[Xymon] Best way to monitor for configuration value?

[Betsy Schwartz]

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
<betsy.schwartz at gmail.com> 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