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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