msgs column alerts (hobbit-4.2-alfa-20060404) 🔗 link

Dominique Frise wrote:

Hi,

I still could not trigger any alert (yellow/red) for the msgs column :-(
Config. for clients was made following the man pages for hobbit-clients.cfg and client-local.cfg.

-----hobbit-clients.cfg----
HOST=argos,eliot
    LOAD    8.0 16.0
    LOG    messages quota_ufs
-----client-local.cfg----
[sunos]
log:/var/adm/messages:10240

On argos client (sunos),there are lots of entries with "quota_ufs" in /var/adm/messages but the msgs column stays green even if I start the client from scratch (erasing tmp files).


BTW: hobbitd-client in testing mode does not support the new LOG tag:
[bb at iris etc]$ ../bin/hobbitd_client --test
Hostname (.=end, ?=dump, !=reload) []: argos
Test (cpu, mem, disk, proc):


Please help: I'm stuck!


Dominique
UNIL - University of Lausanne

Dominique Frise wrote:

Hi all,

After some debugging (client_config.c:scan_log), I finally could trigger yellow or red state on the msgs column!

1/ logfilename
Unlike what the man page says, the logfilename must include the directory OR it must be a regexp (leading %)

Examples:

LOG /var/log/messages
LOG %messages

LOG messages <-- won't work!

2/ pattern
The string to match must be a regexp

Examples:

%warning
warning <-- won't work!


I did not try the excludepattern.


Dominique
UNIL - University of Lausanne

John Glowacki wrote:

Dominique Frise wrote:

Hi all,

After some debugging (client_config.c:scan_log), I finally could trigger yellow or red state on the msgs column!

1/ logfilename
Unlike what the man page says, the logfilename must include the directory OR it must be a regexp (leading %)

Examples:

LOG /var/log/messages
LOG %messages

LOG messages <-- won't work!

2/ pattern
The string to match must be a regexp

Examples:

%warning
warning <-- won't work!


I did not try the excludepattern.


Dominique
UNIL - University of Lausanne

Dominique,

That is just what I needed to get started. Where did you find a man page that explains LOG? I didn't see one.

Setting yellow and red rules to these:
LOG     %messages %error yellow
LOG     %messages %warn red

Echoed the following to the messages file:
warn10
warn error 10
error10

Displayed the following alerts:
Critical entries in /var/log/messages
yellow warn error 10
yellow error10
red warn10
red warn error 10

Full log /var/log/messages
warn10
warn error 10
error10

I didn't have any luck with setting ignoreexp either.

John