New Nagios implementation proposal

[Marc Powell]

On Dec 9, 2009, at 2:50 PM, Flyinvap wrote:

> Le Wed, 9 Dec 2009 12:12:20 -0600,
> Marc Powell <marc at ena.com> a écrit :
> 
>> know, Ethan doesn't even know or use Python at all. You are asking
> 
> And what about taking some concepts from shinken and using their in next
> nagios versions ? in python, c, c++ or anything else the developers
> want.

That's not what was proposed but may be encumbered, depending on how Gabès Jean proceeds and under what license. He has contributed very useful code before, particularly the circular parent check logic useful for large installations so I think that he certainly has things he can contribute conceptually and code-wise. As a user with a large installation, I am personally very interested in any changes/additions that improve the performance or capabilities for large installations and fully appreciate the desires expressed by him to implement them. Proposing a complete re-write in a completely different language and asking it to just be accepted might not be the best path.

>> In the end, it's Ethan's decision but I see your project as living on
>> it's own, similar to Icinga, promoting 100% nagios compatibility, but
>> a completely different implementation none-the-less.
> 
> Jean proposed a new implementation for nagios, not a fork, doesn't he ?

If you re-implement something in a language that the current developer does not use, then that is a fork, unless the current developer relinquishes control/responsibility or agrees to switch to that language. Do you know how good Ethan's python coding is, or even if he can at all? To the best of my knowledge whether he can proficiently code in Python is an unknown.

> Is the fork the only solution ?

I think that if Python is the language of choice for the proposed 'reimplementation', then yes, that would be _my_ opinion unless Ethan is fully on board with it and fully involved. I think if the concepts can be integrated into the current codebase, then that's a different thing.

> icinga is not enough ? Is Nagios XI the only future of nagios ?

I don't know and I have no say. Those were just my thoughts and opinions from an end-user perspective with an eye to the time, work and intellectual investment Ethan has in the current code. I do believe that a wholesale replacement of the official nagios with a Python re-write is going to be very very unlikely.

--
Marc


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