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File Changes in Directory

Does anyone have a good script to see if files in a directory have not been modified in X number of days? For checking of directories where files are automatically placed, having a check on the last modified date of these files would be handy!

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FormerMember

I don't know of that exact script, but it seems like you could modify this one to do what you're looking for.

jtowne

This seems like the most common request for file based verification. APM 2.5 has file functionality built in, but this was overlooked. Why? How is verifying the checksome of a file (and needing to go in an reset the checksum) more important than specifying file XYZ and seeing if it has/has not been modifyed in ABC period of time? Makes no sense to me?

TGhosh

+1 for this request. Is there a VBscript I can integrate into APM to accomplish this? I think the best solution would be for solarwinds to include this in the next release of APM

jtowne

I am not holding my breath. Pointed this out to support last fall and posted here in December. Best I got was " here is something you might be able to modify up". Good luck . . . . Thanks, really helpful!

FormerMember

This seems like the most common request for file based verification.

It's not the most common request. We delivered on the most common request.

APM 2.5 has file functionality built in, but this was overlooked. Why? How is verifying the checksome of a file (and needing to go in an reset the checksum) more important than specifying file XYZ and seeing if it has/has not been modifyed in ABC period of time? Makes no sense to me?

It wasn't overlooked. I realize it seems backwards to you because it doesn't fit your use case very well, but we prioritized the current monitor over the one you requested based on the totality of user feedback.

That said, we are planning to add a file age monitor, which is certainly a useful monitor.

FormerMember

+1 for this request. Is there a VBscript I can integrate into APM to accomplish this? I think the best solution would be for solarwinds to include this in the next release of APM

No promises, but that's the plan.

FormerMember

I am not holding my breath. Pointed this out to support last fall and posted here in December. Best I got was " here is something you might be able to modify up". Good luck . . . . Thanks, really helpful!

I appreciate that it's frustrating when you ask for a feature and it isn't delivered right away. Especially when it seems like the choice that was made is dumb. I don't agree that it was dumb, but I understand that you see it that way. I make a lot of feature decisions, and I don't expect to please everyone all the time.

To put your request in perspective, the release in early Februrary was fairly well along by the end of the year, and adding features mid-stream is not easily done. Well, actually, it's easy to add features in the middle of a release, but it's hard to do that and still ship on time and with good quality.

Getting a feature request into a product within a few months of asking for it is probably not realistic. Your request is one I hadn't really heard it before last fall. But we do listen, and we do try very hard to be responsive. Having been in the industry a while as a creator and a consumer, I'd say we stack up pretty favorably against other vendors in this regard.

Bottom line: Your request is a good one, and we fully intend to get it in the product. Sorry it hasn't happened already.

jtowne

Thanks Denny – look, I am a fan of the Solarwinds. And I see your point on features, but the question is why was it not there already before I, or anyone else, requested.

I also disagree with you on the “market comparison”. If I wanted to write scripts all day I would have installed Nagios and saved a bunch of $$ in licensing and support costs. Clearly I cannot be alone, as APM 2.5 includes some script capability from this application.

If I wanted something already together I could have gone with ServersAlive (which supports this) or AdventNet (which supports this) – much less $ to buy.

I could go on about comparisons. The fact is, The product has vastly improved over the last 12 months – and APM 2.5 shows that you are committed to not just being and SNMP network company. That said, there are many common tasks that admins need to run – when they pay good money, they don’t necessarily want to play with scripts all day. There are a core set of functions that are included with the “other guys” products that should be included. I think that Thwack in some way was meant to fill that gap – what I am hoping for is that there is less reliance on the customer to write their own stuff or request for a future, and more in the base product.

FormerMember

As you note, the product has only been on the market for about 12 months. v2.5 is the third release. The need for custom content decreases dramtically with each release. That need will never disappear completely, however. There are always idiosyncratic needs that will require custom solutions.

We build our feature set based on conversations with customers. We talked to lots of folks before we built v1.0, and we've listened on Thwack and reached out proactively to other customers in the last 12 months. We hear lots of feature requests, and more importantly, we hear about a lot of the problems customers are trying to solve. We try our best to respond to those problems. That we failed to anticipate a problem no one had yet brought to our attention is a failing we'll have to accept and move on. We'll try harder next time.

We're already working on the next release, which is not the last release, and I hope you'll be patient as we close the gap between product we have and the theoretical, ideal product we're all shooting for.

Enginseer

When you add that feature... can you make File Count able to handle wild cards? I.e. count all the files in a folder and not just all the doc or all the xls files?

If it already does this, then let me know how it does it.

Thanks,

Brad