Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi guys,

I didn't understand this monitoring script request - I don't ask for the script result.

If you understand the request, I'm just asking an explanation to simplify it for me.

THE Script Request:

Our organization keeps various files in directories structured as events/files_detected/<year>/<month>/<day>/<hour>/<minute> e.g. events/files_detected/2010/11/02/07/53

* the script should count the number of files in the given directory (events_storage/files_constant_patterns) in the last 5 minutes and report:

* OK - if the number is greater than 100

* WARN - if the number is between 50 and 100

* CRITICAL - if the number is less than 50


Thanks!!

The request seems ambiguous on several points, and I don't have any reason to think my crystal ball is any clearer than yours. Presumably, you know where this request came from and you have some insight into what they want. If that is true, your crystal is probably a lot clearer than mine.

At first glance I would say it is asking for the number of files in the 5 directories associated with the current minute, the previous minute, the minute before that, the minute before that, and the minute before that. Or maybe you should skip the current minute and just look at the 5 previous minutes (so file counts aren't artificially low due to the current minute being incomplete and files may still be added after you complete the count).

But:Good luck.

Hiya

Since Don didnt post the template i'd expected (a certain phrase within there) to see, here we go

So basicly you need to identify the current minute, subtract 6 (current - 5 mentioned), and parse those folders with something like find or ls.
Then do the checking on that result.

hth