[Xymon] FILES in analysis.cfg

[Roland Soderstrom]

That worked perfectly!
Just have to reverse the logic....

Thanks Henrik, amazing as always :D

- Roland

-----Original Message-----
From: Xymon [mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com] On Behalf Of Henrik Størner
Sent: Wednesday, 19 February 2014 8:55 AM
To: xymon at xymon.com
Subject: Re: [Xymon] FILES in analysis.cfg

Den 18-02-2014 21:52, Roland Soderstrom skrev:
> Hi,
>
> That part work just fine.
> Anything the * expands to will be picked up by xymon.
>
> My question is the FILE directive in the analysis.cfg If I just set it 
> to FILE /var/tmp/sys-heartbeat-myhost red MTIME<3700 Everything works 
> just fine.
> But,
> If I change it to:
> FILE /var/tmp/sys-heartbeat-myhostttt red MTIME<3700 If I read the 
> manual correctly it should go RED because there is no file called  
> /var/tmp/sys-heartbeat-myhostttt If I touch the new myhostttt file it 
> will show up on the test page That means the file:`ls -1 
> /var/tmp/sys-heartbeat-*` Works just fine as it should.
>
> So how do I get the files test go RED on a missing file?

OK, I had to do some testing with this.

The problem is that when the file does not exist, then the `ls -1 ...` will not produce any output. Without any output, Xymon cannot tell that there is a file-check happening.

If you have an explicit filename in client-local.cfg, then the FILE check in analysis.cfg works as expected, because the xymon client will report that the specific file is missing.

So:

client-local.cfg:
	[myhost]
	file:/var/tmp/sys-heartbeat-myhost

analysis.cfg
	HOST=myhost
		FILE %^/var/tmp/sys-heartbeat-.* MTIME<3700

This will go red if the file is missing, or it exists and is older than
3700 seconds.


Regards,
Henrik

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