Re: Migrating away from Nagios

[Les Mikesell <lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 6/22/2010 6:06 AM, Karanbir Singh wrote:
> On 21/06/2010 18:05, Les Mikesell wrote:
>> I didn't know about that, but the first googled hit says you are
>> supposed to be able to write reusable tests in a human-readable language
>> which sounds way too unrealistic to ever work.  And I want a tool that
>> understands network equipment natively, not just it's own clients on
>> only the hardware/OS's where you are able to run them.
>>
>
> I dont think its a one or the other situation. Flapjack + cucumber is
> more oriented towards app developers being able to also contribute to
> the monitoring and state management policies. And for that I've seen it
> work well, but not used it myself.

Can't the app developer side either expose some status values via xml 
over http or add an extension for net-snmp?  It seems to me that if you 
have to design a new framework you've already missed the point.

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   Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx
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