Xymon and Hobbit are pretty much the same, Hobbit was renamed to Xymon for
legal reasons, since the rename there have been some additional features
added, but they are still substantially the same thing.
As far as the what files the msgs test looks at, this depends a good deal
on what you are monitoring. Is the monitored system Windows or a Unix
variant? Also, are the clients on those machines running in local or
centralized mode? If you are running in centralized mode you can get some
idea of what you need to do by reading the client-local.cfg and
analysis.cfg man pages. If you have a Windows box running in local mode,
you are pretty much stuck with what you get. Windows in localized mode can
be configured similar to Unix systems.
Thanks,
Larry Barber
On Tue, Jul 3, 2012 at 2:25 PM, Balderston, David <user-63a5a9869cbc@xymon.invalid> wrote:
Hey. I have taken over zymon in my department recently and am just
getting used to it. Sorry if this is a repeat question, but everything I'm
finding is for hobbit not xymon and it seems to be quite different. I
wrote a script that outputs the result to a file. Im trying to have xymon
alert based on certain phrases in the file.
So on our main server page we have all of the ping imap etc. We have a
msgs column that is looking at system files. Do you know where in the file
structure this setting is located? I cannot find where this is set so i
can change it from the system files to the look at the right file. Also,
if someone has an example of what the syntax that i would put into that
file to have it search that file, that would be amazing. Lastly, do i need
to do this on each client machine, or can it be done once on the server?
thank you so much for your help. I really appreciate it.
David Balderston
Core Bio Services
user-63a5a9869cbc@xymon.invalid