Sentinel | APC File Tracking System

Sentinel is a file tracking system allowing for the logging of any creation, modification, deletion, or movement of a particular file with a local system

Further, it allows for the tracking of network files

Authors

Johnny Whitworth (@Poseidon-dev)

Current Modules

• APC Payroll Tracking
• GCS Payroll Tracking
• MEC Payroll Tracking
• APC Garnishment Tracking
• MEC Garnishment Tracking
• GCS Garnishment Tracking
• Email notifications of found files
• Multi-threading checks

Settings

Update COMPANIES in config.py for additional file checks Adding additional source (src) and destinations (dst)

COMPANIES = [
    {
        'src': '09900', 
        'dst': 'TESTCOMPANY'
    }
]

Update DELAY_INTERVAL for changes in fetch sensitivity

The lower the number, the greater the amount of fetches within a minute but an increasd amount of potential issues.

The larger the number, the lower the amount of fetches within a minute but a decreased amount of potential issues.

Defaults to 1 minute

DELAY_INTERVAL = 60

When creating a Put, it will check to see if the destination file already exists. If a file is already in the directory then it will append the next subsequent letter to the file name. This will fail if there are more than 10 instances of a file in the same directory

while os.path.exists(path):
    if path[-1] in self.APPENDS:
        path = path[:len(path)-1] + self.APPENDS[count]
    else:
        path = path + self.APPENDS[count]
    count +=1
return path

core.apl contains the format for creating new threads. All function’s threads are appended to the “threads” list

paths = [
    {
        'src' : Path(defaults.SourcePath, comp['src']),
        'dst' : Path(defaults.SourcePath, comp['dst'],)
    }
        for comp in config.COMPANIES
    ]

sentinels = [Sentinel(path['src'], path['dst']) for path in paths]
threads = [threading.Thread(target=s.run) for s in sentinels]

How to use

Sentinel runs multi-threaded as a background process. Launch run.bat or create a scheduled task pointing to run.bat

Support

If you need some help for something, please reach out to me directly or submit an issue and I’ll get to it as soon as I can

Site

https://poseidon-dev.github.io/sentinel/