What I want to do is monitor the size of a directory say /mnt/local/test
If that directory is over a certain size, to alert me.
I have been reading this Monitoring files
However I am stuck, and new to this, so I don’t know what to do.
Note that I believe I need to use the NON mk_filestats plugin, because I want the information for a whole folder, not specific files.
Here’s what I have done so far:
Setup → Services → Service monitoring rules → Size, age and count of file groups
Created a rule in here, gave it description
Set “Maximal size” to Warning at or above 25GiB, Critical at or above 50GiB.
I set explicit hosts to the host in question and the “file group name” to /mnt/local/test
Next I went to
Setup → Agents → Windows, Linux, Solaris, AIX → Agent Rules → Count, size and age of files
Here I configured the field “Count, size and age of files” to “/mnt/local/test”
I set an explicit host to the host in question and saved it.
Then, I went to the agents again and hit “bake agents” it gave me a new agent which I downloaded the .deb file and installed on the host.
Nothing has happened. I have scanned for new services, restarted the agent but I cannot figure out how this works from here. I lack the knowledge to get further. Help!!!
P.S, I understand as this is already a host with an agent I should have been able to install the new agent automatically? Is that right, how would I do that??
Thanks for the information
I have managed to get agent auto deployment working so that’s great.
Here’s what I have done for the monitoring of my directory size I want to achieve, I feel this is overly complicated for such a simple task, but it’s probably just that I don’t understand the system.
Setup → Services → Service Monitoring Rules → Size, Age and count of file groups → edit rule
I added a condition for “Local group name” and called it localmedia
Setup → Services → Service Monitoring Rules → Group Patterns
Created a new pattern
Configured “File Grouping Patterns”
Set its name to “localmedia” including the pattern of my directory I want to monitor as /mnt/local/test/*
Here I also set explicit host option for my host I want to monitor the directory on.
Yet, still nothing is showing up anywhere.
What am I missing, where do I need to go so that the size of the directory is monitored?
Thanks!
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