NRPE/NSCA replacement thoughts?

[Kevin Keane]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael Medin [mailto:michael at medin.name]
> Sent: Thursday, February 18, 2010 10:05 PM
> To: Morris, Patrick; nagios-users
> Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] NRPE/NSCA replacement thoughts?
> 
> On 2010-02-19 05:22, Morris, Patrick wrote:
> >
> > For what it's worth, I'm pretty happy with NSCA and NRPE as-is,
> though
> > I'd be interested to hear your motivation for replacing them
> > (especially the resons for replacing them outright instead of
> > extending the existing apps).
> >

Don't get me wrong - I like the idea of improvements to NRPE/NSCA, but I see a few issues with the motivation.

> Well, the main reason is that they have a number of limitations which I
> need to resolve and after speaking with Ethan about it I got the
> impression he would not be updating NRPE/NSCA any more (for instance
> Ton Voon has some patches to handle payload size which has not been
> applied). He would (or so I gathered) rather have a new replacement
> client(s).

Client? Or protocol?

> Also I tend to write programs in C++ and not C which sort of means it
> is simpler for me to re-write them.

That really isn't a good reason to throw out the investment thousands of people have made in a working NRPE/NSCA infrastructure! When the next developer comes into the project and likes Java, are we going to get yet another protocol? What if somebody wants to write a client for a new platform - does it have to be in C++?

Now don't get me wrong: I actually agree that there are good reasons to update or even replace the protocol. But I'm quite concerned about the motivation, and the end result that would come from it.


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