Alert on Change in /etc/passwd(or any xyz file ) file from Dynatrace.

[mnarang]

We are using Dynatrace to monitoring all our infrastructure and we want to monitor some specific files in our servers (I.Ex. /etc/passwd) , but there is no specific monitoring for that. The Dynatrace agent is running inside all our servers.

Does anyone know how to achieve this or has implemented some solution for this?

Thanks.

[skrystosik · Accepted solution]

You should create some script that will watch for changed of those files. Each change should be then reported in dynatrace via event related to particular hosts. Such events then will be accessible via event section on host card in dynatrace.

Sebastian