[naemon-users] mod_gearman

[Mark Clarkson]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Naemon-users [mailto:naemon-users-
> bounces+mark.clarkson=smorg.co.uk at monitoring-lists.org] On Behalf Of
> Robin Sonefors
> Sent: 23 January 2014 16:23
> To: Naemon Users
> Subject: Re: [naemon-users] mod_gearman
> 
> On 2014-01-23 15:42, Mark Clarkson wrote:
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: Naemon-users [mailto:naemon-users-
> >> bounces+mark.clarkson=smorg.co.uk at monitoring-lists.org] On Behalf Of
> >> Sven Nierlein
> >> Sent: 23 January 2014 14:22
> >> To: Naemon Users
> >> Subject: Re: [naemon-users] mod_gearman
> >>
> >> Naemon is already the prefered platform for Mod-Gearman2 and the
> only
> >> supported platform.
> >> But i will probably support Mod-Gearman1 a while for old nagios
> setups.
> >> Naemon has built-in workers, so you won't need Mod-Gearman for
> >> offloading anymore, but the distributing features may still be very
> >> usefull, or the embedded perl worker.
> >>
> >>   Sven
> >
> > Many clients want a single dashboard. I usually implement this using
> mod_gearman and dup_server so the master nagios does not do checking
> itself and only receives results from other nagios servers. I have
> found this works very well.
> > Can Naemon do this? Or would I need to add Mod_Gearman2.
> 
> Unfortunately, naemon can not do this out of the box, yet - the naemon
> workers give roughly the same advantage as mod_gearman when you only
> have one monitoring host, but when you have several, you still need an
> addon to distribute the checks.
> 
> Fortunately, members of the naemon team are the maintainers of no less
> than two different solutions to achieve this - you can either use
> Sven's mod_gearman2, or Andreas' merlin. Easiest for you, as a former
> user of mod_gearman1, is probably mod_gearman2.

That is great news, since I install mod_gearman by default.

Does mod_gearman2 have a project page/GitHub home yet as I can't find any
details in Google?

I look forward to trying naemon in the near future. Can you tell me the
intentions of the project? Is a goal to remain fully open source or to build
extra 'enterprise' and paid-for add-ons?