[Xymon] /var/core/ files

[Ward, Martin]

Hi Nick,

In the analysis.cfg file you can test for the existence or otherwise of a file or files. The section from the man page is:

----
     FILE filename [color] [things to check] [TRACK]

     DIR  directoryname  [color]  [size<MAXSIZE]   [size>MINSIZE]
     [TRACK]

     These entries control the status of the "files" column. They
     allow  you  to  check  on  various data for files and direc-
     tories.

     filename and directoryname are  names  of  files  or  direc-
     tories,  with  a full path. You can use a regular expression
     to match the names of files and directories reported by  the
     client, if you prefix the expression with a '%' character.
----
Since you want the non-existance of a core file to be green you could create an entry like this:

HOST=*
  FILE=/var/core/* red noexist

Which should report the FILE column as green if nothing exists in /var/core and red if anything appears.

I haven’t tried this so you may need to poke at it a little, but hopefully it will give you a starting point.

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From: Xymon [mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com] On Behalf Of Nick Pettefar
Sent: 08 August 2013 15:44
To: xymon
Subject: [Xymon] /var/core/ files

Is there a way to be alerted if any core files are created in /var/core/ (Solaris 10)?  Just the presence of any core* file is sufficient.

Regards,

Nick Pettefar

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