check your ghosts report to see if foo.bar.com is reporting in as foo.
And when are you going to change GREEN to "COLOR=green"?
GLH
*From:* Josh Luthman [mailto:user-4c45a83f15cb@xymon.invalid]
*Sent:* Thursday, November 01, 2007 5:13 PM
*To:* user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
*Subject:* Re: [hobbit] Re: New to Hobbit --- file monitoring
I'm basing my changes on Greg. These still do not work, though I believe
they're a step towards the right direction:
#hobbit-clients.cfg
HOST=foo.bar.com
FILE "/etc/passwd" GREEN NOEXIST TRACK
#client-local.cfg
[foo.bar.com]
file:/etc/passwd
I do notice that on my main machine running the server and client that
there is Client Data available if you click on the Files test. There is no
client data from the foo.bar.com files test, however. I think my problem
right now is that I'm not getting the data from foo.bar.com to BBD. Any
ideas at this point?
On 11/1/07, Hubbard, Greg L <user-d970b5e56ec9@xymon.invalid> wrote:
Here is something I use that works. This is a "bookend" problem --
both parts have to be done correctly. Hobbit tends to silently ignore
errors in configuration files.
In client-local.cfg
[myserver.mydomain.com]
file:/opt2/log/syslog.log
file:/opt2/log/security.log
file:/opt2/log/snmptrap.log
in hobbit-clients.cfg
HOST=myserver.mydomain.com
FILE /opt2/log/syslog.log mtime<600 size<2G TRACK
FILE /opt2/log/security.log TRACK
FILE /opt2/log/snmptrap.log mtime<600 size<2G TRACK
Some things to note
a) the host names match exactly, and they are not enclosed in double
quotes.
b) the file names match exactly
c) this example is lifted from my running system, with the host name
changed to protect the guilty. I have some other examples that use color in
the "COLOR=color" format, which I believe is required, but I would have to
edit them more before I can post them.
d) the client-local.cfg file has some predefined sections in it. Don't
use them. Make new ones. Only one section can be applied to a host, so cut
and paste will
be your friend.
*From:* Scott Mohnkern [mailto:user-1386a26b8c7d@xymon.invalid]
*Sent:* Thursday, November 01, 2007 4:00 PM
*To:* user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
*Subject:* Re: [hobbit] Re: New to Hobbit --- file monitoring
Nope, no joy there either. the man page seems to think it should be:
FILE <full path to file><color> <condition>
and that's pretty consistent with the other things I've put into the
same file, which come up.
I also tried:
FILE "/etc/passwd" green noexist TRACK
and
FILE "/etc/passwd" green noexist
Scott
On 11/1/07, Hubbard, Greg L <user-d970b5e56ec9@xymon.invalid> wrote:
Try this
FILE /etc/passwd noexist COLOR=green TRACK
*From:* Scott Mohnkern [mailto:user-1386a26b8c7d@xymon.invalid]
*Sent:* Thursday, November 01, 2007 3:39 PM
*To:* user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
*Subject:* Re: [hobbit] Re: 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.
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