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From: Stef Coene [mailto:user-dbffe946c0f4@xymon.invalid]
Sent: Donnerstag, 7. Dezember 2006 23:27
To: user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
Subject: Re: [hobbit] Configuration database backend.
On Thursday 07 December 2006 23:01, Trent Melcher wrote:
Has anyone thought about or implemented a configuration database
backend
for hobbit, primarily a database replacement for the
hobbit-clients.cfg
and hobbit-alerts.cfg to start....these are a couple that I would
like
to buils a webfront to and be able to give limited access to users
so
they could modify thresholds and alerting capabilities when needed.
I did this about 4 years back for Big Brother using Informix, I was
able to setup thresholds and a replacement for the bb-host file
inside a
couple tables in a database. However back then Big Brother was
mostly
shell scripts and flat files for all its configuration. So adding
hooks
into it for talking to a databse was easy. With hobbit its all
compiled
code and Im not sure where to start, plus I don't have access to an
Informix database or the API's for it anymore so Im looking at mysql
and
its api's for writing code in C.
We are thinking about using mysql for storing trends and status
messages.
For the configuration, I think mysql is overkill and makes it too
complex.
I
love the simplicity of the config files. I'm more thinking about
making a
web-based frontend for the config files. The config files can be
parsed
as
ini-files. And for parsing ini-files, perl is perfect. So writing a
web-based frontend for the config files in perl, is not that hard.
Stef