[noctool-devel] compact configurations for identical machines

[Jim Prewett]

Hi Ingvar,

I was chatting with one of my co-workers - mostly trying to avoid anything 
too strenous on a friday... ;)

He brought up that we would really like some sort of "compact 
configuration syntax" for systems like we have in our 'viz lab'.  The viz 
lab has boxes, named by the crazy Director*, with names like "taro", 
"poi", "vino", "macaroni", "dumpling", (and it just goes on ;) .

* I say that with all the love for my boss's boss. :)  He can name 
machines whatever in the hell he wants. ;)

I just hate typing ;)

Jim

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On Thu, 29 May 2008, Ingvar wrote:

> > Seriously, How do tools like Nagios and friends do this?  I'll admit, I'm 
> > a bit out of the loop here.  Most of what we do A) isn't done by me and B) 
> > is in-house stuff.
> 
> As far as I can tell, "not at all". You want two mostly-identical objects 
> monitored, you write two mostly-identical config stanzas. You want 4000, you 
> write a piece of code to write the configuration for you.
> 
> With the "Big Kit", you configure one instance, see what you want different 
> from the defaults, tweak the defaults, then click "auto-discover".
>  
> > Is there any sort of precedent that anyone has seen here?  I love to steal 
> > other people's hard work ;)
> 
> For now, I suspect the cluster config that noctool has is "good enough" (I 
> pushed the changes in this morning, with C-style format strings as default, 
> the converter understands %%, %d and %0wd (where w is a decimal number) 
> escapes, lisp-style format strings are available with a flag.
> 
> //Ingvar
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