Configuring Monitoring Agent for Windows OS file monitoring threshold

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For any threshold created against the File Change or File Trend data sets, the following guidelines must be followed.

File Change attributes

Use File Change attributes to monitor changes to your file system and to request notification when resources change. File Change is a multiple-instance data set. You cannot mix these attributes with any other multiple-instance data set.

Note: When you define a threshold, the function REGEX is not supported in any attributes that contain the name or the path of the files.

When you create thresholds that use the File Change data set, you must supply values for the following attributes to restrict the monitoring for the threshold:

  • Watch Directory (Unicode)
  • Watch File (Unicode) optional

The use of this data set requires that you set one or more filter conditions. The following attributes can be used and the values for these filters are single characters, y or n, where y=yes, and n=no:

  • Change File Name
  • Change Directory Name
  • Change Attributes
  • Change Size
  • Change Last Write
  • Change Last Access
  • Change Create
  • Change Security
  • Monitor all Conditions (activates all of the above)

Any query and threshold must contain only one row of filter data in the threshold formula. If more than one row is provided the results are undefined.

Note: The product provided File Change query does not produce data unless a threshold is defined against this data set.

File Trend attributes

Use File Trend attributes to monitor the growth rate in file space usage, by both change and absolute size change, over various monitoring periods. File Trend is a multiple-instance data set. You cannot mix these attributes with those of any other multiple-instance data set.

Note: When you define a threshold, the function REGEX is not supported in any attributes that contain the name or the path of the files.

The File Trend attributes monitor the discrete files only and not subdirectories.

When you create a threshold that uses the File Trend data set, you must supply values for the following attributes to restrict the monitoring for the threshold:

  • Watch Directory (Unicode)
  • Watch File (Unicode) optional

Thresholds must contain only one row of filter data in the threshold formula. If more than one row is provided the results are undefined.

Note: The product provided File Trend query does not produce data unless a threshold is defined against this data set.