Nagios 2 Configuration Files

[Randal, Phil]

The nagios config file format is simple but elegant and human-readable.

Not qualities that XML shares, alas.

Not to say that XML doesn't have its uses.

Phil

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Phil Randal
Network Engineer
Herefordshire Council
Hereford, UK 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Brodie, R (Richard) [mailto:R.Brodie at rl.ac.uk]
> Sent: 06 June 2003 09:49
> To: nagios-devel at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: RE: [Nagios-devel] Nagios 2 Configuration Files
> 
> 
> > A proposal for the status dtd was floated, but no comments 
> were received..
> 
> I was looking at it recently, and playing around with 
> reforming it as an XML
> Schema; mainly as a learning exercise. Unless anyone else is 
> keen to take it
> up sooner, I'll post it here so we can revive the discussion. 
> 
> I'm still not entirely convinced (yet) about XML as a 
> configuration file 
> format for hand editing though. Most folk don't have/use XML 
> validating
> editors.
> 
> Richard Brodie
> 
> ISIS Facility,
> Rutherford Appleton Laboratory. 
> 
> 
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