[op5-users] ninja: basics questions about Ninja

[Peter Östlin]

On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 7:42 AM, Francois Pernet
<Francois.Pernet at idsa.ch> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Ninja is Really cool... Installed on a SLES11 after some corrections.

Glad you like it!

> Few questions however:
> A ) In your demo, you have the following menu options that i don't have:
> - availability
> - SLA reporting
> - configure
> Where these options come from ? I've used the latest build but they do not
> appear...
> I guess that configure comes from Nacoma ??

Yes, the configure option is Nacoma.
Availability and SLA is our reporting tools. Avalability is simular to
the avail.cgi in Nagios with some additions. SLA is our own tool. Both
of these will be included in the next version of Ninja. Scheduled for
stable release in Mars.

> B) Do you know the differences/advantages/limitations compare to Nagios XI
> just released ?

If you mean the difference between Nagios XI and op5 Monitor there are
actually quite a lot that differ. Bare in mind that I have not played
a lot with Nagios XI so I might be missing some details.
The obvious difference is:
Nagios XI have it's own new GUI and uses ndo as backend and op5
Monitor use Ninja as frontend with Merlin as the backend.
XI uses NagiosQL and we use Nacoma for configuration.

Other things that differ, in short:
op5 Monitor include more advanced reporting capabilities, including
the possibility to schedule reports to be send via email.
op5 Monitor include Nagvis for visualization.
We provide updates via yum and tarballs, not sure how Nagios XI handle updates.
op5 Monitor is available as a physical appliance (with hardware
support), software install or virtual machine. XI is available as
virual machine or software install.
op5 provide email and phone support. Nagios XI currently only have a
support forum if I understand correctly.

> Anyhow, very nice enhancements, congratulations ...
> C) is there any plan to include LDAP authentication ...

We hope to get this included in the Mars release aswell. Atleast in a
basic form.

> D) Many of the regular Nagios Features (notifications logs, alarms, etc...)
> are not ready in Ninja. Is there any plan to include them in a near futur ?

These will be included in the Mars release aswell.


Regards
Peter Östlin
op5 AB