From: xymon-bounces at xymon.com [xymon-bounces at xymon.com] on behalf of Betsy Schwartz [user-c61747246f66@xymon.invalid]
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
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.