:56 sirona sshd[5365]: Connection closed by
    10.0.14.249 <http://10.0.14.249>;

--
If the sane say the insane are insane,
What if the sane are insane?
Would that make the insane sane?
Explains a lot in Washington!
 --E. Croft
    --
    Henrik Storner


-- 
If the sane say the insane are insane,
What if the sane are insane?
Would that make the insane sane?
Explains a lot in Washington!
 --E. Croft 
Unless you have a reason not to (like a firewall you have no control over), install it with serverside configuration.  While hobbit may look and feel like BB (and use most of the bbc clients with little or no modification), it works differently.  With hobbit, set up with serverside config, you only have to maintain bbhosts on the server. Check out the man pages that you can link via the web page.

=G=