On Monday, 21 May 2007, Haertig, David F (Dave) wrote:
Nothing against XML in general. But my feeling is that it's of most use when data needs to be shared by different applications maintained by different people. Or if you're using some generic off-the-shelf tool to accomplish a task and that tool needs XML.
I doubt there are too many apps out there (any at all?) that have a need to parse a hobbit config file. The things that come to mind as possibilities have already been covered by Hobbit built-ins, like bbhostgrep.
We have one, an event generator (SCRIPT in hobbit-alerts) for a middleware system that our enterprise uses for integrating other monitoring systems into CA Unicenter, which we need to parse bb-nkview.cfg ...
But, the parsing of bb-nkview.cfg would be obsolete if we could match on the fact that it is a critical system in hobbit-alerts.cfg.
Now, I wouldn't mind a decent way to generate configurations (from our in-house configuration management tool/database ... which has a way to go before we can consider making it available ...).
Regards, Buchan
-- Buchan Milne ISP Systems Specialist - Monitoring/Authentication Team Leader B.Eng,RHCE(803004789010797),LPIC-2(LPI000074592)