Web front-end for Nagios 2.x

Marcel van Leeuwen m.v.leeuwen at student.tue.nl
Tue May 9 13:27:10 CEST 2006


lars.bruun-hansen at nordea.com wrote:
> Marcel,
>  
> Remember my requirement:  Nagios 2.x (Nagios 1.x irrelevant)
> 
> Monarch seems to me to be GroundWorks' previous configuration front-end
> while the new up-and-coming configuration front-end specific for Nagios
> 2.x is called Fruity, also by GroundWorks.
> Is this wrong?
> 
Yes this is wrong. I believe Monarch indeed was available for version 
1.0 (although I have never used it for that) it now has features that 
make it possible to convert existing configurations.

> In any case I believe more in configuration tools that have started
> their life on Nagois 2.x as I'm really afraid that the older tools have
> too much baggage. Maybe I'm wrong on that one ?
> 
> Some examples that I've come across that seems to do what I want 
> 
> * Fruity, by GroundWorks,  latest version: 1.0 RC1
> * NagiosQL 2005, by Martin Willisegger,   latest version 1.0 RC2
> 
Well, I can say that I have tested both and have now migrated to Monarch 
because of the (future) scale of my Nagios implementation. Fruity is the 
light-weight brother/sister of Monarch, but works very well it provides 
an almost 1-on-1 mapping of the Nagios configuration files. I believe 
that the initial Fruity developer is now part of the Monarch team (am 
not sure about this).

I think NagiosQL is ok but I stubled across some bugs (e.g. '\' 
handling in configurations) and I found the interface not very 
comprehensible.

The above tools both work fine, and give you an option to easily 
configure your files. However, Monarch does more it adds features that 
are not supported by the Nagios configuration files that make it easy to 
maintain large groups of hosts and services, like service and host 
profiles, dependency templates, contact templates, etc..


Bases on my experience with the above I would most certainly recommend 
Monarch if you plan on having a large Nagios configuration. If not I 
think you should go for Fruity since it does give you enough to easily 
create you configuration in a very comprehensible interface.
> Others?
> 
Yes I have tried one more but can't remember which one it was..:)

Remember, that all the above are just my personal experiences...

Regards,
Marcel
> 
> Lars 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net
> [mailto:nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of Mels
> Kooijman
> Sent: Tuesday, May 09, 2006 10:53
> To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: RE: [Nagios-users] Re: Web front-end for Nagios 2.x
> 
> Hi,
> 
> We are using Monarch for the m$ administrators and are very positive
> about it.
> Only 1 thing gives some trouble.
> When we add a system, first add a new file for it.
> After commit Nagios reports a configuration error, the course is that
> Monarch the new .cfg file not saved in the running nagios.cfg
> 
> Kind regards
> Mels
> 
> 
> 
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net
>>[mailto:nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of Marcel 
>>van Leeuwen
>>Sent: Tuesday, May 09, 2006 9:23 AM
>>To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
>>Subject: [Nagios-users] Re: Web front-end for Nagios 2.x
>>
>>
>>Hi,
>>
>>I have latelely been looking into Monarch. This seems a very robust 
>>interface. For as for as I know it does support all configuration 
>>features and even more in the form of host and service profiles.
>>
>>http://sourceforge.net/projects/monarch
>>or
>>http://www.groundworkopensource.com
>>
>>Kind regards,
>>Marcel van Leeuwen
>>
>>
>>lars.bruun-hansen at nordea.com wrote:
>>
>>> 
>>>
>>>Hi there,
>>>
>>>I'm looking for a GUI-frontend for Nagios 2.x.
>>>
>>>Anyone can tell me what options I have if my requirements are:
>>>
>>>* Nagios 2.x support, Nagios 1.x irrelevant
>>>* Must support *all* configuration features of Nagios 2.x
>>>* Must support template based configuration
>>>* Restart from within the GUI
>>>* Good support, stable, being actively maintained
>>>
>>>I can of course see a list of potential candidates on
>>
>>NagiosExchange
>>
>>>but it seems to me that many of them are really Nagios 1.x
>>
>>specific. 
>>
>>>I'm trying to save some time here by asking you lot instead of 
>>>installing and trying out each individually.
>>>
>>>
>>>thx.
>>>
>>>Lars
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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