Web-Based config

[jason at cannonfodder.org]

just my .02 worth.

I am going to have to agree. We have ~300 hosts and ~1500 services and
the initial setup of nagios was a major project. Add to that the fact
that I would have to "dumb down" the documentation even more and give
our support staff access I dont want them to have in order for them to
be able to setup new hosts and services. 

on Thu Mar 20 Brandon Gillespie spoke forth with the blessed manuscript
> 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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