file monitoring with mtime&noexist

Great, thanks a lot !

But i wonder a little bit, that it works for you with

file:`find /var/run -name "yum.pid" -mtime +86400`

because -mtime +86400 means 86400 * 24 hours

      -mtime n
               File's data was last modified n*24 hours ago.

I use now -mmin +60

        -mmin n
               File's data was last modified n minutes ago.

And it works great !


thanks
 	martin


On Fri, 15 May 2009, dOCtoR MADneSs wrote:

user-f286aaa49a76@xymon.invalid a écrit :

 Hi !

 .. i want to monitor the /var/run/yum.pid file
 for hanging yum-process ...

 So my hobbit-client.cfg looks like

 FILE  /var/run/yum.pid mtime>86400 noexist

 I want an alert, if the file exits and it's older than 24 hours,
 but i've got an alarm if it's exists and not if it's exist and already
 24hours old ...

 Got somebody an idea how it works ?

 .. or did i something misunderstood ...


 thanks & cheers


        Martin

I needed to do same, so here is what I did :

in client-local.cfg (hosted on xymon server) :

[your_host]
file:`find /var/run -name "yum.pid" -mtime +86400`

Then in hobbit-clients.cfg (hosted on xymon server too) :

HOST=yourhost
   FILE   /var/run/yum.pid red NOEXIST

Of course, you can use yellow instead of red.

Then reload your xymon server (restart is not needed) and wait a little. The 
client on your host will ask xymon server the section in client-local.cfg, 
then it'll apply it, so the changes should take about 15minutes to be 
applied.