[Oneiric-Topic] Nagios

[Peter Clapham]

On 31/03/2011 15:34, Etienne Goyer wrote:
> On 11-03-30 03:57 PM, Ralph Janke wrote:
>    
>>   On 03/30/2011 02:25 PM, Clint Byrum wrote:
>>      
>>> On Wed, 2011-03-30 at 10:59 -0400, Chuck Short wrote:
>>>        
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> I think we should re-evaluate if nagios is the monitoring solution we
>>>> want to support and if it easy make really really easy to deploy.
>>>>
>>>>          
>>> Seems to me that we should consider dropping nagios from main and
>>> promoting icinga as its replacement:
>>>
>>> https://www.icinga.org/faq/why-a-fork/
>>>
>>>        
>> +1 from me
>>      
> Not that I care a whole lot, but isn't this somewhat the same debate as
> MySQL vs. one of the many forks?
>
> Nagios is now an household brand in IT.  I would be very, very cautious
> about dumping that out in favor of a recent fork.  I am all for doing a
> competitive analysis, but please take market adoption into account.
>
>
> (Not that I have any love for Nagios; it's hairy and bynzantine.  Just
> saying that we should be cautious here.)
>
>
>    
+ 1 from me


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