Should be simple enough to write a shell script for that.
$variable=`ls <directory name> | wc -l` will work on Solaris and
RedHat. Just get the value of $variable.
Dean Casey
From: Dan Simoes [mailto:user-3428f00c5f40@xymon.invalid]
Sent: Friday, February 02, 2007 6:17 PM
To: user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
Subject: [hobbit] using hobbit to monitor the number of files
Say, in a mail or print spool. I know hobbit can check the age or
existence of a file, but how about the number of files in a dir?
I'm sure it's trivial to do, but I haven't run across this yet, so
before I reinvent the wheel, I thought I'd ask.
I would like hobbit to report on the number of files in a given
location, and then generate an alert if it's above the warning or fatal
levels.
Thanks.