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With Checkmk, you can monitor single files for pure existence, their age and , size, etc. But it is also sometimes necessary to group several files into one service and impose those rules and thresholds on such a filegroup.
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Configuration of the agent
In the first stepFirst, we need to must 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.
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With agent bakery (Enterprise editions):
- To create a new rule, go to Setup → Agents → Windows, Linux, Solaris, AIX → Agent rules → Count, size, and age of files and specify which files to be included:
Take a look at the inline help for possible patterns. - Bake & Sign the agents to deploy the new agent configuration.
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Without agent bakery (RAW edition):
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In the file C:\ProgramData\checkmk\agent\check_mk.user.yml, create a fileinfo section like this:
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enabled: true
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path:
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- c:\temp\*.txt
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- c:\path\to\file.dat
and restart the Checkmk agent.
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- Restart the Checkmk agent
Monitoring of single files
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- Rediscover your host, and you will find the single files that you configured in
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- Step 1, and you can add them to monitoring:
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After that, you can create rules to specify how to monitor those files.
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- Click on the "hamburger" menu of that service
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- Click "Size and age of single files" to create a rule
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Monitoring of file groups
Sometimes it is desired not to monitor the individual files but a file group instead. To do this, you need to create a rule oh on the type "File Grouping Patterns"
(Setup → Services → Service monitoring rules → File Grouping Patterns)
There There, you have to specify a name for the group, "Include Patterns," and optionally "Exclude Patterns."
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- Go to Setup → Services → Service monitoring rules → Grouping Patterns → Add rule
. - After a Re-Discovery, the single file services will vanish, and the file group will appear
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- Create a rule by clicking on the "hamburger menu" / Parameters for this service
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.- Click "Size, age, and count of file groups" to create a rule as desired
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for example like this:
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Special case: file(s) does not exist during discovery
Sometimes you have the a special use case , where the single files or files that are part of file groups do not exist (during discovery). E.g., you want to monitor the quarantine directory of an antivirus software, which should normally be normally empty.
As the Checkmk Discovery can only discover things that exist during the discovery process, we have a logical problem here.
To circumvent this issue, you have to create the "rules from above. These rules are called Size and age of single files " and " Size, age, and count of file groups " rules from above and are not in the " Discovery rule " section of the setup menu , but in the " Enforced services " part of the setup. So the
The rules can be found here:
- Setup → Services → Enforced services → Size and age of single files
- Setup → Services → Enforced services → Size, age, and count of file groups
By creating such an enforced rule, you can force Checkmk to create a service check, and you are able to can monitor files which that are not present during discovery.
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