howto to count number of files in particular directory on windows server?

[scott_yem at agilent.com]

Thanks for the lesson on the windows shell, but parsing and processing does not work as well with the windows tools.  I found that with some simple scripts using grep and awk, constructing full log files and formatted output is much easier.  Since I imagine all on the list are Linux / UNIX users, using this for formatting output may be useful.  I have seen several references to using cygwin, but found this was easier to work with.

Great to know others out there are dedicated to making these things work.  Thanks for the response.

Scott Yem
Research Computing Services
Agilent Laboratories


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[mailto:nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net]On Behalf Of Tedman Eng
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using built-in win2k utilities, you can use some thing like this:

dir c:\ | find "File(s)"


or recursive version:

dir c:\ /s | find "File(s)" | tail -1


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I have had a similar experience, but found a version of grep and awk that
works on a windows system (both are Free), I just had to put them in the
path variable or in the Windows\system32 directory and then would run some
custom scripts with the nrpe or some other plugin as I was using another
monitoring system at that time.  This worked well for many file system items
that we needed to monitor.

Scott Yem
Research Computing Services
Agilent Laboratories
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Blair
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We had this exact problem.
We wrote a small c program (30k) that resides on the fax-server that counts
the tif files in the fax directory and return the appropriate exit code to
nrpe_nt.
This requires that you have the check_nrpe plugin on your nagios server, and
nrpe_nt installed on the windows fax-server.
NSClient doesn't allow you to execute the exe but nrpe_nt does.

If you want more info or a copy of the code let me know.

Blair.



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From: Alexander Schaefer [mailto:samogonka at gmx.net]
Sent: Tuesday, September 14, 2004 09:36
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Subject: [Nagios-users] howto to count number of files in particular
directory on windows server?


Hello,

i am searching for possibility to count the files nuber in the particular
directory on windows server (Win NT, w2k, win2003).
I will trigger the nagios notification if the Fax-Server doesn't send faxes:
unfortunatly the fax-server runs based on windows-server and sometimes the
fax
service hangs, without the services goes down, which will be controlled by
NSClient The only symptom, i can recognize is the growing files numer in the
FAX-OUT directory...

Has anybody solved similar problem?

Thanks for all your ideas!

Alex



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