Re: [monit] Monitor timestamp only and not existence of file

[Rishad Omar]

Hello Martin,

Thanks for the tip. I'm trying it out now. It would have been handy if I
could have set a global 'variable' for the alert email and then used the
variable in my global alert and in the local alert. Now I've duplicated
the email address.

Thanks, Rishad



On Thu, 2010-01-21 at 18:47 +0100, Martin Pala wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> 
> you can set mail filter to suppress existence alert:
> 
> 
> alert address@hidden but not on { nonexist }
> 
> 
> See manual for more details: 
> http://www.mmonit.com/monit/documentation/monit.html#setting_a_local_alert_statement
> 
> 
> Note: the "not" option requires monit-5.x
> 
> 
> Regards,
> Martin
> 
> 
> 
> On Jan 21, 2010, at 4:56 PM, Rishad Omar wrote:
> 
> > Hello,
> > 
> > 
> > I'd like to monitor the timestamp of a file and execute my command
> > when
> > the file is 'old'. But I don't want to be alerted if the file exists
> > nor
> > if the the file doesn't exist. 
> > That is, I want to be alerted ONLY if the file exists and is older
> > than
> > 10 mins.
> > 
> > The following works fine with the timestamp but in addition I get
> > alerted when the file exists and then later that it doesn't exist.
> > 
> >        check file lock path /some/path/lock
> >                if timestamp > 10 minutes
> >                    then exec "/some/command"
> > 
> > I tried the following, but it hasn't helped:
> > 
> >        check file lock path /some/path/lock
> >                start program = "/bin/touch /tmp/1.1"
> >                if timestamp > 10 minutes
> >                    then exec "/some/command"
> > 
> > Thanks, Rishad
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
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