May/092
ICINGA is a Nagios fork
Today ICINGA was announced as a fork of the open source monitoring solution Nagios. As I am an active user of Nagios, a highly active community member and maintainer of the Nagios mapping addon NagVis I welcome the step of forking Nagios.
In fact it is a big step to fork a big and popular project like Nagios. But in this case the step was absolutely needed. Nagios and the NDO were not developed with a view at the community requests and needs in the last months year. There were many patches and bugfixes which need to be applied. There were many tries to make the thing easier for the Nagios developer but the response was not satisfying in the most cases.
The team behind ICINGA (including members of the Nagios Community Board) are promising that ICINGA will be compatible with the preceding versions of Nagios.
Several hours after the publication of the fork I see constant positive feedback in the news and boards. I look forward to the reactions of the Nagios developer. I’m sure this step will bring some positive things to the Nagios/ICINGA community regardless of what the Nagios developer will do.
I will support the new ICINGA project. Good luck to you guys…
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