A NDOUtils replacement : CentreonBroker

[Christopher McAtackney]

2009/7/1 Matthieu Kermagoret <mkermagoret at merethis.com>:
> Hi all,
>
> It seems like NDOUtils development will start again soon. That's great news !
>
> However at Merethis, we though that NDOUtils were discontinued and so
> we started to develop our own NDOUtils replacement : CentreonBroker.
> This software is starting to be viable (we plan to release a beta
> version soon) and try to address some of the main drawbacks of the
> existing ndomod and ndo2db. Right now we only have a daemon and a
> slightly modified version of ndomod (to support TLS). The daemon has
> the following advantages over the original ndo2db :
>
>  - written in C++ (more stability)
>  - multiple input ports
>  - multiple database output
>  - configurable logs
>  - TLS connection
>  - optimized DB schema
>  - multithreaded (use modern processors)
>  - lower network footprint
>  - lower DB server load (optimized queries)
>
> We still miss PostgreSQL and Oracle support (we don't use libdbi
> because it seems not to support prepared statements) and full event
> processing (we lack support of some event types) but that's about it !
> Even more, our first benchmarks show a *real* speed improvement.
>
> Merethis would like to propose this rapidly-evolving high-performance
> software as a NDOUtils replacement. Despite its name Centreon-Broker
> do not rely on Centreon at all. Also, the name can be changed and more
> documentation provided. If you're interested you can checkout the code
> at http://svn.centreon.com/trunk/centreon-broker or the homepage at
> http://forge.centreon.com/projects/show/centreon-broker .
>
> With this software, we try to address the main NDOUtils drawbacks in a
> modern way. As we have a good code start, we would like to share it
> with the community and avoid it to reinvent the wheel. So feel free to
> tell us what you think about it.
>
> PS : I already spoke of this project to Ethan who told me to see it
> with you guys.
>
> Best regards,
>
> --
> Matthieu KERMAGORET | Développeur

Hi Matthieu,

You mentioned that you are currently missing Oracle and PostgreSQL
support from your project. Do you think that support for these
databases will eventually be incorporated into CentreonBroker?

Cheers,
Chris

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