[Xymon] Hand editing config files

[Carl Inglis]

 Carl Inglis
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-----Original Message-----
From: xymon-bounces at xymon.com [mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com] On Behalf Of Root, Paul
Sent: 14 June 2012 16:49
To: 'Ulric Eriksson'; xymon at xymon.com
Subject: Re: [Xymon] Hand editing config files

> User friendly is a relative term.  Forcing the use of a GUI is slow and not friendly to me.

My Xymon monitoring box doesn't even have a GUI installed.

[snip]

> Whatever gui that we come up with I hope it has either bulk entry page, or a parser/upload function from a flat file.

Personally I back the "either/or" view - one can use a GUI to create the files if one wishes, or one can directly edit the files, but the program does not *require* one to use a GUI to manage it.

Regards,

Carl