> -----Original Message----- > From: Michael Medin [mailto:mich...@medin.name] > Sent: Thursday, February 18, 2010 10:05 PM > To: Morris, Patrick; nagios-users > Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] NRPE/NSCA replacement thoughts? > > On 2010-02-19 05:22, Morris, Patrick wrote: > > > > For what it's worth, I'm pretty happy with NSCA and NRPE as-is, > though > > I'd be interested to hear your motivation for replacing them > > (especially the resons for replacing them outright instead of > > extending the existing apps). > >
Don't get me wrong - I like the idea of improvements to NRPE/NSCA, but I see a few issues with the motivation. > Well, the main reason is that they have a number of limitations which I > need to resolve and after speaking with Ethan about it I got the > impression he would not be updating NRPE/NSCA any more (for instance > Ton Voon has some patches to handle payload size which has not been > applied). He would (or so I gathered) rather have a new replacement > client(s). Client? Or protocol? > Also I tend to write programs in C++ and not C which sort of means it > is simpler for me to re-write them. That really isn't a good reason to throw out the investment thousands of people have made in a working NRPE/NSCA infrastructure! When the next developer comes into the project and likes Java, are we going to get yet another protocol? What if somebody wants to write a client for a new platform - does it have to be in C++? Now don't get me wrong: I actually agree that there are good reasons to update or even replace the protocol. But I'm quite concerned about the motivation, and the end result that would come from it. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev _______________________________________________ Nagios-users mailing list Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users ::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when reporting any issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null