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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Greetings All, </FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">I just joined the mailing list, primarily due to interest in your Merlin and Ninja projects. But first I wanted to say thanks to Op5 for the Nordic Meet on Nagios. I am from the US and was able to view many of the video sessions online and learned a lot from the presenters. Thanks for putting the Meet together and for sharing the event with the rest of us non Nordic folk. ;-) I also like being able to put a face with the emails that I read on the mailing lists. </FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">I do have questions about Merlin. We are using NDO to support our NagVis implementation and having intermittent troubles with it. I think the problems are related to MySQL performance but am pretty much a hack when it comes to DBA work so I'm not sure. I've done some tweaking to the MySQL settings which made things better for a while. In any case, I'm thinking I need to find a better solution for NagVis and as I understand it I can use either the ndo2fs and Merlin. My question is in regard to the stability of Merlin, would you say it's like alpha, beta or production stable? Also do you have any sense for server sizing to support Merlin? In our environment we have around 500 hosts and 5300 service checks, currently everything (Nagios, NDO database, NagVis, etc.) are all running on a single box (2 CPU 2.6MHz, 4GB RAM), currently the web interfaces all respond fine but we have a high check latency (~90 sec for service checks). What I want to know is at what point would you recommend moving Merlin/MySQL to a dedicated server separate from the Nagios server? </FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Thanks again for the sharing the Nordic Meet videos and for your work in this arena,</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Regards,</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">-greg </FONT>
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