From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 017CA1396D9 for ; Mon, 16 Oct 2017 16:23:26 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2D5422BC064; Mon, 16 Oct 2017 16:23:20 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-wm0-x231.google.com (mail-wm0-x231.google.com [IPv6:2a00:1450:400c:c09::231]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id B6E592BC014 for ; Mon, 16 Oct 2017 16:23:19 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-wm0-x231.google.com with SMTP id f4so5113538wme.0 for ; Mon, 16 Oct 2017 09:23:19 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20161025; h=subject:to:references:from:message-id:date:user-agent:mime-version :in-reply-to:content-language:content-transfer-encoding; bh=xmaXitN/RCUaJKDvvT5sMbH4ogPTawsvVkl2fRQmJLs=; b=CP2iOLTxU+teJNIhYTAsdzPNt+lZ6kXGi4GrQCFotzpL5zlRcQ5hR65cSrcVD7a/jo Gm8EDAiCDyHSMzk60cg4ajq/rBF6QjomW58YwIEyKqGpdF7hmGun4IEEyjbEeRxaBBhj RMK7gQGucAv/gnMXUrDfg0cHmCcwq2d5Rpz6PtWAdXxyJxSu2vmiqIY3yPMI6UWtD41X QgI//ygkKE5A6K7K63onW1Y3m+yonRVimqzxzb3KvAiN110pWBo9yfjXJ7xodNzacSa8 lHL+ROJDjgV2e2+JZMfMDgUSjcenJ+edYoyZvmSYcvVLUbRUgSDPjlfGhVh3ftnQgSRZ P8iw== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20161025; h=x-gm-message-state:subject:to:references:from:message-id:date :user-agent:mime-version:in-reply-to:content-language :content-transfer-encoding; bh=xmaXitN/RCUaJKDvvT5sMbH4ogPTawsvVkl2fRQmJLs=; b=fg4Ij8Mg9prhP8DOdFCfQp8s6/phaGaK/V+K3UkI3nJCSVTTVxdOkq5JNgJQHy/GXS NQBWOpiSSW0odBSyg0tphjP21dkNHWqwcUK7YVReAvIPpg6+yt5E2jl0VUDeCgHh+oFf z0azsCQ6jXO0VbAQOHNGD9wYIBHcIw7GCo/idLnPDB68ET5yNycL/4rOu5JAH0SE5gfh x5N/QmvXTqJL9N7Mco/Z+Zuqn46NrbeqOXv0Zq/BFM2pvbgRE2S+Apc67Q95WTiMeEvr 5SBc3wGAFf6S9sXbNAWqsrDsjuXqkF+QOye4nvltghIFWJJjIGaU82JJOEf0Icw+9v7F HUSQ== X-Gm-Message-State: AMCzsaW69nsWQEP4WzcYRTbZ4SSPawR1aOrIOgg/5PgJW3j2DTHJN+Xr 9AbjrktLgqL+IQMyhPiElSY6Aw== X-Google-Smtp-Source: ABhQp+T1p3py9dGs2ipvOtIIvh5z1YvfnSZACEZoYExgLGr9cvWZph7NEWt198l3SdOHVWSF75KJWA== X-Received: by 10.223.133.214 with SMTP id 22mr1026566wru.153.1508170998346; Mon, 16 Oct 2017 09:23:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [172.20.0.40] ([197.101.48.133]) by smtp.googlemail.com with ESMTPSA id v80sm6465014wmv.37.2017.10.16.09.23.16 for (version=TLS1_2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Mon, 16 Oct 2017 09:23:17 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: monit and friends. To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org References: <96762772-dd49-7464-da0c-c0a878a6e7de@gmail.com> <20171016150852.u6w6ekna7la4pxhb@matica.foolinux.mooo.com> <6623947.tej94tQTD2@dell_xps> From: Alan McKinnon Message-ID: Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2017 18:18:18 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.4.0 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Language: en-GB Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: d31f5c73-1aeb-49fe-9255-25e08d359c85 X-Archives-Hash: f3484c31cd6a3f8cd9dd96dcb91d1c89 On 16/10/2017 18:10, Ralph Seichter wrote: > On 16.10.2017 17:50, Alan McKinnon wrote: > >> Nagios and I go way back, way way waaaaaay back. I now recommend it >> never be used unless there really is no other option. > > Have you tried Icinga 2 (*) yet? It originally started as a Nagios fork > and uses plugins to monitor, but the rule-based configuration mechanism > of Icinga 2 is IMO more powerful and easier than Nagios' mechanism. I've > used both Nagios and Icinga for years, and I definitely prefer Icinga 2. > > -Ralph > > (*) https://www.icinga.com/products/icinga-2/ > Yes, I know Icinga as well. It fixes many of Nagios' shortcomings - the first batch of commits after the fork took care of many of those - but still suffers from all of Nagios' design faults. In short, I'm not interested in going back to Nagios after a year's migration to get away from it. Same for Icinga, Shinken, Sensu and all the other many nagios forks out there. Also Zabbix. My current monitoring is snmp-based, and all I need monit for is as a very narrowly-defined single-purpose watchdog. -- Alan McKinnon alan.mckinnon@gmail.com