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Gary_Dewrell's avatar
11 years ago

File monitoring for date, size, existance.

We have a couple of scenarios where we would like to monitor a file on a server.

For example we want to monitor the date created on the Virus.Dat file to make sure it is not older than 3 days.

Some products do not write to the event log and instead write to the their own log files. So we might want to monitor for example a mylog.err file and alert if the byte size is more than 0 bytes.

The ability to monitor and alert on the following would be great:

File size

File exist

File create date

File modify date

Thanks!

  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous

    You can do this with an EventSource, a ConfigSource, or LM Logs.

  • It would be good to add this feature. My current workaround is to write a VBSript using the FileSystemObject. It is working for me so far.

  • This would be great to check for things like the following:rn

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    • backup logs rn
    • antivirus updatesrn
    • sql maintenance tasksrn