NetSaint configuration compiler

If anyone is interested, I have a compiler, nscc, that produces NetSaint
configuration files based on a (fairly) clean input file and external
commands (that provide a list of hosts, for example).

From the docs:

Nscc attempts to provide a convenient way of configuring NetSaint based
on text templates and external commands which provide the necessary
information about hosts. However, as it stands now, nscc does not permit
the full flexibility of NetSaint.

Since NetSaint's operation is service-oriented, the format of the
nscc file is also service oriented. A service declaration provides
the information NetSaint needs to check the service, as well as the
host or hosts running the service (and the class to which those hosts
belong). The hostclass then provides the information necessary to
monitor the hosts.

Information which may change frequently, such as the hosts in a
hostclass and the parents of hosts (describing network topology) is read
from external commands.

The downside (sort of)? Nscc is written in Objective Caml. I realize
that this is a relatively uncommon language, but hopefully that will
not be too much of a barrier. (I was looking for a project to use try
O'Caml and this was the first that came along. I think the experiment
was successful.)

Anyway, the url is
  http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/mcguire/software/nscc/

Let me know how it goes.

Tommy McGuire


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