[hobbit] File monitoring.

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 <jjj863 at gmail.com> 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 < tlp-hobbit at holme-pedersen.dk> 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 * <tlp-hobbit at holme-pedersen.dk <mailto:tlp-hobbit at holme-pedersen.dk>> 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 ?


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