Happy New Year

The New (2007) Year already came and I would like to wish everyone all the best in this year.

The past year was kinda hard, but also very productive and I hope that this year will be a bit easier, but even more productive :) I have met a lot of new people, improved relations with people I already knew and also had many things changed in my life throughout the year 2006. I would like to thank everyone who were around me and who were helping me a lot and I hope that we will stay together for the next years.

Working on Nagios perl module

I am currently working on creating a perl module do deal with Nagios configuration. The existing Nagios-Object package is quite limited, outdated and not that fully implemented. I checked it up and decided to rewrite it using my way.

Currently I am using Class-Generate package to help me with creating classes for Nagios object definitions and I already managed to write a parser which takes a path of nagios main configuration file, finds all links to object definition files and parses all definitions. One\’s parsed, the definitions are stored as objects with all accessorts/mutators available.

I am also implementing object linkage so that the relations of objects can be used easily. Currently most of the stuff is already working fine.

In addition I am planning to implement the write function so that it is possible to create problem text config files with object definitions. Also thinking on getting on status log parsing.

The idea behind is to create a web admin panel for Nagios and extend the functionality, plus maybe I will do a new web frontend for Nagios, since the one given is not that good (anymore). I already have some web stuff working (based on perl, Catalyst, CGI-FromBuilder and Template-Toolkit)

Setting up tags for anything

There are more and more things around me where I can use tags for categorizing stuff around and I really like it. Tags a very easy to use and very comfortable afterwards. However I have noticed one problem which I face while setting up tags on different systems: the delimiter for tags in a tag list is different from place to place. For instance in WordPress, tags are separated with commas, while on Flickr spaces are used instead. This makes a problem, because I start using spaces on WP or commas with Flickr and mess up all the tags :(