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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoPlainText>I'm currently locating files using the find command in client-local.cfg, a la:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>file:`find /path/to/file/locations -type f -name somename*</span>`<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>And alerting if the files exist in analysis.cfg a la:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>FILE %/path/to/file/locations/somename.* yellow NOEXIST<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>The first command looks in the particular path for a file to appear starting with somename. So if a file starting with “somename” appears in the directory as noted, it generates a yellow alert.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>I would imagine that you could try:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>file:`find /path/to/file/locations -type f -mtime -1`<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>and<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>FILE %/path/to/file/locations/.* <color> NOEXIST<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>The option in client-local.cfg will cause the remote client to search for and list anything in the specified path that has an mtime less than 1 day old, and if found/listed, analysis.cfg should generate an alert of <color> status.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>--<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Mike Burger<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>AIX Administrator<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Phone (317) 537-3680, Fax (317) 537-4680, Cell (317) 797-2040 <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>E-mail: Mike.Burger@FreedomMortgage.com<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>"Once word leaks out that a pirate's gone soft, people begin to disobey you and then it's nothing but work, work, work, all the time." --Westley/The Dread Pirate Roberts<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>-----Original Message-----<br>From: xymon-bounces@xymon.com [mailto:xymon-bounces@xymon.com] On Behalf Of Michael Beatty<br>Sent: Monday, January 28, 2013 8:24 AM<br>To: xymon@xymon.com<br>Subject: [Xymon] analysis.cfg ignoring file existence</p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Is there a way to check an MTIME on a file, AND ignore its existence.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>In other words, I don't care if the file exists or not, but I want to be alerted if the file does exists AND was last modified over 24 hours ago.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>_______________________________________________<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Xymon mailing list<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><a href="mailto:Xymon@xymon.com"><span style='color:windowtext;text-decoration:none'>Xymon@xymon.com</span></a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><a href="http://lists.xymon.com/mailman/listinfo/xymon"><span style='color:windowtext;text-decoration:none'>http://lists.xymon.com/mailman/listinfo/xymon</span></a><o:p></o:p></p></div></body></html>
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