Hello,
I've seen this link:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/xymonconfigsync/
Could some of you please share what are some of the ways in which you are using this?
That module is used quite frequently over here. That is not really surprising, as I am the author of that perl module.
The module is written to be able to synchronize the Xymon configuration file bb-hosts with a configuration database. That database contains the devices to be monitored, some comment and above all the administrators of each device. Those administrators will receive an e-mail if there is a yellow or red condition for a test of "their" server. The database does *not* contain information about the tests to be performed. When regenerating the bb-hosts configuration file, information is taken as much as possible from the configuration database, and the rest of the information, especially the network tests, is taken from the old version of the bb-hosts configuration file.
As a result, a server becomes monitored (although with only one test "conn") as soon as it is defined in the configuration database, en it disappears from Xymon once it is removed from the database. Thus the administrators have a bit of control of what is being monitored, and who receives the alerts, as they are allowed to modify the configuration database.
To illustrate the benefits of this approach: bb-hosts is divided into about a dozen subfiles, glued together with "include" directives. One of them contains for each administrator a list of devices (s)he administers. There is a notes-file for each monitored device, which contains a link to that entry in the configuration database. In 2009, the configuration synchronization has (re)written more than 2700 times one of those configuration files.
A way of using the xymonconfigsync module is described in the POD within the module.
Regards, Wim Nelis.
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