On Tuesday, November 04, 2014 10:15:13 AM Michael Orlitzky wrote: > We're collecting more and more Nagios bugs every day, and we've been > stuck on the 3.x series for a while even though upstream has moved to 4.x.
We are? I'm currently using the stable version myself and it does seem to work. The web-interface isn't the most useful, but the emails do get send. > The main problem as far as I can see is that nagios-plugins is a big > mess, and it's hard for any one person to test. (We use it at work, but > there's no ipv6 there, or ldap, or snmp, or game servers...) I use LDAP, no IPv6 yet. But I don't have a check on the LDAP yet. (If that dies, I get plenty of other failures anyway) > I've rewritten the nagios, nagios-core, and nagios-plugins ebuilds, and > will eventually ask permission to commit them to ~arch. That will rip > the band-aid off, so to speak, after which I can work on addressing the > existing bugs. But before I do, I'd like to have a few people test it > and tell me it works. > > So if anyone is using nagios, please give these a try. > > net-analyzer/nagios and net-analyzer/nagios-core: > > https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=485756 > > nagios-plugins: > > https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=522946 I'd love to, but am a bit constrained with time. Nagios is, for me, not mission-critical. If you do push them to the tree, I will check them as they come in. Any bugs I find, I will report along, if possible, as much info as possible. (Preferably also patches) > If you see any problems, just comment on the bug or email me or > whatever. I am actually using these ebuilds, so they won't delete your > system32 or anything. If there are bugs they're likely in one of the > parts I don't use. I'm also pretty sure that most of the open bugs on > b.g.o still apply, but this version at least shouldn't be any worse than > the one in the tree. If it were me, feel free to push them to the tree. -- Joost
