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Hi

I want to setup monitoring of file count in a particular folder using wmi/command/nrpe.
Can you please advise how can setup using command or plugin etc.

I tried this using check command "check_file_service".
I created a new command as:
$USER1$/folder_watch.pl -H $HOSTADDRESS -u $ARG1$ -p $ARG2$ -f $ARG3$ -D $ARG4$ $ARG5$

where Arguments are as:

ARG1 = 'username'
ARG2 = 'password'
ARG3 = files
ARG4 = C:\test (path of folder which we want to monitor files)
ARG5 = -F '[^\0] ' -w 5 -c 10

Can you please advise how to fix this or if there is any other way to achieve this?

Thanks

Hi,

Do you have NSClient installed on the remote Windows System? We have helpful examples on the following page.

See: File And Folder Checks

For NSLCIent, the check command would look like: For the case of WMI, you can check the folder size, for example. Let us know which approach you'd like to use and if you need assistance.

Benjamin

Thanks for replying.
We are actually monitoring it using WMI.
With WMI we want to set the monitoring of number of files in folder rather than folder size.

You should be able to do this which checks the count:

CRITICAL if count greater than 10:
CRITICAL if count less than 10:
You can change 10 to whatever you'd like:

https://nagios-plugins.org/doc/guidelin ... HOLDFORMAT