[Xymon] Hand editing config files

[Ulric Eriksson]

Carl Inglis skrev 2012-06-14 23:01:

> Personally I back the "either/or" view - one can use a GUI to create the files if one wishes, or one can directly edit the files, but the program does not *require* one to use a GUI to manage it.

Of course, using a database as a back end allows creating *any* user 
interface, including but not limited to gui and text. And bulk loading 
is certainly more convenient, secure and reliable using a database than 
text files.

Opsview, which is basically Nagios with a less user-hostile front end, 
has a REST interface to its configuration. That way, when a new server 
is deployed it can automatically be added to the monitoring system.

Ulric