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mmatec01
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9 months ago
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Revisiting old topic - Custom Alerts for ConfigSources

At this time I have a need for a custom ConfigSource that would compare 2 textual files and report on Any Change.  Nothing fancy and the new ConfigSource with default settings indeed works just fine ...
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    Stuart_Weenig
    9 months ago

    Pretty sure it can’t be done. I think the uphill battle is that you’re passing configuration text outside of LM’s RBAC control. You might have better lucking asking for the number of config lines that changed, but that’s not really helpful.

    I’d like to see this ability as well.

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mmatec01
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9 months ago

Mr. Ravimishra,

that’s not what I was asking.  Please read my initial post (as well as archived post).  I want to have an alert triggered on ‘Any Change’ check type AND in addition said alert should state what lines were added or removed in the body of alert.

I understand this is currently not possible using the ConfigSources.  For whatever reason.  So what I am doing instead - schedule a cron job, fetch the config files every 10 minutes or so from destination, crunch the numbers, comparing the previous and current version and output the desired output in the log which is then consumed  by EventSource.  One can use LM Logs as well.  So everything works but the solution has many moving parts as opposed to using just ConfigSource and be done with it.  Oh well.