[hobbit] Configuration database backend.

[Hubbard, Greg L]

I agree.  I doubt that the efficiencies that might arise from a backend
database would offset the extra complexity.  Most Hobbit implementations
are pretty small.  The only reason why the host-file-like configuration
is getting cumbersome is that so many features have crept into Hobbit
that old folks like me can't remember them all...

GLH 

-----Original Message-----
From: Stef Coene [mailto:stef.coene at docum.org] 
Sent: Thursday, December 07, 2006 4:27 PM
To: hobbit at hswn.dk
Subject: Re: [hobbit] Configuration database backend.

On Thursday 07 December 2006 23:01, Trent Melcher 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.
We are thinking about using mysql for storing trends and status
messages.

For the configuration, I think mysql is overkill and makes it too
complex.  I love the simplicity of the config files.  I'm more thinking
about making a web-based frontend for the config files.  The config
files can be parsed as ini-files.  And for parsing ini-files, perl is
perfect.  So writing a web-based frontend for the config files in perl,
is not that hard.


Stef

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