Trigger to monitor file creation

[neil3k]

Say I want to monitor any file creation within a specific directory?

The file will be a random string of characters followed by .txt

I've tried to use vfs.file.exists[DIR\*.txt]

But this just triggers all the time even if the directory has no .txt files in it

thanks,

[BDiE8VNy]

First, vfs.file.exists[*] is an item key and cannot trigger anything by itself.

Second, the parameter of that item key expects "full path to file" and does not support the usage of regular expressions.
See: https://www.zabbix.com/documentation...s/zabbix_agent

Since the agent does not support regular expressions for that item key parameter, you can think of:

• Extending the agent by a User parameter.
• Extending the agent by a Loadable module.
• Creating a custom script/program doing the job and sending the result to a Zabbix trapper item.
  E.g. by using Zabbix sender.
• Making a feature request via the Support system to extend the vfs.file.exists item key.