Nagios and DB support.

[Ben]

On Thu, 18 Nov 2004, Andreas Ericsson wrote:

> > 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.
> > 
> 
> If the person writing that webinterface is too stupid to export 
> everything in a nagios compatible way, I don't give much for his/her 
> talent as a coder. More often than not it is also desireable to do 
> several changes, some of which might actually break the configuration 
> (until all changes are done, anyway), before saving it and thus have 
> Nagios reload it.

Writing a file in a certain format may not be hard, but transactions and
concurrency issues are difficult to get right. Why try and likely fail
when databases have it correct already?

Assuming you want to have multiple people modifying your config files at 
the same time, of course. :)




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