Re: [hobbit] Xymon hosts database.

[Joe <joe (at) tmsusa.com>]

david.peters (at) dpi.nsw.gov.au wrote:
>
> I think I have posted this quite a while ago but it is still on my
> mind. We currently configure the hosts, pages etc using a windows
> database and windows front end that I wrote quite some time ago. I
> keep getting the urge to convert it to a linux database and a web
> frontend. However I would not do this if there is no interest in using
> it.
>
> The point is that you never touch the bb-hosts file and all
> configuration of hosts and layouts is done via a user interface.
>
> Is there any interest in this?
> Is there anyone willing to help?
> If so I was going to convert to mysql and either php or perl cgi. Any
> comments on this?
>
> We have 400 odd hosts here and have pages split by priority, service,
> location, and support group all on the front page but all configured
> via the database.
>
> Currently the bb-hosts is built via a perl script that extracts the
> database and then generates a main bb-hosts file plus include files
> for each sub-page.


I would definitely be interested in this - I have some modest experience
with the LAMP stack, and also have some LAMP servers (ubuntu and SLES)
available for testing and development.

Let me know -

Joe