nfilus
06-24-2008, 12:06 AM
Hello,
I'm building a monitoring environment based on centreon 2.0b3 and I see a lot of potential in the tool to become the next (unofficial) nagios frontend.
I would like to share the problems I stumpled upon until now and give some feedback. Most of the following may be filed as bugs, but I want some feedback before.
bugs:
- notifications: nagios 3.0 knows also a flapping (f) and a scheduled downtime (s) notification type. In centreon exists a redundant none (n) state, which means not (w and c and u and r) - at least I can't find it in nagios 3.0 docs.
- the documentation link is broken (at least for me)
- sort order of nagios resources should be alphanumeric (user1, user2, user10, ...)
- some titles of generated images are still french
- host groupings in monitoring grid view don't respect defined groups and use own groupings
-
wishes / enhancements:
- more translations, but I know it's work in progress
- show (more verbose) command log or output for debugging
- possibility to test a command (changeset 5379?)
- add sorting (configuration) and filtering of tables everywhere
- grouping of commands is not very intuitive: prefer breaks at "-_" and prefer more group members above longer common name ("notification-by-e"[mail|pager])
- more tooltips with little help for options and settings
(example: what is the meaning of default value "1" in service options
->disable/enable?)
- integrate a host scan / nmap / snmpwalk for automatic discovery
- add "clear" button for filter
- show status of all services of host in Monitoring -> Hosts -> Hosts Problems
- merge options window and "hosts command" window (enable/disable)
- let the user define and add more tools to the host window (ssh to host,
restart, .....)
- default in "yes/no/default" should differentiate between "nagios" default and "default taken from template"
I hope you like feedback, tell me which of these to file as bugs and I'll see some of them implemented some day.
Thank you for the work.
Nikolaus
I'm building a monitoring environment based on centreon 2.0b3 and I see a lot of potential in the tool to become the next (unofficial) nagios frontend.
I would like to share the problems I stumpled upon until now and give some feedback. Most of the following may be filed as bugs, but I want some feedback before.
bugs:
- notifications: nagios 3.0 knows also a flapping (f) and a scheduled downtime (s) notification type. In centreon exists a redundant none (n) state, which means not (w and c and u and r) - at least I can't find it in nagios 3.0 docs.
- the documentation link is broken (at least for me)
- sort order of nagios resources should be alphanumeric (user1, user2, user10, ...)
- some titles of generated images are still french
- host groupings in monitoring grid view don't respect defined groups and use own groupings
-
wishes / enhancements:
- more translations, but I know it's work in progress
- show (more verbose) command log or output for debugging
- possibility to test a command (changeset 5379?)
- add sorting (configuration) and filtering of tables everywhere
- grouping of commands is not very intuitive: prefer breaks at "-_" and prefer more group members above longer common name ("notification-by-e"[mail|pager])
- more tooltips with little help for options and settings
(example: what is the meaning of default value "1" in service options
->disable/enable?)
- integrate a host scan / nmap / snmpwalk for automatic discovery
- add "clear" button for filter
- show status of all services of host in Monitoring -> Hosts -> Hosts Problems
- merge options window and "hosts command" window (enable/disable)
- let the user define and add more tools to the host window (ssh to host,
restart, .....)
- default in "yes/no/default" should differentiate between "nagios" default and "default taken from template"
I hope you like feedback, tell me which of these to file as bugs and I'll see some of them implemented some day.
Thank you for the work.
Nikolaus