using hobbit to monitor the number of files
Say, in a mail or print spool. I know hobbit can check the age or existence of a file, but how about the number of files in a dir?
I'm sure it's trivial to do, but I haven't run across this yet, so before I reinvent the wheel, I thought I'd ask.
I would like hobbit to report on the number of files in a given location, and then generate an alert if it's above the warning or fatal levels.
Thanks.
On Fri, Feb 02, 2007 at 03:17:07PM -0800, Dan Simoes wrote:
Say, in a mail or print spool. I know hobbit can check the age or existence of a file, but how about the number of files in a dir?
Why didn't I think of that when I wrote the client code? You can check on the disk space a given directory occupies, but not the count of files.
As you say, it should be trivial to implement. Hobbit already has the mechanism in place to "count" lines in a logfile, so adding file-counting should be a no-brainer.
Regards, Henrik
Should be simple enough to write a shell script for that.
$variable=ls <directory name> | wc -l will work on Solaris and
RedHat. Just get the value of $variable.
Dean Casey
From: Dan Simoes [mailto:dan.simoes at gmail.com] Sent: Friday, February 02, 2007 6:17 PM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: [hobbit] using hobbit to monitor the number of files
Say, in a mail or print spool. I know hobbit can check the age or existence of a file, but how about the number of files in a dir?
I'm sure it's trivial to do, but I haven't run across this yet, so before I reinvent the wheel, I thought I'd ask.
I would like hobbit to report on the number of files in a given location, and then generate an alert if it's above the warning or fatal levels.
Thanks.
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