From: Jeremy Laidman [jlaidman at rebel-it.com.au]
Sent: Wednesday, September 19, 2012 6:29 PM
To: Tim McCloskey
Cc: betsy.schwartz at gmail.com; xymon at xymon.com
Subject: Re: [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
Jeremy,
Both pretty cool ideas, never knew about linecount. Then, I'm still on 4.2.0 so there's alot I don't know :) External scripts work fine for me, but I like the integration that Xymon now gives out of the box.
Thanks, -t