Nagios-Plugins Web Site Taken Over By Nagios 119
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 (Score:5, Insightful)
is not a viable long term strategy.
Re:Copyright violation. (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:Switched to Icinga a long time ago (Score:2, Insightful)
+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 (Score:3, Insightful)
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 (Score:5, Insightful)
"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.