On Wed, Jun 21, 2006 at 11:18:17AM -0500, Hubbard, Greg L wrote:
I heard a rumor that Nagios has an optional client that does not have to be compiled. Don't know if this is true, but it would sure help me out if there was a "Perl-only" or "Perl+shell" client that I could use on the one or two systems where I cannot install all the junk needed to compile a Hobbit client binary. Binary Perl distributions that just drop in are usually available... I know there would be a performance hit, but I would rather have a more expensive-to-run client than no client.
Thoughts?
The only tools you need for building a Hobbit client are a C compiler and GNU make. Period.
Combined with the fact that you can compile the client on one system, wrap it up in a tar-file and install it on all of the other systems, I really don't think this is a big issue. I've already had a couple of people offering their pre-built clients for various platforms for download, so I expect that once the 4.2 release is out, there will quickly be ready-to-run binaries available for download.
I really don't want to have two separate implementations of the same utility. Especially not one that I will not be able to maintain - I am about as good at Perl programming as the proverbial monkey.
Regards, Henrik