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Best way to monitor for configuration value?

list Betsy Schwartz
Thu, 20 Sep 2012 11:25:25 -0400
Message-Id: <user-7c5d6e9bbdfd@xymon.invalid>

To clarify:

We are OK with having the configuration file changing, we are just
monitoring the existence of one particular variable.
(if we didn't have people editing this file I could just put it into
puppet and be done with it)

New requirement:
   var=ON may or may not exist, this is the default state.
   we just need to go yellow if var=OFF

Sounds like a custom test is what I need.


On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 5:18 PM, Betsy Schwartz
<user-c61747246f66@xymon.invalid> wrote:
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