[hobbit] Xymon hosts database.

We store information on our systems in LDAP for a variety of reasons.

• Many existing applications (Postfix, Puppet) can use LDAP data
• LDAP tools are pre-installed on most systems
• It's available in most scripting environments (Shell, Python,
  PHP, Perl)
• The data can be viewed and edited in many ways (including plain- text)
• The data's structure is more flexible than a spreadsheet or RDBMS
• We're going to have an LDAP server anyway (for authentication)
• It's easy for people to read and gather information
• It's easy for machines and automated processes to read and gather
  information

And yes, much of our bb-hosts file is generated from data in LDAP. :)

-- Rob McBroom <http://www.skurfer.com/>