[c-nsp] Nagios config frontends

[Tony Bunce]

We use Fruity (Lilac requires PHP 5.2 and CentOS doesn't/didn't have rpms, looks like they are in the 5.2 is in CentOS-Testing now though) and Nconf (two different servers).

Fruity/Lilac works well but isn't perfect. There are a few small features/bugs that would make it much better:
-Copy Services/Host - when your setting up the same check 5,10,20 times with just a different parameter it gets really repetitive. 
-No way to edit check command parameters, you have to delete and re-add.  And if you have multiple parameters and want to change the first one you have to delete and re-enter them all because there isn't a way to re-enter them.


NConf has some nice features like showing you what each command arg means, for example:
ARG1=web address
ARG2=url
ARG3=Additonal parameters

But it also has its issues.  When we started using NConf didn't have an import feature, I think the latest version does though.  NConfig also has a Perl interface that can be used to automate configuration task.  NConf also doesn't deploy/export the config nearly as easily as Lilac.

If I had to pick one over the other I would pick Fruity/Lilac, if it had a programmatic interface or CLI it would be really nice.

-Tony


-----Original Message-----
From: cisco-nsp-bounces at puck.nether.net [mailto:cisco-nsp-bounces at puck.nether.net] On Behalf Of Eric Cables
Sent: Tuesday, April 13, 2010 4:59 PM
To: cisco-nsp at puck.nether.net
Subject: [c-nsp] Nagios config frontends

Sorry if this is a bit OT, but I was wondering what configuration frontend
people have settled on for Nagios.  I have been running Nagios for years now
just with a flat configuration file, but I'd like to extend the
configuration tasks to others besides myself, and a web based GUI frontend
seems like the best way to do that.

Lilac (previously Fruity) seems like a pretty solid choice, and I've also
heard good things about Monarch.

Any suggestions, or confirmations of the above, would be appreciated.

Thanks,

-- Eric Cables
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