Number of files and file age template

I'm trying to write a file monitor that checks for the age of the file since it's been copied/created in a folder. I've seen some templates for file age within a range of dates, but I'm specifically trying to do two things:

1) monitor a directory and alert if the number of files in the directory goes over a threshold defined number

2) monitor the amount of time that those files stay in that directory (they're supposed to get moved out by one of our applications) and alert if they stay in there too long (defined threshold)

Thanks in advance as I am new to scripting and may just be overlooking something that could be very simple.

Kelly

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aLTeReGo

#1 can be done natively within APM today using the "File Count Monitor". #2 however, is something that would require some scripting. I would imagine it working by determining the oldest file in the directory and returning the number of days old that file is as the statistical value.

Maybe someone in the community already has a script like this they'd be willing to share, or has some thoughts of how best to construct it.

bobross

If you're using perl on a Unix system, this should get you the oldest file:



 my $file = `ls -Aghot --time-style=long-iso | tail -1`;

my ($year, $month, $day, $hour, $minute, $filename)    =
        $file =~
        m/(\d{4})-(\d{2})-(\d{2})\s(\d{2}):(\d{2})\s(.*)$/;

You'll need to do some math and probably the localtime function to get the final values. Unfortunately, the math functions will all be based on your time requirements, but with the above, all of the information you'll need should be stored in the applicable variables.

litelnole

I was able to create the file count monitor successfully and assign an alert to it.

Bobross - I'm running windows and am not familiar with Perl, but I noticed the filename field. Does solarwinds have the ability to retrieve the filenames from the directory?

bobross

Unfortunately, I believe that the file monitors require you to specify a file and won't be able to dynamically grab the file with the oldest name.

VBScript can be used in a similar fashion, but you'll likely need to make use of a FileSystemObject to pull the File Objects and sort by the DateLastModified Property. A word of caution... you'll have to create your own sort routine. On the other hand if you have 10 or fewer files in the directory and running APM 4.2 you could just setup a multi-value script, just keep in mind that any collected data won't be too valuable over time as the file names will be changing.

I'm not very good with VBScript myself, but if you have any scripting experience you should be able to force your way through (thats how I always get my VBScripts ) using the above links.