AW: AW: Cascading Services/Service hierarchy

[Andreas Ericsson]

Mohr James wrote:
>>I haven't had a look at VPO, but it sounds like Nagios and 
>>VPO works in 
>>a similar fashion, although Nagios lets you configure some of the 
>>options that VPO rams down your throat.
> 
> 
> Actually, the service aspect of VPO seems to be alot more advanced that
> Nagios. I can easily define multi-layered services, as well as complex
> propogation rules. For example, I can say that the status is only
> propagated when more than 50% of the underlying services have reached a
> certain level. If I have two services, that means both have to be red,
> for example. If I add a third service, then only two need to be red
> before it's prograted, without having to change the propagation rules. I
> can also say when 25% of the underlying services are critical, then the
> top level is only a warning. At 40%, the top level has a severity of
> major. Finally, at 60%, the top level has a severity of critical. 
> 

Sounds like an awful mess to configure, and I don't really see any great 
value in it. But whatever floats your dingy...

> VPO also has some faily fine control over who sees what. I can define
> services that only specific users see.

Nagios does that.

> Or I can define commands that only specific users can run. 
> 

Nagios doesn't do that.
OTOH, you can write your own GUI for Nagios in about four days. If you'd 
want to do that for VPO, I imagine you'd have to spend a fair amount of 
time.

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Andreas Ericsson                   andreas.ericsson at op5.se
OP5 AB                             www.op5.se
Lead Developer


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