We montor logfile on local filesystem of PRTG probe system and use the File Content sensor. The logfile is rotated almost daily and when the logfile rotates the search string (error of some application) cannot be found anymore. This senssor alsways worked fine but at somepoint it started seeing old occurences of the search string we monitor. These ocurrences cannot be found in the current logfile but PRTG reports the search string, it finds the string in what it looks like old logfile from several months old. Are these file's cached somewhere? Created new file content sensor on the remote probe did not solve my problem.
PRTG file content sensor old data
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Dear Jan
Files checked by the content sensor are not cached. Please open the sensor setting tab and check the "Network Usage" option. You have two choices:
- Only transmit to PRTG new lines at the end of the file (default, BETA)
- Always transmit to PRTG the entire file
If you toggle that option, does the sensor return to normal behavior?
Created on Jul 29, 2015 2:11:23 PM by
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