Ethan Galstad interviews Michael Medin, author of the popular NSClient++ addon for Nagios. The ad-hoc interview was done at the Nordic Meet on Nagios in Stockholm, Sweden.
Update: I guess I need to improve my video transcoding skills, as the audio/video gets a bit off-sync in the video. I’ll see if I can upload a corrected video in a few days. – Ethan
I’m pleased to announce the start of a new “Meet The Community” interview series. “Meet The Community” is intended to get the Nagios Community to get to know the greater community better and learn about exciting happenings – all in an effort to increase communication, collaboration, and understanding.
Continue reading ‘Meet The Community Interview Series’
As many of you know, a recent fork of Nagios has been announced, accompanied with a flurry of activity in both the community and press. An email thread titled “Nagios is dead! Long live Icinga!” began last week on the nagios-devel mailing list to kick this off.
What are my thoughts on this announcement? I think its one of the best things to ever happen to Nagios.
Continue reading ‘Nagios – A Fork In The Road’
Forks can serve useful purposes for projects and communities. They can also divide and damage projects and communities. They are neither inherently good nor bad.
Continue reading ‘Using a Fork – Don’t Forget the Spoon and Knife’
Several Nagios community members have mentioned to me that, through various means, they have become aware of potential tensions present between Nagios Enterprises and Netways related to Nagios trademark usage. I have preferred to keep these matters private between our two companies in order to resolve issues amicably. The announcement of Icinga and the press exposure of it has made that more difficult.
Please note that there are ongoing legal actions that are being pursued regarding matters between our companies, so I cannot provide details on everything surrounding this to the community at the present time. We have recently received communication from Netways that indicates a resolution to these issues may be possible. As a result, we will work with our legal counsel and Netways to see this issue to completion.
