[op5-users] Some explanations

[Andreas Ericsson]

Pierguido Lambri wrote:
> Hi all.

Hello :-)

> We're trying to build a distribuited monitor platform and we
> found merlin.

Nice. May I ask how? It seems most people who're using it heard
about it primarily on the nordic meet on nagios, or through one of
the nagios-related mailing lists, so I'm quite curious to see what
other channels people have used to dig it up :-)

> Now i have compiled and installed and it works, at
> least it's writing in the DB. Now i'd like to know if the
> distribuited part is implemented or has still to come. And i'd like
> to know if in the master host i can push on the slave machine to
> check something without do it directly from the master. Where i can
> find a list of implemented features?

There is no list of implemented features, but cross-host event
transportation is implemented, although only for host and service
checks so far. Some people have reported intermittent crashes, which
I'm trying to hunt down now. For others it seems to be running pretty
smooth.

You'll want to use the one from our public git repository instead
of the one from the merlin project page, as the one from git already
has several rather important bugfixes. Especially if you want to set
up a loadbalanced system or a multi-tiered one. The one from git also
holds the documentation updates needed to configure Merlin for use in
a distributed setup.

http://git.op5.org/git/?p=nagios/merlin.git;a=summary is the url
to the gitweb. At http://git.op5.org/git/ you can find info on how
to fetch a project from our git-site. Once you've downloaded it,
use "git pull" to stay up to date and then rebuild it from sources
by simply issuing "make". It'll probably be easiest to keep it up
to date if you simply configure it to be run directly from the git
work-tree.

Let us know how it works out for you.

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