[op5-users] Merlin/Ninja community

[Peter Östlin]

On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 4:51 PM, Russell Jennings <russ at geekwhiz.com> wrote:
> All,
>
> I know there's probably not a TON of people interested in merlin /
> ninja, but they are both technologies that could really help
> compliment nagios and compete with other commercial solutions. But
> documentation for both is a little lacking... So io wondered if there
> is / could be/ should be some form of a wiki, or other collaborative
> community section, so that people can collab on install guides,
> introductions and what not. Maybe thats overkill and maybe a mailing
> list is enough, though for me i wish there was more. I don't really
> get excited about stuff that often, last thing i was really into was
> A at H, but i find both merlin and ninja to be interesting, worthwhile
> projects, and I'd like to help in whatever small ways I can. Being
> able to add to the merlin documentation is one idea i had, which a
> wiki or something of sorts would allow.

We know the documentation for Ninja and Merlin is not exactly perfect.
The main focus for the last few month have been to get merlin and
ninja up and running on op5 systems. Since they now play well on our
systems we will spend more time on 'vanilla Nagios' installs. This
should mean easier installation and better documentation sometime time
soon.

Anyway, since we really appreciate all input we get from you and other
users a wiki or some other solution for sharing information might be a
good idea.

> Also, is there a reason the link on the website is 6.2 beta 2? is
> there a newer version that would be better? I use it, it works, just
> curious is all.

We (Andreas actually) have done some work on merlin the last couple of
days. This have resulted in a new release, merlin-0.6.4. You can get
it directly from our git repo at:
http://git.op5.org/git/?p=nagios/merlin.git;a=summary . Try the
'snapshot' link if you want a tarball. The tarball link you mention is
outdated, I will fix that as soon as I get admin rights for the web.


/Peter Östlin