[Xymon] Monitoring file sizes

On 18/04/2016 9:42 am, Colin Coe wrote:

Hi all

I'm trying to monitor some log files on Windows 7 clients. I have this in the analysis.cfg file:

HOST=%client.* FILE "C:\users\user\Documents\ClientTiming*log" SIZE<500M yellow TRACK FILE "C:\users\user\Documents\ClientTiming*log" SIZE<1G red TRACK FILE "C:\users\user\Documents\ClientTrace*log" SIZE<500M yellow TRACK FILE "C:\users\user\Documents\ClientTrace*log" SIZE<1G red TRACK

The files are displayed but regardless of the file size, the test stays green.

I want the test to go red when the files exceed 1GB and yellow when greater than 500MB.

Any ideas where I'm going wrong?

Is your filename supposed to be a regex? Wildcard matching isn't builtin.

Try:

FILE "%C:\users\user\Documents\ClientTiming.*log" SIZE<500M yellow TRACK

For starters.

Also, have you checked the file data is in your client data report to match? Note that client-local.cfg only supports explicit filenames unless this is an extension for whatever Windows Xymon client you are using.

An alternative approach is to monitor the size of the folder containing the log files. OK if only a few designated logs in there. Not so good if you've got unlimited history, etc.

I have the following for my Windows clients:

(in /etc/client-local.cfg)

[win32] dir:C:\inetpub dir:C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\WER dir:C:\Windows\Logs\CBS dir:C:\Windows\Temp

(in analysis.cfg) DIR C:\Windows\Logs\CBS yellow SIZE<200000 TRACK=C-CBS DIR C:\Windows\Logs\CBS red SIZE<500000 DIR C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\WER yellow SIZE<200000 TRACK=C-WER DIR C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\WER red SIZE<500000 DIR C:\Windows\Temp yellow SIZE<200000 TRACK=C-Windows-Temp EXHOST=%(sccm) DIR C:\Windows\Temp red SIZE<500000 EXHOST=%(sccm)

David.

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