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I basically use hobbit 4.2.0 more or less as it comes out of the box and
that's been sufficient for us.  The downside is that I don't actually
know a lot about "advanced" features...

I want to monitor a plain text log file on one of our Windows servers
(already running BBWin and reporting just fine).  I've RTFM and came to
the conclusion that I need to do something like the following:

Specify the specific log file in client-local.cfg on the hobbit server:

[win32]
log:"d:\Log directory with spaces in name\log.txt":10240

Configure hobbit-clients.cfg so that the occurrence of the word "error"
causes the server's status to go red:

HOST=winservername
        LOG "d:\Log directory with spaces in name\log.txt" %error
color=red

Is this the correct way of doing this?  I guess not because it doesn't
appear to be evaluating that log file.  I've had a look at the logs but
see nothing to help.

Will appreciate advice on this.

Thanks.

I posted a VB script to the shire that uses this idea to test the
running of DCDiags. If you cut down that script so that it only opens
your log file and looks for the word it will achieve what you want.
Don't know how to get the method below to work.

Hope this helps

Regards
Graeme

-----Original Message-----
From: Johan Booysen [mailto:user-6f017f1ad8a9@xymon.invalid] 
Sent: Wednesday, 22 April 2009 2:25 AM
To: user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
Subject: [hobbit] monitoring text file

I basically use hobbit 4.2.0 more or less as it comes out of the box and
that's been sufficient for us.  The downside is that I don't actually
know a lot about "advanced" features...

I want to monitor a plain text log file on one of our Windows servers
(already running BBWin and reporting just fine).  I've RTFM and came to
the conclusion that I need to do something like the following:

Specify the specific log file in client-local.cfg on the hobbit server:

[win32]
log:"d:\Log directory with spaces in name\log.txt":10240

Configure hobbit-clients.cfg so that the occurrence of the word "error"
causes the server's status to go red:

HOST=winservername
        LOG "d:\Log directory with spaces in name\log.txt" %error
color=red

Is this the correct way of doing this?  I guess not because it doesn't
appear to be evaluating that log file.  I've had a look at the logs but
see nothing to help.

Will appreciate advice on this.

Thanks.

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Not sure if this helps but one of the client side scripts I created checks log files for certain expressions and reports back to xymon if the error count is greater than the last report.

The script is a shell script running in cygwin and look
something like:

#!/bin/sh

 
##############################################################################

## The script was written sh to be used in cygwin in
conjunction with BBWin

## The script checks the Application logs for errors or
exceptions

## Requirements:

## BBWin, Cygwin (Base install)

##############################################################################

 
CLEAR="clear"

RED="red"

YELLOW="yellow"

GREEN="green"

UNKNOWN="purple"

 
BB=BBWinCmd.exe

BBDISP=<BBWINSERVER>

MACHINE=`hostname`

COLUMN=<COLUMN_NAME>

COLOR=$GREEN

 
BBLOG=D:/Logs/AppLogs.txt

 
echo "Application Error Logs" > $BBLOG

 
if [ ! -e "D:/Logs/PREERRORS.log" ]; then

        `touch
D:/Logs/PREERRORS.log`

fi

 
PREERRORLOG=D:/Logs/PREERRORS.log


 PREERRORS=`cat D:/Logs/PREERRORS.log`


 APPLOG=D:/Logs/AppLog-"`eval date +%Y%m%d`".log

 
if [ -e $APPLOG ]; then

        ERRORS=`cat $APPLOG|
grep -i -e error -e exception | wc -l`

        else

        ERRORS=0

fi

 if [ "$ERRORS" -gt "$PREERRORS" ]; then

   COLOR=$RED

   echo "App Errors
= $ERRORS "\|" Previous Error Count = $PREERRORS" >>
$BBLOG

   echo
"LOG:" >> $BBLOG

   tail -n +1 $APPLOG|
grep -m 10 -i -e error -e exception >> $BBLOG

   echo "LOG
END" >> $BBLOG

   echo " "

$BBLOG

   echo " "

$BBLOG

   else

   echo "App
Errors = No New Errors "\|" Previous Error Count = $PREERRORS"

$BBLOG

fi

 
echo $ERRORS > $PREERRORLOG

 
# Tell Hobbit about it

$BB $BBDISP status $MACHINE $COLUMN $COLOR "`cat
D:/Logs/AppLogs.txt`"

exit 0

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