Monitoring number of files in a folder with a specific name scheme.

kb1lxm

Is there a way to monitor the number of files in a folder that start with a specific file name?

I have a request to monitor a folder and look for the number of files that start with Order then the date, so this folder could look like:

Order11282011.txt

Order11292011.txt

Order11302011.txt

Invoice11282011.txt

Invoice11292011.txt

Error11302011.txt

Normally the File Count would work great, but for the purpose of this monitoring check I only care about the files named Orderxxxxxxxx.txt and not Invoice or Error.  We want to be able to track when Order files are placed into this folder and when they are moved out of the folder when they are processed.  Being able to get the number of files as a statistic would be helpful, since if they exceed a certain amount it could also tell us that the transfer process is not working or falling behind.

I am still stuck on APM 3.5 sadly so if there is a custom script it would have to be VBScript.

Thanks.

aLTeReGo

The File Count Monitor in SAM v5.0 does not currently support filtering by file name, only by extension. I've logged this as a feature request under FB160993.