Nagios config -- not xml?

[Dan Rich]

Nelson, Ben said:

>> But for those of us who just configure it, having to type all the xml
>> froth would be a royal pain.
>
> I agree completely.  I'm not sure I would use a 'tool' (other than vi) to do
> the configuration, so typing all of the extra XML cruft by hand would be a
> pain.

In the case of a lot of XML I have to agree with this, but for a nagios config
I don't see a lot of extra "cruft" you would have to type.  With the exception
of some < and > characters I think you are already typing most of it today. 
In fact, if it is all collapsed into a single config file you would be typing
*less*, since you wouldn't have to repeat data in multiple files (unless you
wanted to).

Initially I was against the idea of the nagios configs being in XML, but the
more I think about it, the more I think it's a good idea.  It would make it
much easier to develop tools to manipulate the files and as someone else
already said, make it easier to verify the data in the files is correct.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Steve Burton [mailto:steve at sliderule.demon.co.uk]
> Sent: Friday, January 24, 2003 2:47 PM
> To: Brandon Gillespie
> Cc: Daniel_Casey at jbhunt.com; nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net;
> nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Nagios config -- not xml?
>
>
>
>
> Brandon Gillespie wrote:
>>
>> Daniel_Casey at jbhunt.com wrote:
>> > I second your first comment about it being a pain.  But, not knowing too
>> > much about XML, how would that make it
>> > easier?  Is there something about XML that would be particularly useful?
>> > Would you still have to have all the
>> > different .cfg files or would that change with XML?
>> >
>> > I understand that XML is "self-describing" data, correct?  How would
> that
>> > fit into configuring Nagios?
>>
>> I think the more important point was 'being able to write third party
>> tools to edit the config files'.  By being in XML you just load an XML
>> parser and you are done.  As it is now, you have to have custom magic to
>> understand the current format, which is not reusable anywhere else.
>>
>> I do concur, XML would be VERY nice.
>>
>
> But for those of us who just configure it, having to type all the xml
> froth would be a royal pain. Also the present system is self describing,
> the description is at the beginning of the line. The context is in the
> name of the config. file, if you use multiple files and the namespace is
> nagios.
>
> Steve.
>
>> BTW, are there any other admin tools for Nagios?  I used one on
>> netsaint, which is not available for nagios.  I'm not liking the nagat
>> one currently available--it doesn't import everything I've typed in, and
>> I find the import/export process cumbersome and annoying.
>>
>> -Brandon Gillespie
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