Documentation forServer & Application Monitor
Monitoring your applications and environment is a key capability of SolarWinds Observability Self-Hosted (formerly Hybrid Cloud Observability) and is available in the Essentials edition. Server & Application Monitor (SAM) is also available in a standalone module.

File Change Monitor

You can assign this SAM application monitor template to a Windows node to perform an SHA1/MD5 checksum comparison on a file to determine if it was modified on a target system since the last poll occurred.

Prerequisites

Access to WMI or Windows file share on the target system is required.

Credentials

Windows credential with read access to the network share and file on the target system.

Component monitors

The main component monitor in this template is a File Change Monitor that perform an SHA1/MD5 checksum comparison on a file to determine if changes occurred since the last poll. For details, see File Change Monitor.

To learn about the other component monitors in this template:

  1. Navigate to the Manage Application Monitor Templates page.
  2. Select this template.
  3. Click Edit to display component monitor details.