From: xymon-bounces at xymon.com [xymon-bounces at xymon.com] on behalf of Betsy Schwartz [betsy.schwartz at gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, September 19, 2012 2:18 PM To: xymon at xymon.com Subject: [Xymon] Best way to monitor for configuration value?
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
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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.