William Hurley wrote an interesting blog article for TalkBMC titled Welcome to Opensville, Population Zero. In it, he talks about how Open Source projects like Nagios are increasingly coming under fire from the pirate mentality found in many commercial offerings. A very interesting, quick read that I thought many of you would be interested in.
Many Open Source projects suffer (directly and indirectly) from the pillaging that often occurs due to overzealous corporate ambitions. There are companies that do contribute back to the projects they derive benefit from, and that’s fantastic. Those business are a part of the Open Source community, just like the project developers, contributors, and users. I take issue, however, with companies that seek to align and associate themselves with a project solely for their own benefit…
NagVis is a alternativ addon for the statusmap in Nagios. With NagVis you are able to create image maps to display your workflow processes with underlying Nagios status data. NagVis use the NDO to display the maps in realtime. Features are:
- Display of single Hosts, Services, Hostgroups, Servicegroups or another NagVis-Map as one icon
- A WUI to create maps via drag and drop
- Can be used own shapes and Icons for the maps
- And many more…….
For more information visit http://www.nagvis.org.
It was a small step for other, but a big step for us.
The PNP Developer Team is proud to announce that we’ve done the step and are now one of the many great Sourceforge.net projects.
Since a few weeks we have ported our svn repository and the release files to SF.net as the project name pnp4nagios.
PNP is a Nagios addon to establish performance data charts without doing big configuration on them. Our goal is to provide a tool “That just works.”.
Also we decided to establish a few mailinglists to communicate outside our german location.
We hope that you enjoy PNP and send us many nice ideas for further work.
It feels like it has been ages ago that I took to the stage to give the Lightning talk at FOSDEM about the Nagios Plugins. Actually, it was ages ago, I just never got round to sorting out the screencast of the presentation I gave. Well, now it is sorted and without further ado, you can grab the screencast and the example script from here. Warning, the movie is 35MB. But it’s worth it!
Synopsis: I talk about Nagios, the Plugins and how to create a cool (literally) plugin using the perl module Nagios::Plugin in under 8 minutes.
Update: Permissions on the example check_weather script were wrong, so couldn’t be downloaded. Sorry - I’ve fixed them now.
In order to make it easier for users to have access to the latest and greatest documentation, the online HTML docs for Nagios 2.x and Nagios 3.x are now updated daily from CVS. PDFs of the HTML documentation are now also updated daily. Special thanks to Holger Weiss for contributing the scripts and config files for generating the PDFs!
You can find the latest HTML and PDF versions of the documentation at http://www.nagios.org/docs/
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