Nagios config -- not xml?

[Carroll, Jim P [Contractor]]

Looks interesting.  But for my needs, I'd rather not consolidate all the
definitions into one mondo config file.  If anything, I'm trying to break my
overall config into the smallest chunks possible.

Once 2.0 is released, I intend to create hostname directories (using the
recursion feature of cfg_dir which is expected to be available), e.g.:

/usr/local/nagios/etc/configs/Solaris/myhost01

and within that directory, there would be fragments such as host.cfg,
ssh.cfg, http.cfg and whatever other services/dependencies I can put in
there.  It would be quite nice if there were some other level of
inheritance, so as to save modifying each/every definition with the required
hostname.  Create a new host directory, drop in the definitions, and you're
pretty much done.  But I digress.

Coding the XML definitions by hand shouldn't be too painful.  It should
require some enhancements to the pre-flight check, so that additional
XML-type syntax errors are caught.  (Alternatively, if there are already any
tools out there which can already do this, all the better for us.)  I'm sure
that some sort of configuration tools will help out the more generic
environments, but it might be somewhat limiting.  Ultimately, the
configuration tool I'm using is 'vi'.

Put me down for, "Yeah, looks interesting, I'll definitely give it a go once
it's available, but the lack of XML today isn't hampering me."

jc

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Brandon Gillespie [mailto:brandon at roguetrader.com]
> Sent: Friday, January 24, 2003 4:46 PM
> To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net;
> nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Nagios config -- not xml?
> 
> 
> Steve Burton wrote:
> > But for those of us who just configure it, having to type 
> all the xml
> > froth would be a royal pain. Also the present system is 
> self describing,
> > the description is at the beginning of the line. The 
> context is in the
> > name of the config. file, if you use multiple files and the 
> namespace is
> > nagios.
> 
> I don't think there would be much of a problem, especially 
> since a lot 
> of people are already familiar with an XML/HTML like syntax.  Yes, it 
> would be different.  The 'template' stuff is already builtin 
> to XML, so 
> those would all just be tossed into a dtd somewhere.  The 
> nice thing is 
> you wouldn't HAVE to have seperate files.  You would also gain 
> additional bonuses, such as nesting or even includes, as:
> 
> <host name="frible" class="generic-host" address="147.178.68.61">
>    <service class="generic-service"
>             description="HTTP"
>             maxCheckAttempts="3"
>             normalCheckInterval="5"
>             contactGroups="serverAdmin"
>             checkCommand="check_http"/>
>    <service src="std_services.xml" />
> </host>
> 
> -Brandon Gillespie
> 
> 
> 
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