Check file age on Windows client not working

[louis (Louis Wevers)]

Hi,

I’m trying to monitor the file age on a speciffic file on a windows host. In my check_mk.user.yml I’ve configured this:

fileinfo:
    # enabled: yes
    # below are possible examples
    path:
        C:\Program Files\Tivoli\TSM\baclient\dsmsched.log

Running the agent with the showconfig option on the command line it shows that it’s picked up:

C:\Program Files (x86)\checkmk\service>check_mk_agent.exe showconfig fileinfo
# Environment Variables:
# MK_LOCALDIR="C:\ProgramData\checkmk\agent\local"
# MK_STATEDIR="C:\ProgramData\checkmk\agent\state"
# MK_PLUGINSDIR="C:\ProgramData\checkmk\agent\plugins"
# MK_TEMPDIR="C:\ProgramData\checkmk\agent\tmp"
# MK_LOGDIR="C:\ProgramData\checkmk\agent\log"
# MK_CONFDIR="C:\ProgramData\checkmk\agent\config"
# MK_SPOOLDIR="C:\ProgramData\checkmk\agent\spool"
# MK_INSTALLDIR="C:\ProgramData\checkmk\agent\install"
# MK_MSI_PATH="C:\ProgramData\checkmk\agent\update"
# MK_MODULESDIR="C:\ProgramData\checkmk\agent\modules"
# Loaded Config Files:
# system: 'C:\Program Files (x86)\checkmk\service\check_mk.yml'
# bakery: 'C:\ProgramData\checkmk\agent\bakery'
# user  : 'C:\ProgramData\checkmk\agent\check_mk.user.yml'

# fileinfo
enabled: yes
path: C:\Program Files\Tivoli\TSM\baclient\dsmsched.log

Also, I’ve created a rule for this file and host in Setup → Services → Service monitoring rules → Size and age of single files, that looks like this:

No matter what I try I can’t see any check appearing for the dsmched.log file. The only thing concering fileinfo in the agent output is this:

<<<fileinfo:sep(124)>>>
1636723556

What am I doing wrong?

Kind regards,
Louis

[mike1098 (Michael FRANK)]

Hello,

I have in my config:

fileinfo:
  enabled: true
  path:
    - C:\something

I think the hyphen in front of the path is missing. May validate your config also with a YAML checker available in the internet.

BR

Michael

[louis (Louis Wevers)]

Hello Michael,

Thanks, I’ve now changed it to:

fileinfo:
    enabled: yes
    # below are possible examples
    path:
        - 'C:\Program Files\Tivoli\TSM\baclient\dsmsched.log'

And as per your suggestion passed it through a yaml validator. Unfortunately the result is still the same.

Regards,
Louis

[mike1098 (Michael FRANK)]

Did you restart the agent? If yes I have no more ideas.
Not sure if the apostrophe’s are necessary

regards

Michael

[louis (Louis Wevers)]

Thanks, I didn’t realize I had to restart the client on Windows for this. It now works as it should.