nagios future?

[Meyer Jerome]

Hi,

 

Thanks Andreas and Michael for all the informations (and links) about the future of nagios!

Yeah, I'm happy that It will survive... :)

 

As you mention it, all nagios even releases are stable, so I will install the latest one (3.1.0)!

 

Regards

jerome

 

Von: Michael Friedrich [mailto:michael.friedrich at univie.ac.at] 
Gesendet: Dienstag, 9. Juni 2009 13:15
An: Nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
Betreff: Re: [Nagios-users] nagios future?

 

Hi,

Andreas Ericsson wrote the following on 09.06.2009 11:10: 

Yes. It was discussed quite a lot some few weeks back on the
nagios-devel mailing list. Browse the archives for the full
discussion.
  

try http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=E03A84B43BAE443888372020DDBFE0E7%40int.consol.de

If you're interested in reading a bit more, try

http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum_name=icinga-users
http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum_name=icinga-devel




 
The future of Nagios is looking quite bright. In all honesty, that is
in part thanks to the Icinga fork, which has sparked a flurry of activity
within the Nagios developer community.
  

And also popping up many community based sites, beside the existing ones. Not that bad, but a bit misleading for new users imho. But let's see how it resolves in a bit.
Hopefully Nagios will be on GIT soon to merge knowledge from both projects together. Dunno what plans are going on concerning the NDO and other similar core parts but I think there's much potential to share ideas and kniowledge between Nagios and Icinga.



 
First of all, we'll be releasing 3.1.1 soon, containing a plethora of
bug- and performance fixes. Ethan's working on automating the release
process so that Ton and I can cut releases without having to update a
bunch of webpages, sourceforge downloads area, documentation, etc, etc.
3.1.1 will be the first live test of that automated process. If it drags
out another week or so though, we'll probably just go ahead and do it
manually anyway, as 3.1.1 really has a lot of important fixes that the
Nagios users really should get their hands on.
  

It would be great to mention that all even releases are stable while odd remains testing. On nagios.org 3.1.0 is only mentioned as "latest version" and after clicking the download link it is marked as testing - bit confusing, but not really a problem for experienced users.



 
Nagios will get a new GUI, dubbed "Ninja" sometime during or after the
summer. Ninja is available for download already and is "usable but has
some warts and is still incomplete" according to Ninja maintainer Per
Åsberg. You can find out more about it at
http://www.op5.org/community/projects/ninja. This was announced at the
Nordic Meet on Nagios which was held in Stockholm just last week. Note
that it's not necessarily easy to install yet as it's still a work in
progress. Bug-reports or enhancement requests are ofcourse very welcome,
and documentation patches for the installation procedures even more so.
  

By announcing Ninja as new GUI, the rumors get into Merlin for DB usage. I've read several posts about that but my question is, how far would that be realistic? For what I know Merlin uses the libdbi (just as modified IDOUtils for Icinga) so it would be possible to use different db types. Are there any plans to realize that? :-)

Kind regards,
Michael



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