I think Ethan wants to concentrate nagios development at the core features that everyone needs allowing others to build add-ons and plugins. Actual setup of nagios in most places consists of the core nagios server and set of specific addons that work for the environment nagios is being setup at. That really has always been the strength of nagios that it is easy to create monitoring plugins and that many are already available. For clustering I'd personally also recommend DNX. I've helped with development of that package when it was in early alpha (fixed several bugs in XML parser and other places) and installed it year ago for large set of monitoring servers. It works well although its still a lot more of a development-level software then nagios is and it still has features missing which I really would love to have. Specifically the two I want most is embedded perl support for plugins that nagios itself has and capability to assign sets of DNX servers for specific hosts (which would also allow it to be used on remote network in place of nrpe), a patch to DNX is available for this but is not well tested yet. But it is very noticeable that two most requested features by users (as seen at <a href="http://ideas.nagios.org">ideas.nagios.org</a>) are clustering and performance graphing. I'm kind-of sorry icinga people decided to do complete split because what I was hoping to see is good open-source nagios-based monitoring super-package that would include nagios at the core as well as such requested add-ons and larger set of plugins all in one install for those who want to see a larger set of features with nagios in one package. I know there are several commercial monitoring products based on nagios that do this and to some degree they are all open-source (as they are build on open-source packages) but they all have very noticeable commercial interest in selling the package with support in mind. I was really hoping to see a package that is more positioned as open-source with development by users for users and less commercial by one company in nature (although I'm well aware that supporting open-source development is not easy and requires certain business initiative and some commercialization or sponsors). I've been thinking of creating such package myself for almost a year but doing it alone is hard and not very maintainable considering my schedule. But if there are multiple (at least 3 volunteers needed for this to work, need not be all developers) who are willing to participate (5 hours/week) and have places where such package can be installed and tested, then let me know and perhaps we can put a team together for new nagios-based monitoring super package. <div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 8:51 AM, Nick Price <<a href="mailto:np121@hotmail.com">np121@hotmail.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> <div link="blue" vlink="purple" lang="EN-US"> <div> Thanks Mark Was more hoping that it could be built into a future version of nagios. If it all comes from one development team there is likely to be less problems Nick <div> <div style="border-style: solid none none; border-color: rgb(181, 196, 223) -moz-use-text-color -moz-use-text-color; border-width: 1pt medium medium; padding: 3pt 0cm 0cm;"> From: Frost, Mark {PBG} [mailto:<a href="mailto:mark.frost1@pepsi.com" target="_blank">mark.frost1@pepsi.com</a>] Sent: Wednesday, July 15, 2009 17:18 To: Nagios Developers List<div><div></div><div class="h5"> Subject: Re: [Nagios-devel] feature request clustering</div></div> </div> </div><div><div></div><div class="h5"> Doesn't DNX do some of this? Actually, it seems more like the dream scenario of DNX + Merlin. Mark <div style="border-style: none none none solid; border-color: -moz-use-text-color -moz-use-text-color -moz-use-text-color blue; border-width: medium medium medium 1.5pt; padding: 0cm 0cm 0cm 4pt;"> <div> <div style="border-style: solid none none; border-color: rgb(181, 196, 223) -moz-use-text-color -moz-use-text-color; border-width: 1pt medium medium; padding: 3pt 0cm 0cm;"> From: Nick Price [mailto:<a href="mailto:np121@hotmail.com" target="_blank">np121@hotmail.com</a>] Sent: Wednesday, July 15, 2009 10:44 AM To: <a href="mailto:nagios-devel@lists.sourceforge.net" target="_blank">nagios-devel@lists.sourceforge.net</a> Subject: Re: [Nagios-devel] feature request clustering </div> </div> I would like to request a feature that would do distributed clustering without the use of passive checks. With the following considerations Remote Servers:- Check results are passed to a database Web interface and notification access the database Remote server nagios.cfg remote_server_name ;used by the central server to display where the data has come from e.g. London_datacenter central_server_address ;IP address of the central server More IP’s could be added to the central_server_address. For example if a company had several offices in one country and spanned several countries. The following would be available with the web interface Each office could see its own host service checks Country regional office could see the checks from all the offices in that country Global headquarters could see the checks from all countries Central Server:- Has a database for the results of its own checks plus the remote_server databases are also upload into it Web interface / notifications show checks from central and remote servers. Web interface / notification to include the remote_server_name in the host/service check displays Central server nagios.cfg Remote_server_address ;IP address of remote servers, a security feature that would allow the central nagios to ignore any data sent to it from servers not in the list </div> </div></div></div> </div> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge This is your chance to win up to $100,000 in prizes! For a limited time, vendors submitting new applications to BlackBerry App World(TM) will have the opportunity to enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge. 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