to my surprise, * actually works on my Hobbit-4.2rc1-20060712 server.
what's your test condition? You want it to alert when your oldest file is
less than 2-hour old ? More commonly, people want to test if their oldest
file is older than 2-hour old (mtime >7200 instead of mtime < 7200).
To further troubleshoot: on your client, check the
logfetch.ClientNameHere.cfg under ~hobbit/client/tmp/. Also check
msg.ClientNameHere.txt therein to see whether it has a
[file:/ftp/input/oldestFileName.gz]
section.
On 1/11/07, Jerry Yu <user-764c1f364fe0@xymon.invalid> wrote:
both are ok,since .* is not greedy as in PERL's. The former is preferred
since it provides more exact match.
On 1/11/07, Thomas < user-97316fb2dd2a@xymon.invalid> wrote:
Do you mean like this ?
FILE %/ftp/input/.*.gz RED mtime<7200 or
FILE %/ftp/input/.* RED mtime<7200
Jerry Yu wrote:
For wildcard, you want '.*' to represent any character instead of '*'
alone. I have a handful of this kind of FILE checks.
On 1/11/07, *Thomas * <user-97316fb2dd2a@xymon.invalid
<mailto:user-97316fb2dd2a@xymon.invalid>> wrote:
hi all,
Trying to get file monitoring to work. Works find with fixed
filenames
but I need to match a pattern in a directory and find the oldest
file.
If more than say 7200 sec old in mtime then generate an alert.
in client-local.cfg I have
file:`ls -t /ftp/input/* | tail -1`
which produces the oldest file name on the web page.
I have the following in hobbit-clients.cfg
FILE %/ftp/input/*.gz RED mtime<7200
but I get no alarms.
Any ideas ?