I see your points here and I'm sure that quite some people will use your modules when they are released. And then just hope that you continue updating it in the future as you might switch jobs, or get busy otherwise. With Opsera, it's for sure that the modules will work in following versions as well.
But don't get me wrong. I went with Opsview as well because it was free. For us however, it because a crucial part of the infrastructure. The reports are a base for our billing. In our business, losing this kind of reports would mean potentially losing money. And before I risk that, I just get my self a subscription for support. Better pay a bit here as having lost one main source of data for our billing department. And, the modules are then available as well :-) But I guess it really depends on how you're using Opsview. I'm just seeing things from my point of view, with our business in mind. Of course, each business ticks different and has different requirements, so these arguements might or might not fit to your case. Oh and for the fact that Opsview is based on other products: you're very right there. But don't forget that if you want to have Nagios with more features, you're going to pay for Nagios XI for instance. Which is a way to support the development of the free version. And if you're using MySQL in a commercial environment, I think you might actually need a license for that as well. And you are for sure aware that some Opsera people are actually in the Core Nagios team making this free software. However, I think that these guys won't work for nothing :-) Anyhow, enough of that, my ramblings are for sure not going to have any influence on the commercial decisions from Opsera. I'm sure they have heard you ;-) cheers, arthur On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 10:49 PM, Josh Brown (Mailing List) < [email protected]> wrote: > I agree with you in a lot of ways Arthur. 95% of what is great about > Opsview is already in the product, and yes it is a central part of our > infrastructure. However, the reason it is a central part is because it's > free. The work they have put in this product is amazing, but without > Nagios, NagVis, MRTG, NMIS, and MySQL being open source Opsview wouldn't > exist... > > The issue is really that I (or somebody) can and probably will write these > integrations on my/their own, so now effort is being duplicated... Let's > say 2 years from now what I have written is legitimate enough for community > use, then what? Now people are using my modules and their modules... > Business wise it's a lose lose... A company competing against it's > customers? > > I'm sticking with it! :-) > Free the modules! > -Josh > > On Apr 26, 2010, at 3:15 AM, Arthur de Pauw wrote: > > Well, that's what the subscribtion is for :-) > > I think that Opsview gives you an excellent monitoring tool. However, > development of the system does cost money, and having the subscription model > is a way to earn the money. Now, I don't know much about marketing and > sales, but if you give away all your futures for free, my guess is that it > get's much harder to sell your product. So, if you need these modules, > consider getting a subscription. if you're into netflow analysis and RANCID > integration, or you want to have Opsview to integrate with your helpdesk > system and you need log file analysis it sounds as if your Opsview is > actually a central part of your infrastructure. Maybe you _do_ want to have > support when something goes wrong there? Although the mailing list is very > helpful, I'd feel safer if I could just pick up the phone to give Opsera a > call :-) > > Just my 2c > > bests > arthur > > > On Sat, Apr 24, 2010 at 1:58 AM, Josh Brown (Mailing List) < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> Any chance the Opsview teams will consider allowing the Community users to >> download the expansion modules? >> >> All of the following modules are really great and I think should be free >> just like the community version! >> >> From the Opsview Website: >> >> The following modules are available via Opsview support. >> >> - Log file analysis and correlation >> - RANCID integration >> - Netflow analysis >> - Helpdesk integration >> >> >> Thanks for the consideration! Perhaps others reading this will concur! >> >> -JB >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Opsview-users mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.opsview.org/lists/listinfo/opsview-users >> >> > > > -- > cheers, > arthur > _______________________________________________ > Opsview-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.opsview.org/lists/listinfo/opsview-users > > > > _______________________________________________ > Opsview-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.opsview.org/lists/listinfo/opsview-users > > -- cheers, arthur
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