a word against web interfaces

Deomid Ryabkov rojer at rbc.ru
Thu Jun 17 10:58:07 CEST 2004


the discussion of sql-based configuration made me worry about future of nagios,
so i thought i'd put in a word for text configuration.

web configuration is obviously evil. i DON'T want webinterface for configuration.
this is not against just this one particular interface, i'm against all of them.
and i have seen many. none of web interfaces will ever become as convenient as a simple
and logical text representation. current nagios configuration model (as of version 1.2
i'm currently using, i havent looked at the newer ones) has some deficiencies and needs improvement,
but this improvement should not be moving configuration entirely to db.
when you need conveniece, you go back to the good old text editor and do your
work, cutting and pasting, and merging, and deleting and whatever.
sql MIGHT be an alternative (although I still don't see much use it could have),
but the most obvious and convenient way of configuration (and by that i mean
text configuration) MUST stay there.

to anyone who might find this offensive, i express my apologies in advance,
all i wanted is my point made crystal clear.

Ethan, could you please confirm that text configuration files will be
fully supported in future versions?

--
 Best regards,
Deomid Ryabkov
UNIX Systems Administrator
RosBusinessConsulting | http://www.rbc.ru/
E-mail: rojer at rbc.ru  | ICQ: 8025844


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