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#! /usr/bin/env perl
use warnings;
use strict;
use YAML::Tiny;

# basically, if you're not that good with YAML, like me, this will
# let you create the config as a hashref, then run the script
# which will give you a file (config.yaml) that is the YAML equivilent.
#
# rename the created file to monitorNetwork.yaml and it is now your
# config file
#
# rename this file to makeConfig, edit it, then save and run. 
# It will not be overwritten by svn updates

my $config = {
   'defaults' => { # defaults if not specified in site
      'timeout' => 60, # the default timeout, in seconds
      'failure count' => 0, # the number of successive failures before a report
      'report to' => 'me@example.com',
      'report type' => 'mail',
      'report from' => 'root@localhost',
      'type' => 'netcat'
   },
   'sites to check' => { # all sites to check
      'some web site' => { # this is for display purposes only
         'url' => 'http://example.com', # the actual URL to use
         'type' => 'lwp' # type of test to run
      },
      'something that responds to icmp' => {
         'url' => '192.168.1.50',
         'type' => 'ping',
         'timeout' => 20 # 20 second timeout
      },
      'site with netcat server running' => {
         'url' => '192.168.1.51',
         'type' => 'netcat',
         'port' => 45654,
         # any additional netcat parameters. This is not checked, so 
         # use at your own risk.
         'additional parameters' => '-u',
         'timeout' => 3 # 20 second timeout
      },
   }
};

# types of tests are listed in the code, and each test can take.
# different parameters. Read the comments at the top of the file

my $yaml = YAML::Tiny->new( $config );
$yaml->write( 'config.yaml' );