should I use nagios 2.9 or 3.0b5??

[tom.welsh at bt.com]

Hi Pablo,

In my humble opinion I would suggest not to use beta software in a production environment. As you stated in your mail you used 2.9 and it was great. Id suggest still using it until Nagios 3 is stable. There is quite a lot of chatter on the mailing list about nagios 3 and problems with notifications etc. The last thing you want to do is setup Nagios in a new company and for it to go wrong. My Plan would be about 3 steps

1. Install Nagios 2.9 stable release and get it Monitoring and alerting(leave to run for 3-6 months)

2. Install Nagios 3.0 on test bed system and get it monitoring your systems. Turn off alerting to anyone important but have it mail you with alerts. This will ensure you have duplicate alerts from both systems and they should be almost in sync.

3. Migrate your config from Nagios 2.x to Nagios 3 over a period off time, switching on Alerting as you go.

 

-----Original Message-----
From: nagios-users-bounces at lists.sourceforge.net [mailto:nagios-users-bounces at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of Pablo Escobar
Sent: 16 October 2007 09:39
To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: [Nagios-users] should I use nagios 2.9 or 3.0b5??

Hi all

I have been using nagios 2.9 for six months on my last job and it really likes me a lot but now I have gone to a new job and I´m not sure if I should use the last stable release (2.9) or try the last version (3.0b5).

I have both installed and they two seems to work great at least in a basic installation but before start tunning my configuration I´d like to know if the last nagios release is considered stable and if someone is using it on a production environment with a large number of machines.

many thanks in advance for any recomendation.

--
Pablo Escobar Lopez
Head of Infrastructure & IT Support
Bioinformatics Department (CIPF)
http://bioinfo.cipf.es

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