thoughts about a SQL backend, and an issue tracker...
Einar Indridason
einar.indrida at gmail.com
Thu Jan 24 12:40:09 CET 2008
Good day. I have had some idle thoughts lately about Nagios. I don't know
if they make sense, or whether they are have already been rejected.
1) Does Nagios have a bug-tracker of some kind, so if a bug is submitted, it
can be checked if it exists already, and/or has been fixed? (Bugzilla, or
Trac, or something like that?)
2) Would it make sense to have a (another) nagios-daemon, which clients
would connect to, and ask for info, instead of having to read and parse "
status.dat" (and other *.dat) files for every client that wants to get some
infos. For example: echo "GET hosts -down" | telnet
nagios.host.example.com 5665, or echo "GET services -flapping -down" |
telnet nagios.host.example.com 5665
(possible issue here would be authentication / authorization)
3) Would it make sense to switch the data files and/or config files from
being flat text files, into SQL tables? (For example, by using the
embeddable SQLite?) (If yes, having the possibility of using different SQL
databases would be a bonus. SQLite on a ramdisk, for example, versus
PostGreSQL versus MySQL (versus DB2) (versus Oracle)
4) Would it make sense to change both services and hosts into "containers"?
As in: "Our network has those following containers: (list of routers,
switches, hosts, hostgroups) Some of those containers, have other
containers: (The router for building B is a "master" for building B. It
also connects some switches in building B with some hosts in building B).
Some of those sub-containers have other containers: (the switch in building
B is connecting some hosts - those hosts have some sub-systems running).
Some of those sub-systems consists of several services, like: webserver-1,
webserver-2, database-1, database-2, firewall accesslist, etc....
Two thumbs up for Nagios :-)
Cheers,
--
EinarI
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