Thank you steffen and andreas.. certainly, that link will help me thanks -shankar <div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 1:42 PM, Steffen Poulsen <<a href="mailto:sp@tdchosting.dk">sp@tdchosting.dk</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> <div link="blue" vlink="purple" lang="EN-US"> <div> There are a few plugins doing this at NagiosExchange, i.e. the Perl version is one example: <a href="http://www.nagiosexchange.org/cgi-bin/page.cgi?g=Detailed%2F2205.html;d=1" target="_blank">http://www.nagiosexchange.org/cgi-bin/page.cgi?g=Detailed%2F2205.html;d=1</a> Steffen <div style="border-style: solid none none; border-color: rgb(181, 196, 223) -moz-use-text-color -moz-use-text-color; border-width: 1pt medium medium; padding: 3pt 0cm 0cm;"> From: <a href="mailto:asam30@gmail.com" target="_blank">asam30@gmail.com</a> [mailto:<a href="mailto:asam30@gmail.com" target="_blank">asam30@gmail.com</a>] Sent: 28. april 2009 08:33 To: Nagios Users Mailinglist Subject: [Nagios-users] Monitor file size through nagios </div><div><div></div><div class="h5"> Hi, I am aware of monitoring disk space using nagios (disk partitions --> check_disk). Now, I have a situation that I would like to monitor size of an individual file through nagios. Ex, /var/log/custom-snmpd.log -- > this file will grow very fast and i would like to monitor if the size of this file crosses 1.5 G Is there anyway we can do this? Thanks -- Shankar </div></div></div> </div> </blockquote></div> -- Shankar Asam