Nagios-Plugins Web Site Taken Over By Nagios

New submitter hymie! writes "Nagios is a commonly used IT tool that monitors computers, networks, and websites. It supports the use of plug-ins, many of which were developed independently by the community. Holger Weiß, formerly of nagios-plugins.org, announced that 'Yesterday, the DNS records [of nagios-plugins.org] were modified to point to web space controlled by Nagios Enterprises instead. This change was done without prior notice. To make things worse, large parts of our web site were copied and are now served (with slight modifications) by Nagios. Again, this was done without contacting us, and without our permission. This means we cannot use the name 'Nagios Plugins' any longer.' Further discussion is available in a Bugzilla thread."

Shitting all over your most supportive users

[Anonymous Coward]

is not a viable long term strategy.

Re:Copyright violation.

[tverbeek]

You seem to be completely overlooking the issue of copyright. Re-appropriating the domain was apparently within Nagios' rights, but copying the contents of the web site was not. Trademark rights are not virally transmissible to copyright.

Re:Switched to Icinga a long time ago

[Anonymous Coward]

+1

The switch is trivially easy and all plugins are backwards-compatible. The "classic" UI has every annoyance of Nagios UI fixed. There is a sensible release cycle and authors that accept feedback in their bugtracker.

Every time I hear people complain about their Nagios love/hate relationship I tell them to switch.

Re:Shitting all over your most supportive users

[Anonymous Coward]

Give Zabbix a try, you'll be surprised. Much better flexibilty and easier to tie into active directory for authentication.

http://www.zabbix.com/

From the bugzilla thread

[rk]

"nagios-plugins is not a fork, but a rebase with new team members. monitoring-plugins is indeed a fork, as their new name suggests."

That is rich.