There is a file date and time check add on module for SA that is in beta. It is made by Michael Smith who is on this list. It can be used to check if a file's modification date/time is "in N last minutes", or "file dated today". Could you possibly use that to monitor whether the file(s) in question have/have not changed?
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Irene Warden Sent: Monday, August 01, 2005 11:36 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [SA-list] Don't think this is possible, but ... I have an application which should, every night, download a database from a website and use this database to update its local information. Most of this time this is what happens; however, sometimes the database which is downloaded hasn't changed, so there isn't any need to update the local information, which is also OK. Each of these actions writes to the server's event log, and I'm using the old Perl CheckEvt addon. What I would really like to do is send an alert if there is *no* event entry for the download, and if there is *no* event entries for either the update or the 'everything's current' warning, but I don't think I can check for missing event log entries (can I?). I've managed to fiddle the first rule, so that it sends me an email if the database downloads correctly (by finding the entry in the log, then inverting the status to it doesn't show as DOWN), but I'm not really 100% happy with it as I have to check my email each morning to see if I've received a mail, rather than getting alerted when the entry doesn't appear in the event log ..... but I'm completely stuck with the next bit ..... the problem is that either the update (event ID 4040) or the 'everything is up-to-date message (event ID 31000) are both correct, so I really only want to get an alert if *neither* one appears. The CheckEvt documentation shows how to flag if *both* entries appear, but since it doesn't mention a *neither* option, I assume I can't do it. Does this make any sense?? For the latest data on the economy and society consult National Statistics at http://www.statistics.gov.uk ********************************************************************** Please Note: Incoming and outgoing email messages are routinely monitored for compliance with our policy on the use of electronic communications ********************************************************************** Legal Disclaimer : Any views expressed by the sender of this message are not necessarily those of the Office for National Statistics ********************************************************************** The original of this email was scanned for viruses by the Government Secure Intranet (GSi) virus scanning service supplied exclusively by Energis in partnership with MessageLabs. On leaving the GSi this email was certified virus-free ------------------------- [This E-mail scanned for viruses by Declude Virus] To unsubscribe from a list, send a mail message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] With the following in the body of the message: unsubscribe SAlive
