[Xymon] Hand editing config files

[White, Bruce]

Here's my $.02 worth and hope I'm not to late to contribute:

 

1)      I haven't seen one person mention that adding a DB back end might reduce the flexibility to port Xymon to the next O/S or platform.

2)      I agree with those who find forcing a GUI on me is not an option I like.  I have been using vi/sed for 20 years and it is amazing what you can do without having to repeat a series of mouse clicks for 300 entries in a file.  I would prefer a "use it if you like approach."  As someone else noted, they didn't even use the GUI currently provided for the "Critical Systems" view.  I too use scripts to produce what I want/need and ignore that GUI.

3)      I too have manipulated the current text files to allow Xymon to monitor things which don't necessarily fit what the original developer intended.  Keeping text files does not remove those possibilities.  Adding a specific editor with a syntax checker might.

4)      I don't want to make changing configurations too easy.  I have had other members of the team already screw things up. Opening it to almost anyone with a keyboard and a mouse might mean a PHB will force me to allow the unknowing to make updates.  After they are done, I will then have the chore to clean it up.

5)      Finally, I have scripts which have been running under BB and now Xymon since before things like xymongrep existed.  Getting rid of the text files would mean those would all have to be converted/migrated so they would continue to work.  I also have scripts to do things like add new hosts to the alerts.cfg file quickly and adjust some entries in the anaylsis.cfg file.  Those might become useless and force me to sit at a screen and repeat mouse clicks until I'm finished.   I think Josh's very first reply  stated it the best, "If it's not Broke, Don't fix it!" 

 

Thanks for the input,

Bruce

 


 
Bruce White
Senior Enterprise Systems Engineer | Phone: 1-630-671-5169 | Fax: 630-893-1648 | bewhite at fellowes.com | http://www.fellowes.com/
 
 
 
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