Tino Dai wrote:
> Hi Everybody,
>
> Before I start reinventing the wheel, is there any code out there
> for parsing configuration filesn in paragraph format. I am creating a
> multi-process monitor that will read in a configuration file that will
If you have control over the config file format you can use ConfigParser
in the standard lib. It reads .ini style files so you would write
[apache]
process=/usr/bin/httpd
...etc
You could also use one of the add-on config file readers which have more
features, for example
http://voidspace.org.uk/python/modules.shtml#configobj
Another option is to make your config file be a Python module that you
just import. What you wrote is pretty close to dictionary syntax. You
could use this:
config = dict(
apache = dict(
process = '/usr/bin/httpd',
# etc
)
)
The syntax is not quite as user friendly but reading it is as easy as
'import config'
Kent
> contain the processes that they will monitor also what to do when they
> get get an alert. Below is an example of what I envision the configure
> file to look like
>
> apache {
>process=/usr/bin/httpd
>processNum = 8
>whenDown = "Apache is totally down"
>whenDegraded = "Apache has degraded (one or more processes has gone away"
>whenUp = "Apache is up"
>severityDown=1
>severityDegraded=3
>severityUp=5
> etc
> }
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Tino
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