[op5-users] Merlin? What is it?

[Andreas Ericsson]

Gabriel - IP Guys wrote:
> **SNIP**
> Well, assuming the daemon implements the Merlin event protocol (which is
> really simple and can be taken straight out of Merlin itself), and
> Merlin
> gets rid of its need to have every new poller pre-configured in its
> configuration file, that setup is not far away. If I were to drop
> everything else and work only on that, I'd have it ready by the end of
> july.
> **SNIP**
> 
> This is a community project, right?

Yes, although I'm the maintainer and by far the biggest contributor.

> Does Merlin have its own mailing list?

No. It doesn't have enough momentum yet, so let's just stick to
op5-users for now.

> Where do people contribute ideas,

Here, for preference :-)

> and get bleeding edge pre alpha code?
> 

git clone git://git.op5.org/nagios/merlin.git

> **SNIP**
> Perhaps we need to extend its capabilities to also schedule and execute
> checks. With the runcmd() api I implemented for the plugins project some
> years back and a fixed-time scheduler, this wouldn't be difficult at
> all.
> Since the connection needn't be persistent, one Merlin instance could
> well serve a network of several thousand nodes, and a network of Merlin
> instances would easily serve "more than you can imagine" ;-)
> **SNIP**
> 
> Now, if there was ever a goal of a community project, that is it!

Glad you like it. I'll see what may be done.

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