Re: [gentoo-user] Nagios testers wanted

[J. Roeleveld]

On Tuesday, November 04, 2014 10:15:13 AM Michael Orlitzky wrote:
> We're collecting more and more Nagios bugs every day, and we've been
> stuck on the 3.x series for a while even though upstream has moved to 4.x.

We are?
I'm currently using the stable version myself and it does seem to work.
The web-interface isn't the most useful, but the emails do get send.

> The main problem as far as I can see is that nagios-plugins is a big
> mess, and it's hard for any one person to test. (We use it at work, but
> there's no ipv6 there, or ldap, or snmp, or game servers...)

I use LDAP, no IPv6 yet.
But I don't have a check on the LDAP yet. (If that dies, I get plenty of other 
failures anyway)

> I've rewritten the nagios, nagios-core, and nagios-plugins ebuilds, and
> will eventually ask permission to commit them to ~arch. That will rip
> the band-aid off, so to speak, after which I can work on addressing the
> existing bugs. But before I do, I'd like to have a few people test it
> and tell me it works.
>
> So if anyone is using nagios, please give these a try.
>
> net-analyzer/nagios and net-analyzer/nagios-core:
>
>   https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=485756
>
> nagios-plugins:
>
>   https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=522946

I'd love to, but am a bit constrained with time.
Nagios is, for me, not mission-critical. If you do push them to the tree, I 
will check them as they come in. Any bugs I find, I will report along, if 
possible, as much info as possible. (Preferably also patches)

> If you see any problems, just comment on the bug or email me or
> whatever. I am actually using these ebuilds, so they won't delete your
> system32 or anything. If there are bugs they're likely in one of the
> parts I don't use. I'm also pretty sure that most of the open bugs on
> b.g.o still apply, but this version at least shouldn't be any worse than
> the one in the tree.

If it were me, feel free to push them to the tree.

--
Joost