Hi,

I created a Node.JS package capable to parse and read Nimsoft configuration File ( mainly for fun ). This can be a very good tools when you have to handle and manage many UIM Configuration files. Examples of use cases:

• Manage cfg file in a Object format (Allow to store in almost any database like MongoDB, etc...).
• Transform cfg file into Excel (many Node packages available)

Everything of this in Asynchrone by the way...

He can be mixed with a tool like NodeUIM easily ( Node.JS Asynchronous interface of Probe Utility ).

GitHub - UIM-Community/NodeUIM: CA UIM Probe Utility Asynchronous interface 

Usage example: 

(Your configuration file, script.cfg)

<setup>
     loglevel = 5
     probes = cdm,dirscan,processes
</setup>

Your JavaScript (code) file:

const nimCfgReader = require('nimcfgreader');

async function main() {
     const config = await (new nimCfgReader('./script.cfg')).read();
     
     const loglevel      = config.setup.loglevel || 5;
     const probes      = (config.setup.probes || '').split(',');
}
main().catch(console.error);

Parse buffer or string directly:

const config = nimCfgReader.parseConfigurationBuffer(`<setup>
loglevel = 5
</setup>`);
console.log(config.setup.loglevel);

Performance: 

On my computer by running the package benchmark i get the following result:

PDS (File Buffer) Parsing x 41,891 ops/sec ±0.53% (90 runs sampled)

The configuration used for the test (sample from by perl probe static_enrichment) : 

<setup>
   loglevel = 5
   logsize = 1024
   debug = 0
   post_subject = alarm2
   pool_threads = 3
   timeout_interval = 5000
   heartbeat = 300 
   qos = 30
</setup>
<enrichment-rules>
   exclusive_enrichment = no
   <100>
      match_alarm_field = udata.level
      match_alarm_regexp = 1
      <overwrite-rules>
         udata.enriched = 0#[udata.subsys]#[supp_key]
         udata.message = Hello world edited!
      </overwrite-rules>
   </100>
</enrichment-rules>

Parsing a file is a synchronous operation (tend to be a CPU Bound operation and starve the event-loop). So you have to be careful about use cases (example: using it when a HTTP Middleware is running aside is not a good idea).

Packages

GitHub - UIM-Community/nimCfgReader: PDS Configuration file parser 

That was a fun and good way for me to learn how to parse a Nimsoft configuration file... And the parsing performance is **** hot ( it can surely be heavily improved btw ).

Thanks for reading me ! 

Best Regards,

Thomas