Nagios 2.0b3 still buggy?

[EXT-Fuentes, James P]

Same here - no real problems that I can report.
 
When I first began working with Nagios, I contacted a former colleague for some tips on getting started. He raised eyebrows over the fact that I was using beta code.
 
Granted, I'm running a relatively small operation w/ 480 services for 144 hosts, nothing real tricky, just standard plugins and a few home grown plugins.
 
I've worked with a few "official releases" from commercial vendors that were absolutely horrendous.
 
-Jim

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From: Scott Sugar [mailto:ssugar at proserveit.com]
Sent: Thu 7/28/2005 9:27 AM
To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: RE: [Nagios-users] Nagios 2.0b3 still buggy?


I have to agree that Nagios 2.0b3 is reasonably stable.
I am currently monitoring 5 different customers sites with a nagios 2.0b3 box at each site and a central nagios 2.0b3 box.  I have over 70 remote hosts being monitored and over 250 services without problem... I am using NRPE_NT on each windows server, which is working great on servers ranging from NT 4 to Server 2003, NSCA to pass back passive checks to the central box, service escalations and dependencies on the central box as well... I know that there are people that are watching alot more than me and are running fine.. while I have experienced some hardships getting everything configured I do not believe that nagios 2.0b3 is a buggy program... at least any more than most programs are... 

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From: nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net on behalf of Dave Augustus
Sent: Thu 7/28/2005 11:51 AM
To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: RE: [Nagios-users] Nagios 2.0b3 still buggy?



This is a test subject just chiming in here that we are using v2.03b3
and it is working great. We are monitoring about 10 servers/141 services
using both network connections and nrpe.

All on linux.

Also, the NagiosQL is a great app for setting up and configuring. It
covers most of the functionality and has helped tremendously in
deploying Nagios.

As a n00b to nagios, I would say we are NOT using the advanced features
of Service Groups, escalations and such. However, our Windows admins are
happy to get a glimpse of what Nagios can do. They are sold on it and we
will deploying a larger Nagios install for monitoring our Windows and
VmWare servers.

*test subject*
Dave Augustus
Kenneth Copeland Ministries

On Thu, 2005-07-28 at 10:00 -0500, Marc Powell wrote:
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net [mailto:nagios-users-
> > admin at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of Ralph.Grothe at itdz-berlin.de
> > Sent: Thursday, July 28, 2005 4:12 AM
> > To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> > Subject: [Nagios-users] Nagios 2.0b3 still buggy?
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > recently I noticed a minor "flame" between Nagios
> > hackers/patchers going on here
> > where one party raised concerns that release 2.X not being fit
> > for production usage yet?
>
> It's still beta. Ethan has indicated on numerous occasions that if you
> run 2.0, expect problems. Quoting an e-mail from Ethan on 3/23/2005 --
>
> "First, I would still consider 2.0 as being beta software - that's why
> its labeled as such. While no major changes will be made to either
> the configuration files or functionality before a "stable" 2.0 is
> released, I do expect that a few major nasty bugs will be discovered
> within the current code.  If you're running the 2.0 code while its in
> beta, consider yourself a test subject.  :-)"
>
> As of that e-mail it was expected that it might be out of beta by the
> end of June. Obviously we're past that but there hasn't been an official
> release yet so we're still in beta mode. Many people have successfully
> been running 2.x in production environments for some time. Others have
> experienced problems. YMMV.
> 
> > As I'm experiencing quite some bizarre behaviour of my Nagios
> > setup,
> > that I rather blamed on my lack of Nagios configuration skills,
> > I now wonder if it couldn't also be at least partly based on the
> > release 2.0b3 I am using.
> >
> > Could it be this one is still a bit "immature" or buggy, and
> > would it be advisable to downgrade to a
> > "stable" release until I've got my basic stuff working as
> > desired?
>
> That's what _I_ would do but to each his own. Do what you're comfortable
> with. If you're monitoring mission critical applications and you
> absolutely can't deal with bugs in your monitoring software, use 1.x.
> 
> > For instance, did I alway wonder why my running nagios daemon
> > didn't continue processing
> > after it caught a SIGHUP.
> > It reported to nagios.log that it caught the signal and was
> > reinitializing,
> > but then no more appeared nor happened.
>
> That sounds like it might be a bug. Maybe someone else running 2.x can
> reproduce it?
>
> --
> Marc
>
>
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