default config converted to template config

[Carroll, Jim P [Contractor]]

Very recently discussed on the list.  This falls under "wish list".

jc

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jeremy T. Bouse [mailto:Jeremy.Bouse at UnderGrid.net]
> Sent: Thursday, December 12, 2002 12:39 PM
> To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] default config converted to 
> template config
> 
> 
> 	On this same line of talk has anyone already possibly created a
> tool to convert from using text files to using either mysql 
> or pgsql? Or
> is this a feature of the convertcfg tool and I just didn't 
> see it in my
> cursory examination?
> 
> 	Jeremy
> 
> On Thu, Dec 12, 2002 at 09:50:48AM -0800, Jack Coates wrote:
> > On Thu, 2002-12-12 at 07:55, Michael Jewett wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > I am currently in the process of upgrading from Netsaint 
> 0.0.6 (I know I'm a
> > > little behind the times, but why change something that 
> works!) to Nagios
> > > 1.0, because I would like some of the features of Nagios. 
>  But I have the
> > > old single line entries in my config files.  I would like 
> to convert to the
> > > template based config, so I can use all the added 
> features of this.
> > > 
> > > Is there a tool to do the conversion?  Otherwise starting 
> from scratch might
> > > not be a bad idea, so I can make good use of the 
> inheritance features.
> > > 
> > > Thanks,
> > > Michael
> > > 
> > Just finished doing this; there is a tool in the source 
> distribution,
> > contrib directory, can't remember the name right now but 
> something like
> > cvtconfig or convertcfg. It is not made by the makefile, so 
> you'll need
> > to compile it. The usage is ./[program] /your/old/hosts.cfg
> > 
> /the/new/file/you/want/to/spit/out/e.g./services.cfg/or/contac
> tgroups.cfg.
> > -- 
> > Jack Coates
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> > 
> > 
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