Is there a way to use a the file existence monitor to search an entire drive for a specific file type. if i put in the full path it works but the file location changes.
any help would be appreciated...
Hello stevel,as you correctly noticed, monitor works only with specific file path. You can't use it to "search" for file. Can you tell me some use case for this feature? What kind of file do you need to monitor this way and why?
You can use Windows Script Monitor with some custom VB script that would search for file and report result back to APM.
http://www.solarwinds.com/NetPerfMon/SolarWinds/OrionAPMAGCreatingWindowsScriptMonitor.htm#9000649
we are having problems with a virus that shows up in random places. our thought was to use the file existence monitor to find where they are going. our anti virus does catch them but when it quarantines the files it deletes the path.....
Are you sure that your anti-virus don't have original paths logged anywhere?
I would use Windows Script monitor then. But if your anti-virus deletes file quickly, APM won't notice that because you can poll only once per 60 seconds.
is this a monitor that i can run from APM?
Hello stevel,as you correctly noticed, monitor works only with specific file path. You can't use it to "search" for file. Can you tell me some use case for this feature? What kind of file do you need to monitor this way and why?You can use Windows Script Monitor with some custom VB script that would search for file and report result back to APM. http://www.solarwinds.com/NetPerfMon/SolarWinds/OrionAPMAGCreatingWindowsScriptMonitor.htm#9000649
Is it possible to use File Existence Monitor template to monitor files in Linux and if so how one may proceed with out have to deal with samba. Any shell script?
File Existence Monitor requires UNC path so you would need Samba on Linux machine to be able to use it. However you can use Linux Script Monitor that executes custom Linux script on target machine for file existence monitoring.
