Re: NetSaint configuration compiler

Any chance that you can port this to work with Nagios config files 
(template format)?  Nagios 1.0 still supports the NetSaint-style 
config file format, but 2.0 will not.  NetSaint is on life support at 
this point in time, as Nagios 1.0 will be released as stable shortly.

From:           	[email protected]
To:             	[email protected]
Subject:        	[netsaint] NetSaint configuration compiler
Date sent:      	Fri, 20 Sep 2002 15:24:12 -0500

> 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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Ethan Galstad
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