[hobbit] xml configs

[Buchan Milne]

On Monday, 21 May 2007, Haertig, David F (Dave) wrote:
> Nothing against XML in general.  But my feeling is that it's of most use
> when data needs to be shared by different applications maintained by
> different people.  Or if you're using some generic off-the-shelf tool to
> accomplish a task and that tool needs XML.
>
> I doubt there are too many apps out there (any at all?) that have a need
> to parse a hobbit config file.  The things that come to mind as
> possibilities have already been covered by Hobbit built-ins, like
> bbhostgrep.

We have one, an event generator (SCRIPT in hobbit-alerts) for a middleware 
system that our enterprise uses for integrating other monitoring systems into 
CA Unicenter, which we need to parse bb-nkview.cfg ...

But, the parsing of bb-nkview.cfg would be obsolete if we could match on the 
fact that it is a critical system in hobbit-alerts.cfg.

Now, I wouldn't mind a decent way to generate configurations (from our 
in-house configuration management tool/database ... which has a way to go 
before we can consider making it available ...).

Regards,
Buchan

-- 
Buchan Milne
ISP Systems Specialist - Monitoring/Authentication Team Leader
B.Eng,RHCE(803004789010797),LPIC-2(LPI000074592)
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