Creating an Alert when a File has changed

Hi Everyone,

I am trying to setup a monitor and alert to monitor when specific files have changed.

1. I used the App Monitor called File Change and configured it to point to a specific file on a windows server. The monitor seems to work when I make a change to the file the monitor goes into a "down" state until I manually reset the checksum on the file.

2. What would like to have happen is when the monitor is triggered, I want an alert to come out stating the server, file name, time changed and who made the change to the file.

-- Is this type of alert possible? If so, can does anyone have an alert that I can use a template? I am stuck on building it and not sure what else to do.

Thanks,

Mike

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ankthar_lemarre

I'm in the same boat - or close enough. I have a process that automatically updates a file on several servers every 4 hours. I need an alert that triggers if the file is older than 4 days, and doesn't trigger if the file does not exist (because it hasn't been configured yet). I have the monitors set up, but no alerts yet.

vinay.by

Hi ankthar lemarre , if you have SAM and if you need an alert if file is older than 4 days you should be going with 'File Age Monitor' , that should work for you.

ankthar_lemarre

The monitor works no problem. I can't find how to alert on it, however.

ankthar_lemarre

I'm close, but I misconfigured something. Like I said before, we have three scenarios:

1. File doesn't exist - no alert

2. File exists and is new - no alert

3. File exists and is old - alert!

So I have the file existence monitor and the file age monitor set up on the same file on several Windows servers. My alert has two sections:

Section 1 scope - application name is equal to File Existence Monitor

Section 1 trigger - application status is equal to up

and

Section 2 scope - application name is equal to File Age Monitor

Section 2 trigger - application status is not equal to up

The monitors appear to work - they are showing up/down appropriately. However, the alert never triggers, even though I can see multiple nodes that meet the desired criteria.

ankthar_lemarre

Correction - the above alert logic does work, it was merely unexpectedly delayed by our email system.