On Fri, 2006-12-08 at 09:05 +0200, Buchan Milne wrote:
On Friday 08 December 2006 00:01, Trent Melcher wrote:
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....
I have been thinking about it ... but I think Henrik's concern is not to add a dependency on another tool to the monitoring system.
There are however ways of getting around this. For example, it may be possible to have a task that builds the configuration files from a database. You can then potentially have both advantages.
I do that currently with my snmp-capable devices. I have a mysql database that identifies the hostname, device type, and snmp authentication credentials (about half snmp v3, half community strings).
From that I generate mrtg configs and a bb-host file.
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