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Nagios-plugins web site taken over by Nagios
- VLM 13y agoAt least the community had the good sense to distribute under the GPL. Its harder to dump a community with that license, so they at least have a chance.
- chris_wot 13y agoThis is pretty serious! It appears that Nagios did some very underhanded things to gain control of that project. The bigger concern is that the new maintainers have no reputation and no proven track recording quality, commitment, skills or experience on this project. I would not be happy accepting updates from them.
- gnoway 13y agoReading through the mailing list thread announcing this, it's clear that Nagios was never really an open project to begin with. As far as the plugins site goes - they transferred domain ownership a couple of years ago. The plugins hosted on the site are compatible with Nagios and all it's forks. This outcome and the way it happened should surprise no one.
- sokoloff 13y agoI can't read that exchange trail in the issue tracker without hearing this Life of Brian sketch in my head: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gb_qHP7VaZE http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gb_qHP7VaZE (some NSFW language)
- ghshephard 13y agomonitoring-plugins is a good name. Not branded to any one company, and is a better destination for open-source development of monitoring plugins. Anybody who really thought about it for a bit, must have known that Nagios LLC would eventually seize control of anything Nagios trademark related.
- ape4 13y agoWhat about Nagios itself? Maybe it needs a fork.
- helfire 13y agoWhat alternatives to Nagios are out there? I've seen Icinga mentioned today, what else are people using?
- belluchan 13y agoDatadog, leftronic or Rackspace monitoring for hosted solutions.
- k3oni 13y agoTake a look at Zabbix, lots of features from the base package, no plug-ins needed, free: http://www.zabbix.com/ http://www.zabbix.com/
- CrLf 13y agoZabbix is very good, at least since version 2.0.x which is the one I've used. Once you understand how it works, it's very easy to write agent scripts (plugins) and build templates for it. It took about 3 months for me to build a monitoring solution from scratch with Zabbix for a little over 100 devices, with just a single vCPU VMware VM for both Zabbix and its MySQL database. Monitored devices included Windows, Linux and AIX machines, but also a couple of large UPSes and a few server rack PDUs. This was my first contact with Zabbix and during this time I wrote dozens of agent scripts to monitor stuff ranging from DB2 and Microsoft Exchange clusters to physical disks and SAN LUNs. It's one of a select few software packages that I can say that I really like. It works as expected and it's pretty extensible.
- k3oni 13y agoYep, we moved form Nagios to Zabbix once we crossed the ~300 devices as that is one of the main advantages for Zabbix: it scales pretty nice. Takes a bit to get to know how everything works and set it up correctly but it's a pretty good piece of monitoring software.
- langseth 13y agonaemon is a fork of nagios 4.0 done by the developer that commited 95% of the Nagios codebase: http://naemon.github.io/ http://naemon.github.io/ His "release" from being a core nagios developer is another interesting story, he talks about it some here (some nsfw language: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YgbbyyNIiHc http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YgbbyyNIiHc
- bashtoni 13y agoBlog post from Sam Kottler, the maintainer of nagios plugins in fedora/epel on the matter: http://words.shk.io/on-the-nagios-plugins-drama http://words.shk.io/on-the-nagios-plugins-drama