[Xymon] Best way to monitor for configuration value?

To clarify:

We are OK with having the configuration file changing, we are just monitoring the existence of one particular variable. (if we didn't have people editing this file I could just put it into puppet and be done with it)

New requirement: var=ON may or may not exist, this is the default state. we just need to go yellow if var=OFF

Sounds like a custom test is what I need.

On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 5:18 PM, Betsy Schwartz <betsy.schwartz at gmail.com> wrote:

We want to monitor a configuration file to see if a certain value has changed, that is, green if var=foo and red if var!= foo.

What's the best and simplest way to do this with xymon? Is a custom test the best/only way?

thanks Betsy