File status information in client-data

Now comes the twist in this. Rich and I are building a hobbit client for
a NON-Linux platform, so whatever code that reads hobbit-clients.cfg and
determines the rules, doesn't run on our platform. We have to figure out
how to completely mimic the data flow to the server. 

So if a linux server has a hobbit-client.cfg that has a file entry for
/var/log/special and we only care that the file exists, what does the
client-data stream need to contain in the [file:/var/log/special]
section that will signal a hobbit server to mark this as a Yellow
condition? The size and modification date might be other conditions that
people will want to check on our platform.

/Thomas Kern
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Sent: Monday, November 13, 2006 5:29 PM
To: user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
Subject: Re: [hobbit] File status information in client-data

On Mon, Nov 13, 2006 at 03:44:49PM -0600, Rich Smrcina wrote:

Henrik,

Just to clarify, is this still true for a locally 
administered client 
(even Linux)?

On a locally admin'ed client, you have the "hobbit-clients.cfg" file
locally. You still need to put a FILE entry into hobbit-clients.cfg to
tell Hobbit what rules should be applied to the file you're checking.
(Should it exist? Or not? Have a certain size? Be owned by "root"?)