On Fri, Aug 16, 2002 at 09:48:18PM -0400, Daniel J Urist wrote: > ---- snip ----- > Problems: > > A) Configuration is difficult. I'm not saying mon is sendmail, but While I'm not quite experienced with Mon, I've never seen any difficulties in translating my ideas into a Mon configuration file, since the syntax is quite straightforward once you know the underlying concepts. > even good experienced Unix admins I've worked with have a hard time > dealing with the configuration file, especially if they're not working > with mon constantly. While m4 can help if used appropriately it adds > its own layer of complexity. Mon really, really needs a good > configuration GUI. I tried to write a GUI a couple of years ago, but Well, I admit that a good GUI for Mon will certainly attract more people to use it, especially those who'd like to GUI this and that, however, I'm seriously in doubt of the possibility to build a simple and easy-to-use GUI to express such a plethora of logics of the Mon configuration syntax with all the rigidities of those GUI components.
--Clay > having mon structured around a complicated configuration file makes > this extremely difficult (I'm also a wretched GUI programmer). > ---- snip -----
