[op5-users] Some explanations

[Pierguido Lambri]

> 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 :-)
Actually we (i for the most) saw almost all nagios related projects :-D
But i found merlin doing exactly what we were searching.
We were almost tempted by some other monitoring tools :-P

> 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.
Great....i'm trying to setup a test system...so if i find some bugs, you will know :-)


> 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.
Exactly this we want to do...a  multi-tiered system.
The perfect one should be a remote system that could be controlled entirely from the master (like to add some host, or do some manual checks, etc and even transmit many checks at once, saving on the bandwidth). Also some various level of privileged user, some that can add some hosts just locally or some others that can manage the entire system and so on.
But for now the tiered setup is the most important and i think that merlin is that we missed.

 
> Let us know how it works out for you.
Sure :-)
Thanks

Pier