File change monitor

FormerMember

I have a Scheduled Task that runs a batch file every 5 minutes. That batch file queries another server and then creates a text file and puts it on a network share.

I want to confirm that this text file is getting updated  and was planning on using File Change Monitor to do that. However, it seems that FCM is mainly used if you DON'T want the file to change. So if it does change then you have to go in there and update the Checksum. I expect this file to change every 5 minutes and I just want to know when it DOESN'T change.

What's the best way to do this without having to going into APM each day and updating the checksum?

FormerMember

In APM 3.0 (which will be out very soon), we have a new "file"age" monitor.  This component monitor determines when a file was last modified and reports the date as a statistic.  If you want to be sure that a file has changed, you could just set the the threshold for warning/critical if the file age is greater than 5 minutes.