Hi,
Is there a way to query a web port for a file whose contents reports a
version and that version information be reported to the label of an
intermapper device?
Specifically I've got a tiered distribution of clamav definition files
and you can all them by referring to their web url. But I'd like to
monitor the files for their state of update.
As is it seems all I can do is find out if the file is present or not
(probe type http, string-to-verify).
I can imagine two scenarios - query the definition files and chop out
the first x or search for a possible string of characters which has
the version info and somehow display that - so display the actual file
info. Alittle more sophisticated would be to decode the definitions
info to report its full version info according to Clamav specs (which
will say something like version: 7655, sigs: 32702, f-level: 31,
builder: arnaud though there is also date/time information in the file.)
Another scenario I can imagine is query the file for it's version info
and compare with what's current (not exactly sure of the syntax but I
think it's public - a kind of dns query. I'm sure I could look it up.)
Any ideas?
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