NRPE Nagios Plugin To Check The Number Of Files In A Directory
We have various scripts on a server that process files that are uploaded to a specific directory so we needed a way to monitor these directories and verify that all files are being processed. Once they are processed on our server they are moved to different directory so the file count should never get over a certain amount of files. The below script assumes that you have NRPE installed on the server so you can reference the bash script locally. Follow the directions below with some monitor modifications and you can monitor directories for the number of files with Nagios very easily.