[Xymon] Hand editing config files

[Asif Iqbal]

On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 5:04 PM, Henrik Størner <henrik at hswn.dk> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> in another mail thread, another monitoring tool (Zenoss) was mentioned
> which had the advantage of “no hand editing of config files”.
>
> Text based config files have their ups and downs - they are infinitely
> flexible and can adapt to all sorts of weird ways of defining your setup,
> but it is also easier to "get it wrong" and put something in there which
> doesn't work. Even happens to me occasionally.
>
> It's the age-old debate over whether something is "powerful" or
> "dangerous".
>
> I am currently working on the next Xymon version (except I've been swamped
> with for-pay work the past couple of months ... and a hefty round of
> lay-offs in other departments than mine). This involves a complete rewrite
> of the network testing tool, and for this rewrite I've started using an
> SQLite database for storing some intermediate data used by the network
> tester, instead of keeping it in a bunch of temporary text-files.
>
> And it has made me consider the idea of using a database for storing at
> least some of the configuration - first of all the hosts.cfg configuration
> of hosts, IP-adresses and network tests. This would make some things
> simpler, others a bit more complex - "xymongrep", for instance - but would
> also make it a lot easier to provide a GUI for managing what hosts are
> being monitored.
>
> This is not going to happen anytime soon, but since the subject was up in
> the air - what do you think about it ? Is it a major problem that Xymon has
> all configuration in text files ? How many of you auto-generate the Xymon
> config by extracting the information from a database already ?
>
> Just looking for some feedback...
>
>

I would not mind a builtin editing tool, to come with xymon, like
visudo/vipw/crontab -e does, where as soon as you finish editing, it does
syntax checks
and errors out and also locks the file while editing.





>
> Regards,
> Henrik
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