[Xymon] Best way to monitor for configuration value?

On 20 September 2012 07:25, Tim McCloskey <tm at freedom.com> wrote:

You could use md5 but if the config file has other changes that you don't care about then this wont work. Unless there is only one value that changes I don't see any other option except an external test, which whould be easy to implement.

What would be really useful, I think, is the ability to specify a custom hash command using backticks. Something like this:

client-local.cfg: file:/path/to/file:/usr/bin/sed -n '/^var=/s/^var=//p' /path/to/file

analysis.cfg: HOST=blabla FILE /path/to/file HASH="foo"

J