Nagios 2.0b3 still buggy?

[Ben Conrad]

Same here, 2.0b3, NagiosQL 2005 and the latest PerfParse.
Fedora Core 3 with reasonably latest round of "yum update" updates.

80 hosts and about 1100 services.

I've been very happy with it and similarly I'm not using Service Groups,
escalations and other complex features yet.

Ben

-----Original Message-----
From: Dave Augustus [mailto:davea at support.kcm.org]
Sent: Thursday, July 28, 2005 11:52 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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