hobbit-*.cfg syntax check

why would it be annoying?  To custom a client, you either insert a section
to the hobbit-clients.cfg, or put such an insertion into a file named
clientName.cfg under such a directory dedicated for client conf. The latter
is less error-prone and less adverse impact when syntax error and
inadvertent deletion/editing happens.  I'd assume this is easier for the
server code to parse as well.

On 8/4/06, Gary B. <user-33b796116d5f@xymon.invalid> wrote:

That might get a little annoying if you have a large number of hosts
to monitor, though.  However, perhaps adding the ability to breakup a
config such as hobbit-clients into multiple files could help.

just a thought, what about using a dir named 'client_config' holding
individual config file for each client,  a default file, plus some
wild-card
hosts as well. The benefit is obvious, the error in the syntax would not
be
so devastating, since it affects on one client at a time unless it is
default file or wild-card config gets screwed.
Yesterday, I managed to delete 8 hosts entries on the top of the
hobbit-clients.cfg, and "HOST= of the 9th host entry. This caused checks
for
the 9th host entry got applied to all thre remaining 24 hosts, as if
they
are part of the default section (I have one at the bottom).


On 8/4/06, Henrik Stoerner <user-ce4a2c883f75@xymon.invalid> wrote:

On Fri, Aug 04, 2006 at 10:40:12AM -0400, Gary B. wrote:

Is there a syntax checker for the hobbit-*.cfg configuration files
(such as hobbit-clients.cfg)?  I'm having an issue where some of the
rules I set up are apparently being ignored, or otherwise not
working
as expected.  I have a feeling it may be due to a syntax error, but
I'm not sure.

The utilities that read the configuration file does complain if they
find something they cannot understand. Look in the clientdata.log
and page.log files (for hobbit-clients.cfg and hobbit-alerts.cfg,
respectively).

There are also "--dump-config" options for these two utilities, which
will dump the configuration as they understand it. And complain
about any errors.

I'm also curious, how does Hobbit deal with syntax errors in the
configuration files?  Does it just skip over bad syntax, or stop
completely when it encounters an error?

It tries to cope, ignoring the error and continuing with whatever
bits of the config file it understands.


Regards,
Henrik