[xymon] FILES syntax error?

[Henrik Størner]

Hi Rolf,

In <4CE6358A.40908 at hebis.uni-frankfurt.de> Rolf Schrittenlocher <schritte at hebis.uni-frankfurt.de> writes:

>seeming rather simple but I cannot find the solution. I'm monitoring 
>some files with md5 checksum for changes. All those files had the same 
>md5 on all servers:
>FILE /usr/bin/ps MTIME>600 MD5=facb1ea65094c87058df4f0ffdf7306a red

>Now a new server has a different installation so I added him in 
>hobbit-clients.cfg above the first entry:
>FILE /usr/bin/ps MTIME>600 MD5=76b66713137851c1407fd9ea20785bc0 HOST=<new host> red
>FILE /usr/bin/ps MTIME>600 MD5=facb1ea65094c87058df4f0ffdf7306a red

>But for the check the old entry is used:

>File has MD5 hash 76b66713137851c1407fd9ea20785bc0  - should be facb1ea65094c87058df4f0ffdf7306a


What happens is that when evaluating the data for "<new host>", BOTH
of those lines will match. So the result ends up being the last one,
which is that the MD5 checksum is not correct.

To avoid this, add an "EXHOST=<new host>" to the second FILE rule.


Regards,
Henrik