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Inotify: Monitor File System Operations

Included in	All Checkmk editions
Source Code License	Open Source
Supported Agents	Linux

This check evaluates the data reported by the mk_inotify plug-in on the target system. The target system requires the pyinotify python module to be installed. Inotify allows you to monitor certain file operations, i.e. access, open, create, etc. In the agent bakery, you can configure which files and/or folders to monitor and specify which operation(s) to listen to. You can also configure levels relating to the age of the last operation so that you can check the last modified age.

Item

{file} or {folder} and its path.

Discovery

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