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<div>Oops, mis-typed, and if I only wanted it for one host? Or is the only option to have all machines of that platform send that data despite it only existing on one system? I was under the impression that both types of specification, hosts and platforms
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<div><font size="2" face="tahoma">Jamison Maxwell</font></div>
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<font color="#000000" size="2" face="Tahoma"><b>From:</b> Root, Paul [Paul.Root@CenturyLink.com]<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, January 10, 2012 2:08 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Jamison Maxwell; xymon@xymon.com<br>
<b>Subject:</b> RE: [Xymon] File Monitoring<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; COLOR: #1f497d; FONT-SIZE: 11pt">Well it should be client-local.cfg not client.local.cfg. and it isn’t a per machine definition, it’s a platform definition. You’d want something like:</span></p>
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<b>On Behalf Of </b>Jamison Maxwell<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, January 10, 2012 12:31 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> xymon@xymon.com<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [Xymon] File Monitoring</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">I am trying to monitor a file, this file is located at /mnt/fs/test, however, when I configure it in client-local.cfg and analysis.cfg I still get the "No Files
Checked" message with a clear status. Is there something I'm missing here?</span></p>
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FILE /mnt/fs/test SIZE>1 COLOR=red</span></p>
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