I'm with Paul on this one. Text files work just fine. I put together some PHP crap with a mysql backend to store some stuff (linked to the hosts via the notes dir) but everything else seems fine in text files.
From: xymon-bounces at xymon.com [xymon-bounces at xymon.com] On Behalf Of Root, Paul [Paul.Root at CenturyLink.com] Sent: Wednesday, June 13, 2012 2:07 PM To: 'Henrik Størner'; Xymon mailinglist Subject: Re: [Xymon] Hand editing config files
I'm an old grouch that always wants flat files that I can edit.
But I know the future. Sounds like a good idea, Henrik.
Paul Root - Senior Engineer Managed Services Systems - CenturyLink
-----Original Message----- From: xymon-bounces at xymon.com [mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com] On Behalf Of Henrik Størner Sent: Wednesday, June 13, 2012 4:04 PM To: Xymon mailinglist Subject: [Xymon] Hand editing config files
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...
Regards, Henrik
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