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Inotify: Monitor File System Operations

Distribution	Official part of Checkmk
License	GPLv2
Supported Agents	Linux

This check evaluates the data reported by the mk_inotify plug-in on the target system. This plug-in requires the python module pyinotify to be installed. Inotify allows you to monitor certain file operations on the target system. E.g. you will get a message for specific operations like access, open, create, delete, modify. In the agent bakery you can configure the files and folders to be monitored and specify in which operation you are interested in. You can configure levels relating to the age of the last operation. So you can check last modified age for example.

Item

{{file}} or {{folder}} plus the path to it

Discovery

One service is created for each explictely specified file and folder in the mk_inotify.cfg.