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Ev
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Post by Ev »

Text config's.

It will be very useful.
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In respect to what?

Please elaborate.
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Post by Ev »

On example, as MRTG config's - only in text files.
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I don't see that happening for Cacti.

Cacti is built off of a database, not flat configuration files.

In future versions, api calls will be available for scripting and external interaction with cacti.

But we will not be using flat file configuration files.
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Post by JMoMo »

Nagios is a great example of a system that badly needs to use a database rather than config files. It's really bad. Cacti has too much cross referenced info to use config files. Once you figure out how to use a mysql console you can fiddle around with the database content.
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After my experience with Nagios, I would tend to agree. Call me complacent, but I don't mind the flat files, even monitoring over 500 hosts and 4000 services. But I had a method to my configuration files madness. :)
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