AW: Configuring Nagios

[Mohr James]

> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: Gerd Müller [mailto:gmueller at netways.de] 
> Am Fr, den 17.09.2004 schrieb Mohr James um 15:38:
> > Hi All!
> > 
> > Is there a GUI to configure Nagios? Is there any auto discovery?  
> > Thanks in advance.
> 
> My preferred way to configure nagios is to use something like 
> vi. I don't like the guis. It takes much longer to configure 
> nagios via web interface than via a simple editor. I also 
> don't like any auto discovery. Such programs normaly create 
> massiv config files without any logical structure inside and 
> without any knowledge of wise critical/warning values. This 
> will cause you massiv work afterwards if you want to change 
> details of your config and prevent useless alert-mailstorms. 
> So I would suggest first plan and oriented your configuration 
> similar to your logical setup and then use excessive 
> templates and groups. That will save you much more time than 
> using guis and autodetection.  

You're preaching to the choir on that one (as we say in English). I prefer vi to editing files and I expect a lot of the initial configuration will be done by perl scripts that parse the OpenView configuration, hosts file, etc.  However, my boss is a Windows-type and has trouble using vi. Hopefully we can keep him from wanting to do too much configuration on his own. (Do you ever read 'Dilbert'?)

I'll pass along the recommendation to him about editing the config file if/when he starts pushing for a GUI. He already knows about Netways, as he was looking for commercial Nagios support when we first started looking at it. (Nothing decided yet, just a "Gedankenspiel").

Regards,

James Mohr
Systembetrieb
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