to find larger files than 4GB recursively within a directory.

[mohit.deokar]

Hello,

monit is a great tool. i want to prepare a custom script that will provide me data of the files which are greater than 4GB and also send an alert for the same. here i m facing difficulty. i have prepare a small script for this.

#!/bin/bash
FOLDER_PATH="/U01/iAnalyze/contexts/iAnalyze/ConfigFiles/COMPANY_DATA/"
find $FOLDER_PATH -type f -printf '%s %p\n'| sort -nr | head -n 50 | awk '$1 > 4294967296' > /U01/Dumps/out.log
FILE="out.log"
if [ -s "$FILE" ];
then
exit
fi

As per the script ( consist of space consumed by file in bytes and the location of the file )the output is getting re-directed to out.log file, which is working fine.

output of out.log when i run this script manually.

3235217807 /U01/iAnalyze/contexts/iAnalyze/ConfigFiles/COMPANY_DATA/Aramark/export_reports/[e-mail]/EXP_1482234936540.csv

In monit i have done below configuration calling above script through monit

check program hwtest with path "/U01/Dumps/test22"
    if status = 1 then alert

but when i restart monit, monit does not throws any alert (always shows its status as OK), even if the mentioned directory contains files more than 4GB. i should receive an alert if out.log contains any data. do i require any modification in my script or in my monit configuration.

Regards Mohit.D

[Tildeslash]

Hello,

based on your monit configuration: the check program will send alert if the program's exit status is 1 ... the script however calls just "exit" - this will return the exit status of last command - in this case "find", which will be 0. The "exit" in the script should be modified to "exit 1".

[mohit.deokar]

Hello,

i have made some changes in my script. as my previous one is not working. i want monit to alert or show status failed alert if out.log file contains any data.

script name = four.sh

#!/bin/bash if [ -s "/U01/Dumps/out.log" ] then exit 1 fi =========================

configuration under monit .

check program four with path "/U01/Dumps/four.sh" if status != 1 then alert =============================

currently it is showing me status failed even there is no data under out.log file.

kindly provide suggestion.

[Tildeslash]

Your script will alert if exit status is not 1 ... but it returns 1 only IFF /U01/Dumps/four.sh exists and has size > 0 - otherwise it'll return 0 by default (when exit command is missing).

This issue is not about monit, but shell programming - please test your scripts with $? to see what they return and set the status test accordingly.