Files Monitor

Purpose

The Files Monitor is the default (and oldest) engine of the RFI-File-Monitor. Based on Watchdog, it will monitor a given directory for new files, as well as changes to these files, and report them to the Queue Manager.

Options

• Monitored Directory: the directory that will be monitored by the engine.

The following options are availabled when clicking the Advanced Settings button:

• Monitor target directory recursively: this setting determines whether files and directories, created in subfolders of the monitored directory should also be monitored for changes.
• Process existing files in target directory: turn this option on to add existing files (with status Saved) to the queue manager before launching Watchdog.
• Allowed filename patterns: enter a file extension e.g. *.txt, *.csv (always include the asterisk) to only process files of that type, any other file written to the directory will be ignored.
• Ignored filename patterns: enter a file extension e.g. *.txt, *.csv (always include the asterisk) to exclude files of these types, any other file written to the directory will be processed.

Exported File Format

RegularFile

Author

Tom Schoonjans