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LOG pattern not matching

list Charles Jones
Wed, 09 May 2007 13:18:39 -0700
Message-Id: <user-d287eaeea800@xymon.invalid>

Your syntax is wrong.  For logfile monitoring you must have the following in hobbit-clients.cfg:
*LOG logfilename pattern [COLOR=color] [IGNORE=excludepattern]*

So, using one of your examples below, it should be:

LOG /var/adm/messages WARNING COLOR=yellow

If you need a reference just check the man pages, either on your Hobbit instance, or at:
http://www.hobbitmon.com/hobbit/help/manpages/man5/client-local.cfg.5.html
http://www.hobbitmon.com/hobbit/help/manpages/man5/hobbit-clients.cfg.5.html

-Charles

Steve Holmes wrote:
Hi all,

I may not be understanding how the LOG match-pattern works.

In my hobbit-clients.cfg file I have under the DEFAULT section the following:

        LOG %.* NOTICE
        LOG %.* ERROR
        LOG %.* WARNING COLOR=yellow
        LOG %.* notice COLOR=yellow
        LOG %.* error COLOR=yellow
        LOG %.* daemon.error COLOR=yellow
        LOG %.* warning COLOR=yellow
        LOG %.* warn COLOR=yellow

At the moment on my hobbit server I have a green status for the host mentor and the following messages in /var/adm/messages:

[msgs:/var/adm/messages]
<...SKIPPED...>
purdue.edu <http://purdue.edu>; scsi: [ID 107833 kern.warning] WARNING: /pci at 9,600000/SUNW,qlc at 2/fp at 0,0/ssd at w21000004cffa6698,0 (ssd1):
May  9 11:07:36 mentor.ics.purdue.edu <http://mentor.ics.purdue.edu>;     Error for Command: read(10)                Error Level: Retryable
May  9 11:07:36 mentor.ics.purdue.edu <http://mentor.ics.purdue.edu>; scsi: [ID 107833 kern.notice]     Requested Block: 33383911                  Error Block: 33383911
May  9 11:07:36 mentor.ics.purdue.edu <http://mentor.ics.purdue.edu>; scsi: [ID 107833 kern.notice]     Vendor: SEAGATE                            Serial Number: 0317A1JGAZ May  9 11:07:36 mentor.ics.purdue.edu <http://mentor.ics.purdue.edu>; scsi: [ID 107833 kern.notice]     Sense Key: Media Error
May  9 11:07:36 mentor.ics.purdue.edu <http://mentor.ics.purdue.edu>; scsi: [ID 107833 kern.notice]     ASC: 0x11 (unrecovered read error), ASCQ: 0x0, FRU: 0xf
May  9 11:07:36 mentor.ics.purdue.edu <http://mentor.ics.purdue.edu>; scsi: [ID 107833 kern.warning] WARNING: /pci at 9,600000/SUNW, qlc at 2/fp at 0,0/ssd at w21000004cffa6698,0 (ssd1):
May  9 11:07:36 mentor.ics.purdue.edu <http://mentor.ics.purdue.edu>;     Error for Command: write(10)               Error Level: Retryable
May  9 11:07:36 mentor.ics.purdue.edu <http://mentor.ics.purdue.edu>; scsi: [ID 107833 kern.notice]     Requested Block: 33982299                  Error Block: 33982299
May  9 11:07:36 mentor.ics.purdue.edu <http://mentor.ics.purdue.edu>; scsi: [ID 107833 kern.notice]     Vendor: SEAGATE                            Serial Number: 0317A1JGAZ May  9 11:07:36 mentor.ics.purdue.edu <http://mentor.ics.purdue.edu>; scsi: [ID 107833 kern.notice]     Sense Key: Unit Attention

The above is copied from the hobbit display reached by clicking on the [/var/adm/messages] link on the msgs page for this host.

In the client-local.cfg I have:

[sunos]
log:/var/adm/messages:10240


So why is the page green? There are at least 3 strings that should match to turn it yellow, right? And incidentally, the BB server I'm running on another host *does* show yellow. I'm trying to validate my hobbit configuration by making sure it matches the running BB server. And it doesn't for msgs, ever.

Thanks,
Steve.