[cinch]

hi, this project looks really neat! i'm evaluating icinga web + pnp4nagios at work, but this could be a viable alternative. cheers and glad you put this out there :-)

i see that you use Protocol Buffers. from google's page, it seems like they only work with C++, Java or Python. now this could be a problem for us. what if i want to pull events from a bash script, a delphi gui app, SNMP, Dell idrac interface, or any other event? do they have to interface over Protocol Buffers, or am i missing something here? would i have to write a glue layer?

and what about, if you have two seperate networks, and want one server to forward data for its entire lan to the other server, to process and graph them?

[aphyr]

There are protobuf bindings for many languages, though I hear node.js was a bit of a pain. Check the clients page and see if the language you need is there; I can help you build one if not.

For pulling from other tools, I usually write a little daemon to poll and relay the data. See riemann-tools for a collection of existing tools to do just that; and you can require it as a library to write your own in just a few lines of ruby.

Forwarding between servers is built in; it's easy to aggregate events in hierachies for large-scale analysis.

[cinch]

awesome, thanks for replying :)