Alignak with only flat-files configuration / Nagios migration

[mohierf]

This to write down some ideas about this subject...

Assuming the follownig concerns:

• easing Nagios / Shinken migration is one of the Alignak goal
• monitored configuration is described in nagios-like flat files configuration
• what about an Web UI in this context:
  • Livestatus/Thruk?
  • Shinken specific broker base UI?
  • No UI, but only a console notification?
• what about livestate retention: acknowledged problems, sent notifications

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Some ideas:

1. implementing a Livestatus module to be able to use Thruk
2. making Alignak Shinken UI compatible
3. implementing an inner simple retention module based on files

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I know that Alignak backend is the response ... but it is not the response to : easily migrating from Nagios / Shinken existing configuration.

As of now, the word easily do not fully match 😉 Setting up a Mongo DB and the Alignak backend is not an easy solution.

On the migartion road, one should have several steps:

1. my Nagios/Shinken configuration
2. my first Alignak set-up: replace Nagios/Shinken monitoring framework
3. my target Alignak set-up: use Alignak backend

As of now, the 2nd step is missing and it may be, imho, quite easily achieved

[mohierf]

With the most recent version 2.0, Alignak is implementing:

• fully compatible with Nagios flat-files
• an inner retention module
• an inner metrics / perf_data module for Graphite
• a POC has been made to use the Shinken Web UI and it is compatible

Nagios first-steps migration ia possible easily...

[mohierf]

The most recent Shinken WebUI is Alignak compatible