how to monitor the execution of FFS as Batch

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Joined: 2 Oct 2018

strooom

Hi,
I'm syncing a bunch of directories on a daily basis : a number of FFS jobs has been set up as Batch and are being executed by Windows Scheduled Tasks.

Now the question is how can we monitor this ?
We have PRTG deployed, which is quite powerful. I'd like PRTG to check the result/time of the last filesync operation.
Note that in some cases there may be no new files to sync, and so FFS exits successfully without actually syncing files..

any advice ? any best practices ?

Thanks
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Joined: 2 Oct 2018

strooom

I noticed that when there are problems, FFS changes the name of the logfile.
I see some logfiles containing [Waarschuwing] (dutch for Warning) or [Fout] (dutch for Error).

So I could have PRTG look for any logfiles containing those textstrings.
I know that PRTG can monitor existence of files, but I don't think it's possible to have it look for files matching a wildcard pattern, eg *[Fout].log

TBC