Future of web inteface

[Eldad Zack]

On Sun, 2004-10-03 at 23:25, Oscar Ramos Moreno wrote:

> I am going to develop a customized application based on nagios and I
> would like to know the opinion and ideas of developers regarding the
> web interface. As I have seen the "official" web interface is based on
> CGIs but there a new one developed in php. What is the opinion of
> nagios developers? What is the interface with more future? What do you
> recomed me to use?

I assume you are referring to the nagios-php project [1] I've started,
as it is the only php interface I am aware of (correct me if I'm wrong),
and it is not "officially supported". (I do welcome feedback)
Currently there is no question - if you're using it in production and
need all the features that the CGIs provide, you'll use that.

But if you require to integrate some of nagios' features - namely,
status screens (and command support is getting there, too), you are more
than welcomed to use nagios-php.

> Maybe my project will not be very useful for nagios (I am going to
> monitor rural networks with very small bandwidth and non TCP/IP
> protocols -->http://www.ehas.org/portal_en/4-Tecnologias/ ) but I will
> use new actualizations of nagios and I want to use the interface of
> the future ;-).

Nagios 2.x should still have the CGIs as interface.
PHP interface is only planned for 3.x, so as far as I can say, it is a
safe bet to use the CGIs for the immediate and not-so-immediate future.

[1] Shameless plug: http://nagios-php.sf.net

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Eldad Zack <eldad at stoneshaft.ath.cx>
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