[Xymon] Best way to monitor for configuration value?

[Tim McCloskey]

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From: xymon-bounces at xymon.com [xymon-bounces at xymon.com] on behalf of Betsy Schwartz [betsy.schwartz at gmail.com]
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
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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.