Monitoring file size on Windows with PowerShell client

Many thanks, I've got it working now.

On Thu, Mar 31, 2016 at 12:19 AM, J.C. Cleaver <user-87556346d4af@xymon.invalid>
wrote:

On Tue, March 29, 2016 8:11 pm, Colin Coe wrote:

Hi all

I'm trying to monitor a couple of files on a bunch of Windows clients.

/etc/xymon/analysis.cfg
HOST=%winclnt.*
        FILE C:\users\user.domain\Documents\Timing.log       SIZE>500M
yellow
        FILE C:\users\user.domain\Documents\Timing.log       SIZE>1G red
        FILE C:\users\user.domain\Documents\Trace.log        SIZE>500M
yellow
        FILE C:\users\user.domain\Documents\Trace.log        SIZE>1G red

/etc/xymon/client-local.cfg
file:C:\users\user.domain\Documents\Timing.log   SIZE>1G red
file:C:\users\user.domain\Documents\Trace.log    SIZE>500M yellow

Looking at the man page for client-local.cfg, its colon (:) delimited.
How
do I specify the file path for Windows clients?

The fields in client-local.cfg (once the appropriate [section] is found)
are, strictly speaking, arbitrary and interpreted by the client, so this,
in the immediate case, would be a WinPS question. As you've noted, the
analysis.cfg section is what's used back in xymond_client, which is
space-delimited and can do quote-wrapping or regular expressions.


I think a quoted string (' ... ') might be the best syntax addition here
(for both logfetch and WinPS). Adding normal escapability using the
expected method of backslashes would IMO make the Windows path even
worse...

Another option is to use `exec` commands to 'ECHO filename' (or DIR /B),
or a glob-like wildcard, but I'm not certain if WinPS supports either.


HTH,
-jc