[Xymon] Best way to monitor for configuration value?

[Jeremy Laidman]

On 20 September 2012 07:25, Tim McCloskey <tm at freedom.com> wrote:

> 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.
>

What would be really useful, I think, is the ability to specify a custom
hash command using backticks.  Something like this:

client-local.cfg:
    file:/path/to/file:`/usr/bin/sed -n '/^var=/s/^var=//p' /path/to/file`

analysis.cfg:
    HOST=blabla
        FILE /path/to/file HASH="foo"

J
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