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<p>Hi,</p>
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<p>Thanks for your time,<br>
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<p>I use BBWin as Windows client, but here the host is in central mode, so the configuration come from the Xymon server itself. I try to keep it that way, without adding an external script on each windows hosts or modify the BBWin config on each, since it hasn't
only one host concerned ...<br>
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<p>I tried the wildcard version first, it didn't work, then i saw this on the manpage client-local.cfg:</p>
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<h2>FILE CONFIGURATION ENTRIES</h2>
A file monitoring entry is used to watch the meta-data of a file: Owner, group, size, permissions, checksum etc. It looks like this:
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file:/var/log/messages[:HASH] </p>
<p>The <strong>file:FILENAME</strong> line defines the filename of the file to monitor. As with the "log:" entries, a filename enclosed in backticks means a command which will generate the filenames dynamically. The optional [:HASH] setting defines what type
of hash to compute for the file: <strong>md5</strong>, <strong>rmd160</strong>, <strong>
sha1</strong>, or <strong>sha256, sha512</strong>, <strong>sha224</strong>, or <strong>
sha384</strong>. By default, no hash is calculated. <br>
<strong style="font-size: 18pt;">NOTE:</strong><span style="font-size: 18pt;"> If you want to check multiple files using a wildcard, you
</span><strong style="font-size: 18pt;">must</strong><span style="font-size: 18pt;"> use a command to generate the filenames. Putting wildcards directly into the
</span><strong style="font-size: 18pt;">file:</strong><span style="font-size: 18pt;"> entry will not work.
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<p>with this example with directories :</p>
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<p>dir:`find /var/log -maxdepth 1 -type d`<br>
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<p>So, since i've searched what command i have to use with a Windows host ...<br>
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<p>Anaïs<br>
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<div id="divRplyFwdMsg" dir="ltr"><font style="font-size:11pt" color="#000000" face="Calibri, sans-serif"><b>De :</b> Beck, Zak <zak.beck@accenture.com><br>
<b>Envoyé :</b> mardi 17 avril 2018 17:52<br>
<b>À :</b> Anaïs RABINOIT; xymon@xymon.com<br>
<b>Objet :</b> RE: How to verify DIR content with wildcards on a Windows host?</font>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#032DFD">Hi</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#032DFD">You don’t say which Windows client you’re using (BBWin or XymonPSClient) but I don’t think either of them will understand your backtick syntax (certainly XymonPSClient does not support the use of backticks).</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#032DFD">XymonPSClient will understand wildcards and will enter subfolders if you specify a wildcard in a directory position. Unfortunately it will not recurse so you would need an entry for each level of subfolder you
may encounter.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#032DFD">So you may need several entries in client-local.cfg:</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#032DFD">file:c:\temp\test\*.txt</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#032DFD">file:c:\temp\test\*\*.txt</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#032DFD">file:c:\temp\test\*\*\*.txt</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#032DFD">and so on…</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#032DFD"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#032DFD">It may be simpler to use an external script – the external script approach can be used in either BBWin or XymonPSClient.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#032DFD">Zak </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US">From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US"> Xymon [mailto:xymon-bounces@xymon.com]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Anaïs RABINOIT<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, 17 April 2018 10:28<br>
<b>To:</b> xymon@xymon.com<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [External] [Xymon] How to verify DIR content with wildcards on a Windows host?</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:12.0pt; color:black">Hi everyone,</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:12.0pt; color:black">I have to check if a directory on a windows host contains files with a specific extension.
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<p><span style="font-size:12.0pt; color:black"> </span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:12.0pt; color:black">If it was a Unix/Linux host, i just have to write something like that i guess :</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:12.0pt; color:black">client-local.cfg :</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:12.0pt; color:black"> file:`find /path/mydir/*.tst`</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:12.0pt; color:black">analysis.cfg :</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:12.0pt; color:black"> FILE %(/path/mydir/*.tst) noexist</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:12.0pt; color:black"> </span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:12.0pt; color:black">But how to do it for a Windows host? Is this possible ?</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:12.0pt; color:black"> </span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:12.0pt; color:black">I tried this for example :</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:12.0pt; color:black"> </span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:12.0pt; color:black">client-local.cfg :</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:12.0pt; color:black"> file:`cmd /c "dir /b /s C:\path\mydir\*.tst"`</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:12.0pt; color:black">or</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:12.0pt; color:black"> file:`cmd /c "dir /b /s \path\mydir\*.tst"`</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:12.0pt; color:black"> </span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:12.0pt; color:black">analysis.cfg :</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:12.0pt; color:black"> FILE "%C:\path\mydir\*.tst" noexist</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:12.0pt; color:black"> </span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:12.0pt; color:black">But it doesn't work :(</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:12.0pt; color:black"> </span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:12.0pt; color:black">Regards,</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:12.0pt; color:black"> </span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:12.0pt; color:black">Anaïs</span></p>
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