Fwd: Re: Configuration files obfuscation

[Pallavolu Reddi Sekhar Reddy]

I want to add new windows server on nagios.
how can i configure that let me know. on hosts.cfg file


Thanks
Sekhar Reddy P R


On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 3:26 PM, Julian Hein <jhein at netways.de> wrote:

>
>
> Am 17.06.09 11:09 schrieb "Andreas Ericsson" unter <ae at op5.se>:
>
> > edward baddouh wrote:
> >> Yes, I want the configuration files to be worse (readable).
> >> The idea is to difficult as-much-as-possible config-files theft from
> ohter
> >> people who admin that server..
> >>
> >> There have been times that configuration files were implemented on
> different
> >> installations (different sites) with minor changes without the admin's
> >> consent..
> >>
> >> I don't want nobody to get credits for work I've done and receive no
> profit
> >> at all..
> >>
> >
> > This is just stupid imo and would be far better solved with some social
> > conventions. The problem is that there's a limited way of configuring
> > Nagios for a particular setup, so it's always entirely possible that
> > whoever you *think* is "stealing" configuration from you has actually
> > read the nagios docs for 15-30 minutes and then figured out how to do
> > it themselves. It's not exactly rocket science, and a nagios config
> > isn't a super-fast cryptographically secure hash algorithm that you
> > (sometimes) need to jealously protect. The fact that you're trying
> > makes me feel dirty all over, to be honest.
> >
> > Why you want an opensource community help you *not* share your work,
> > I really do not fathom, but you'll get absolutely no help from me.
>
> And it would not work, because the config always gets de-obfuscated in the
> objects cache and is visible in the Webinterface with "view config"
>
> Makes no sense to me as well.
>
> Julian
>
>
>
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