This agent let you touch files, delete files or retrieve a bunch of stats about a file.
This agent is installed by default as part of the Choria Orchestrator.
Actions status, remove and touch have a default file when no file path is given, it defaults to /var/run/mcollective.plugin.filemgr.touch.
To cofigure this create the following Hiera data:
mcollective_agent_filemgr::config:
touch_file: "/tmp/touchfile"To get the status of a file:
% mco rpc filemgr status file=/etc/puppet/puppet.conf
Determining the amount of hosts matching filter for 2 seconds .... 1
* [ ============================================================> ] 1 / 1
dev1.example.com:
Modification time: 1289650072
Change time: Wed Nov 17 00:29:17 +0000 2010
Change time: 1289953757
Name: /etc/puppet/puppet.conf
Owner: 0
Access time: 1291150379
Group: 0
Size: 385
Access time: Tue Nov 30 20:52:59 +0000 2010
Present: 1
Type: file
Mode: 100644
Modification time: Sat Nov 13 12:07:52 +0000 2010
MD5: 91b8793f2a467aa5d28f6371d3622090
Status: present
Finished processing 1 / 1 hosts in 71.65 ms
You can similarly touch and remove a file using those named actions.