DB Requirements for Nagios

[jbennett]

We are looking at offloading our Nagios DB to a MS SQL server.

Everything I see referrs to MySQL.

I haven't found anything that specifically states that MySQL must be used but before we attempt this, I want to be sure.

[tmcdonald]

I know there are tools to convert between the two, and there are PHP libraries like PDO that are db-agnostic, but I don't believe we actually support this at the moment.

[jbennett]

Per the offloading document: 2 – Adjust Settings on Nagios Server - I see the following field in the nd02db.cfg file:

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db_servertype=mysql

If I were to change this to 'mssql' would it know how to handle that change?

[lmiltchev]

This hasn't been tested and won't be supported. I would highly suggest not doing it. If you want to play with it - set up a test server, but again, even if it worked, it wouldn't be supported.

[jbennett]

Are there any plans to support more enterprise level platforms like Oracle and MSSQL with Nagios?

[abrist]

Not currently.

EDIT: But you are welcome to submit a feature request to: tracker.nagios.com