[Xymon] Problem with FILE monitoring

[J.C. Cleaver]

On Wed, February 3, 2016 3:59 am, Neil Simmonds wrote:
> Hi, I have an issue with FILE monitoring. I can't seem to get it to alert
> correctly if the file exists.
>
> This is the relevant line from my client-local.cfg,
>
> file:`ls -l /applogs/mdmpim/dump/*.txt 2>/dev/null`
>
> and this is the relevant line from my analysis.cfg,
>
> FILE "%/applogs/mdmpim/dump/*.txt" NOEXIST yellow
>
> I've also tried,
>
> FILE "%/applogs/mdmpim/dump/*.txt" yellow NOEXIST,
>
> FILE "%/applogs/mdmpim/dump/*.txt" yellow noexist
>
> and
>
> FILE "%/applogs/mdmpim/dump/*.txt" yellow
>
> None of them actually flag yellow!
>
> All I get is
>
> Files status at Wed Feb 3 11:57:36 GMT 2016
>
> green -rw-rw-r-- 1 pimwas pimwas 254632 Jan 22 10:01
> /applogs/mdmpim/dump/javacore.20160122.100109.30318.0006.txt
>
> So it looks like it's recognising that the file is there but the colour
> change isn't happening.


Hi Neil,

I actually had a big long debug section here, until I noticed it:

This should just be:
> file:`ls /applogs/mdmpim/dump/*.txt 2>/dev/null`

logfetch is expecting a regular list of files there, and the "-l" option
is confusing it.

After that, everything else should work. The first entry for analysis.cfg
looks correct:

> FILE "%/applogs/mdmpim/dump/*.txt" NOEXIST yellow

If it doesn't appear, try "%/applogs/mdmpim/dump/.*.txt", since I believe
that's a PCRE regex used there, while logfetch uses POSIX regexes to
reduce library dependencies on the client.


HTH,
-jc