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2 Problems with monitoring DIR

I am trying to monitor the log directory of MQ.  I have two types of
primary and backup systems.  On the primary system I want to monitor
/backup/local/mq.  On the backup I want to monitor /var/mqm/log/*/active

The hosts names are formatted "LAB01" for primary systems and "LAB01_2"
for backup.

In my client_local.cfg file I have:

[linux]
  log:/var/log/messages:10240 
  ignore MARK
  dir:/backup/local/mq
  dir:/var/mqm/log/*/active

in my analysis.cfg file I have:
HOST=%LAB\d\d$
  DIR /backup/local/mq yellow SIZE<250000 TRACK=Backup

HOST=%_2$
  DIR /var/mqm/log/*/active yellow SIZE<14000 TRACK=Backup

Problem #1 - the DIR check on /var/mqm/log/*/active fails. "Could not
determine size of directory".  However, if I click the link it says:

[dir:/var/mqm/log/*/active]
49240	/var/mqm/log/QA_POSLAB05_QM/active


Problem #2 - Even though I'm only specifying the DIR check of /backup/local/mq on LAB01 systems, it appears to be running on LAB01_2 systems.  Though this may not be the case as the history chart is not showing any data.


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Michael Beatty

Well, I'm down to one problem

I figured out the first problem by reading the man pages for
analysis.cfg and client-local.cfg.  Go figure

My client-local.cfg needed a command
dir:`find /var/mqm/log/*/active`

and my analysis.cfg needed a regular expression
DIR %/var/mqm/log/*/active$ yellow SIZE<25000

So, my checks are now checking.

However, ALL of the checks for all of the directories listed in the
client-local.cfg are being listed for all of the hosts regardless of
what tags I have in the analysis.cfg.  My assumption here is that the
web page will display ALL the data that is sent from client-local.cfg,
but will only alert on what is configured in analysis.cfg?  Is this correct?

If so, it would appear that I need to setup wildcards for host names in
client-local.cfg... is this supported?

Michael Beatty
Sherwin-Williams
IT Analyst/Developer
user-4aea7c115850@xymon.invalid
XXX-XXX-XXXX

Michael Beatty wrote:

On Sat, Jun 2, 2012 at 3:57 AM, Michael Beatty
<user-4aea7c115850@xymon.invalid>wrote:

My client-local.cfg needed a command
dir:`find /var/mqm/log/*/active`

Yes, this collects the data on the client and sends it to the server with
all the rest of the client data.

and my analysis.cfg needed a regular expression
DIR %/var/mqm/log/*/active$ yellow SIZE<25000

This tells the server what to look for in the client data.

Correct.  It will display all client data.

Or, you can be a bit trickier in your client-local.cfg file.  For example:

dir:`find /backup/local/mq -type d 2>/dev/null; [ "$(uname -n | grep _02)"
= "" ] && find /var/mqm/log/*/active -type d 2>/dev/null`

This is untested, but should demonstrate the basic idea.  Play with it
until the string between the backticks runs correctly on every host you
want to include, and shows only the correct files for each host.

Cheers
Jeremy