Architecture & Design

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Template

• The current config format is probably the most well known format. but it suffers from problems:
  • For each test we have to put all information even they share some information (like OIDs, Transforms) with other test: this is not DRY (Dont Repeat Yourself) and it is error prone
  • Templates also can have the same information between each other and just differ in a few place: this is not DRY, it is error prone, annd not efficient (time consuming to maintain them,
    • Cisco templates are a good example as there is already a lot of templates with same information)
    • Some templates can probably be fusionned: see for example cisco-3[68]50 which is: it means cisco-3650 and cisco-3850
• Other format coulde be intersesting like json or yaml
• A bidirectionnal conversion could be implemented to keep existing template config files but allow integration with modern tools
• A DSL Language could be awsome
• Threshold is a kind of transform. Best (color) and Worst Best (color) transforms manipulate level of alarm like thresholds

Autodiscover devices and service

• Bruteforce scan like NMAP of NCAT
• Reverse lookup or mDNS
• Ansible, / Ssh
• Sql
• Custom