File monitoring.

I left it with the .*.gz to look acuratly for the files I want to 
monitor - and ys you are right I need to switch the contition for mtime 
round.

The tip og using the full file path made it work.

Jerry Yu wrote:

to my surprise, * actually works on my Hobbit-4.2rc1-20060712 server.

what's your test condition?  You want it to alert when your oldest 
file is less than 2-hour old ?   More commonly, people want to test if 
their oldest file is older than 2-hour old (mtime >7200 instead of 
mtime < 7200).

To further troubleshoot: on your client, check the 
logfetch.ClientNameHere.cfg under ~hobbit/client/tmp/. Also check 
msg.ClientNameHere.txt therein to see whether it has a 
[file:/ftp/input/oldestFileName.gz] section.


On 1/11/07, *Jerry Yu* <user-764c1f364fe0@xymon.invalid <mailto:user-764c1f364fe0@xymon.invalid>> 
wrote:

    both are ok,since .* is not greedy as in PERL's. The former is
    preferred since it provides more exact match.


    On 1/11/07, * Thomas* < user-97316fb2dd2a@xymon.invalid
    <mailto:user-97316fb2dd2a@xymon.invalid>> wrote:

        Do you mean like this ?

        FILE %/ftp/input/.*.gz RED mtime<7200 or

        FILE %/ftp/input/.* RED mtime<7200

        Jerry Yu wrote:

For wildcard, you want '.*' to represent any character
        instead of '*'
alone.  I have a handful of this kind of FILE checks.

On 1/11/07, *Thomas * <user-97316fb2dd2a@xymon.invalid
<mailto: user-97316fb2dd2a@xymon.invalid

        <mailto:user-97316fb2dd2a@xymon.invalid>>> wrote:

    hi all,

    Trying to get file monitoring to work. Works find with
        fixed filenames
    but I need to match a pattern in a directory and find the
        oldest file.
    If more than say 7200 sec old in mtime then generate an
        alert.

    in client-local.cfg I have

    file:`ls -t /ftp/input/* | tail -1`

    which produces the oldest file name on the web page.

    I have the following in hobbit-clients.cfg

       FILE %/ftp/input/*.gz RED mtime<7200

    but I get no alarms.

    Any ideas ?

        user-095ef1c764a2@xymon.invalid <mailto:user-095ef1c764a2@xymon.invalid>>