[Xymon] Alerting on the existence of a file with wildcards

[David Baldwin]

Michael,

Regular expressions must be specified for the entire match, so the
following is probably closer to the mark:

        FILE %/opt/WSCluster.*/WebSphere/wp_profile/javacore yellow NOEXIST

In the client-local.cfg you can probably try an alternative also:

file:`find /opt/WSCluster*/WebSphere/wp_profile -type f -name javacore*
| sort -r`


David.
>
> I’ve successfully tested monitoring for the appearance of a statically
> defined file (i.e. no wildcards), and have been happy with the result.
>
>  
>
> I’m now tasked with trying to alarm on the appearance of file where
> only part of the filename will be static, hence the need for wildcards.
>
>  
>
> I’m at the point where the presence of a file causes a green
> condition, and the removal of that file causes a white condition.
>
>  
>
> The client-local.cfg is set up to look like this (the commented lines
> are my various attempts to test/change the behavior):
>
>  
>
> file:`find /opt/WSCluster*/WebSphere/wp_profile | grep javacore | sort -r`
>
> #file:`find /opt/WSCluster*/WebSphere/wp_profile | grep javacore |
> sort -r | head -n 1`
>
> #file:`find /opt/WSCluster1/WebSphere/wp_profile | grep javacore |
> sort -r | head -n 1`
>
> #file:`find /opt/WSCluster2/WebSphere/wp_profile | grep javacore >
> /dev/null | sort -r | head --lines=1`
>
> #file:`find /opt/WSCluster3/WebSphere/wp_profile | grep javacore >
> /dev/null | sort -r | head --lines=1`
>
> log:/var/adm/syslog/syslog.log:10240
>
>  
>
> The analysis.cfg is set up like so (again, commented lines are my
> attempts to test/change the behavior):
>
>  
>
>         FILE /opt/WSCluster1/WebSphere/wp_profile/%javacore(^*.)
> yellow NOEXIST
>
> #       FILE /opt/WSCluster(^*.)/WebSphere/wp_profile/javacore(^*.)
> NOEXIST yellow
>
> #       FILE /opt/WSCluster(^*.)/WebSphere/wp_profile/javacore(^*.) yellow
>
>  
>
> I’ve put a test file out,
> /opt/WSCluster1/WebSphere/wp_profile/javacore.mike1, and Xymon is
> reporting green on the file’s existence…which, of course, is not the
> desired behavior.
>
>  
>
> My guess is that I’m completely bollixing the regex…any thoughts or
> help would be appreciated.
>
>  
>
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