Embedding Nagios

[Andreas Ericsson]

Sorry for the wonky wrapping. It appears your MUA didn't do any, so
I was forced to rewrap it to be able to read what I'm replying to.

Sven-Göran Bergh wrote:
[a lot of info about their embedded system ]
> 
> A first pilot installation will take place next week and the main
> roll out is planned for the end of this year.
> 

Sounds awesome. Hope it goes well.

> === Questions === Now some inquiries:
> 
> * What about the future of Nagios? I am thinking about the need for
> database support, perl, PHP and other heavy weight stuff.

Such things are delegated to eventbroker modules. The eventbroker
support for Nagios is here to stay. Only things that aren't possible
to implement as modules will be added to the core (more or less; We're
ofcourse open to new ideas, but they had better be extraordinary for
them to go into the core proper).

> * Anyone
> knows about a SQLite based management for Nagios (config and GUI)?
> The advantage of database support is obvious, but the footprint and
> administration of ordinary DBs are too much for this puppy.

There are eventbroker modules that use libdbi to handle database
interaction. Libdbi support sqlite.

> * Does
> Nagios embedded perl play with microperl? I know about the module
> limitations with microperl, but we try to avoid them anyway.

I shouldn't think so, but I don't know.

> * Future
> path for our plugins? Currently we use basic perl, shell and C. What
> are the implications of skipping perl and just go for plain C and
> shell?

None. The entire idea of using external programs to do the actual
checking is one of the things that have really helped Nagios become
so immensely popular, so the ability to write plugins in whatever
language you want will remain indefinitely.

-- 
Andreas Ericsson                   andreas.ericsson at op5.se
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