Hi Joerg,
Please find my answers to you questions.
Joerg Barfurth wrote:
> deepti vaidya schrieb:
>> Hi Darren,
>>
>> Find my answers to your questions below and also find attached the
>> updated nagios-arc one pager.
>> Please let me know the required changes.
>>
>
>> Interfaces
>> ==========
>
>
>> Exported Interfaces
>> -------------------
>>
>> /var/svc/manifest/application/nagios.xml -- SMF XML File -- Its
>> Project Private and uncommittted.
>
> Can't be both?!
SMF xml is private to the project not intended for other users and it
may undergo slight changes later. So may I know why can't it be
>
>> And the FMRI is, application/nagios:default
>
> This one needs a stability classification too. You should specify a
> complete FMRI. Probably you meant svc:/application/nagios:default ?
DONE
>
>> /usr/bin/nagios -- Executable file -- Its uncomitted.
>> /usr/bin/nagiostats -- Executable file -- Its uncomitted.
>
> Are there man pages? Are just the file locations uncommitted or does
> this extend to options and output?
>
There are no man pages. Nagios and nagiostats are having options.
>> /etc/apache2/2.2/conf.d/nagios.conf -- It is used to authenticate
>> the user -- Its uncomitted.
>
> Is there a man page? Do you actually export this file as *your*
> interface for use by others?
nagios.conf is used by apache webserver to authenticate the user.
>
>> /usr/apache2/2.2/bin/<cgi-scripts> -- Its uncomitted.
>
> I don't think you export this directory or its use for cgi-scripts?!
>
> It seems like you *import /etc/apache2/2.2/{conf.d,bin} as interfaces,
> but is there anything you export here?
>
Nagios installation copies cgi files to this directory. These files are
used by the web interface.
>
>> Imported Interfaces
>> -------------------
>> SUNWapache2
>> SUNWgd2
>>
>> Not An Interface --------------------
>>
>> /etc/nagios -- cfg files are copied here
>> /etc/nagios/objects -- cfg files are copied here
>
> Who copies cfg files here? Neither configuration files nor directories
> to which configuration files can be added make sense being Not An
> Interface. AFAICT the NRPE case tries to import this interface by
> putting a config file there.
cfg files are copied to this directories by the nagios installation.
Only nrpe.cfg is copied by NRPE installation but there are other cfg
files copied by nagios
>
>> /usr/lib/nagios -- When the nagios-plugin is
>> installed, plugins are copied here
>
> Same here. If plugin projects or users adding plugins need to use this
> interface (again NRPE does), it can't be Not An Interface,
>
DONE
>> /usr/share/nagios -- HTML files for web-UI
>> /usr/share/nagios/contexthelp -- HTML files for web-UI
>> /usr/share/nagios/docs -- Nagios Documentation files
>> /usr/share/nagios/docs/images -- Nagios Documentation
>> images
>> /usr/share/nagios/images -- Nagios Web-UI realated
>> images
>> /usr/share/nagios/images/logos -- Nagios Web-UI realaged
>> logos /usr/share/nagios/stylesheets -- css files for UI
>> /var/nagios -- Nagios generates files here
>> /var/nagios/archives -- Nagios log file gets
>> created here /var/nagios/rw -- fifo File gets
>> generated here by nagios
>> /var/nagios/spool/checkresults
>
> You probably mean these to be either Project Private or Volatile. If
> noone uses a directory, it needn't be there. IME file system pathes
> aren't good candidates to be Not An Interface.
>
> - J?rg
>
>
Thanks and Regards,
Deepti
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