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#289063 10-Aug-2021 11:45

Ive done fek all searching on this..... being lazy :D

Situation is this :

Systems need to be online 24/7

System updates a file, which is then put on the cloud and downloaded by other systems on the internet.

How can I tell that the updated file was received by the other systems ? There something out there that will alert me of successful/failed updates ? Or will I have to put on my scripting hat.....

Obviously the system itself I can generally monitor via a ping etc.

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#2757842 10-Aug-2021 11:50

Unless the cloud sync will notify you of success, I expect you'll either need a utility that monitors the age of the file and alerts if the file is over X hours/days old (or script something similar).

The only cloud sync app I can think of that does reporting of machines not online and syncing is SecuriSync by Intermedia.

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#2757907 10-Aug-2021 12:23

Cheers, will take a look.

Got a PS script running now that can check the last modify date and dump it to CSV which could go into a cloud system from there to get back to me.

This stuff is fun.

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#2757913 10-Aug-2021 12:31

You could extend that script to check for the age of the file and alert you by email if it is over X hours old. I'm not any good with Powershell so idk if that is simple or challenging.

If you do that or similar, I recommend a sanity-check email once a day or week that becomes part of a routine to check. I've been in a situation a while back where a script should be alerting me but a change in the SMTP server broke the communication and I did not know about that until it was a bit late.

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#2757936 10-Aug-2021 12:52

Yeah, ideally I want to automate it all so no manual checking required except for sanity checking as you mentioned. I'll have a chat with a mate who likes to play with a bit of VB stuff, and see if he can whip up a little app for me that sets off alarms :D

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#2757961 10-Aug-2021 13:30

Why not out the file in git. Ie system uploading it commits it to git.

You can then use Gits web hooks to notify the other systems of an update.

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