NCPA for AIX and Solaris

[tim620]

I noticed the latest version of NCPA for AIX is 2.2.1 and for Solaris it is 2.4.0. Are there any plans to release updated versions of the NCPA agents for these platforms? We can't be the only one demanding this.

We use the NCPA agent across all our platforms, including AIX and Solaris, but the current agents we are using, are getting old.

[bbahn]

Hello @tim620,

NCPA is an open source solution and anyone can make contributions, but at the moment there are no plans by the Nagios development team to support and release NCPA 3 on AIX.
There is currently an open issue for adding AIX support to NCPA 3 here: https://github.com/NagiosEnterprises/ncpa/issues/923.

Someone managed to get cx_Freeze to work on AIX, so not all hope is lost: https://community.ibm.com/community/use ... eze-on-aix. That said, NCPA relies on many dependencies and I am unsure of whether these all exist for AIX, let alone support full functionality.

[tim620]

Thanks. There are a number of open source programs and projects that currently work on AIX. But, it is not worth my time and effort to try and compile NCPA 3.x on AIX myself. I was just hoping that the Nagios development team would have plans release an updated version for AIX someday.

[bbahn]

I would like to extend support to Solaris and AIX, but we have a lot of work on our plate right now and I won't have time to do so in the near-term if at all. Maintaining addition OSs is a large commitment (particularly ones which we do not currently have infrastructure to even test on), especially on a product like NCPA where the build needs to vary from OS to OS. I will do what I can to update/fix the build so that it can be built on Solaris/AIX, but I'm not sure if we would host built packages for them without them being fully supported, which we will not being doing soon if at all.

[tim620]

Thanks for the reply.

It isn't an urgent request or anything. More of a question, hoping for positive future plans. The older versions still works on AIX and Solaris. But at some point we will want to figure out a newer agent. Maybe a switch to a NRPE agent.

On a side note. IBM does have cloud based AIX LPAR's that can be started relatively cheaply without an investment in IBM Power hardware. I'm not certain if Solaris / Oracle has the same type of thing or not. Just a thought for future AIX NCPA development.

[jmichaelson]

That's good to know on the AIX front. We'll keep that in mind. As for Solaris, we can at least spin up Virtual Machines on x64 systems to test and verify that when we have teh oppportunity.