Re: [gentoo-doc] Re: Nagios 3 guide

[Chris Gianelloni]

On Wed, 2008-07-30 at 21:02 +0200, Sven Vermeulen wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 5, 2008 at 5:54 PM, Sven Vermeulen <swift@g.o> wrote:
> > My focus is not on Nagios itself - we don't need to document Nagios,
> > they have documentation editors themselves. However, the document
> > would focus on installing Nagios on the master server, installing the
> > necessary plugins on the clients, configuring nrpe/check_ssh on Gentoo
> > systems and integrating Gentoo-specific metrics.
>
> Who knew integrating Gentoo specific metrics was this easy - just
> download some scripts and integrate them ;-)
>
> Well, I've somewhat finished what I could do for the Nagios guide.
> Although it does talk about remote system integration (using
> check_nrpe and a quick pointer on passwordless SSH) it definitely
> needs some more lovin' on this behalf.
>
> At this moment, I'm waiting for Nagios 3 to become stable on Gentoo so
> that I can rerun the guide over again on a clean install (to make sure
> no errors are in it) but please, everybody with some experience with
> Nagios and some free time, take a look at the document
> (http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/nagios-guide.xml) and add in some
> paragraphs on topics you want to see added as well.

I was planning on giving you some CVS diffs.  ;]

> Dertobi wanted to see a chapter on extending the installation - if you
> have a few pointers I don't mind taking a stab at this as well.

Well, Tobias mentioned the nagios-plugins-snmp package in the tree.
I've got something like 20 or 30 more Nagios-related packages in my
company's overlay.  I didn't add them to the tree because I didn't want
to maintain them, knowing that I was close to retirement.

I *do* plan on making the packages available via an overlay.  Hopefully,
they'll be picked up by someone from the netmon team and added to the
tree.

I guess that I should also mention that I have several modifications to
Nagios' ebuilds, along with Cacti (and several other SNMP management
packages) which I will also be making available.  I've been working on
an extension to the HOST-RESOURCES MIB to get package information and
export it via SNMP, much like is done on RPM-based distributions, but
it's taking a bit longer than I had originally anticipated.  That's
honestly the only "Gentoo-specific" items that I can recall which
someone would want.

-- 
Chris Gianelloni
Ex-Developer