Monitoring File/Program Version

[Zack47]

Hello,
I was looking to monitor a program or just the .exe for the version number. I cannot seem to find anything on this. Does anyone know if this is possible?


Thank You,
Zack

[aib]

Short answer: yes, you can. Use Userparameter=

Long answer - it all depends...
Give some more details and we can discuss about it.

For the starting point:
- How do you check the version number of .exe files?

[Zack47]

we have a program that we use and every time we update it the version number changes. We want to be able to create an item/trigger to monitor to make sure the newest version is installed

[SouperGrover]

sigcheck (part of SysInternals) will give you the version number

sigcheck.exe -n YourFile.exe

[aib]

by creating UserParameter= for Zabbix Agent, you can provide the version number to Zabbix Server.

Userparameter=yourfile_ver,sigcheck.exe -n YourFile.exe

And then you can create a Trigger to control, that version was changed.

Trigger Expression: {Hostname:yourfile_ver.diff(0)}>0

[SouperGrover]

by creating UserParameter= for Zabbix Agent, you can provide the version number to Zabbix Server.

Userparameter=yourfile_ver,sigcheck.exe -n YourFile.exe

And then you can create a Trigger to control, that version was changed.

Trigger Expression: {Hostname:yourfile_ver.diff(0)}>0

I haven't used UserParameters very much. I am assuming that yourfile_ver is actually the version number he wants to check against? If that is the case, when the version changes on the file, and now that is the new accepted version, does that mean he has to update this value in all the Agent config files?

[aib]

yourfile_ver is the name of Item, which holds the result of request. It can be a number, or Text string.

The trigger compare the last result with one previous result and fire up only that two values is different.

If you would like to compare it with the specific string/number, only in that case you will have to update it every time, when you decide to replace the software.