[GTALUG] Watching a network folder: is there a smart way of doing this?

[David Thornton]

Another important question to ask: what are you doing with what you learned
from the test? Nagios? Snmptrap? Zabbix? Grapha? Statd ? Email
notification? Smoke signals?

I wrote a nagios check once called check_rofs which would write a file read
it then delete it and report how that went. Nagios handled telling the
right person via the correct means and graphing performance data ( like
time to write, time to read, time to unlink.)

A system like this has the downside of not checking often enough for some
i.e. every 5min by default. I suspect that would be fine for your needs.

David

David Thornton @northdot9 https://www.quadratic.net

On Feb 24, 2017 9:24 PM, "Stewart C. Russell via talk" <talk at gtalug.org>
wrote:

> On 2017-02-20 12:47 AM, Aruna Hewapathirane wrote:
> >
> > Hi Stewart, you could just |watch| the file listing (adjusting n seconds
> > to whatever is suitable)
> >
> > |watch --differences -n 10 ls -l </path/to/shared/dir>|
>
> I hadn't heard of watch before, so thanks! watch *started* to work
> really well, but then went into a terminal sulk after the FS disappeared
> during a scan, and refused to show any updates. It's also an interactive
> program, so doesn't pipe or notify changes in any useful way.
>
> I suspect I'll just have to go with William Park's suggestion of using
> rsync to a local folder that I have more control over. I still have to
> correct for the scanner FS's wandering clock, but that's less important.
>
> cheers,
>  Stewart
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