[Xymon] FILES in analysis.cfg

[Roland Soderstrom]

Sorry that didn't work either.
FILE /var/tmp/sys-heartbeat-myhostttt red MTIME<3700 TRACK

- Roland

-----Original Message-----
From: Mike Burger [mailto:mburger at bubbanfriends.org] 
Sent: Wednesday, 19 February 2014 8:02 AM
To: Roland Soderstrom
Cc: xymon at xymon.com
Subject: Re: [Xymon] FILES in analysis.cfg

> Hi,
>
> That part work just fine.
> Anything the * expands to will be picked up by xymon.
>
> My question is the FILE directive in the analysis.cfg If I just set it 
> to FILE /var/tmp/sys-heartbeat-myhost red MTIME<3700 Everything works 
> just fine.
> But,
> If I change it to:
> FILE /var/tmp/sys-heartbeat-myhostttt red MTIME<3700 If I read the 
> manual correctly it should go RED because there is no file called  
> /var/tmp/sys-heartbeat-myhostttt If I touch the new myhostttt file it 
> will show up on the test page That means the file:`ls -1 
> /var/tmp/sys-heartbeat-*` Works just fine as it should.
>
> So how do I get the files test go RED on a missing file?

The only way to do so is if you specify filename in question in your analysis.cfg...you might need to use the TRACK option, to do so.

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