<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.5346.5" name=GENERATOR></HEAD> <BODY> <DIV dir=ltr align=left><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN class=953103215-24052006>A quick look at the NagioSQL web page gives me little confidence. No documentation or screenshots.</SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV dir=ltr align=left><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN class=953103215-24052006></SPAN></FONT> </DIV> <DIV dir=ltr align=left><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN class=953103215-24052006>I've been playing with both Monarch and Fruity. Both are (to me) Alpha quality, regardless of any RC monnikers the developers attach to them.</SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV dir=ltr align=left><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN class=953103215-24052006></SPAN></FONT> </DIV> <DIV dir=ltr align=left><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN class=953103215-24052006>I needed to patch both to make them usable:</SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV dir=ltr align=left><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN class=953103215-24052006></SPAN></FONT> </DIV> <DIV dir=ltr align=left><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN class=953103215-24052006>Fruity: <A href="http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1457860&group_id=136248&atid=734752">http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1457860&group_id=136248&atid=734752</A></SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV dir=ltr align=left><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN class=953103215-24052006></SPAN></FONT> </DIV> <DIV dir=ltr align=left><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN class=953103215-24052006>And also this patch to make services imported from Nagios 1.x configs editable:</SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV dir=ltr align=left><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN class=953103215-24052006></SPAN></FONT> </DIV> <DIV dir=ltr align=left><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN class=953103215-24052006>---------------------------------------------------</SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV dir=ltr align=left><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN class=953103215-24052006>--- fruity.inc.orig 2006-05-23 17:04:50.000000000 +0100<BR>+++ fruity.inc 2006-05-23 17:15:16.000000000 +0100<BR>@@ -2806,7 +2806,11 @@</SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV dir=ltr align=left><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN class=953103215-24052006> $query = "SELECT service_description FROM nagios_services WHERE service_id = '$service_id'";<BR> $result = $this->dbConnection->Execute($query);<BR>- return $this->prepare_for_use($result->fields['service_description']);<BR>+ $res2 = $result->fields['service_description'];<BR>+ if ($res2 == "") {<BR>+ $res2 = "Desc";<BR>+ }<BR>+ return $this->prepare_for_use($res2);<BR> }</SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV dir=ltr align=left><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN class=953103215-24052006> function return_escalation_description($escalation_id) {<BR>--------------------------------------------</SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV dir=ltr align=left><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN class=953103215-24052006></SPAN></FONT> </DIV> <DIV dir=ltr align=left><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN class=953103215-24052006>Monarch: A fix for the Ajax stuff not working with recent CGI::Ajax versions -</SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV dir=ltr align=left><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN class=953103215-24052006></SPAN></FONT> </DIV> <DIV dir=ltr align=left><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN class=953103215-24052006><A href="http://www.groundworkopensource.com/community/forums/viewtopic.php?t=104&sid=ae5e07758b6b93aa975e4778ae9e30fb">http://www.groundworkopensource.com/community/forums/viewtopic.php?t=104&sid=ae5e07758b6b93aa975e4778ae9e30fb</A></SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV dir=ltr align=left><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN class=953103215-24052006></SPAN></FONT> </DIV> <DIV dir=ltr align=left><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN class=953103215-24052006>So far, I am not overly impressed, but Fruity shows promise. Monarch is way too slow.</SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV dir=ltr align=left><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN class=953103215-24052006></SPAN></FONT> </DIV> <DIV dir=ltr align=left><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN class=953103215-24052006>Cheers,</SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV dir=ltr align=left><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN class=953103215-24052006></SPAN></FONT> </DIV> <DIV dir=ltr align=left><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN class=953103215-24052006>Phil</SPAN></FONT></DIV> <P><FONT size=2>--<BR>Phil Randal<BR>Network Engineer<BR>Herefordshire Council<BR>Hereford, UK </FONT></P><FONT size=2></FONT><FONT size=2></FONT><BR> <BLOCKQUOTE dir=ltr style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"> <DIV class=OutlookMessageHeader lang=en-us dir=ltr align=left> <HR tabIndex=-1> <FONT face=Tahoma size=2><B>From:</B> nagios-users-admin@lists.sourceforge.net [mailto:nagios-users-admin@lists.sourceforge.net] <B>On Behalf Of </B>Deborah Martin<BR><B>Sent:</B> 24 May 2006 16:13<BR><B>To:</B> 'Jorg.Schulz@systeam.se'; Oliver Marshall<BR><B>Cc:</B> nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net<BR><B>Subject:</B> RE: [Nagios-users] Best web front end<BR></FONT><BR></DIV> <DIV></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=821030915-24052006><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>Doesn't NagiosQL2005 dictate where you can install it and where nagios should be installed ? </FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=821030915-24052006><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>I use /usr/local/nagios ... for my location but NagiosQL2005 seems to want to force </FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=821030915-24052006><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>a certain directory structure which just would not work for me. </FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=821030915-24052006><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=821030915-24052006><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>It seems a little inflexible as there must be many nagios installs whereby changing the structure</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=821030915-24052006><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>would just create far too much work just to get this working. </FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=821030915-24052006><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=821030915-24052006><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>Does anyone disagree here ? </FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=821030915-24052006><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=821030915-24052006><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>regards,</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=821030915-24052006><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>deborah </FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=821030915-24052006><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE> <DIV class=OutlookMessageHeader dir=ltr align=left><FONT face=Tahoma><FONT size=2><SPAN class=821030915-24052006><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff></FONT></SPAN></FONT></FONT> </DIV> <DIV class=OutlookMessageHeader dir=ltr align=left><FONT face=Tahoma><FONT size=2><SPAN class=821030915-24052006> </SPAN>-----Original Message-----<BR><B>From:</B> Jorg.Schulz@systeam.se [mailto:Jorg.Schulz@systeam.se]<BR><B>Sent:</B> 24 May 2006 12:17<BR><B>To:</B> Oliver Marshall<BR><B>Cc:</B> nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net<BR><B>Subject:</B> RE: [Nagios-users] Best web front end<BR><BR></DIV></FONT></FONT><BR><FONT face=sans-serif size=2>Hi </FONT><BR><BR><FONT face=sans-serif size=2>Like Deborah says "</FONT><FONT size=2><TT>This has been discussed to death. I'd suggest use google and look around<BR>to</TT></FONT><FONT face=sans-serif size=2>"</FONT> <BR><FONT face=sans-serif size=2>I tried the Fruity, Nag2Web,NagiosQL and som other configtools </FONT><BR><FONT face=sans-serif size=2>But for "me" the best is NagiosQL - www.nagiosql.org </FONT><BR><FONT face=sans-serif size=2>It´s a php tool with mysql . very handy </FONT><BR><FONT face=sans-serif size=2>I serve about 2500 services and around 150 hosts with this tool and i never had problems. </FONT><BR><BR><FONT face=sans-serif size=2><BR>I use NagiosQL 2005 http://www.nagiosQL.org and it works for our daily job.</FONT><FONT size=3> </FONT><FONT face=sans-serif size=2><BR>It is easy to install and to configure. <BR>If you want to give it a try i can assist you with the configuration. <BR></FONT><BR><BR><FONT face=sans-serif size=2>Features </FONT><BR><FONT face=sans-serif size=2>are </FONT><BR><BR><FONT face=sans-serif size=2>Import/export </FONT><BR><FONT face=sans-serif size=2>Easy navigation </FONT><BR><FONT face=sans-serif size=2>Backup function</FONT> <BR><FONT face=sans-serif size=2> </FONT> <BR><FONT face=sans-serif size=2>Give it a try </FONT><BR><BR><FONT face=sans-serif size=2>Regards </FONT><BR><BR><FONT face=sans-serif size=2>/Jörg </FONT><BR><FONT face=sans-serif size=2><BR></FONT><IMG src="cid:953103215@24052006-00B9"> <BR><BR><BR> <TABLE width="100%"> <TBODY> <TR vAlign=top> <TD width="40%"><FONT face=sans-serif size=1><B>"Oliver Marshall" <Oliver.Marshall@g2support.com></B> </FONT><BR><FONT face=sans-serif size=1>Sent by: nagios-users-admin@lists.sourceforge.net</FONT> <P><FONT face=sans-serif size=1>2006-05-24 11:27</FONT> </P> <TD width="59%"> <TABLE width="100%"> <TBODY> <TR> <TD> <DIV align=right><FONT face=sans-serif size=1>To</FONT></DIV> <TD vAlign=top><FONT face=sans-serif size=1>"Deborah Martin" <Deborah.Martin@Kognitio.com>, <nagios@sisyphus.ch>, <nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net></FONT> <TR> <TD> <DIV align=right><FONT face=sans-serif size=1>cc</FONT></DIV> <TD vAlign=top> <TR> <TD> <DIV align=right><FONT face=sans-serif size=1>Subject</FONT></DIV> <TD vAlign=top><FONT face=sans-serif size=1>RE: [Nagios-users] Best web front end</FONT></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE><BR> <TABLE> <TBODY> <TR vAlign=top> <TD> <TD></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE><BR></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE><BR><BR><BR><FONT size=2><TT>I cant barely get this linux machine turned on :) Writing my own isn't<BR>an option :)<BR><BR>-----Original Message-----<BR>From: nagios-users-admin@lists.sourceforge.net<BR>[mailto:nagios-users-admin@lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of Deborah<BR>Martin<BR>Sent: 24 May 2006 10:26<BR>To: 'nagios@sisyphus.ch'; nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net<BR>Subject: RE: [Nagios-users] Best web front end<BR><BR>This has been discussed to death. I'd suggest use google and look around<BR>to<BR>see what is out there - try them out because<BR>everyone has difference preferences to what will work for them. <BR><BR>Alternatively, write your own and then you only have yourself to please!<BR><BR><BR>:) <BR><BR>regs,<BR>deborah <BR><BR>-----Original Message-----<BR>From: nagios@sisyphus.ch [mailto:nagios@sisyphus.ch]<BR>Sent: 24 May 2006 09:57<BR>To: nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net<BR>Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Best web front end<BR><BR><BR>On Wed, May 24, 2006 at 09:20:39AM +0100, Oliver Marshall wrote:<BR>> What are peoples opinions on a decent web based<BR>management/configuration<BR>> front end for Nagios, ideally PHP?<BR><BR>looking forward to it - my boss sure would like it. :-)<BR><BR>-- <BR><BR><BR>-------------------------------------------------------<BR>All the advantages of Linux Managed Hosting--Without the Cost and Risk!<BR>Fully trained technicians. 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