The Nagios: Reloaded (Rewriting Nagios)

[Kerry Milestone]

Will you forever mention on your new website with its new trademark that the ideas and inspiration came from Nagios?  Will you follow the usual Microsoft standard and claim a patent for the new technology of remotely polling devices through an integrated distributed monitoring system?  What do you intend the monitoring box to be doing to require extensive multi-processor computing?  Have you come across Nagmin? (its very useful)  What exactly is a managed language?  Will it be GPL?

Just a few thoughts about things.



 
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Kerry Milestone,
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-----Original Message-----
From: nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net [mailto:nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of Jeff Rodriguez
Sent: Wednesday, 7 July 2004 1:50 p.m.
To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: [Nagios-users] The Nagios: Reloaded (Rewriting Nagios)

I'm working on rewriting Nagios in C# and I'm looking for input as to 
what people would like to see in Nagios if it was rewritten from the 
ground up.

Features I intend to add:

    * Rewrite in C# for all the reasons one would use a managed
      language, Linux boxen will use Mono of course!
    * Design Nagios to be distributed from the get-go.
    * Use XML files for main configuration to ease the creation of
      configuration tools.
    * Use a SQLite database back end for object configuration
    * Use a SQLite database for user access configuration
    * Portability through C# and our friends at Mono
    * Create web services for getting the status of services and
      allowing services to report in.
    * Multi-threaded to simplify program code and speed the program up
      on multi-processor systems.
    * Integrate RRDtool for performance reporting without need for a
      plug in.
    * More well-defined reporting tools.

Now I'll end up writing this whether or not people help, and whether or 
not it gets used because I'm going to use it myself. Obviously I want to 
get mind share on this project and see what other features people would 
like to see in this rewrite. I will also be releasing it under a new 
name which I am working on getting domains and possibly a trademark for.

What are other's thoughts and suggestions?

Jeff


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