FILE CONFIGURATION ENTRIES
       A file monitoring entry is used to watch the meta-data of a
file: Owner, group, size, permis-
       sions, checksum etc. It looks like this:

           file:/var/log/messages[:HASH]

       The  file:FILENAME  line  defines  the  filename  of the file
to monitor.  As with the "log:"
       entries, a filename enclosed in backticks means a command
which will generate  the  filenames
       dynamically.  The optional [:HASH] setting defines what type
of hash to compute for the file:
       md5, sha1 or rmd160. By default, no hash is calculated.
       NOTE: If you want to check multiple files using a wildcard,
you must use a command to  gener-
       ate the filenames. Putting wildcards directly into the file:
entry will not work.

So unless you are dynamically generating the file name client side, which would at least require PS client since BBWin doesn't support it, that is the issue to solve, or else monitor the folder if that can be done.

David

Thanks

CC

On Mon, Apr 18, 2016 at 8:40 AM, David Baldwin <david.baldwin at ausport.gov.au <mailto:david.baldwin at ausport.gov.au>> wrote:

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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