Assistance with using PowerShell to monitor a folder for files

The default "File Existence Monitor" uses a specifically named file; no PowerShell is necessary.

So that works great with static files but can this be configured to check for file names that change?  We have files generated hourly that we need to verify that they make it to a folder on an SFTP server.  I setup the File Existence Monitor to check for the file names with a wild card which works but I need to see if this can be expanded to check for files generated hourly.  Thanks!

Now we are looking at Powershell territory. There are a couple in the Shared Templates on Thwack that I've used for this scenario. These are well written and documented to follow along as examples as well.

File Age Monitor (Wildcard) - Setup the alert to trigger if *filename*, if older than 61 minutes. That way, you can alert if an expected file didn't show up in the last hour. I've used this with UNC paths as well successfully.

File & Folder Details (PowerShell) - This will give you many details on the folder. If the files that you are looking for are the only ones in the folder and they modify the parent path last modified time stamp, you can alert on Age of Parent Path (seconds ago)

I found both of the scripts and downloaded them but I have not found the too much on the documentation side.  I did have to make sure WINRM was working from polling engine to nodes (I did not address this when I installed SAM 2020.2)

 Where are you having issues?

Here is another popular one with a few hundred downloads. The example template below runs on the remote host.  Folder Statistics - Application Monitor Templates - Server & Application Monitor - THWACK (solarwinds.com)

I am going to meet with one of my team members that understands PowerShell much better than I do.  I did the WINRM test from APE to Node and it works so that is not the issue.  I will let you know if we get this working.  We were able to do tests and run it locally on nodes but are having some issues testing from Solarwinds to the node. 

That template is the winner!!!  Thank you for your assistance!!!

That template is the winner!!!  Thank you for your assistance!!!