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.
I guess Im looking to see if anyone has started some development in this area?
Thanks Trent
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