yeah...be careful to use pcre and not the same regex you would use on the command line. Got bit by that myself.

For example, 'foo*' (cli) does not equal 'foo.*' (pcre)

=G=

On Thu, Nov 8, 2018 at 12:58 PM Scot Kreienkamp < Scot.Kreienkamp at la-z-boy.com> wrote:

That was indeed it. I was expecting the same method (the backticks) would work in both, never thought about a regex.

Thanks Thomas!

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*From:* Xymon [mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com] *On Behalf Of *Thomas Eckert *Sent:* Thursday, November 8, 2018 1:05 AM *To:* xymon at xymon.com *Subject:* Re: [Xymon] File monitoring

Hi Scot,

the command-substitution-style filename in analysis.cfg might be it. Try to convert that to a regex. As your client-local.cfg only sends data for your "good" files anyway this should produce the desired state.

All the best

Thomas

On Nov 8, 2018 02:39, Scot Kreienkamp <Scot.Kreienkamp at la-z-boy.com> wrote:

Hi everyone,

I’m trying to monitor for the existence of some files. I have the entries in client-local.config, and when the files exist they are being reported back properly. I can see the data about each file when I click on it in the files area for the server. The problem comes when the files don’t exist. The files entry for the server remains green, but when I click on the file that I’m monitoring it says ERROR: No such file or directory. So Xymon client is sending back that it doesn’t exist, but yet Xymon is still green.

Here’s the client-local.cfg for that server:

[retvpgpdbak.na.lzb.hq]

file:echo /automount/PITR/retvpgpdbak.na.lzb.hq/rms-prod-$(date +%F).pgc

file:echo /automount/PITR/retvpgpdbak.na.lzb.hq/rms-prod-$(date +%F).sql.gz

file:echo /automount/PITR/retvpgpdbak.na.lzb.hq/basebackup-$(date +%F).tgz

file:echo /automount/PITR/retvpgpdbak.na.lzb.hq/quartz-$(date +%F).pgc

file:echo /automount/PITR/retvpgpdbak.na.lzb.hq/quartz-$(date +%F).sql.gz

And the analysis.cfg

HOST=retvpgpdbak.na.lzb.hq

    FILE `echo /automount/PITR/retvpgpdbak.na.lzb.hq/rms-prod-$(date

+%F).pgc` red TYPE=file SIZE>0 MTIME<108000

From the man-page, Xymon is supposed to send an alert if the file doesn’t exist… So the only thing I can think of is that my analysis.cfg entry is wrong somehow.

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