[Nagios-devel] Creeping Dependencies was Re: Nagios Data store
Posted: Sun Mar 16, 2003 5:27 am
On Sat, Mar 15, 2003 at 12:10:13AM -0000, Chris Woollard wrote:
> I think that the product could be greatly improved it the data could be
> stored within either an Oracle or MySQL Database. This could greatly improve
> performance and also recovery in the event of a serious failure.
Or it could increase the problems if the database was the one that was
down.
I understand the desire (and for some shops, the need) to have Nagios
integrated with a number of tools, but for a lot of us, its the simplicity
and lack of dependence on other products that brought us to this package.
I had my choice of tools - but since Nagios didn't _require_ me to install
any other package to get it to work reasonably, it was the first one I
evaluated and rapidly became the one to use.
So I urge people when they think about adding dependencies on databases or
php - think about simplicity of installation and operation. The more things
there are, the more things there are that can break. The features they
bring are nice and sometimes essential, but there is a cost involved.
Allen
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> I think that the product could be greatly improved it the data could be
> stored within either an Oracle or MySQL Database. This could greatly improve
> performance and also recovery in the event of a serious failure.
Or it could increase the problems if the database was the one that was
down.
I understand the desire (and for some shops, the need) to have Nagios
integrated with a number of tools, but for a lot of us, its the simplicity
and lack of dependence on other products that brought us to this package.
I had my choice of tools - but since Nagios didn't _require_ me to install
any other package to get it to work reasonably, it was the first one I
evaluated and rapidly became the one to use.
So I urge people when they think about adding dependencies on databases or
php - think about simplicity of installation and operation. The more things
there are, the more things there are that can break. The features they
bring are nice and sometimes essential, but there is a cost involved.
Allen
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Original poster: [email protected]