OK see, what I was doing originally (and I found time to finally get it
partially working)
I have a configuration file that may be edited by webmaster thus
[Ports]
http = 80
https = 443
http1 = 81
smtp = 25
smtp2 = 587
(the above is a small example, it could be *anything* )
Now I have a function that takes machine, protocol, and a dictionary of
last alerts (would be empty if none)
The whole is a small multiple machine monitoring script, By the way...
The configuration file needed to be read by config parser and assign the
config name as if it were a variable, and the value along with it
I tried it by opening a file , but could find no way to do variable
variables
(In PHP, you can do something to the effect of:
name = value
name1 = value1
and then read it in as a file , which builds an array (AKA dictionary)
and then just assign thus:
foreach ($filearray as $key => $value)
{
$$key = $value
}
in python I could see no way to do so, so I ended up with configparser,
which I *finally* got working - working code below
I am still working on this , as I wanna do it in python (currently
operational in Perl , and running as a daemon, which I want this code to
do eventually)
So, the below is a working example of reading a config file in python
using configparser
Also note: I found that ConfigParser != configparser (it is case sensitive)
Just wanted to post this back in case anyone else needs to figure out
how to use configparser in python.
import ConfigParser
cfg = ConfigParser.SafeConfigParser()
cfg.read("/home/brian/pymon.cfg")
if cfg.has_section("Parameters"):
myparams = cfg.items("Parameters")
for item in myparams:
parameter[item[0]] = item[1]
else:
log_error("Parameters","not found")
if cfg.has_section("Ports"):
ports = cfg.items("Ports")
for port in ports:
watch_port[port[0]] = port[1]
else:
log_error("Ports","Not Found")
if cfg.has_section("Hosts"):
hostnames = cfg.items("Hosts")
for hostname in hostnames:
watch_hosts[hostname[0]] = hostname[1]
else:
log_error("Hosts","Not Found")
if cfg.has_section("IP Addresses"):
ips = cfg.items("IP Addresses")
for ip in ips:
watch_ips[ip[0]] = ip[1]
else:
log_error("IP Addresses","Not Found")
if cfg.has_section("Alerts"):
alerts_to = cfg.items("Alerts")
else:
log_error("Hosts","Not Found")
print parameter
print watch_port
print watch_hosts
print watch_ips
print alerts_to
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