> I'm maintaining a project for distributed configuration of Nagios called
> SysNagios.
> (Principle, sysadmin configures Nrpe and nagios parses config and
> automatically updates cfg-files).
>
This sounds interesting. I'll have to check it out.
> This works great in the organization, we're currently monitoring 1017
> hosts and 9724 service checks and I hardly do any support at all
.>
> Anyway. Even though SysNagios supports proxies with nsca, the user
> interface is getting really sluggish. I need to implement SysNagios with
> some database-based frontend really soon. We have hundreds of systems in
> line to get nagiossed.
>
> Now i gett weary, which system shall I use!? There is'nt time enough to
> try out one and see if I like it. When I choose, it will likely be
> "forever". I like what I see in Merlin, but there is no real
> documentation, and I also like Ninja.
>
Happy to hear you like our stuff.
Merlin is still a work in progress. It's scheduled to be released as
stable in August. Right now work is a bit stalled on Merlin since I'm
working on my presentation about it for Nordic Meet on Nagios (I'll
see you there).
> NDO seems more established, but it has some real drawbacks.
>
Such as not being able to transport events between hosts for one thing,
I'd guess. This means you can't cluster things using NDOUtils.
> Currently I use the notes_url to call a CGI which downloads the config
> from the monitored host, parses, errorchecks and inserts it into the
> Nagios file-structure. There is also a field in the "left menu" of
> Nagios where you can choose which proxy you want to use, and enter an IP
> if you are to insert a new host. These mods must be possible in the new
> platform as well.
>
> What shall I do!?
>
> By the way, I'll be speaking about SysNagios on Nordic Meet On Nagios.
>
Well, we could buy each other a few beers at the meet and discuss what we
can do to help each other out a little. A quite simple solution would
probably be to extend the merlin database slightly and write a small and
stupid widget that gives you the information you want in sysnagios. That
way you won't be forcing nagios users to abandon their current use of the
notes_url, while not having to change the way configuration is distributed
today.
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