File Monitoring

[Sharon Lancaster]

We have a requirement to look for let's say 10 files and if any of those 10 do not come in by a certain time then we need to send out a notification. The catch to this is the files have to have a create date of the current date. Looking for a good way in ESP to do this. Any ideas/suggestions?

Thank you,
Sharon

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Sharon Lancaster
BB&T
NC
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[Jonathan Calloway]

​Sharon,
I hope I'm reading this correctly.  In ESP, we have done this by adding a self completing task that uses AJ commands to force the job and all the file dependencies complete.  This task has a time dependency.  Just remember that all AJ commands are executed in the order they are entered in the task definition, so I suggest you complete / bypass the job first followed by the file deps.

Hope this helps!
<JC>

[Sharon Lancaster]

Hey Jonathon,

Thanks for the replies, understand the file trigger and e-mail part, I think the part I'm struggling with is to know if the file was created today as the filename will not have a date in it, basically would need to interrogate the create date of the file and not really sure how I can do that.

Thank you,
Sharon

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BB&T
NC
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[Lucy Zhang]

If you use FILE_TRIGGER  with CREATE in ESP Proc, and have the event to be triggered at midnight daily, then the completion of FILE_TRIGGER should ONLY for files that are created today.

Hope this helps,

Lucy

[Lucy Zhang]

Sorry, just realize that FILE_TRIGGER with CREATE will also complete when the file already exists.

Wonder if you can use the FILE_TRIGGER with EXIST or NOEXIST together to exclude the condition.

Or maybe use FILE_TRIGGER with CONTINUOUS, it will then only detect the existing file the first time, afterwards it will monitor newly created files.

Lucy

[Don Powell]

Hi Sharon, 
Below is one way that I think this could be done.  The first job just checks to see if the file exists. If it exists an UPDATE file trigger job is used. If it does not exist then a CREATE file trigger job is used.  This appl would build at midnight. In the case below if the file hasn't been updated/created by 17.00 then it would trigger an alert and notify someone.  We may want to have one job that runs at 23.59 and completes the appl.....then it will start fresh the next day..... 

APPL ABC

FILE_TRIGGER TEST
AGENT DPU01
FILENAME /opt/data/aaaa.txt EXIST
RUN ANY
RELEASE ADD(UPDATE) COND(RC(0))
RELEASE ADD(CREATE) COND(RC(1))
ENDJOB

FILE_TRIGGER UPDATE
NOTIFY OVERDUE ALERT(LATE)
AGENT DPU01
FILENAME /opt/data/aaaa.txt UPDATE
RUN ANY
DUEOUT EXEC 17.00
ENDJOB

FILE_TRIGGER CREATE
NOTIFY OVERDUE ALERT(LATE)
AGENT DPU01
ESPNOMSG AJ TEST COMPLETE APPL(%ESPAPPL..%ESPAPGEN)
FILENAME /opt/data/aaaa.txt CREATE
RUN ANY
DUEOUT EXEC 17.00
ENDJOB