[Xymon] Xymon Digest, Vol 50, Issue 27

[Isaac W Traxler]

Another option is to move forward with the database idea and simply 
rewrite the config files for xymon on changes. If it got out of sync, you 
would simply rebuild all the config files form the database.

This approach gives you the best of both worlds:
1) You get database config backend
2) xymon remains simple and easy for others

If/when the database backend becomes available, you can cut over to that 
instead of generating text files.

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Isaac Traxler                             AIX,Linux Admin
Louisiana State University, LONI          traxler at lsu.edu
High Performance Computing                225-578-1923
Storage & Infrastructure

On Mon, 30 Mar 2015, Jeremy Laidman wrote:

> Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2015 06:25:38
> From: Jeremy Laidman <jlaidman at rebel-it.com.au>
> To: Andrey Chervonets <A.Chervonets at cominder.eu>
> Cc: "xymon at xymon.com" <xymon at xymon.com>
> Subject: Re: [Xymon] Xymon Digest, Vol 50, Issue 27
> 
> There was some discussion a while back about abstracting access to the config files so that they could
> be (optionally) implemented in database tables.  I don't know how far this progressed, but it sure would
> make it easier to edit the configurations from a web interface.
> J
> 
> On 30 March 2015 at 20:37, Andrey Chervonets <A.Chervonets at cominder.eu> wrote:
>       Hello, Tracy
>
>       I was going to make this too, but for some reasons it is not implemented yet.
>       So if You will make this good - it would be very nice for many admins.
> 
>
>       Best regards,
>
>       Andrey Chervonets
>       ----------------------
> 
>
>       "Xymon" <xymon-bounces at xymon.com> wrote on 28.03.2015 13:00:01:
>
>       > Message: 2
>       > Date: Fri, 27 Mar 2015 11:02:57 -0500
>       > From: Tracy Di Marco White <gendalia at iastate.edu>
>       > Message-ID:
>       >    <CAFAt0ET2na9abY+1MxS-Odr4tMa0ki6t2KRn8-p0cRaLNCXRig at mail.gmail.com>
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>       >
>       > Hi all,
>       >
>       > We've been adding a lot of servers and services to our xymon monitoring
>       > deployment, and it's become somewhat more complex to manage changes to
>       > monitored hosts/services, as well as what's critical when, and what alerts
>       > are needed when. I'd like to deploy a web interface, with access controls
>       > of course, where people can change what systems are monitored, and what
>       > services on those systems are monitored, as well as what alerts they get
>       > when. Because there is so much flexibility in xymon, this can get fairly
>       > complex, and I want to add an error checking web interface to people's
>       > ability to change these settings.
>       >
>       > Does anyone already have something like this?
>       >
>       > -Tracy
>
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