[Xymon] FILES in analysis.cfg

[Nick Pettefar]

Is there also a way to have the red with a wildcard?  I am thinking
specifically about /var/core/core* files which are very important to
know if they exist but have undetermined names.  We also need the
alarm to stay on until the core* files are removed.

Regards,

Nick Pettefar


> Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2014 22:54:30 +0100
> From: Henrik St?rner <henrik at hswn.dk>
> Subject: Re: [Xymon] FILES in analysis.cfg
>> 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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