Hello Jean, On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 11:21:22AM +0100, nap wrote: > > just an idea to put in there: Is it feasible to have different config > > "languages" like the salt config management tool has ? Those can use at > > least yaml, direct python code, jinja2 and xml. > > One is the (settable) default for the config files, but this can be changed > > with a shebang syntax in every individual file. > > > > Of course shinken would have additionally the nagios compatible "language", > > in the beginning as the default "language". > > > > An important point would be that the direct python code would allow to > > introduce self defined functions, objects and more, so not every new > > dynamic feature has to be introduced in the nagios "language", as you > > can use python code. > > > > This would also be a path to merge the daemons config into the main > > config in the long run. ... > Sounds possible indeed (in the Shinken internal, the objects are just a > key=>value dictionary with strings, so we don't really care about the input > format.). But maybe we should try to find some use cases where this can be > used, and see if the effort will really solve a real user problem, or if > the current configuration features are enough.
One minor issue is the following line in our current udp module (see https://bitbucket.org/hlauer/shinken2rrd for the code): template = template.replace('<','{').replace('>','}').replace(r'\n', '\n') This introduces additional syntax to get template="{$HOSTNAME$}\nssh {time[0]}" through the nagios config. Writing such stuff in python directly would be easy and well documented. > It's true that the nagios configuration style was a problem, but after some > quick features for simplify the configuration, now it's quite good, even > for linking lot of objects together (like escalations and hosts for > example). So let's find something that will change admin habits with this > new capabilities, and then we can look if we should add a configuration > overlay (like direct python or jinja, I'm really not a fan of XML and YAML > :p ). I'm also no fan of XML, but yaml looks pythonic to me ;-) BTW, just upgraded from 1.2.1 to 1.2.4 without any problems so far - many thanks. Greetings Hermann PS: On the bitbucket repo is now also a plugin for cisco threshold monitoring, if anybody needs -- Netzwerkadministration/Zentrale Dienste, Interdiziplinaeres Zentrum fuer wissenschaftliches Rechnen der Universitaet Heidelberg IWR; INF 368; 69120 Heidelberg; Tel: (06221)54-8236 Fax: -5224 Email: hermann.la...@iwr.uni-heidelberg.de ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Everyone hates slow websites. So do we. Make your web apps faster with AppDynamics Download AppDynamics Lite for free today: http://p.sf.net/sfu/appdyn_d2d_feb _______________________________________________ Shinken-devel mailing list Shinken-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/shinken-devel
