Nagios isn't ready for prime time

Aaron Carr aaronhcarr at gmail.com
Sun May 15 17:04:17 CEST 2005


I'm not going to blast you for it, but your statement lacks reality.

Time is the problem?

Try setting up Tivoli or OpenView, then come back and tell us all how
much time or money you saved setting those up.

My last company spent over $1MM and 6 months on consulting to get
OpenView running, and it still wasn't producing the results they
wanted yet.

Truth is, network monitoring tools are NOT easy or fast to set up if
you want them to be useful.  None of them that are worth deploying
anyway.

On 5/15/05, Adam Emery <subscribe at aehome.net> wrote:
> I thought this same thing for a while but if you run make install-config in
> ver 1.x it will install those files as *.sample.  all a person has to do is
> rename removing the .sample.  once that is done it is very simple for a
> basic configuration.  I myself am still working on the more advanced stuff
> but getting it up and running if you follow the docs step by step takes less
> than 30 minutes (depending on the speed of the machine).  2.x is a bit
> different and I haven't had much luck with it but I will start that project
> again once I get my test machine back up.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net
> [mailto:nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of jim tate
> Sent: Sunday, May 15, 2005 8:48 AM
> To: nagios maillists
> Subject: [Nagios-users] Nagios isn't ready for prime time
> 
> First I want to say that the Nagios documentation is very good.
> But expecting a new to Nagios person to build the object config files
> is so time consuming and not understanding a lot of what is required in
> cfg files.
> Why not put the object cfg files in Nagios as the app is compiled.
> For a IT person first being subjected to Negios , the time factor is to
> much.
> I know I'm going to get blasted for  my statement , but  I'm not trying
> to be nasty, but constructive.
> I know Nagios will be a very worthwhile app. in the future and I truly
> look forward to it, as a radicle
> Linux user.
> 
> Jim
> 
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