The Nagios: Reloaded (Rewriting Nagios)

[Jeff Rodriguez]

Of course, it would be rather asinine of me to not do so :) I think I'd 
have a little problem getting a patent on a "distributed monitoring 
system" though :)

Our current monitoring box runs tests against 400+ hosts, 2700+ 
services, and runs over 1000 checks/minute. The company I work for is in 
the top 500 fastest growing companies in the world. At our current pace, 
we NEED to be distributed. You don't need a multiproc box to run a 
multithreaded app, it just helps. The threading is mostly for sanity, 
it's much easier to split up code into threads.

It's not a lack of tools to setup the Nagios configuration, the Nagios 
configuration is inherently lacking in that it's not database driven to 
begin with.

Read http://www.ondotnet.com/pub/a/dotnet/2003/03/03/mcppp2.html for a 
description of managed code.

GPL? No, I prefer BSD.

Jeff

Kerry Milestone wrote:

>Will you forever mention on your new website with its new trademark that the ideas and inspiration came from Nagios?  Will you follow the usual Microsoft standard and claim a patent for the new technology of remotely polling devices through an integrated distributed monitoring system?  What do you intend the monitoring box to be doing to require extensive multi-processor computing?  Have you come across Nagmin? (its very useful)  What exactly is a managed language?  Will it be GPL?
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>Just a few thoughts about things.
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>Kerry Milestone,
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net [mailto:nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of Jeff Rodriguez
>Sent: Wednesday, 7 July 2004 1:50 p.m.
>To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
>Subject: [Nagios-users] The Nagios: Reloaded (Rewriting Nagios)
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>I'm working on rewriting Nagios in C# and I'm looking for input as to 
>what people would like to see in Nagios if it was rewritten from the 
>ground up.
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>Features I intend to add:
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>    * Rewrite in C# for all the reasons one would use a managed
>      language, Linux boxen will use Mono of course!
>    * Design Nagios to be distributed from the get-go.
>    * Use XML files for main configuration to ease the creation of
>      configuration tools.
>    * Use a SQLite database back end for object configuration
>    * Use a SQLite database for user access configuration
>    * Portability through C# and our friends at Mono
>    * Create web services for getting the status of services and
>      allowing services to report in.
>    * Multi-threaded to simplify program code and speed the program up
>      on multi-processor systems.
>    * Integrate RRDtool for performance reporting without need for a
>      plug in.
>    * More well-defined reporting tools.
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>Now I'll end up writing this whether or not people help, and whether or 
>not it gets used because I'm going to use it myself. Obviously I want to 
>get mind share on this project and see what other features people would 
>like to see in this rewrite. I will also be releasing it under a new 
>name which I am working on getting domains and possibly a trademark for.
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>What are other's thoughts and suggestions?
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>Jeff
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