I thought of this also a while ago, but thought the efforts would be too much.
Here is what I came up with: Use a shell/perl/php script to retrieve values from sql-DB into the conf file for Each deamon before it starts up (minimizes sw changes to bacula) All that needs to Be know then is the DB credentials on each host. (would be nice to have a perl script to go the other way too [conf -> sql]) Then a gui could be a simple php/perl (lamp) application manipulating the DB. If the web lives on the bacula director host, simple commands allow to either Restart, apply (get from sql into conf files), and reload the config I don't think one would get a complete interactive gui yet, and that was not my goal. Dealing with the ever complex backup schedules in graphical manner is. -sww -----Original Message----- From: David Boyes [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, April 26, 2007 8:02 AM To: Erich Prinz; Stephan Wendl Cc: bacula-devel Development; Bacula Mailing List Subject: RE: [Bacula-devel] [Bacula-users] Bacula GUI > > The design of a GUI for bacula may revolve arround interfacing with > > the dameons. I was wondering > > if just designing a GUI for config file modification might simply > > suffice, i.e. a config file editor with > > the smarts of syntax checking and linking of all the resources in > > the main bacula-dir.conf file. > > Most of the cfg files do not change much or at all. The file most > > often modified is the bacula-dir.conf > > It would much easier to just concentrate on that task rather than > > designing a GUI which interacts with the > > dir daemon. I'd rather see a majority of the configuration moved into database tables. As more organizations move towards a configuration management database approach (CMDB), controlling configuration is going to be more important and more complex. Flat files are nice from a simplicity point of view, but the syntax is becoming complex enough that it might be smarter (and easier to maintain across multiple systems) to normalize it and move it into a RDBMS. It would also allow real-time updates more easily. Maybe the easy approach would be to write a tool to maintain the configuration in the database, and then auto-generate the appropriate files from the database tables. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
