[hobbit] Configuration database backend.

[Stef Coene]

On Friday 08 December 2006 21:50, Henrik Stoerner wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 08, 2006 at 04:52:02PM +0100, Stef Coene wrote:
> > On my todo-list:
> > - web based driven configuration
> > - external collection of status messages and trending
> > - mis use of hobbit and data channels for communication
> >     -> can this be protected with ssl or something else ?
>
> Not as it is now. If you need that, I'd suggest installing something
> like OpenVPN and feed the communications through that - it's simple,
> easy to setup, and a reasonably efficient communications path.
Pff, my servers will be AIX boxes :(
The best thing I can think off is ssh forwarding.

> > My major problem is that I can not program in C.  I know perl fairly
> > well.
> Why would that be a problem ? What you're planning to do can be done
> without touching any of the Hobbit code, you'll just be interfacing to
> the public interfaces (config files, hobbitd channels, the network
> interface on port 1984) and Hobbit doesn't care how you do that -
> whether it's from a Perl program, or a C program.
>
> Of course, doing it in Perl means I cannot help you develop or maintain
> the code, since my abilities in Perl are probably even worse than your
> knowledge of C.
That's why I wanted to this in C if possible.  Stuff like ssl support for 
communation can be usefull for others.


Stef