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Re: [hobbit] Configuration database backend.

I would love to see something like this. Hobbit seems to be at that or close
to that stage where something like a small db could really make things much
more powerful.
I would, however, encourage adopting something like what postfix does where
many things are abstracted to the point where the app could use potentially
any (reasonable) data store with no obtuse requirements about mandatory
ones, outside of a config file to configure for a datastore.

Obviously, there would need to be the plain old config options for people
who want reg configs, but sometimes reg configs don't work so well for a lot
of systems with a lot of differences.



On 12/7/06, Trent Melcher <tmelcher (at) saionline.com> wrote: 

Has anyone thought about or implemented a configuration database backend
for hobbit, primarily a database replacement for the hobbit-clients.cfg
and hobbit-alerts.cfg to start....these are a couple that I would like
to buils a webfront to and be able to give limited access to users so
they could modify thresholds and alerting capabilities when needed.

I did this about 4 years back for Big Brother using Informix,  I was
able to setup thresholds and a replacement for the bb-host file inside a
couple tables in a database.  However back then Big Brother was mostly
shell scripts and flat files for all its configuration.  So adding hooks
into it for talking to a databse was easy.  With hobbit its all compiled
code and Im not sure where to start, plus I don't have access to an
Informix database or the API's for it anymore so Im looking at mysql and
its api's for writing code in C.

I guess Im looking to see if anyone has started some development in this
area?

Thanks
Trent

Trent Melcher
Unix/Linux Systems Administrator
Securities America Financial Corporation
(402) 399-9111 x2774
tmelcher (at) saionline.com
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