[Xymon] File check question

Den 15.12.2013 01:50, Galen Johnson skrev:

Well, this sucks. Since I'm monitoring a tmp file, it only needs to trigger if the file is older than 15 minutes. However, if I use noexist, is squawks if it exists, if I don't it squawks when it doesn't. Ultimately, I don't care if it is there or not, only that it isn't older than 15 minutes if it does exist. I'm stumped...maybe setting delayred to 20??? Anyone else ever had to solve this?

A late response ... but:

There is an (apparently undocumented) option for file- and log-checks. Adding "optional" to the rule causes the check to be skipped if the file does not exist. Sounds like this is what you need. So:

FILE /tmp/blabla mtime>600 optional color=red

is what you are after.

Regards, Henrik