[Xymon] Monitoring file size on Windows with PowerShell client

[Colin Coe]

Many thanks, I've got it working now.

On Thu, Mar 31, 2016 at 12:19 AM, J.C. Cleaver <cleaver at terabithia.org>
wrote:

> On Tue, March 29, 2016 8:11 pm, Colin Coe wrote:
> > Hi all
> >
> > I'm trying to monitor a couple of files on a bunch of Windows clients.
> >
> > /etc/xymon/analysis.cfg
> > HOST=%winclnt.*
> >         FILE C:\users\user.domain\Documents\Timing.log       SIZE>500M
> > yellow
> >         FILE C:\users\user.domain\Documents\Timing.log       SIZE>1G red
> >         FILE C:\users\user.domain\Documents\Trace.log        SIZE>500M
> > yellow
> >         FILE C:\users\user.domain\Documents\Trace.log        SIZE>1G red
> >
> > /etc/xymon/client-local.cfg
> > file:C:\users\user.domain\Documents\Timing.log   SIZE>1G red
> > file:C:\users\user.domain\Documents\Trace.log    SIZE>500M yellow
> >
> > Looking at the man page for client-local.cfg, its colon (:) delimited.
> > How
> > do I specify the file path for Windows clients?
> >
>
>
> The fields in client-local.cfg (once the appropriate [section] is found)
> are, strictly speaking, arbitrary and interpreted by the client, so this,
> in the immediate case, would be a WinPS question. As you've noted, the
> analysis.cfg section is what's used back in xymond_client, which is
> space-delimited and can do quote-wrapping or regular expressions.
>
>
> I think a quoted string (' ... ') might be the best syntax addition here
> (for both logfetch and WinPS). Adding normal escapability using the
> expected method of backslashes would IMO make the Windows path even
> worse...
>
> Another option is to use `exec` commands to 'ECHO filename' (or DIR /B),
> or a glob-like wildcard, but I'm not certain if WinPS supports either.
>
>
> HTH,
> -jc
>
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.xymon.com/pipermail/xymon/attachments/20160402/509fed85/attachment.html>