[hobbit] hobbit-*.cfg syntax check

[Gary B.]

That might get a little annoying if you have a large number of hosts
to monitor, though.  However, perhaps adding the ability to breakup a
config such as hobbit-clients into multiple files could help.

> just a thought, what about using a dir named 'client_config' holding
> individual config file for each client,  a default file, plus some wild-card
> hosts as well. The benefit is obvious, the error in the syntax would not be
> so devastating, since it affects on one client at a time unless it is
> default file or wild-card config gets screwed.
> Yesterday, I managed to delete 8 hosts entries on the top of the
> hobbit-clients.cfg, and "HOST= of the 9th host entry. This caused checks for
> the 9th host entry got applied to all thre remaining 24 hosts, as if they
> are part of the default section (I have one at the bottom).
>
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> On 8/4/06, Henrik Stoerner <henrik at hswn.dk> wrote:
> > On Fri, Aug 04, 2006 at 10:40:12AM -0400, Gary B. wrote:
> > >
> > > Is there a syntax checker for the hobbit-*.cfg configuration files
> > > (such as hobbit-clients.cfg)?  I'm having an issue where some of the
> > > rules I set up are apparently being ignored, or otherwise not working
> > > as expected.  I have a feeling it may be due to a syntax error, but
> > > I'm not sure.
> >
> > The utilities that read the configuration file does complain if they
> > find something they cannot understand. Look in the clientdata.log
> > and page.log files (for hobbit-clients.cfg and hobbit-alerts.cfg,
> > respectively).
> >
> > There are also "--dump-config" options for these two utilities, which
> > will dump the configuration as they understand it. And complain
> > about any errors.
> >
> > > I'm also curious, how does Hobbit deal with syntax errors in the
> > > configuration files?  Does it just skip over bad syntax, or stop
> > > completely when it encounters an error?
> >
> > It tries to cope, ignoring the error and continuing with whatever
> > bits of the config file it understands.
> >
> >
> > Regards,
> > Henrik
> >
> >
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