Le 14/11/05 09:46, nap claviotta : > On Tue, Nov 4, 2014 at 6:00 PM, Sebastien Coavoux <s.coav...@free.fr> wrote: > > > Shinken community feedback : > > We got feedback from people that allow us to list most highlighted > > features to use Shinken : > > - Nagios configuration compatibility > > - Scalability / Realm > > - High customization with modules > > - High availability feature > > > > To conclude this part we state that Shinken was not a "must-have" for > > small IT structure but for bigger one. > > > Just a remark: if you did choose Shinken for another reason we will be hapy > to know it. The better we know the framework use case, the better we can > improve it in the good way :) >
Several years ago, I chose Shinken thanks to your awesome « Gnu-Linux Magazine France Hors Série ». At the time, I was a student using Shinken on a very small IT structure, and yes, it was a "must-have". Everything seemed so simple compared to Nagios documentations. For beginners, I believe that a good tutorial in many language is a must have. Not a documentation, a tutorial. You know the difference. Moreover, tutorial do not needs for frequent updates. The first chapters of your GLMF are still completely usable in Shinken 2.0. Complementary tutorials could be « how to monitor… (linux|windows…) ». I know we already have that in the documentation, but working instructions and example would be better. Today, I also use Shinken in my company. 100 hosts for now, about 25 services each, and *nothing* in /etc/shinken/services… What I really love about Shinken are the packs. I have never tested Nagios or Icinga, maybe there is a similar approach to configure the hosts ? Packs are really awesome because you just install them, use them in your hosts, and it's done ! You don't even have to understand how they work, they just do. Moreover, packs force you to define a monitoring strategy : What types of equipment did I have ? What services did I associate to each type ? And then, I stick to the plan. But for packs to be even more awesome, there is some work to do in them. Look at pack-oracle for example. It is so great to have a pack for Oracle. So why does this pack didn't include the plugin check_oracle_health ? Why are $ORACLEUSER$ and $ORACLEPASS$ declared in macros.cfg and not in the template !? I don't wait for answers here. In fact, I don't care, I don't have oracle servers. This is just an example. But you should really pay attention to those details, because ready-to-use Packs, like mysql, are killer feature. Oh, and « shinken install » should be able to install a git repo. Thanks for the news, by the way. Long life to Shinken :) -- Guillaume Subiron Mail - maet...@subiron.org GPG - 5BC2 EADB Jabber - maet...@im.subiron.org IRC - maethor@(freenode|geeknode) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Shinken-devel mailing list Shinken-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/shinken-devel
