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Hi,

I have configure check_winfile plugin to check some directory, for example as below.
check_files = scripts\check_winfile.exe --target "C:\dments" --filter "name match \.fail$" --warn 1 --critical 2

How to force the plugin to only check the contents of this folder without subdirectories. Because now checks several thousand files in the subdirectories instead of just a few in the main folder.


I appreciate any idea



Regards,
Edward

You will need to specify the files to check directly, or just the handful of sub-directories that you actually want to check. From the plugin help:

--target file/directory[,file/directory]...]] [[--target ...] ... ]

This option specifies targets to check. A target can be a simple file or a recursive list of files in a directory. You can specify several comma separated targets for one --target option, as well as several --target options. At least one is required.

So I would set the target to just the sub-directories you want searched.

I'm not sure that i understand you right. I see this help explanation earlier but i don't see answer there.

I have location C:\dments and inside about 30-40 files which i wanna check. But in C:\dments is also about 20 folders with 20-30k not important files and it's checked also.

Is It to check files in folder dments, only files without subdirectories?

As mentioned you will need to provide a direct path to each file if you do not want it to check everything in the directory, you can add additional files, by providing their paths in a coma separated list as the help output suggests. Give that a shot and let us know. If you are still having troubles post how you are manually running the command, including the directories in a coma separated list as I noted.

I just configure CheckFiles using nrpe and I thing this is what I want http://www.nsclient.org/nscp/wiki/CheckDisk/CheckFiles

Thanks for help

edwardzg wrote: I thing this is what I want http://www.nsclient.org/nscp/wiki/CheckDisk/CheckFiles

It should be real simple to setup as this is a built-in nsclient check.