monitor a directory size

*I think* there is something in the man page or on the mailing list (i
forget where) that said that if you use the DIR directive, it uses du
and you have to specify the size in bytes, so 10m wont work in this
case.  Check the mailing list archives about this.. there is some help
out there.  HTH

Tony

On 09/16/2010 12:47 PM, Martin Flemming wrote:

Grmmph, you are right ..

But what'S your exactly problem ...

No alert or no real test and graph  for this directory ?

cheers,
    martin

On Thu, 16 Sep 2010, Johan Sjöberg wrote:

When I read that man-page, I understand it as du is always run on the
directory that is specified in dir:DIRECTORYNAME

So you should only add this to the correct host in client-local.cfg.
dir:/var/adm


From the man-page:
"A directory monitoring entry is used to watch the size of a
directory and any sub-directories. It looks like this:


   dir:DIRECTORYNAME

The dir:DIRECTORYNAME line defines the filename of the file to
monitor. As with the "log:" entries, a filename enclosed in backticks
means a command which will generate the filenames dynamically. The
Xymon client will run the du(1) command with the directoryname as
parameter, and send the output back to the Xymon server."

/Johan

-----Original Message-----
From: Martin Flemming [mailto:user-f286aaa49a76@xymon.invalid]
Sent: den 16 september 2010 15:44
To: xymon at xymon.com
Subject: RE: [xymon] monitor a directory size


You've have to add

dir:`du -k /var/adm`

in your client-local.cfg ...

then you've got hte size of your directory
https://it-xymon3.desy.de/xymon/help/manpages/man5/client-
local.cfg.5.html

cheers,
     martin

On Thu, 16 Sep 2010, Johan Sjöberg wrote:

I don't understand exactly what you mean, but you need to add it
both to
client-local.cfg and to hobbit-clients.cfg. Both these files are
located on the

Xymon server. Client-local.cfg tells the client to send information
about that
directory to the Xymon server, and hobbit-clients.cfg tells the
server what
to alert on in that information.

/Johan

-----Original Message-----
From: Kevin Kelly [mailto:user-46671a9fcf56@xymon.invalid]
Sent: den 16 september 2010 15:08
To: xymon at xymon.com
Subject: RE: [xymon] monitor a directory size

I did add it to client-local.cfg on the client server, is
client-local.cfg a
different
file?

-----Original Message-----
From: Johan Sjöberg [mailto:user-74c177c1220d@xymon.invalid]
Sent: Thursday, September 16, 2010 7:47 AM
To: xymon at xymon.com
Subject: RE: [xymon] monitor a directory size

Have you added it to client-local.cfg as well?

/Johan

-----Original Message-----
From: Kevin Kelly [mailto:user-46671a9fcf56@xymon.invalid]
Sent: den 16 september 2010 14:40
To: xymon at xymon.com
Subject: RE: [xymon] monitor a directory size

Still nothing!

-----Original Message-----
From: Williams, Doug (Consultant-RIC)

[mailto:user-2bde7ec54a85@xymon.invalid]

Sent: Wednesday, September 15, 2010 4:31 PM
To: xymon at xymon.com
Subject: RE: [xymon] monitor a directory size

You need to reverse  SIZE>10m to SIZE<10m  if wanting to alert if
greater
than
10m.


-----Original Message-----
From: Kevin Kelly [mailto:user-46671a9fcf56@xymon.invalid]
Sent: Wednesday, September 15, 2010 3:32 PM
To: xymon at xymon.com
Subject: RE: [xymon] monitor a directory size

That had no effect!


From: user-5425c7b245e1@xymon.invalid [mailto:user-5425c7b245e1@xymon.invalid] On Behalf

Of

Steve Holmes
Sent: Wednesday, September 15, 2010 8:59 AM
To: xymon at xymon.com
Subject: Re: [xymon] monitor a directory size


On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 9:51 AM, Kevin Kelly <user-46671a9fcf56@xymon.invalid>
wrote:

    I am trying to use the DIR in hobbit-client.cfg, but not having
any luck. Does anyone use this?


    Xymon server- hobbit-client.cfg

    Syntax that I used:

    DIR         /var/adm  yellow SIZE>10m track


    Client- localclient.cfg

    DIR /var/adm


    Any suggestions?


Try putting the word yellow after the SIZE>10m.


Steve
-- 

Truth never damages a cause that is just. -Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
(1869-1948)


This email has been scanned by the MessageLabs Email Security System.
For more information please visit http://www.messagelabs.com/email


This email has been scanned by the MessageLabs Email Security System.
For more information please visit http://www.messagelabs.com/email


This email has been scanned by the MessageLabs Email Security System.
For more information please visit http://www.messagelabs.com/email

Gruss

       Martin Flemming


Martin Flemming
DESY / IT          office : Building 2b / 008a
Notkestr. 85       phone  : XXX - XXXX - XXXX
22603 Hamburg      mail   : user-f286aaa49a76@xymon.invalid