Could not determine size of directory

Were you able to see the directory size output in the clientlog earlier?
It would look something like:

[dir:/var/log/foo bar/test1]
4840	/var/log/foo bar/test1

In theory, if that was in the clientlog, then double quotes around the DIR
line in analysis.cfg should be all that's necessary:

CLASS=linux
        DIR     "/var/log/foo bar/test1" red size<2000000 TRACK=FooBar

You can validate that the latter is being picked up by dumping the client
config:
xymoncmd xymond_client --dump-config
(snip)
DIR /var/log/foo bar/test1 red size<2000000 TRACK=FooBar CLASS=linux
(line: 360)
(snip)

Which Windows client were you using for the collection on your machine?

-jc


On Thu, October 5, 2023 06:56, Kris Springer wrote:

Just to close the loop on this topic, I finally got this working by
creating a 'directory junction' symbolic link in a folder without spaces
that points to the folder path that has all the spaces in the name.??
Then I have the Xymon server test my symlink instead of the real path
because I could never get it to work any other way. Here's some examples.

In Windows host:
Use CMD to make 'junction' symlink to folder you want.
mklink /J C:\ProgramData\SPlogs ???C:\Program Files\Common Files\microsoft
shared\Web Server Extensions\15\LOGS???

In Xymon server:
In client-local.cfg file.
 ???? ??dir:C:\ProgramData\SPlogs\TaskUsage

In analysis.cfg file.
 ???? ??DIR???????? C:\ProgramData\SPlogs\TaskUsage red size<2000000
TRACK=TaskUsage

Kris Springer


On 9/8/23 20:51, Jeremy Laidman wrote:

On Sat, 9 Sept 2023 at 05:32, Kris Springer
<user-c2caa0a7a8d5@xymon.invalid> wrote:

    Anyone have a clue why the following folder size can't be
    determined when I add it to analysis.cfg and client-local.cfg ?

    "C:\Program Files\Common Files\microsoft shared\Web Server
    Extensions\15\LOGS"
    Could not determine size of directory "C:\Program Files\Common
    Files\microsoft shared\Web Server Extensions\15\LOGS"

    These other folders are working fine.
    C:\inetpub\logs
    C:\Windows\Temp
    C:\Windows\Logs\CBS
    C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\WER

    The only difference I see is spaces in the path.?? I've put ""
    around it, but that doesn't seem to fix it.
    Does someone have a working example that includes spaces in the
path?


Sorry, I don't have any examples to offer.

What does the directory's section in your client data message look
like? And your entries in analysis.cfg and client-local.cfg?

You might be able to "match" the dirname with a regex, something like:

DIR
"%^C:.Program.Files.Common.Files.microsoft.shared.Web.Server.Extensions.15.LOGS"
SIZE<65000

J