[Xymon] File monitoring

[Scot Kreienkamp]

Hi everyone,

I'm trying to monitor for the existence of some files.  I have the entries in client-local.config, and when the files exist they are being reported back properly.  I can see the data about each file when I click on it in the files area for the server.  The problem comes when the files don't exist.  The files entry for the server remains green, but when I click on the file that I'm monitoring it says ERROR: No such file or directory.  So Xymon client is sending back that it doesn't exist, but yet Xymon is still green.

Here's the client-local.cfg for that server:

[retvpgpdbak.na.lzb.hq]
file:`echo /automount/PITR/retvpgpdbak.na.lzb.hq/rms-prod-$(date +%F).pgc`
file:`echo /automount/PITR/retvpgpdbak.na.lzb.hq/rms-prod-$(date +%F).sql.gz`
file:`echo /automount/PITR/retvpgpdbak.na.lzb.hq/basebackup-$(date +%F).tgz`
file:`echo /automount/PITR/retvpgpdbak.na.lzb.hq/quartz-$(date +%F).pgc`
file:`echo /automount/PITR/retvpgpdbak.na.lzb.hq/quartz-$(date +%F).sql.gz`

And the analysis.cfg

HOST=retvpgpdbak.na.lzb.hq
        FILE `echo /automount/PITR/retvpgpdbak.na.lzb.hq/rms-prod-$(date +%F).pgc` red  TYPE=file SIZE>0 MTIME<108000


>From the man-page, Xymon is supposed to send an alert if the file doesn't exist... So the only thing I can think of is that my analysis.cfg entry is wrong somehow.

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