Hey,
I have a question about file tests. The man pages say
FILE filename [color] [things to check] [TRACK]
I have a test defined as
FILE /tmp/ldap2pw.lck red NOEXIST MTIME>900
How does the "[things to check]" actually parse? Is it an "and" or an "or"? In other words, would that read "the file exists AND hasn't been modified for more than 15 minutes" or "the file exists OR hasn't been modified for more than 15 minutes". I'm assuming "and"...actually I need it to be "and" in this case. Or do I have to explicitly say something like "NOEXIST and MTIME>900"? I can't find anything about that.
thx
=G=
You saying no exist not exist. The way I read it they are ANDs.
-----Original Message----- From: Xymon [mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com] On Behalf Of Galen Johnson Sent: Friday, December 13, 2013 4:11 PM To: xymon at xymon.com Subject: [Xymon] File check question
Hey,
I have a question about file tests. The man pages say
FILE filename [color] [things to check] [TRACK]
I have a test defined as
FILE /tmp/ldap2pw.lck red NOEXIST MTIME>900
How does the "[things to check]" actually parse? Is it an "and" or an "or"? In other words, would that read "the file exists AND hasn't been modified for more than 15 minutes" or "the file exists OR hasn't been modified for more than 15 minutes". I'm assuming "and"...actually I need it to be "and" in this case. Or do I have to explicitly say something like "NOEXIST and MTIME>900"? I can't find anything about that.
thx
=G=
Xymon mailing list Xymon at xymon.com http://lists.xymon.com/mailman/listinfo/xymon
Figured it out. I made the mistake of believing the man page and doc in analysis.cfg.
FILE filename [color] [things to check] [TRACK]
Should read:
FILE filename [things to check] [color] [TRACK]
color needs to come after the checks. I happened to notice one of the examples used this and changed mine to use it and (surprise) my file test started working.
=G=
From: Root, Paul T <Paul.Root at CenturyLink.com> Sent: Friday, December 13, 2013 9:59 PM To: Galen Johnson; xymon at xymon.com Subject: RE: [Xymon] File check question
You saying no exist not exist. The way I read it they are ANDs.
-----Original Message----- From: Xymon [mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com] On Behalf Of Galen Johnson Sent: Friday, December 13, 2013 4:11 PM To: xymon at xymon.com Subject: [Xymon] File check question
Hey,
I have a question about file tests. The man pages say
FILE filename [color] [things to check] [TRACK]
I have a test defined as
FILE /tmp/ldap2pw.lck red NOEXIST MTIME>900
How does the "[things to check]" actually parse? Is it an "and" or an "or"? In other words, would that read "the file exists AND hasn't been modified for more than 15 minutes" or "the file exists OR hasn't been modified for more than 15 minutes". I'm assuming "and"...actually I need it to be "and" in this case. Or do I have to explicitly say something like "NOEXIST and MTIME>900"? I can't find anything about that.
thx
=G=
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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?
On Sat, Dec 14, 2013 at 4:38 PM, Galen Johnson <Galen.Johnson at sas.com>wrote:
Figured it out. I made the mistake of believing the man page and doc in analysis.cfg.
FILE filename [color] [things to check] [TRACK]
Should read:
FILE filename [things to check] [color] [TRACK]
color needs to come after the checks. I happened to notice one of the examples used this and changed mine to use it and (surprise) my file test started working.
=G=
From: Root, Paul T <Paul.Root at CenturyLink.com> Sent: Friday, December 13, 2013 9:59 PM To: Galen Johnson; xymon at xymon.com Subject: RE: [Xymon] File check question
You saying no exist not exist. The way I read it they are ANDs.
-----Original Message----- From: Xymon [mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com] On Behalf Of Galen Johnson Sent: Friday, December 13, 2013 4:11 PM To: xymon at xymon.com Subject: [Xymon] File check question
Hey,
I have a question about file tests. The man pages say
FILE filename [color] [things to check] [TRACK]
I have a test defined as
FILE /tmp/ldap2pw.lck red NOEXIST MTIME>900
How does the "[things to check]" actually parse? Is it an "and" or an "or"? In other words, would that read "the file exists AND hasn't been modified for more than 15 minutes" or "the file exists OR hasn't been modified for more than 15 minutes". I'm assuming "and"...actually I need it to be "and" in this case. Or do I have to explicitly say something like "NOEXIST and MTIME>900"? I can't find anything about that.
thx
=G=
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I think I'd just use a really short local ext script, along the lines of if ((file exists) and (mtime >15)) then red else green
On Sat, Dec 14, 2013 at 7:50 PM, Galen Johnson <solitaryr at gmail.com> wrote:
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?
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
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