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--- Russell Adams wrote:
> Any plans for creating a module to write Nagios configs?
>
> Perhaps dump a hash tree out to config file, optionally with
> optimizations?

The system I use here is template-driven. I have a template for what I
want a service or hostgroup to look like, with replacement variables in
the template file. Then I load the template into perl and do a simple
search/replace on the template code.

Template-driven configuration is generally easier than using hash trees
because there's a lot of stuff I don't care about in the program that's
easier to edit in a text file. For instance, I may want to change
timeout or check command or so forth in the text file and then just
re-run the config maker program using the template.

If Nagios ever adopts XML config files, which it should, then XSLT
provides an existing mechanism to generate config files via templates.






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