AW: Cascading Services/Service hierarchy

[Andreas Ericsson]

Robert Nelson wrote:
> I hesitate to jump in the middle here, but I couldn't help but comment
> on the following portion:
> 
> 
>>It wasn't, but as I've said before, we do this for free on our spare 
>>time and by re-asking questions you've already been given an 
>>answer to 
>>you're not making any of us more willing to help.
> 
> 
> Being told that something is trivial is NOT an answer, unless the
> question is "Is X trivial or not?"

If you jumped up in the middle you might have missed that I was 
backreferencing to a solution already given.

> I too have read the documentation and
> have the same problems figuring out how to define one service that
> multiple services depend on, and also present it in a view that allows
> you to drill down. If nothing else, I do not know how to get it to work
> with the statusmap.

It doesn't. The documentation states quite clearly what the statusmap is 
and what it's capable of. If you'd read it, you would have given up on 
its drilling capabilities a long time ago.

> Again, being told that it's "trivial" doesn't help -
> I'm purely a network administrator, not a programmer. If I can't do it
> in a shell script, it's non-trivial for me.
> 

Our original friend runs a service provider. I'm sure there are 
programmers where he works, and if they're worth their salt it's trivial 
to them.

> The other thing I'd like to say is that Andreas, you keep going on about
> how you do this for free, but then you tell us what your hourly rate is.
> Either do it for free, or go to that other site you pointed to. Sit, or
> get off the pot. If you're doing this for free, then you're doing it for
> free, stop telling us how you could make money elsewhere.
> 

You obviously didn't read the entire conversation. The original poster 
clearly stated that he wanted to save himself the trouble of reading the 
documentation by asking questions here. I hinted that anybody who gets 
paid more than willingly would answer his (repeated and re-repeated) 
questions at an hourly rate. I don't know what the going rate is among 
Nagios support companies, so I mentioned my own hourly rate as a pointer 
to what he might expect. Personally, I would never set foot in an office 
where noone is willing to read an answer that's right in front them. 
It's just not worth it.

-- 
Andreas Ericsson                   andreas.ericsson at op5.se
OP5 AB                             www.op5.se
Lead Developer


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