Nagios and DB support.

[Ben]

On Thu, 18 Nov 2004, Andreas Ericsson wrote:

> > Well, FWIW, one complaint I've heard about using NEB to hook up nagios 
> > and databases is that NEB can't read nagios config data out of the 
> > database, just store it.
> 
> What would be the point of reading it when the modules aren't 
> initialized until after configuration has been parsed?

Right, that's why it doesn't work without hacking nagios proper. :)

> > but it's an issue other people have raised, and I 
> > don't see a solution short of hacking on nagios proper.
> > 
> 
> But why would anyone want nagios to read its configuration from a 
> database? That would take a lot of effort and would cause a major loss 
> of its present functionality, not to mention independence. If I heard 
> voices about storing the runtime cache in database I could understand 
> it, since it would then serve a purpose. I've written routines for that 
> in PHP in case anybody's interested. It only works with nagios 2 though.

I believe the best reasoning I heard was so that people could easily 
modify that configuration via a website. Obviously flatfiles can also be 
modified from the web, but it tends to be easier when it's in a database.



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