Buchan Milne wrote:
I think that at quite a few sites a database is used to generate the xymon configuration files, thus using a database for monitoring purposes is perhaps not an such a big issue. In my case, the use of an additional database for monitoring only is not feasible. There is a database, used by many applications, maintained by a lot of people, which I should use for the monitoring application as well. There must be some real benefits in order to justify the (partial) duplication of information and the additional maintenance efforts.On Wednesday, 9 June 2010 00:24:27 david.peters (at) industry.nsw.gov.au wrote:BTW we still use a database to store all information about our servers and routers and then use this to generate the bbhosts and include files. This includes a screen under INFO for a host that provides this information withinhobbit.Well, in devmon, I have some work in my local checkout which populates some discover-related information into a database (e.g., cdp neighbours, IPs, routes).Allows us to do advanced searching based on other parameters, using an advanced search web screen within hobbit. Last time I spoke of the database there seemed to be very little interest in it so it has stayed where it is and hasn't been used anywhere else.I think having a database is useful. I think there was resistance to having all the monitoring depend on a database.
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