[Xymon] File check question

[Galen Johnson]

Well, this sucks.  Since I'm monitoring a tmp file, it only needs to
trigger if the file is older than 15 minutes.  However, if I use noexist,
is squawks if it exists, if I don't it squawks when it doesn't. Ultimately,
I don't care if it is there or not, only that it isn't older than 15
minutes if it does exist.  I'm stumped...maybe setting delayred to 20???
Anyone else ever had to solve this?


On Sat, Dec 14, 2013 at 4:38 PM, Galen Johnson <Galen.Johnson at sas.com>wrote:

> Figured it out.  I made the mistake of believing the man page and doc in
> analysis.cfg.
>
> FILE filename [color] [things to check] [TRACK]
>
> Should read:
>
> FILE filename [things to check] [color] [TRACK]
>
> color needs to come after the checks.  I happened to notice one of the
> examples used this and changed mine to use it and (surprise) my file test
> started working.
>
> =G=
> ________________________________________
> From: Root, Paul T <Paul.Root at CenturyLink.com>
> Sent: Friday, December 13, 2013 9:59 PM
> To: Galen Johnson; xymon at xymon.com
> Subject: RE: [Xymon] File check question
>
> You saying no exist not exist. The way I read it they are ANDs.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Xymon [mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com] On Behalf Of Galen Johnson
> Sent: Friday, December 13, 2013 4:11 PM
> To: xymon at xymon.com
> Subject: [Xymon] File check question
>
> Hey,
>
> I have a question about file tests.  The man pages say
>
> FILE filename [color] [things to check] [TRACK]
>
> I have a test defined as
>
> FILE /tmp/ldap2pw.lck red NOEXIST MTIME>900
>
> How does the "[things to check]" actually parse?  Is it an "and" or an
> "or"?  In other words, would that read "the file exists AND hasn't been
> modified for more than 15 minutes" or "the file exists OR hasn't been
> modified for more than 15 minutes".  I'm assuming "and"...actually I
> need it to be "and" in this case.  Or do I have to explicitly say
> something like "NOEXIST and MTIME>900"?  I can't find anything about that.
>
> thx
>
> =G=
>
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