[hobbit] Configuration database backend.

[Stef Coene]

On Thursday 07 December 2006 23:01, Trent Melcher wrote:
> Has anyone thought about or implemented a configuration database backend
> for hobbit, primarily a database replacement for the hobbit-clients.cfg
> and hobbit-alerts.cfg to start....these are a couple that I would like
> to buils a webfront to and be able to give limited access to users so
> they could modify thresholds and alerting capabilities when needed.
>
> I did this about 4 years back for Big Brother using Informix,  I was
> able to setup thresholds and a replacement for the bb-host file inside a
> couple tables in a database.  However back then Big Brother was mostly
> shell scripts and flat files for all its configuration.  So adding hooks
> into it for talking to a databse was easy.  With hobbit its all compiled
> code and Im not sure where to start, plus I don't have access to an
> Informix database or the API's for it anymore so Im looking at mysql and
> its api's for writing code in C.
We are thinking about using mysql for storing trends and status messages.

For the configuration, I think mysql is overkill and makes it too complex.  I 
love the simplicity of the config files.  I'm more thinking about making a 
web-based frontend for the config files.  The config files can be parsed as 
ini-files.  And for parsing ini-files, perl is perfect.  So writing a 
web-based frontend for the config files in perl, is not that hard.


Stef