[op5-users] What are Nacoma and Reports?

[Per Åsberg]

Patrik Båt skrev:
> I’m running Nacoma, and that is used to configure the nagios config via 
> a webgui.
> 
> The report add-on is currently a mess, and op5 is importing this to 
> ninja if I haven’t miss judge the answer from them.
> 
> *From:* op5-users-bounces at lists.op5.com 
> [mailto:op5-users-bounces at lists.op5.com] *On Behalf Of *Michael Hobbs
> *Sent:* Thursday, July 16, 2009 11:15 AM
> *To:* 'Mailinglist for op5's products'
> *Subject:* [op5-users] What are Nacoma and Reports?
> 
> Hi all
> I’ve been looking through the Ninja config file ( 
> ninja/application/config/config.php) and noticed entries for linking 
> Ninja to Nacoma and Reports
> 
> After a little search I found the git projects for both of these here:
> http://git.op5.org/git/?p=nagios/nacoma.git;a=summary
> http://git.op5.org/git/?p=nagios/reports-gui.git;a=summary
> 
> so my question really is what do these tools offer as add-on’s to Nagios 
> and are there any details on how to install/use them.

As Patrik points out above, Nacoma (Nagios Configuration Manager) is the web 
based configuration tool for Nagios developed by op5.

I wouldn't call Reports a mess though :)
On the other hand, if you download it from git and try to install it on your 
own, I can see what he means. We simply haven't had the time to create 
installer scripts or anything for it yet (we just wanted to share it with the 
community as soon as possible) but hopefully someone will.
Interested anyone? ;-)

I really think that Reports is awesome with SLA support and the possibility to 
save reports and export them as csv or PDF. There is also a scheduler to send 
the reports on a daily, weekly or monthly basis by email.

It requires the reports module which may be found at:
http://git.op5.org/git/?p=nagios/reports-module.git;a=summary
It shares some functionality with merlin and they will, because of this, be 
merged in a near future to make it easier to use op5 reports.

"Reports" is actually a rather bad name (compared to Ninja and Merlin) but the 
reason for this is simply that no one has come up with a better one so if 
someone has a better suggestion, please let us know. :)

If you look at http://www.op5.org/community/projects/ninja you will also 
notice that there is information on how to access the live demo where you can 
try out Nacoma and Reports by yourself.

Please note that neither Nacoma or Reports will be bundled with Ninja but 
rather we offer the possibility of easy integration as an add-on if anyone so 
desire.

Regards,

/Per

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Per Åsberg
Senior Developer
www.op5.com