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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 06-01-16 00:31, Thomas Leavitt
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<div>Are folks actively using MAGMA? I'm been casting around for
a practical application to refresh my coding fu with, and
since I love Xymon and use it every day, I thought it might be
useful / fun to play around with enhancing the existing code
(since it is GPL).<br>
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<div>I'm also thinking about hacking out some kind of tool that
will take a CSV formatted input file, and use it to generate a
hosts.cfg or a series of files (one per host) to be put in an
include directory... that would allow, for instance, the
ability to maintain a list of hosts elsewhere, and then simply
import them into Xymon, rather than having to manually keep
the two in sync. I suspect some folks already have the
equivalent in place, but I'm not seeing such.<br>
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<div>Reactions?<br>
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Information from other sources generally do not contain all the
information needed to generate (a part of) the hosts.cfg. For
instance the specific tests to run for a server and the layout will
often not be found in a configuration database.<br>
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I decided to use a database specifying the available servers,
networking equipment, printers and so on to generate hosts.cfg. As a
result, if a server is retired, it's state changes in the database
and the configuration for that server is removed automatically from
hosts.cfg.<br>
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The additional information needed to generate hosts.cfg is taken
from hosts.cfg itself. Thus I do edit hosts.cfg sometimes, such as
adding an extra test for a server. The base is (perl) script
xymon.pm, available at xymonton. (See
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://wiki.xymonton.org/doku.php/addons:xymonconfigsync">https://wiki.xymonton.org/doku.php/addons:xymonconfigsync</a>)<br>
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Regards,<br>
Wim Nelis.<br>
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