The Nagios: Reloaded (Rewriting Nagios)
Jeff Rodriguez
nagios-users at gurugeek.com
Wed Jul 7 14:46:50 CEST 2004
Of course, it would be rather asinine of me to not do so :) I think I'd
have a little problem getting a patent on a "distributed monitoring
system" though :)
Our current monitoring box runs tests against 400+ hosts, 2700+
services, and runs over 1000 checks/minute. The company I work for is in
the top 500 fastest growing companies in the world. At our current pace,
we NEED to be distributed. You don't need a multiproc box to run a
multithreaded app, it just helps. The threading is mostly for sanity,
it's much easier to split up code into threads.
It's not a lack of tools to setup the Nagios configuration, the Nagios
configuration is inherently lacking in that it's not database driven to
begin with.
Read http://www.ondotnet.com/pub/a/dotnet/2003/03/03/mcppp2.html for a
description of managed code.
GPL? No, I prefer BSD.
Jeff
Kerry Milestone wrote:
>Will you forever mention on your new website with its new trademark that the ideas and inspiration came from Nagios? Will you follow the usual Microsoft standard and claim a patent for the new technology of remotely polling devices through an integrated distributed monitoring system? What do you intend the monitoring box to be doing to require extensive multi-processor computing? Have you come across Nagmin? (its very useful) What exactly is a managed language? Will it be GPL?
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>Just a few thoughts about things.
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>Kerry Milestone,
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>1 , 0.... my two bits.
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net [mailto:nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of Jeff Rodriguez
>Sent: Wednesday, 7 July 2004 1:50 p.m.
>To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
>Subject: [Nagios-users] The Nagios: Reloaded (Rewriting Nagios)
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>I'm working on rewriting Nagios in C# and I'm looking for input as to
>what people would like to see in Nagios if it was rewritten from the
>ground up.
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>Features I intend to add:
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> * Rewrite in C# for all the reasons one would use a managed
> language, Linux boxen will use Mono of course!
> * Design Nagios to be distributed from the get-go.
> * Use XML files for main configuration to ease the creation of
> configuration tools.
> * Use a SQLite database back end for object configuration
> * Use a SQLite database for user access configuration
> * Portability through C# and our friends at Mono
> * Create web services for getting the status of services and
> allowing services to report in.
> * Multi-threaded to simplify program code and speed the program up
> on multi-processor systems.
> * Integrate RRDtool for performance reporting without need for a
> plug in.
> * More well-defined reporting tools.
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>Now I'll end up writing this whether or not people help, and whether or
>not it gets used because I'm going to use it myself. Obviously I want to
>get mind share on this project and see what other features people would
>like to see in this rewrite. I will also be releasing it under a new
>name which I am working on getting domains and possibly a trademark for.
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>What are other's thoughts and suggestions?
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>Jeff
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