[Nagios-devel] database checker and xml

[Jason Yates]

I'm taking this off the devel list.  I accidentally sent it there in the
first place.

Thanks for the pointer about the XML discussion; quite interesting.  I
personally agree with the fact that the configuration files should be in
XML format.  One of the major drawbacks of most open source programs is
there highly complex to configure, nagios included.  XML may not speed
up configuration using VI, but sure as hell makes it easier to write a
configuration interface.  A user-friendly interface would spring
people's interest who wouldn't have even considered nagios before, and
yet XML still allow VI based editing.  Don't get me wrong, I'm not
saying it would be impossible to write a parser for the nagios template
format.  But why do something thats already done, not just in C or in
perl, but pretty much any language you could name.

Hey and it would also fix my problem quite nicely. =)


Jason Yates


On Thu, 2003-01-30 at 10:24, Carroll, Jim P [Contractor] wrote:
> Although not dynamic, that feature is available today.  You just need to do
> a configure, enabling support for either MySQL or PostGreSQL.
> 
> Having said that, you might want to take a look at this:
> 
>   http://www.nagios.org/upcoming.php
> 
> In particular, these lines:
> 
>   8. DB support for retention data is being dropped
>   9. DB support for extended information is being dropped
> 
> Alternatively, there has been recent discussion regarding using XML to drive
> the creating of the config files.  Very recently, as in last week.  If you
> missed that e-mail, I can forward it to you off-list.
> 
> Food for thought.
> 
> jc
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Jason Yates [mailto:jason at starcastdev.com]
> > Sent: Wednesday, January 29, 2003 11:57 PM
> > To: nagios-devel at lists.sourceforge.net
> > Subject: [Nagios-devel] database checker
> > 
> > 
> > Basically what I'm looking for is a way of storing everything in the
> > hosts.cfg and services.cfg files inside a database; instead 
> > of using the
> > two files.  Something that can be changed dynamically, and is a little
> > more user friendly.  I'm pretty sure this isn't possible, but what I'm
> > not sure of is, if anyone has written a script to keep hosts.cfg and
> > services.cfg updated based on a database. 
> > 
> > If no one done anything like this.  I'll get writing some 
> > code and post
> > it to this list.
> > 
> > Jason
> > 
> > 
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