Building Collections based on file content?

[2SR82]

Hi,

is it possible to build a collection based on the content of a cfg/txt file?

i have an program which can be used with different licences.

the basic data of the program are the same. it only differs in one single config file where stands a path to a different file on a server.

Is there a way to analyse the content of a specific line in that file and build collections based on that content?

[Peter van der Woude]

Not out-of-the-box. The only thing I can think of is creating a script that will read the file, write something to WMI, or registry and pick that information up with an inventory.

[Peter33]

$ErrorActionPreference="Stop"
$file = $env:LOCALAPPDATA + "Low\Sun\Java\Deployment\security\exception.sites"
$servers = @(
 "http://yoururlhere.com",
 "https://anotherurl.net"
)
if(Test-Path $file){
    foreach($server in $servers){
        if(!(Select-String $file -pattern $server)){return($false)}
    }
 }
 else{return($false)}
return($true)

You can do that by creating a compliance rule. Based on the deployment of the rule you can create compliant, non compliant and error collections.

 

Here is a little sample script to check multiple strings against a local file.