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With Checkmk you can monitor single files for pure existence, its their age and size, etc. But it is also sometimes necessary to group several files into one service and impose those rules and thresholds to on such a file groupfilegroup.
1. Configuration of the agent
In the first step, we need to tell the agent which files should be monitored. This can be done with the Checkmk agent bakery in Checkmk Enterprise, Enterprise Free, and managed service edition. In Checkmk RAW Edition this needs to be done manually.
1a. With agent bakery (Enterprise editions):
Create To create a new rule of type , go to Setup → Agents → Windows, Linux, Solaris, AIX → Agent rules → Count, size, and age of files (Linux, Windows) and specify which files to be included:
Take a look at the inline help for possible patterns.
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