This is the file you want to monitor and what you want to monitor.
From: Ian Diddams [mailto:user-7fbf34ed5219@xymon.invalid]
Sent: Friday, May 30, 2014 9:26 AM
To: Root, Paul T; 'xymon at xymon.com'
Subject: Re: [Xymon] monitoring msgs
sorry paul - when you say
"So you’d want this in the client-local.cfg and the analysis.cfg on the server."
what is "this"
cheers
didds
From: "Root, Paul T" <user-76fdb6883669@xymon.invalid<mailto:user-76fdb6883669@xymon.invalid>>
To: 'Ian Diddams' <user-7fbf34ed5219@xymon.invalid<mailto:user-7fbf34ed5219@xymon.invalid>>; "'xymon at xymon.com'" <xymon at xymon.com<mailto:xymon at xymon.com>>
Sent: Friday, 30 May 2014, 14:40
Subject: RE: [Xymon] monitoring msgs
Is your xymon setup in central mode or local mode?
By default xymon is setup in central mode.
So you’d want this in the client-local.cfg and the analysis.cfg on the server.
From: Xymon [mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com] On Behalf Of Ian Diddams
Sent: Friday, May 30, 2014 4:44 AM
To: xymon at xymon.com<mailto:xymon at xymon.com>
Subject: [Xymon] monitoring msgs
Hi all.
I am really struggling to understand how to monitor msgs in xymon. I have read the man pages over anhd over and nothing I am doing seems to work.
In the client I have the following files in ~/client/etc
client-local.cfg:
log:/var/log/messages:4096
localclient.cfg:
LOG /var/log/messages warn COLOR=red
The actual msgs report in the xymon web page says
"
System logs at Fri May 30 10:29:38 BST 2014 : No log data available
The client did not report any logfile data
"
I need a dummies guide to msgs monitoring!
If anyone could provide such a beast i would be immensely grateful.
cheers
Ian