Check Directory for Sub-Directories (Check_Files)

[warnox]

Hi,

I need to monitor a directory (F:\ABC) to make sure a sub directory is created each day (F:\ABC\050815, F:\ABC\060815...). I believe it should be possible to do this via Check_Files but I'm not sure exactly how, since I can't find any information which is folder specific.

If anyone can point me in the right direction that would be great.

Using Nagios 4.0.8 and NSClient 0.4.3.

Thanks in advance.

[tmcdonald]

I assume the new directory is created according to a predictable naming scheme? If so you will need some way to tell the Check_Files path parameter which full path to use. You can use the linux command `date +%d%m%y` (note the backticks) to get the date format you appear to be using, and you can stick that in your commands.cfg as the path name.

[warnox]

That plan is a whole lot better than what I was working with (filtering for folders created in the last week and alerting if none of the folders were created in the last day).

Got it to work with the command below, I think that will be sufficient. If you have any suggestions for improvements I'm all ears

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/usr/local/nagios/libexec/check_nrpe -H 192.168.1.60 -c check_files -a file="c:\\TEMP" "max-depth=1" "filter=filename='`date +%d%m%y`'" "critical=count<1" empty-syntax=CRITICAL

Now, because I had to upgrade the client to 0.4.3, check_disk picks up System Volumes and alerts, doh.

[warnox]

Spoke too soon. Do you know what the options are for 'empty-state'? I tried 'CRITICAL' and '2' but whatever I put in Nagios returns 'UNKNOWN'. This was apparently a bug in previous versions but should be fixed now.

I'm not sure how to return the 'state' value when manually executing 'check_nrpe'.

Thanks again.

[lmiltchev]

The check seems to be working for me. I am running NSClient++ v.0.4.3.143.

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/usr/local/nagios/libexec/check_nrpe -H x.x.x.x
I (0.4.3.143 2015-04-29) seem to be doing fine...

I created an empty folder on my workstation (c:\tmp\empty) and tested the check from the CLI:

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/usr/local/nagios/libexec/check_nrpe -H x.x.x.x -c check_files -a file="c:\tmp" "max-depth=1" "filter=filename='empty'" "critical=count<1" empty-state=CRITICAL empty-syntax=CRITICAL
OK: All 1 files are ok|'count'=1;0;1
echo $?
0
/usr/local/nagios/libexec/check_nrpe -H x.x.x.x -c check_files -a file="c:\tmp" "max-depth=1" "filter=filename='full'" "critical=count<1" empty-state=CRITICAL empty-syntax=CRITICAL
CRITICAL|'count'=0;0;1
echo $?
2

[warnox]

Cool, that does seem to work, I had CRITICAL as 'CRITICAL' so I guess that's where it was failing.

All good now, thanks both for your help!

Final command I used is:

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/usr/local/nagios/libexec/check_nrpe -H 192.168.1.60 -c check_files -a file="c:\\TEMP" "max-depth=2" "filter=filename='`date +%d%m%Y`'" "critical=count<1" "empty-state=CRITICAL" "empty-syntax=CRITICAL - Cannot find folder `date +%d%m%Y`"

[lmiltchev]

I am glad we could help!