<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><DIV><DIV>Taylor Dondich, Fruity's developer, and several list members have pointed out that Fruity is for Nagios 2.x only, not 1.x only as in my previous post. Sorry for any confusion.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Peter Mui</DIV><DIV>Open Source Community Advocate</DIV><DIV>GroundWork Open Source</DIV><DIV>139 Townsend Street, Suite 100</DIV><DIV>San Francisco, CA 94107</DIV><DIV><A href="mailto:pmui@groundworkopensource.com">pmui@groundworkopensource.com</A></DIV><DIV>+1 415 992 4573</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Begin forwarded message:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 37px; text-indent: -37px; "><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><B>From: </B></FONT><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Robert Story <<A href="mailto:rstory-l@2006.revelstone.com">rstory-l@2006.revelstone.com</A>></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 34px; text-indent: -34px; "><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><B>Date: </B></FONT><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">March 28, 2006 7:10:22 PM PST</FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 21px; text-indent: -21px; "><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><B>To: </B></FONT><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">"Dany Allard" <<A href="mailto:dany.allard@aeso.ca">dany.allard@aeso.ca</A>></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 23px; text-indent: -23px; "><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><B>Cc: </B></FONT><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"><<A href="mailto:nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net">nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net</A>></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 50px; text-indent: -50px; "><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><B>Subject: </B></FONT><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"><B>Re: [Nagios-users] which nagios config gui are you using?</B></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">On Tue, 28 Mar 2006 16:54:00 -0700 Dany wrote:</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">DA> We use monarch from groundwork <A href="http://www.itgroundwork.com">http://www.itgroundwork.com</A>/</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">They also make fruity, don't they? Seems odd that they have 2 different nagios</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">guis. Any reason you choose one over the other?</DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Both Monarch and Fruity are web-based configuration management tools for Nagios. Monarch (MONitor ARCHitecture) is integrated into GroundWork Open Source, which was released last month. GroundWork "inherited" Fruity when Fruity developer Taylor Dondich joined GroundWork last year.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Why choose one over the other?</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>* Monarch is probably the better choice for the experienced Nagios user: it has advanced features such as the ability to convert existing Nagios 1.x config files to 2.x.: <A href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/monarch">http://sourceforge.net/projects/monarch</A></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>* Fruity is simpler to use, and is probably the better choice for the new Nagios user: however, it only supports Nagios 2.x,: <A href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/fruity">http://sourceforge.net/projects/fruity</A></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Both can be used stand-alone: that is, Monarch works with Nagios even if you choose not to implement the rest of GroundWork Open Source.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>HTH, -Peter</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><DIV>Peter Mui</DIV><DIV>Open Source Community Advocate</DIV><DIV>GroundWork Open Source</DIV><DIV>139 Townsend Street, Suite 100</DIV><DIV>San Francisco, CA 94107</DIV><DIV><A href="mailto:pmui@groundworkopensource.com">pmui@groundworkopensource.com</A></DIV><DIV>+1 415 992 4573</DIV></DIV><DIV><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"></SPAN> </DIV><BR></BODY></HTML>