Custom Macro & File exist check

[green.naezl]

Good morning everybody

I have to monitor a workflow, which includes Sheduled Tasks (Windows).

Those sheduled tasks execute various batch scripts. Those batch scripts create
from a input file, a convertet output file.

Problem:
I need to check if the output file was generated. Those output files have a specific format: 05_LOG_YYYYMMDD_WEB_00.txt

How can I check those files, when the date is in format YYYYMMDD, the Zabbix Macro {DATE} uses dots between years, months and dates.

Can I create a custom date format macro?


Thanks for your help!
Have a nice day

Greets
Stephan

PS: Is there a way to check if a sheduled task was executed?

[m4rv1n]

hello,
have you solved?
i have your problem

to see if scheduled task was executed you have to filter state, 0x0 is ok.
please pm me if you have solved wit hmacro for date.
thanks

[green.naezl]

hi,

it's a long time ago, but finally I had written down the whole workflow in a VB-Script with different exit-states.

for example -> exit-codes:
0 - everything fine
1 - file wasn't created

etc..

I'm sorry, but I'm no longer working on this project, so I cant give you my scripts.... but a good structured reusable script will help you nearly everywhere in zabbix if you have to deal with timestamps and files :P

Greets
Stephan

[m4rv1n]

ok, under linux is not a problem but is a mistake for me introduce it in a item to check (i check from zabbix and not from other host and would to do a macro, not a script)
also you remember how to run a comman by agent and if can the agent exec a script with a user scripted?
example, agent running with user A but in the script run the command with user B.
thank you!

[green.naezl]

to change the execution rights you probably use sudo?!

but don't ask me how. sudo is a bad thing in the false hands (respectivly in false use)....

the problem, currently I have no other solution to the time-stamp problems in zabbix....

what you could try is execute a script on your zabbix machine, which will remotly check the target. But in case you use active/passive checks this might throw other problems.....


greets
Stephan

[m4rv1n]

sudo change execution rights only on the zabbix server but not on the agent (linux/windows), the agent take ever the user of the service

the problem of time, i try something but hope zabbix make more flexible the product with more simple things.

i can try a script and with this i'm sure to go (i check smb and other with script), but i would to make some thing with macro cause with external script the execution of zabbix go slow.

hope to find!

thanks
regards