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Status Future consideration
Categories Reporting
Created by Guest
Created on Sep 12, 2023

Monitored File Agents - Notification needed for "error in container"

The File Agent CDFA.log reports "error in container" messages in the log. We would like an associated message ID to be assigned to this so that a Control Center email notification can be set up. This will help our team clean up various File Agents which may contain a watched directory path that no longer exists. We are currently unaware of the issue unless we happen to see it in the CDFA.log.

What is your industry? Non-Industry Specific
How will this idea be used?

This enhancement will be used by our team to set up an email notification in Control Center informing us of watched directory paths which may no longer be valid.