RHEL 6/7 64bit

Hello Hector,

Thank you for reporting the issue. You can use custom LLD rules to discover all files and add them to the monitoring. I found a similar case registered under ZBXNEXT-1699, so we will close this ticket and continue the discussion there. Feel free to follow the original case and vote for it.

Regards,
Edgar

If you don't need to dive into contents of these files, you can use vfs.dir.count[]. I think it should be sufficient for this use case.

Thank you everyone for your inputs! Will do more testing noting these inputs.

@edgar.akhmetshin
Just because the example use case is about log files, doesn't make it a duplicate of a discovery feature request. Nothing discussed on that ticket will help when I want to know if there exists a file with a particular name, but don't care what the extension is.

Instead of having a vfs.file.exists for each one, perhaps an item like vfs.files.exists to combine this into one item check such as:

vfs.files.exists[/path1/to/some.log, /path1/to/another.log, /path2/to/more.log, /path3/to/another2.log]

Regardless of whether the list of filenames is a single string parameter (“name1,name2”) or the item just accepts multiple parameters with each as a separate file, it would help reduce the chances of an external script timing out.