Nagios and/or GroundWork

[Oliver Marshall]

I cant see that they have patched anything, at least not noticeably. All
the command lines still accept the same functions, and I have been able
to literally copy and paste my nagios configs in to Groundwork. 

I agree that, for an open source company, they don't seem to be very
open source, in that I don't seem to be able to compile groundwork for
my system, instead using precompiled RPM's.

Saying that, a lot of the groundwork functionality is available in
segments from their site, though the documentation on getting these to
function the same was as the finished Groundwork package is very
poor...ie not there.

About the only thing that I *REALLY* would like to see in Nagios, and
that I would miss about not using Groundwork, is the status screens. One
in particular is very good, and very simple too. The other status
screens involve WAY too much clicking to get to any information of
merit, but they are still much better than the Nagios ones.

-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:nagios-users-bounces at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of Ton
Voon
Sent: 07 June 2006 14:11
To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net Users
Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Nagios and/or GroundWork


On 7 Jun 2006, at 13:39, Oliver Marshall wrote:

> Just curious as to what peoples opinions are really. I'm tempted by
> Groundwork, but I'm also put off by a lot of things and may stay with
> Nagios proper on Mandriva.

I haven't had a chance to look at Groundwork's software, so I can't  
really comment on their application.

However, I would personally like Groundwork to contribute more to the  
community. I'm sure they must have patched Nagios and the Nagios  
Plugins for their own implementation and I'd like to see some more of  
those come back to us. While the GPL does not mandate it, it is in  
the best interests of the entire community if there is not just  
"take", but also a bit more "give".

Ton

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