[Xymon] FILES in analysis.cfg

[Henrik Størner]

Den 18-02-2014 21:52, Roland Soderstrom skrev:
> 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?

OK, I had to do some testing with this.

The problem is that when the file does not exist, then the `ls -1 ...` 
will not produce any output. Without any output, Xymon cannot tell that 
there is a file-check happening.

If you have an explicit filename in client-local.cfg, then the FILE 
check in analysis.cfg works as expected, because the xymon client will 
report that the specific file is missing.

So:

client-local.cfg:
	[myhost]
	file:/var/tmp/sys-heartbeat-myhost

analysis.cfg
	HOST=myhost
		FILE %^/var/tmp/sys-heartbeat-.* MTIME<3700

This will go red if the file is missing, or it exists and is older than 
3700 seconds.


Regards,
Henrik