Stefan Elsinga

Yeahyeah, year old post. Literal cut & past of your config. What doesn't work?

You say 'the files looked exacly the same', but have you done a diff between working configs from the past and your current configs? If they are the same then either your data communication garbles your messages in some way, or your xymon server or client installation is ready for a reinstall. If you haven't changed anything (i.e. OS updates, package updates, different MTA) then something broke. This can happen. You could build a new server with configs only for this one client, and direct that client...

I see some examples of monitoring filesize of mdate for unix, they work and I use them plenty. On Windows servers I cannot use 'ls -l' plus fancy commands to get the one newest file in a directory. However, this is exactly what I need, because I want to monitor a file with an ever changing filename, which includes a timestamp. I sort of had it working with a filename that did not change, but it seems the file is not being created as a new file every five minutes (even though I delete it before making...

I see some examples of monitoring filesize of mdate for unix, they work and I use them plenty. On Windows servers I cannot use 'ls -l' plus fancy commands to get the one newest file in a directory. However, this is exactly what I need, because I want to monitor a file with an ever changing filename, which includes a timestamp. I sort of had it working with a filename that did not change, but it seems the file is not being created as a new file every five minutes (even though I delete it before making...

I see some examples of monitoring filesize of mdate for unix, they work and I use them plenty. On Windows servers I cannot use 'ls -l' plus fancy commands to get the one newest file in a directory. However, this is exactly what I need, because I want to monitor a file with an ever changing filename, which includes a timestamp. I sort of had it working whith a filename that did not change, but it seems the file is not being created as a new file every five minutes (even though I delete it before making...

I see some examples of monitoring filesize of mdate for unix, they work and I use them plenty. On Windows servers I cannot use 'ls -l' plus fancy commands to get the one newest file in a directory. However, this is exactly what I need, because I want to monitor a file whith an ever changing filename, which includes a timestamp. I sort of had it working whith a filename that did not change, but it seems the file is not being created as a new file every five minutes (even though I delete it before...

As far as I can see in the sourcecode, the case and even the order in which the arguments are given does not matter. The idea is that you write a line in /etc/xymon/client-local.cfg with the file you want to check, under a header with the [SERVERNAME]. like (in my case) [SQLSERVER] file:C:\Temp\sqlAgent_Heartbeat.txt This line gets copied to (in my case) C:\Program Files (x86)\BBWin\tmp\clientlocal.cfg on SQLSERVER. This should be done by Xymon automatically, not by you. Restarting the Xymon process...