Biggest Problem with Nagios: Poor Setup/Installation

[Sean R. Clark]

I think it was more like


With Big Brother, put the host in the host file, and let it run

Want to create an external check? Just have it do BB "STATUS host.check
green"

And that's it

Big Brother is by far easier to setup -- but it does lack host
interdependencies


The one thing I dislike about nagios so far is that it seems to do host
checks in serial while doing service checks in parallel


-Sean


-----Original Message-----
From: nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net
[mailto:nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of C. Bensend
Sent: Monday, August 16, 2004 2:34 PM
To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Biggest Problem with Nagios: Poor
Setup/Installation


> If the developers of Nagios can work on the above and get that 
> polished, they will have a very good tool that a lot more people will be
using.
> Until then....we'll leave it to those that have lots and lots of time 
> to waste.

What exactly did you find lacking?

A long time ago when I did my first install of Netsaint 0.0.4, and me being
that much greener in the sysadmin business, it still didn't take more than a
day or two until I had a basic installation up and running, with web
interface and everything.

Within a week, I had written a few custom plugins using Perl and/or sh
script.  As for configuration of hosts/services, the examples in the example
config files from 'make install-config' were plenty for me.

Was it 100% done immediately?  No, not at all.  But I didn't recall any real
issues with the docs (and remember, that was years ago, with 0.0.4), nor
with runtime config.

I'd be interested to hear details of the problems you had.

Benny


--
"Horrible pain!  I made sounds like a dolphin giving birth."
                                                  -- Mr. Corman, "Scrubs"


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