[Xymon] Testing files

[Galen Johnson]

Look at the analysis,cfg file or man page for how to do what you're
asking.  That is where you add your file tests.  The client-local.cfg makes
the files available to be monitored.

On Thu, Jul 12, 2018 at 1:36 PM Jaap Winius <jwinius at umrk.nl> wrote:

>
> Hi folks,
>
> According to
>
> http://xymon.sourceforge.net/xymon/help/manpages/man5/client-local.cfg.5.htm
>
> it's possible to add file configuration entries to
> /etc/xymon/client-local.cfg. For example, to check for the existence
> of a file called /tmp/krb5cc_0 on host.example.com, I'd add this stanza:
>
>    [bap1.umrk.nl]
>    file:/tmp/krb5cc_0
>
> That works. However, the above mentioned manpage also says this about
> file configuration entries:
>
> "A file monitoring entry is used to watch the meta-data of a file:
> Owner, group, size, permissions, checksum etc."
>
> Meta data? How is that done? Except for some hash settings, no
> examples are given. To check to see if the example file is always less
> than 3600 seconds old, I would think something like this would be
> necessary:
>
>    [bap1.umrk.nl]
>    file:/tmp/krb5cc_0 mtime<3600
>
> Or possibly:
>
>    [bap1.umrk.nl]
>    file:/tmp/krb5cc_0:mtime<3600
>
> But, these don't seem to work: Xymon still only reports that the file
> exists.
>
> Would anyone mind explaining what the correct syntax is for this file
> test and perhaps other ones like it (e.g. for owner, group, file size,
> permissions)?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Jaap
>
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