[Xymon] Hand editing config files

[Robert Schetterer]

Am 13.06.2012 23:04, schrieb Henrik Størner:
> Hi,
> 
> in another mail thread, another monitoring tool (Zenoss) was mentioned
> which had the advantage of “no hand editing of config files”.
> 
> Text based config files have their ups and downs - they are infinitely
> flexible and can adapt to all sorts of weird ways of defining your
> setup, but it is also easier to "get it wrong" and put something in
> there which doesn't work. Even happens to me occasionally.
> 
> It's the age-old debate over whether something is "powerful" or
> "dangerous".
> 
> I am currently working on the next Xymon version (except I've been
> swamped with for-pay work the past couple of months ... and a hefty
> round of lay-offs in other departments than mine). This involves a
> complete rewrite of the network testing tool, and for this rewrite I've
> started using an SQLite database for storing some intermediate data used
> by the network tester, instead of keeping it in a bunch of temporary
> text-files.
> 
> And it has made me consider the idea of using a database for storing at
> least some of the configuration - first of all the hosts.cfg
> configuration of hosts, IP-adresses and network tests. This would make
> some things simpler, others a bit more complex - "xymongrep", for
> instance - but would also make it a lot easier to provide a GUI for
> managing what hosts are being monitored.
> 
> This is not going to happen anytime soon, but since the subject was up
> in the air - what do you think about it ? Is it a major problem that
> Xymon has all configuration in text files ? How many of you
> auto-generate the Xymon config by extracting the information from a
> database already ?
> 
> Just looking for some feedback...

Hi Henrik, it may not easy to port all
options from txt files to some web gui etc
but starting with some "framework" and i.e host.cfg ips hostnames with
common tests to choose in a gui will be helpfull for "other" users
not knowing shell
thx for coding anyway

by the way i found the snmp stuff in xymon is more what should
get more hacking , i struggeled a lot with it ,these days, by migration
to new monitoring server and xymon new version

devmon seems outdated and include mrtg isnt easy at all
xymon should have its own snmp stuff ( i studied your examples from the
list ) but cant make it run like expected

> 
> 
> Regards,
> Henrik
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MfG Robert Schetterer