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Tutorial: How to Setup Generic File Monitor

Introduction

Generic File Monitor is a project developed to check for file anomalies based on historic metadata of received files. The current implementation monitors files on REDACTED to check if files are being received on time from REDACTED. Although developed in Python, the anomaly detecting algorithm depends on .CSV files generated from Powershell scripts.

Prerequisites

• Have Python 3.6 installed
  • Use Anaconda https://www.continuum.io/downloads
• (IGNORE THIS IF NOT IN PRODUCTION) service_jiraapi currently runs the following scheduled tasks:
  • CSVGetter.ps1 on REDACTED every 5 minutes indefinitely
    • The service account must have admin access to REDACTED
  • DB_filelist.ps1 on REDACTED every 5 minutes indefinitely
    • The service account must have read access to the REDACTED table on REDACTED
  • 
  • 
    • -ExecutionPolicy Bypass "\REDACTED\Summary\DB_filelist.ps1"
    • -ExecutionPolicy Bypass "\REDACTED\Summary\CSVGetter.ps1"

How to Start the Generic File Monitor Server

1. Download the attached zip folder/Clone git repository and extract it
2. Open command prompt and run the following commands in the respective unzipped directories
   • python "\Generic-File-Monitor-master\flaskServer.py"
3. If any dependency errors appear do the following:
   • pip install <package name>
4. Access the Flask server at localhost:8080/ or 0.0.0.0:8080/
   • /?days=30 /counter /date?date=2017-05-21