Nagios Support Forum

Hi,

Following the comment on the part where XI is stated as a commercial product.
I was wondering how XI is delivered to the end-user eventually.
Is the product delivered the way we are downloading it now? as a virtual machine?
or will there be a linux package eventually that need to be installed on your (what ever) distro?

Just wondering.

Rgrds,

On day on our official distribution method will be a virtual image like what's available today.

We'll provide the full installer scripts that we use to get the vm setup to customers, with the caveat that we won't provide support for install issues or XI problems that result from such installs. There are a lot of components and packages that need to get installed for XI, which can be problematic with the OS/distro differences that are out there - including package availability and configuration. There's no inherent reason why the XI platform couldn't run under other platforms - its just a matter of supportability from day one.

FYI, we do plan on supporting installs to physical boxes running RHEL, CentOS and Fedora, as long as XI doesn't go over the top of an existing setup. We'll be working with our partners to provide support for Debian and Ubuntu as well, although official support for those other platforms may be 2-3 months out.