[xymon] monitor a directory size

[Martin Flemming]

Grmmph, you are right ..

But what'S your exactly problem ...

No alert or no real test and graph  for this directory ?

cheers,
 	martin

On Thu, 16 Sep 2010, Johan Sjöberg wrote:

> When I read that man-page, I understand it as du is always run on the directory that is specified in dir:DIRECTORYNAME
>
> So you should only add this to the correct host in client-local.cfg.
> dir:/var/adm
>
>
> From the man-page:
> "A directory monitoring entry is used to watch the size of a directory and any sub-directories. It looks like this:
>
>
>    dir:DIRECTORYNAME
>
> The dir:DIRECTORYNAME 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 Xymon client will run the du(1) command with the directoryname as parameter, and send the output back to the Xymon server."
>
> /Johan
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Martin Flemming [mailto:martin.flemming at desy.de]
>> Sent: den 16 september 2010 15:44
>> To: xymon at xymon.com
>> Subject: RE: [xymon] monitor a directory size
>>
>>
>> You've have to add
>>
>> dir:`du -k /var/adm`
>>
>> in your client-local.cfg ...
>>
>> then you've got hte size of your directory
>> https://it-xymon3.desy.de/xymon/help/manpages/man5/client-
>> local.cfg.5.html
>>
>> cheers,
>>  	martin
>>
>> On Thu, 16 Sep 2010, Johan Sjöberg wrote:
>>
>>> I don't understand exactly what you mean, but you need to add it both to
>> client-local.cfg and to hobbit-clients.cfg. Both these files are located on the
>> Xymon server. Client-local.cfg tells the client to send information about that
>> directory to the Xymon server, and hobbit-clients.cfg tells the server what
>> to alert on in that information.
>>>
>>> /Johan
>>>
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: Kevin Kelly [mailto:kkelly at lifetouch.com]
>>>> Sent: den 16 september 2010 15:08
>>>> To: xymon at xymon.com
>>>> Subject: RE: [xymon] monitor a directory size
>>>>
>>>> I did add it to client-local.cfg on the client server, is client-local.cfg a
>> different
>>>> file?
>>>>
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: Johan Sjöberg [mailto:johan.sjoberg at deltamanagement.se]
>>>> Sent: Thursday, September 16, 2010 7:47 AM
>>>> To: xymon at xymon.com
>>>> Subject: RE: [xymon] monitor a directory size
>>>>
>>>> Have you added it to client-local.cfg as well?
>>>>
>>>> /Johan
>>>>
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: Kevin Kelly [mailto:kkelly at lifetouch.com]
>>>> Sent: den 16 september 2010 14:40
>>>> To: xymon at xymon.com
>>>> Subject: RE: [xymon] monitor a directory size
>>>>
>>>> Still nothing!
>>>>
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: Williams, Doug (Consultant-RIC)
>> [mailto:Doug.Williams at dexone.com]
>>>> Sent: Wednesday, September 15, 2010 4:31 PM
>>>> To: xymon at xymon.com
>>>> Subject: RE: [xymon] monitor a directory size
>>>>
>>>> You need to reverse  SIZE>10m to SIZE<10m  if wanting to alert if greater
>> than
>>>> 10m.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: Kevin Kelly [mailto:kkelly at lifetouch.com]
>>>> Sent: Wednesday, September 15, 2010 3:32 PM
>>>> To: xymon at xymon.com
>>>> Subject: RE: [xymon] monitor a directory size
>>>>
>>>> That had no effect!
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> From: sholmes42 at gmail.com [mailto:sholmes42 at gmail.com] On Behalf
>> Of
>>>> Steve Holmes
>>>> Sent: Wednesday, September 15, 2010 8:59 AM
>>>> To: xymon at xymon.com
>>>> Subject: Re: [xymon] monitor a directory size
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 9:51 AM, Kevin Kelly <kkelly at lifetouch.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> 	I am trying to use the DIR in hobbit-client.cfg, but not having
>>>> any luck. Does anyone use this?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> 	Xymon server- hobbit-client.cfg
>>>>
>>>> 	Syntax that I used:
>>>>
>>>> 	DIR         /var/adm  yellow SIZE>10m track
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> 	Client- localclient.cfg
>>>>
>>>> 	DIR /var/adm
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> 	Any suggestions?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Try putting the word yellow after the SIZE>10m.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Steve
>>>> --
>>>>
>>>> Truth never damages a cause that is just. -Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
>>>> (1869-1948)
>>>>
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Gruss

        Martin Flemming


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