Re: [Opsview-users] Installation experience

[Alain W. <ad...@ph...>]

On Mon, Jun 18, 2007 at 01:49:08PM +0100, James Peel wrote:

> We don't currently support Fedora but we're planning to post SRPMs  
> and we could provide ad-hoc help you create working FC6 RPMs if  
> you're interested.

It is my development/test machine ... I will probably upgrade it to FC7 soonish,
but yes.

A couple of simple READMEs would help a lot. There are 3 tar files to
download ... how they relate to each other would be nice. How it
differs with standard Nagios would be nice as well ... ie how well
any Nagios plugins/... are likely to play with Opsview.

> > 14) I was told that opsview was a better nagios ... it could be,  
> but nagios has much better documentation.
> 
> Fair comment. We recognise our public documentation needs significant  
> work. Possible solutions are that we find:
> 
> 1) An existing customer willing to sponsor
> 2) Some volunteers willing to contribute
> 3) Ourselves with some time on our hands - seems unlikely right now :(

Release internal design documents ? I assume that you have these.

> The situation is gradually improving, we had nothing online at start  
> of year.

How much of a community is there ? I have been on this list for a few weeks and
seen nothing.

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