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## Name

statusfile — read status information from a file and report it to the Status Collector

## Synopsis

[ `localhost file=adm/mystatus` ]`statusfile`

## Description

This monitor is thought to be useful for interfacing to external simple monitors - they can write their status to a file rather than careing about TCP connections to Status Collectors, e.g.:

    echo "status myhost.mytest green wow - everything is ok" >adm/mystatus \
    echo "status myhost.oterh yellow something went wrong" >> adm/mystatus

would do ...

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