file existence check

[Earl C. Ruby III]

I would construct your YYYYMMDD timestamp as current time - 21:59:59 hours. 
That way, at 10pm you're checking for today's file, and you keep checking for 
today's file until 9:59:59pm the next day.

On Wednesday 07 July 2004 03:55 pm, Neil wrote:
> Hey guys,
>
> I would like to monitor if a file gets uploaded successfully by our
> customer every night at 10pm. Filename syntax is Upload_Daily_20040707.txt.
> Programatically, I can extract the current date in my nagios system and
> have the date get appended to the syntax. So if file exists after 10pm
> check, it becomes OK. If not, it will remain RED. My concern is that after
> 12midnight, it won't be checked anymore because date will change. But I can
> create 2 checks, one for today and the other one for yesterday.
>
> I would like to know guys how you would implement it and what you think
> about my approach.


-- 
Earl C. Ruby III
Senior Systems Engineer / Developer
Switch Management



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