Generate probe alarm if command result or file is empty

Products

• DX Unified Infrastructure Management (Nimsoft / UIM)
• CA Unified Infrastructure Management On-Premise (Nimsoft / UIM)
• CA Unified Infrastructure Management SaaS (Nimsoft / UIM)

Issue/Introduction

• I have a question about the logmon probe.
• Can the probe generate an alarm if the output of the command that I want to monitor returns an empty result? 
• I need to verify if specific text shows up in the file, and if not, generate an alarm. I tried to use a regex for this but when the file was empty logmon did not generate an alarm.

Environment

• Release: 20.4
• logmon 4.20
• dirscan 3.19

Resolution

You can use the dirscan probe to monitor a file and alarm if it's empty, (if size is = 0), generate an alarm.

 

 

 

Additional Information

How to run a logmon command parse output and if keyword/string is NOT found generate alarm
https://knowledge.broadcom.com/external/article?articleId=252610