front end tools for Nagios

[Ed Lucero]

> Hi!
> 
> On Thu, 17 May 2007, tom.welsh at bt.com wrote:
> > Hari Sekhon wrote:
> >> Hugo van der Kooij wrote:
> >> > On Wed, 16 May 2007, RR wrote:
> >> >> I'm relatively new to Nagios and am looking for cool front end
> tools
> >> >> to managing the config files.
> >> >>
> >> >> Of these, which ones do other users recommend?
> >> >>
> >> > vi. ;-)
> >> >
> >> > But I never understood the need for 'cool'. I want my tools to be
> fit
> >> > for the job and I do not care what they look like that much.
> >> >
> >> adding my 2 cents...
> >>
> >> I agree with Hugo, I also use vi(m).
> >>
> >> front end configuration tools?
> >> more fluff and less understanding, why bother?
> >>
> > I feel it is much better to understand the layout and structure to
> the
> > config files than to hide it all behind a gui type front end.
> >
> > You learn a lot more about how nagios hangs together by making config
> > files, running pre-flight checks and getting errors. You then correct
> > the errors, normally a simple typo or an omitted name in another
> config
> > file. This all builds a great understanding of Nagios.
> >
> > And well who needs cool, vi is brilliant and in its on way is "cool"
> as
> > you get it on most flavours of unix/linux.
> >
> > Well that's my six shillings worth
> 
> Same here, vim. But, and I can not stress this enough, keep your
> config in some kinde of version control system. I personally use
> Subversion, but there are lots of others out ther (CVS, RCS,
> Bitkeeper, git, ...). This is especially true if more than one
> person edits the config.
> 
> Regards,
> Tobias
> 

Absolutely. On the admin side all configuration files, and scripts should be
under source code control. I always keep the admin source separate from
development source code control. I use RCS because it's simple.

Ed


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