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Contribute to Nagios core
Posted: Mon Jun 12, 2017 4:18 am
by harshkhatore
Hi, I am new to Nagios, I have been using Nagioscore for the last one week to monitor server hardware. We want to implement IPMI over Nagioscore. We need to make some customization to the open source product. Please help me understand how should I start understanding your code and how to work on it. I am using Nagioscore version 4.3.1..
Thank you.
Re: Contribute to Nagios core
Posted: Mon Jun 12, 2017 10:44 am
by tmcdonald
The best place to start would be our GitHub page:
https://github.com/NagiosEnterprises/nagioscore
The source code is there, and you are free to contribute back changes you make in the form of a Pull Request.
You will need knowledge of the C programming language, and understanding how to manage repositories on GitHub.
Re: Contribute to Nagios core
Posted: Mon Jun 12, 2017 1:44 pm
by harshkhatore
Thank you for your reply. But, my concern is how to understand the flow of the program, because all these files in GitHub are scattered. So, how I understand the whole functioning of the product? Thanks
Re: Contribute to Nagios core
Posted: Mon Jun 12, 2017 1:50 pm
by tmcdonald
That's something you will need to figure out on your own :)
Core is a large project, and the only way to learn how it works is to dive in. Without a programming background, I would not recommend making any large changes to an unknown codebase. We don't have any documentation that goes over each file in the codebase.