On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 12:22 PM, Hienz, Michael <mhi...@lear.com> wrote:
> Hi Jean,
>
Hi,
>
>
> I am not sure which merlin db version you used when coding the broker for
> it, but my suggestion would be to use the merlin 0.9.0 one. This is the
> latest stable one and the one they are currently developing on. In regards
> to the reports the Ninja itself install will take care about the additional
> tables needed and the broker itself, does not need to feed those, because
> it’s pulling the information from the exsting merlin tables.
>
> One question I have though, with the 0.5.6 version of Shinken. There now is
> a module to run the “old” Nagios command pipe, which is great, because when
> using Ninja adding comments or downtimes for example, these are submitted to
> the nagios.cmd. (That is stuff not working in your VMWare Virtual box
> builds). Nevertheless when I add a comment to a host through Ninja, it
> successfully makes the entry and I can see that comment in the Thruk
> frontend for example, but it does not appear on the Ninja frontend, because
> the corresponding db table is not filled with that data. I assume (haven’t
> checked this yet) that the merlin daemon usually needs to fill that piece of
> data, so it’s not done by Ninja itself.
>
Yes, it is just tables we do not fill right now I think. I didn't work on
this module since months, because no one seems to mix Shinken and Ninja, but
if you want it, it will raise in my priority tasks :)
> That would mean that the merlin broker, needs to be adjusted in a way that
> all kind of commands coming through Ninja frontend (acknowledgements,
> comments, scheduled downtimes, etc.) are inserted into the merlin db. I am
> not sure how big your focus is on this frontend support, because I have seen
> you mentioning that Ninja is not multi daemon compatible and if you use
> multiple daemons in shinken, you just see half of the checks made. On the
> other hand it’s a good frontend, especially in the reports area, and this
> kind of functionality is always a good “seller”, when talking to the
> decision makers. J
>
The multi daemon problem was with a old version, I think now this should be
solved in a current Ninja version, I'll try to look if it's good or not :)
The problem with Ninja is that it will never manage some main shinken
features like root problem/uimpact + criticity for example, and it's quite a
big miss for users I think. But if you want to run with it, especially with
the good reporting module, it can be good to upgrade the module for new
versions :)
Jean
>
>
> Michael
>
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