[Xymon] How to verify DIR content with wildcards on a Windows host?

[Anaïs RABINOIT]

Hi,


Thanks for your time,


I use BBWin as Windows client, but here the host is in central mode, so the configuration come from the Xymon server itself. I try to keep it that way, without adding an external script on each windows hosts or modify the BBWin config on each, since it hasn't only one host concerned ...


I tried the wildcard version first, it didn't work, then i saw this on the manpage client-local.cfg:


FILE CONFIGURATION ENTRIES
A file monitoring entry is used to watch the meta-data of a file: Owner, group, size, permissions, checksum etc. It looks like this:

    file:/var/log/messages[:HASH]

The file:FILENAME line defines the filename of the file to monitor. As with the "log:" entries, a filename enclosed in backticks means a command which will generate the filenames dynamically. The optional [:HASH] setting defines what type of hash to compute for the file: md5, rmd160, sha1, or sha256, sha512, sha224, or sha384. By default, no hash is calculated.
NOTE: If you want to check multiple files using a wildcard, you must use a command to generate the filenames. Putting wildcards directly into the file: entry will not work.




with this example with directories :


dir:`find /var/log -maxdepth 1 -type d`


So, since i've searched what command i have to use with a Windows host ...




Anaïs



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De : Beck, Zak <zak.beck at accenture.com>
Envoyé : mardi 17 avril 2018 17:52
À : Anaïs RABINOIT; xymon at xymon.com
Objet : RE: How to verify DIR content with wildcards on a Windows host?

Hi

You don’t say which Windows client you’re using (BBWin or XymonPSClient) but I don’t think either of them will understand your backtick syntax (certainly XymonPSClient does not support the use of backticks).

XymonPSClient will understand wildcards and will enter subfolders if you specify a wildcard in a directory position. Unfortunately it will not recurse so you would need an entry for each level of subfolder you may encounter.

So you may need several entries in client-local.cfg:

file:c:\temp\test\*.txt
file:c:\temp\test\*\*.txt
file:c:\temp\test\*\*\*.txt
and so on…

It may be simpler to use an external script – the external script approach can be used in either BBWin or XymonPSClient.

Zak

From: Xymon [mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com] On Behalf Of Anaïs RABINOIT
Sent: Tuesday, 17 April 2018 10:28
To: xymon at xymon.com
Subject: [External] [Xymon] How to verify DIR content with wildcards on a Windows host?


Hi everyone,



I have to check if a directory on a windows host contains files with a specific extension.



If it was a Unix/Linux host, i just have to write something like that i guess :

client-local.cfg :

    file:`find /path/mydir/*.tst`

analysis.cfg :

    FILE    %(/path/mydir/*.tst)    noexist



But how to do it for a Windows host? Is this possible ?



I tried this for example :



client-local.cfg :

    file:`cmd /c "dir /b /s C:\path\mydir\*.tst"`

or

    file:`cmd /c "dir /b /s \path\mydir\*.tst"`



analysis.cfg :

    FILE    "%C:\path\mydir\*.tst"    noexist



But it doesn't work :(



Regards,



Anaïs

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