a word against web interfaces

[Dan Hopkins]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Deomid Ryabkov [mailto:rojer at rbc.ru]
> Sent: 17 June 2004 09:58
> To: nagios-devel at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: [Nagios-devel] a word against web interfaces
> 
> 
> 
> the discussion of sql-based configuration made me worry about 
> future of nagios,
> so i thought i'd put in a word for text configuration.
> 
> web configuration is obviously evil. i DON'T want 
> webinterface for configuration.
> this is not against just this one particular interface, i'm 
> against all of them.
> and i have seen many. none of web interfaces will ever become 
> as convenient as a simple
> and logical text representation. 
<snip>
> when you need conveniece, you go back to the good old text 
> editor and do your
> work, cutting and pasting, and merging, and deleting and whatever.
> sql MIGHT be an alternative (although I still don't see much 
> use it could have),
> but the most obvious and convenient way of configuration (and 
> by that i mean
> text configuration) MUST stay there.

To explain why some of use do use a SQL bakend for our configuration, look
at the larger scale - we have 5000+ services over 5000+ hosts being added
to, deleted from and updated 24x7 by many users at several physical sites.
The config is split over multiple distributed Nagios clusters. Direct
updating of the text config is unfeasable, so we use a DB backend and
generate text configs from it periodically. (and, yes, there is a wfe to the
SQL backend ;-)

> to anyone who might find this offensive, i express my 
> apologies in advance,
> all i wanted is my point made crystal clear.
 
No offense taken - I hope this might explain why some of us go the route we
do...

-- 
Dan Hopkins
Systems Developer, easynet Ltd.
e: dan.hopkins at uk.easynet.net
t: +44(0) 1749 333305


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