On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 5:04 PM, Henrik Størner <user-ce4a2c883f75@xymon.invalid> wrote:
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...
I would not mind a builtin editing tool, to come with xymon, like
visudo/vipw/crontab -e does, where as soon as you finish editing, it does
syntax checks
and errors out and also locks the file while editing.
Regards,
Henrik
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