[Xymon] Monitoring file sizes

[David Baldwin]

On 18/04/2016 9:42 am, Colin Coe wrote:
> Hi all
>
> I'm trying to monitor some log files on Windows 7 clients.  I have
> this in the analysis.cfg file:
> --- 
> HOST=%client.*
>     FILE "C:\users\user\Documents\ClientTiming*log" SIZE<500M yellow TRACK
>     FILE "C:\users\user\Documents\ClientTiming*log" SIZE<1G red TRACK
>     FILE "C:\users\user\Documents\ClientTrace*log"  SIZE<500M yellow TRACK
>     FILE "C:\users\user\Documents\ClientTrace*log"  SIZE<1G red TRACK
> ---
>
> The files are displayed but regardless of the file size, the test
> stays green.
>
> I want the test to go red when the files exceed 1GB and yellow when
> greater than 500MB.
>
> Any ideas where I'm going wrong?
>
Is your filename supposed to be a regex? Wildcard matching isn't builtin.

Try:

FILE "%C:\users\user\Documents\ClientTiming.*log" SIZE<500M yellow TRACK

For starters.

Also, have you checked the file data is in your client data report to
match? Note that client-local.cfg only supports explicit filenames
unless this is an extension for whatever Windows Xymon client you are using.

An alternative approach is to monitor the size of the folder containing
the log files. OK if only a few designated logs in there. Not so good if
you've got unlimited history, etc.

I have the following for my Windows clients:

(in /etc/client-local.cfg)

[win32]
dir:C:\inetpub
dir:C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\WER
dir:C:\Windows\Logs\CBS
dir:C:\Windows\Temp

(in analysis.cfg)
        DIR C:\Windows\Logs\CBS yellow SIZE<200000 TRACK=C-CBS
        DIR C:\Windows\Logs\CBS red SIZE<500000
        DIR C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\WER yellow SIZE<200000
TRACK=C-WER
        DIR C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\WER red SIZE<500000
        DIR C:\Windows\Temp yellow SIZE<200000 TRACK=C-Windows-Temp
EXHOST=%(sccm)
        DIR C:\Windows\Temp red SIZE<500000 EXHOST=%(sccm)


David.

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