file existence check

NetVicious n3tvicious-nagios at yahoo.es
Thu Jul 8 09:21:01 CEST 2004


I have an script that it's executed only at one time. If the script
don't works correctly due to an problem it creates a cron job using
at command for execute him with some parameters in 2 minutes.

You could use the same idea passing as a parameter the date of the
file you wants to check.

--- Neil <neil-on-nagios at restricted.dyndns.org> escribió: > 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. 
> 
> Thanks. 
> 
> Neil
> 
> 
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