Web-Based config

[Brandon Gillespie]

Carroll, Jim P [Contractor] wrote:
> Not sure whether Fredrik needs to get with Ethan on this one, at least not
> as far as a seamless, shrinkwrapped integration is concerned.
> 
> Today you can download the core product.  And plugins.  And addons (NRPE,
> NSCA, others).  And image packs.
> 
> I could be speaking out of turn here, but I suspect Fredrik intended NATO to
> be another addon.

IMHO, it should be a part of the application, not an add-on.  Being able 
to easily configure is vital to any application.  I have pointed several 
people to Nagios, and they like how it looks, they download it, etc. 
But then they get to the point where they want to configure it, they see 
the poor documentation (sorry, lots of docs != good docs) and are then 
pointed at these copious .cfg files and they just say forget it, and 
move onto other things.  If you dont want to get into deep hacking, 
there are much easier tools to use for this purpose than to configure 
Nagios.

I like to get into the guts of things, and I still think configuring 
nagios is annoying because it is forcing me to spend a LOT of time 
configuring something which could be so much easier to do with a proper 
interface.  The fact that many people hack tools to make it easier 
configuring Nagios is a big sign saying there is a problem.

Sure, nagios is not hard to configure if you have a few servers.  Do it 
on a scale of 50~100+ and it is no longer trivial, it gets horribly 
redundant and annoying, even using templates.

Modularity is good, but some things should remain core to the system. 
If I never had to look at another nagios config file I'd be more than happy.

-Brandon



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