[xymon] monitor a directory size

[Tony Larco]

*I think* there is something in the man page or on the mailing list (i
forget where) that said that if you use the DIR directive, it uses du
and you have to specify the size in bytes, so 10m wont work in this
case.  Check the mailing list archives about this.. there is some help
out there.  HTH

Tony

On 09/16/2010 12:47 PM, Martin Flemming wrote:
>
> 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
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>        Martin Flemming
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