NAME

check_file.pl - Plugin to find the latest file in a directory and check against it's size and age

SYNOPSIS

check_file.pl -d dir -f file [-w age] [-c age] [-W size] [-C size]

DESCRIPTION

check_file.pl will find the latest file in dir that matches the glob specified in file. It will then find the age and the size of this file and compare this with specified thresholds.

REQUIREMENTS

The following Perl modules are required in order for this script to work:

* Monitoring::Plugin;
* File::Basename;
* POSIX qw(strftime);
* List::Util qw[max];

OPTIONS

-d dir

Specifies the directory to search for files in. If your directory has date elements in it, you can various placeholders for these date elements. Depending on the placeholders you set, the script will try to find directories within a certain period of time before giving up - otherwise the script could potentially run forever! The valid placeholders are:

* #YEAR#  - 4-digit year
* #MONTH# - 2-digit month
* #DAY#   - 3-digit day of year
* #MDAY#  - 2-digit day of month

The script will try and find directories over the smallest period of time specified, so if #DAY# is given, it will search over the maximum number of days allowed, regardless of whether or not any other placeholders are specified.

-f file

Specifies the file glob to search for. This should be specified as a Perl regular expression.

-w age

Warn if the latest file is older than age. age is specified in seconds, but modifiers may be used. These modifiers are s, m, h, d and w for "seconds", "minutes", "hours", "days" and "weeks" respectively.

-c age

Critical if the latest file is older than age. age is specified in seconds, but modifiers may be used. These modifiers are s, m, h, d and w for "seconds", "minutes", "hours", "days" and "weeks" respectively.

-W size

Warn if the latest file is smaller than size. size is specified in bytes, but modifiers may be used. These modifiers are k, M and G for kB, MB and GB respectively

-C size

Critical if the latest file is smaller than size. size is specified in bytes, but modifiers may be used. These modifiers are k, M and G for kB, MB and GB respectively

EXAMPLE

./check_file.pl -w 36h -c 3d -f '\*.TXT' -d "/path/to/my/files/"

Finds the latest file in "/path/to/my/files/ that matches "*.TXT" and sends out a warning if that file is older than 36 hours and a critical alarm if that file is over 3 days old.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

This documentation is available as POD and reStructuredText, with the conversion from POD to RST being carried out by pod2rst, which is available at http://search.cpan.org/~dowens/Pod-POM-View-Restructured-0.02/bin/pod2rst

AUTHOR

Tim Barnes <tdba[AT]bas.ac.uk> - British Antarctic Survey, Natural Environmental Research Council, UK

updated to Monitoring by Andrew McGuinness <andrew@arobeia.co.uk> - Warden Hill Riding Club

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

Copyright (C) 2014 by Tim Barnes, British Antarctic Survey, Natural Environmental Research Council, UK

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.