check_fileage or something else?

Nagios Nagios Configuration support
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Hello,

I need to be able to monitor a directory on a windows server that stores logs for a homegrown application.

First, I would like to be able to use a unc path to the server like \windows2003server\logs and check the share for the amount of files in the directory. If there are more that 25 files I need to send a warning alert.

Second, I need to be able to check the master log file in the same directory for the modified time. This file must be changed on a constant basis and if there isnt a change to it within 15 minutes, I need to send a warning message.

I have been able to modify some existing perl scripts to do things but this may be beyond what is currently out there.

Any ideas?

thanks

NF

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Just off the top of my head, one way might be to mount the UNC share as a partition on the nagios server, then you should be able to use both **check_file_age **and some sort of created wrapper script to analyze output of ls -1 | wc -l and warn as appropriate for the file counting check. Probably. :wink:

HTH

/S

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wow. I created a share on a test system, put some files in it and mounted it on my test nagios box.

ran the check_file_age.pl on it and it works like a charm!

Gotta love the nagios community.

NF