front end tools for Nagios

[Tobias Klausmann]

Hi! 

On Thu, 17 May 2007, tom.welsh at bt.com wrote:
> Hari Sekhon wrote: 
>> Hugo van der Kooij wrote:
>> > On Wed, 16 May 2007, RR wrote:
>> >> I'm relatively new to Nagios and am looking for cool front end tools 
>> >> to managing the config files.
>> >>
>> >> Of these, which ones do other users recommend?
>> >>     
>> > vi. ;-)
>> >
>> > But I never understood the need for 'cool'. I want my tools to be fit 
>> > for the job and I do not care what they look like that much.
>> >   
>> adding my 2 cents...
>> 
>> I agree with Hugo, I also use vi(m).
>> 
>> front end configuration tools?
>> more fluff and less understanding, why bother?
>> 
> I feel it is much better to understand the layout and structure to the
> config files than to hide it all behind a gui type front end.
> 
> You learn a lot more about how nagios hangs together by making config
> files, running pre-flight checks and getting errors. You then correct
> the errors, normally a simple typo or an omitted name in another config
> file. This all builds a great understanding of Nagios.
> 
> And well who needs cool, vi is brilliant and in its on way is "cool" as
> you get it on most flavours of unix/linux. 
> 
> Well that's my six shillings worth

Same here, vim. But, and I can not stress this enough, keep your
config in some kinde of version control system. I personally use
Subversion, but there are lots of others out ther (CVS, RCS,
Bitkeeper, git, ...). This is especially true if more than one
person edits the config.

Regards,
Tobias

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