[Xymon] Could not determine size of directory

[Kris Springer]

Just to close the loop on this topic, I finally got this working by 
creating a 'directory junction' symbolic link in a folder without spaces 
that points to the folder path that has all the spaces in the name.  
Then I have the Xymon server test my symlink instead of the real path 
because I could never get it to work any other way. Here's some examples.

In Windows host:
Use CMD to make 'junction' symlink to folder you want.
mklink /J C:\ProgramData\SPlogs “C:\Program Files\Common Files\microsoft 
shared\Web Server Extensions\15\LOGS”

In Xymon server:
In client-local.cfg file.
     dir:C:\ProgramData\SPlogs\TaskUsage

In analysis.cfg file.
     DIR     C:\ProgramData\SPlogs\TaskUsage red size<2000000 
TRACK=TaskUsage

Kris Springer


On 9/8/23 20:51, Jeremy Laidman wrote:
> On Sat, 9 Sept 2023 at 05:32, Kris Springer 
> <kspringer at innovateteam.com> wrote:
>
>     Anyone have a clue why the following folder size can't be
>     determined when I add it to analysis.cfg and client-local.cfg ?
>
>     "C:\Program Files\Common Files\microsoft shared\Web Server
>     Extensions\15\LOGS"
>     Could not determine size of directory "C:\Program Files\Common
>     Files\microsoft shared\Web Server Extensions\15\LOGS"
>
>     These other folders are working fine.
>     C:\inetpub\logs
>     C:\Windows\Temp
>     C:\Windows\Logs\CBS
>     C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\WER
>
>     The only difference I see is spaces in the path.  I've put ""
>     around it, but that doesn't seem to fix it.
>     Does someone have a working example that includes spaces in the path?
>
>
> Sorry, I don't have any examples to offer.
>
> What does the directory's section in your client data message look 
> like? And your entries in analysis.cfg and client-local.cfg?
>
> You might be able to "match" the dirname with a regex, something like:
>
> DIR 
> "%^C:.Program.Files.Common.Files.microsoft.shared.Web.Server.Extensions.15.LOGS" 
> SIZE<65000
>
> J
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