Nagios isn't ready for prime time

[Andreas Ericsson]

Marc Powell wrote:
> 
>>-----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.
> 
> 
> Huh? How is nagios supposed to know about the specifics about the hosts
> and services you want to monitor on your network and how you want to
> monitor them at compile time? Also, did you run 'make install-config' to
> install the sample config files and get a head start on the
> configuration?
> 

I believe he meant that nagios should be able to start with the sample 
config so that the gui becomes available (when properly configured). It 
would then be easier to see what goes where for the new users who seem 
to think that Nagios configures itself.

> 
>>For a IT person first being subjected to Negios , the time factor is
> 
> to
> 
>>much.
> 
> 
> We had a very well known consulting firm with half a dozen people take
> over 9 months to set up HP Openview for our network and it didn't do
> half the monitoring we are able to do with a nagios install that took
> just over a week and that I set up single-handedly. We currently monitor
> 2734 services on 1805 hosts.
> 

All proprietary network monitoring tools are heavy to configure. They 
build them like that on purpose so they can sell consulting hours later 
on. It's not a big secret.

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


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