Local File Monitoring
Local file monitoring is provided by the Local File driver. It lets you monitor files located on the server by:
Checking for the existence of a certain file.
Acquiring file attributes:
- last modification time
- size
- calculating file checksum (using Adler-32 algorithm)
- loading file contents and making them available for analysis and editing by Iotellect data processing tools (e.g. alerting if a certain pattern is found).
File monitoring can be a helpful and effective tool for a number of network managements tasks, such as:
- Detecting events on the host being monitored by the presence or absence of a particular file.
- Monitoring the availability of a service or an application by tracking the last modification time and/or other attributes of a specific file.
- Monitoring application activity by analyzing file contents.
- Managing applications by changing contents of their configuration files.
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