Re: Porting Netsaint to Digital Unix.

Dear Sir, 

I am writing to thank you for your work and effort in porting 
Nagios/Netsaint (if you do it for one you get the other) to Digital Unix 
V4.0F.

On Tue, Dec 17, 2002 at 04:37:56PM +0100, [email protected] wrote:
> 
> Mr.Hopcroft and all who are thinking about using netsaint on DEC-UNIX,
> 
> With the help from Mr.Hopcroft, below,
> I have at least managed to compile and link it on my Digital UNIX V4.0F.

Should there be further interest in a port, then it's good to know that 
it can at least be built. I think that it is very likely that you have 
dealt with all the issues (it almost certainly will run) because N/N 
makes very prudent and limited used of system calls.

> However, since we have already started using Mon, one of other monitoring
> systems.

Good luck with Mon.

If I was looking for a monitor from scratch the things that would be 
interesting to me would be

1. Open source 

2. Developer interest

3. Reporting hooks

4. SLA support

5. DB interface from the point of view of storing availability data for 
further query (and so potentially replacing 3 and 4 by targetted queries 
that extract the down info for the SLA periods).

6 Ease of plugin development

7 Support for distributed monitoring/scalablity

8 Single System image - PHB manipulable GUI for single point of control

From the little I have heard, it is only commercial products that make 
any serious attempt at these last 2 criteria. Either Tiv or Uni-Centre 
lets one drag and drop icons representing monitored ohjects and service 
checks and reports/exceptions etc. Maybe not useful, but certainly very 
attractive to the PHB with the cheque book.

But then again, perhaps anything is possible after you have rolled out
management agents - hoping they are secure and not likely to lead to
compromise - to all the squillions of boxes in your enterprise
heterogeneous network. And for the routers there are agent proxys no 
doubt ...

Nag scores very well in most of these areas. It is probably most 
currently challenged by large installations (> 10,000 services). 

> Instead, we have decided not to spend any more time evaluating 
> Netsaint.

> Therefore, I have to leave the question of whether the binaries really work
> on DEC-UNIX, to someone who has the courage to follow.

> I may try it using some of my spare time but not sure.


Great job.

> 
> Regards,
> 

Yours sincerely.

-- 
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Stanley Hopcroft
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'...No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the
continent, a part of the main. If a clod be washed away by the sea,
Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a
manor of thy friend's or of thine own were. Any man's death diminishes
me, because I am involved in mankind; and therefore never send to know
for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee...'

from Meditation 17, J Donne.


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