[Xymon] Hand editing config files

[Root, Paul]

User friendly is a relative term.  Forcing the use of a GUI is slow and not friendly to me.
But I understand today's computer professionals have no concept of low level work, or understanding the inner workings of a computer or program.

It's inevitable that everything be point and click.

Whatever gui that we come up with I hope it has either bulk entry page, or a parser/upload function from a flat file.

Paul Root    - Senior Engineer
Managed Services Systems - CenturyLink



> -----Original Message-----
> From: xymon-bounces at xymon.com [mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com] On
> Behalf Of Ulric Eriksson
> Sent: Thursday, June 14, 2012 9:43 AM
> To: xymon at xymon.com
> Subject: Re: [Xymon] Hand editing config files
>
> Henrik Størner skrev 2012-06-13 23:04:
>
> > 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.
>
> Having users hand-edit text files makes Xymon a non-starter for many
> organizations. And as you mentioned, even someone who is familiar with
> Xymon makes mistakes. Storing the configuration in a database and
> creating a user friendly management interface is definitely the right
> way to go.
>
> The whole thing can be bolted on to the existing code base with no
> changes to anything else. Just have the configuration system generate
> text configuration files in the same syntax as today and anybody who is
> able and willing to create the files manually can continue to do so.
>
> FWIW, I think the lack of proper client/server functionality makes
> Sqlite unsuitable for the purpose.
>
> Ulric
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