File Directory Monitor

This section is common to all the editions of IT360 - Professional Edition, Enterprise Edition (Probes only) and MSP Edition (Probes only).

Creating File Directory Monitors:

To create a File Directory monitor, follow the below steps;

Go to 'Admin-> Servers & Applications', and click on 'New Monitor' link.
Choose File Directory Monitor.
Provide Display Name for the monitor.
Select the Type, whether it is a File monitor or Directory monitor.
Specify whether the File / Directory, to be monitored, is in the Local Server or Remote Server.
If it is in the Local server, give the absolute path of the File / Directory. If it is in the Remote server, Select the Host Name (remote server) from the combo box, or you can create a new host (by giving the new Hostname / IP address, Username and Password of the host) and the File / Directory's absolute path.
If you have selected File Monitor, enter the String, for which you want to check content matching in the File. For e.g., you can check for exceptions that might occur.
Enter the Polling interval time period and Timeout values.
Choose the grouping, to which you want to associate the monitor, from the combo box;
- In the case of Professional Edition, it is Business Service [optional].
- In the case of Enterprise Edition - Probe, it is Business Service [optional]
- In the case of MSP Edition - Probe, it is Customer and Site [mandatory]
Click Add Monitor(s). This discovers the File / Directory from the network and starts monitoring them.

Important Notes:

File Name / Directory Name should be specified with Absolute Path. (e.g.) 'C:\Desktop\test.txt (or) /home/test/test.txt'.
In case of Multiple Checks for Content in File Monitoring, specify them as comma separated values. (e.g.) NullPointerException,File System Monitor,testString.
Ensure that the file, you are monitoring, has Read Permission.
Content Matching in File Monitoring is not supported in Windows Servers.
To access a Shared Folder, the file path should be given like: '\\<hostname>\C$\Vim'.
To monitor a Directory in a remote windows server, ensure that the directory has share permissions, thereby making it available locally. Continue to configure the directory in the local server setup.

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