[Xymon] Hand editing config files

[W.J.M. Nelis]

Hello Henrik,


> 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 ?
Well, in our case most of the hosts.cfg is generated from a database. Text 
files do offer an important feature: grouping. A group of devices can be 
put into a single (physical) file, which is included, either directly or 
indirectly, in hosts.cfg. Rewriting an included file thus means that a 
group of definitions is replaced by another group. Often the differences 
will be small, but that is not necessarily so.

Such a grouping, of the devices to be monitored, the tests to be performed 
on each and of the associated layout, is a handy feature, which I would 
like to see in future versions as well.

Regards,
   Wim Nelis.




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