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

[Rishad Omar]

Hello,

I finally installed monit version 5 but can't get monit to stop alerting
about file existence. 

Ideally, I just want an alert when there is a timeout. So, no alert on
"exist" and "nonexist".

This is my configuration: 
        check file mylock path /some/where/lock
                if timestamp > 5 minutes 
                        then exec "some command"
                alert address@hidden only on { timestamp }
                #alert address@hidden but not on { nonexist } ... tried this 
too excl/incl the line above!


I have looked at documentation as you suggested, Martin, but can't
figure it out. I expected that "only on timeout" should exclude
everything else.

Your help much appreciated. 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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