[Xymon] File monitoring

[Galen Johnson]

yeah...be careful to use pcre and not the same regex you would use on the
command line.  Got bit by that myself.

For example, 'foo*' (cli) does not equal 'foo.*' (pcre)

=G=

On Thu, Nov 8, 2018 at 12:58 PM Scot Kreienkamp <
Scot.Kreienkamp at la-z-boy.com> wrote:

> That was indeed it.  I was expecting the same method (the backticks) would
> work in both, never thought about a regex.
>
>
>
> Thanks Thomas!
>
>
>
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> *From:* Xymon [mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com] *On Behalf Of *Thomas
> Eckert
> *Sent:* Thursday, November 8, 2018 1:05 AM
> *To:* xymon at xymon.com
> *Subject:* Re: [Xymon] File monitoring
>
>
>
> Hi Scot,
>
>
>
> the command-substitution-style filename in analysis.cfg might be it. Try
> to convert that to a regex. As your client-local.cfg only sends data for
> your "good" files anyway this should produce the desired state.
>
>
>
> All the best
>
> Thomas
>
>
>
>
>
> On Nov 8, 2018 02:39, Scot Kreienkamp <Scot.Kreienkamp at la-z-boy.com>
> wrote:
>
> 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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