Re: [Nagios-users] Nagios plugin for monitoring files in a directory?

2009-07-13 Thread David Rosenstrauch
Israel Brewster wrote: > How about using check_file_age on the directory itself? I think the > timestamp of the directory is updated whenever a new file is added. Or > are there other processes going in in the directory, such as deletions > or modifications, that might make this value unreliable

Re: [Nagios-users] Nagios plugin for monitoring files in a directory?

2009-07-10 Thread Israel Brewster
On Jul 10, 2009, at 8:16 AM, David Rosenstrauch wrote: Just wondering if anyone might have some pointers on a monitoring puzzle I've run into. We have a couple of automated processes - one of them an automated FTP upload, the other an automated log file gatherer - which wind up causing

[Nagios-users] Nagios plugin for monitoring files in a directory?

2009-07-10 Thread David Rosenstrauch
Just wondering if anyone might have some pointers on a monitoring puzzle I've run into. We have a couple of automated processes - one of them an automated FTP upload, the other an automated log file gatherer - which wind up causing essentially the same result: new files regularly getting added