[hobbit] CPAN Modules

[W.J.M. Nelis]

Buchan Milne wrote:
> On Wednesday, 9 June 2010 00:24:27 david.peters at industry.nsw.gov.au wrote:
>   
>> BTW we still use a database to store all information about our servers and
>> routers and then use this to generate the bbhosts and include files. This
>> includes
>> a screen under INFO for a host that provides this information within
>> hobbit. 
>>     
>
> Well, in devmon, I have some work in my local checkout which populates some 
> discover-related information into a database (e.g., cdp neighbours, IPs, 
> routes).
>
>   
>> Allows us to do advanced searching based on other parameters,
>> using an advanced search
>> web screen within hobbit.
>>
>> Last time I spoke of the database there seemed to be very little interest
>> in it so it has stayed where it is and hasn't been used anywhere else.
>>     
>
> I think having a database is useful. I think there was resistance to having 
> all the monitoring depend on a database.
>   
I think that at quite a few sites a database is used to generate the 
xymon configuration files, thus using a database for monitoring purposes 
is perhaps not an such a big issue. In my case, the use of an additional 
database for monitoring only is not feasible.  There is a database, used 
by many applications, maintained by a lot of people, which I should use 
for the monitoring application as well. There must be some real benefits 
in order to justify the (partial)  duplication of information and the 
additional maintenance efforts.

Regards,
  Wim Nelis.



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