[hobbit] monitor a series of files for absolute size (alert & trending)

Henrik Stoerner henrik at hswn.dk
Fri Aug 4 18:01:30 CEST 2006


On Fri, Aug 04, 2006 at 11:58:12AM -0400, Jerry Yu wrote:

> >Your regex is wrong. "*" by itself doesn't do what you want;
> >it must be ".*". So it should be
> >
> >FILE %^/backup/.*full.*cmp.* size<1G mtime<86400 track=fullDbDump
>> hmm, I suspected that. however, the file is now listed under 'files'.  I

> guess that's not enough?

It goes on the "files" display as soon as the client reports anything
about it. However, to apply any kind of action to the file data it 
must be recognized by hobbit-clients.cfg. That includes size checks and
tracking, which is why your size check doesn't trigger and the RRD file
doesn't exist.


Regards,
Henrik




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