I agree with you in a lot of ways Arthur. 95% of what is great about Opsview is already in the product, and yes it is a central part of our infrastructure. However, the reason it is a central part is because it's free. The work they have put in this product is amazing, but without Nagios, NagVis, MRTG, NMIS, and MySQL being open source Opsview wouldn't exist...
The issue is really that I (or somebody) can and probably will write these integrations on my/their own, so now effort is being duplicated... Let's say 2 years from now what I have written is legitimate enough for community use, then what? Now people are using my modules and their modules... Business wise it's a lose lose... A company competing against it's customers? I'm sticking with it! :-) Free the modules! -Josh On Apr 26, 2010, at 3:15 AM, Arthur de Pauw wrote: > Well, that's what the subscribtion is for :-) > > I think that Opsview gives you an excellent monitoring tool. However, > development of the system does cost money, and having the subscription model > is a way to earn the money. Now, I don't know much about marketing and sales, > but if you give away all your futures for free, my guess is that it get's > much harder to sell your product. So, if you need these modules, consider > getting a subscription. if you're into netflow analysis and RANCID > integration, or you want to have Opsview to integrate with your helpdesk > system and you need log file analysis it sounds as if your Opsview is > actually a central part of your infrastructure. Maybe you _do_ want to have > support when something goes wrong there? Although the mailing list is very > helpful, I'd feel safer if I could just pick up the phone to give Opsera a > call :-) > > Just my 2c > > bests > arthur > > > On Sat, Apr 24, 2010 at 1:58 AM, Josh Brown (Mailing List) > <josh.brown.l...@fullpower.com> wrote: > Any chance the Opsview teams will consider allowing the Community users to > download the expansion modules? > > All of the following modules are really great and I think should be free just > like the community version! > > From the Opsview Website: > > The following modules are available via Opsview support. > Log file analysis and correlation > RANCID integration > Netflow analysis > Helpdesk integration > > Thanks for the consideration! Perhaps others reading this will concur! > > -JB > > _______________________________________________ > Opsview-users mailing list > Opsview-users@lists.opsview.org > http://lists.opsview.org/lists/listinfo/opsview-users > > > > > -- > cheers, > arthur > _______________________________________________ > Opsview-users mailing list > Opsview-users@lists.opsview.org > http://lists.opsview.org/lists/listinfo/opsview-users
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