Nagios config -- not xml?

Subhendu Ghosh sghosh at sghosh.org
Fri Jan 24 22:47:04 CET 2003


On Fri, 24 Jan 2003, Kurt Werle wrote:

> I've recently installed nagios and really like it.  That said, configuring
> it is a royal pain.  I'm wondering why the config files are the
> traditional unix block style -- it seems like it would be really nice to
> have it in xml.  This would make it much easier to write configuration
> tools.
> 
> Thanks for a great tool,
> Kurt
> ---

XML adds another layer of coding complexity.  If you are planning on 
generating the config files by scripts, generating XML versus unix block 
makes no difference.  If you are editng the config files by hand - XML is 
more keystrokes ;)

-- 
-sg



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