[Nagiosplug-devel] NOCPulse

[Mayhew, Andrew]

The NOCPulse software was originally built on a Netsaint core, which they
claimed to have re-written large chunks.  There were still large portions of
it that were just perl scripts last time I saw it (March 2002), including
most of the modules.  The software still maintains the same NetSaint
architecture with some added stuff.  In fact most of the plugins were just
the NetSaint plugins.  I forget right now which version of NetSaint they had
based everything on, but I do recall that this was all started when the main
developers will still at GlobalCrossing about 2 years ago now (at least).

The whole deal with NOCPulse was that they would have a box on your network
to handle the monitoring.  It was a "secured RedHat Linux machine" (their
words) that would do active polling to nrpe agents and then pass nsca
packets back to their NOC.  All reporting and pages would come from their
NOC and network, and this included the web interface.

After having an evaluation machine for a couple of weeks and gaining access
to it, I decided that my company could not afford to spend that much money
for a bunch of Perl scripts on top of NetSaint.  That and I had issues with
opening access to the core of my network to the outside world in order for
them to monitor my machines.

Their whole business model kind of revolved around the hope that there were
a large number of companies willing to outsource their NOC.  Except that all
they would do is call/page someone if something broke and in the
environments that I work in, the NOC is tasked to actually attempt to fix
things before giving up and calling someone.  The RedHat purchase is
probably just a way for RH to increase their services offerings while
continuing to ignore the major problems in their distribution.

Enough ranting.  
--Andy Mayhew

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rusch, Daniel [mailto:Daniel.Rusch at GlobalCrossing.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, October 23, 2002 12:29 PM
> To: 'ABostick at mydoconline.com'; nagiosplug-devel at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: RE: [Nagiosplug-devel] NOCPulse
> 
> 
> The software NocPulse sells isn't freeware.  I know the 
> people who started
> NocPulse many of them are xGlobal Crossing employees.  If you can be a
> little specific I'd be happy to ask them your questions.
> 
> Dan 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ABostick at mydoconline.com [mailto:ABostick at mydoconline.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, October 23, 2002 2:00 PM
> To: nagiosplug-devel at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: [Nagiosplug-devel] NOCPulse
> 
> 
> I do not know if anyone caught this, but RedHat this week purchased a
> company called NOCPulse that writes software to "manage many 
> servers as
> one".  So I had to see this was about and after looking at 
> the screen shots,
> I'm thinking "This is nagios or at least the nagios plugins..."
> 
> The service check names and result codes are identical to 
> Netsaint / Nagios
> but from what I can tell I do not think they are open source...
> 
> Any one else know what this is about as I'm curious about 
> RedHat "buying"
> software which is already free...
> 
> Aaron
> 
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