On 2013-11-07 03:05, Ron Wingfield wrote:
Browser is FireFox 25.0,1. Sessions . . .I was "reading up" on sessions this afternoon and that entered my mind to research -- seems like it may be dropping the session(s). Cookies, should be/are working.
Regarding FreeBSD, yes, but you know, it's just another BSD "unix", and very server oriented. I've previously succeeded in running Observium on FreeBSD, and I don't think it should be a problem now. I don't want to convert to Ubuntu or that Linux kernel system just for the sake of running SNMP tools. Tomorrow, I'll explore the sessions situation.
I really like what I've seen regarding Observium, but honestly, I don't see what is so unique about Ubuntu or Linux. I started working with AT&T's SVR3 Unix (back in the eighties). PHP should be platform independent, as should a browser like FireFox.
We both know that things are 'platform independent' until individual packagers and their chose OS's stupid policies get in the way.
From a marketing perspective, you're excluding a lot of users by demanding "Ubuntu / Linus" only; regardless, tomorrow, I'll explore the sessions integrity scenario. If I'm successful, I'll report back.
I'm not convinced we are excluding any significant number of people. Observium is intended to be used by reasonably large operations who can at the very least dedicate a VM, if not an entire server, to running it.
We specifically target Debian/Ubuntu, because those are what the development team run, and those are what we test on. We discourage people from running on anything else because it significantly increases the likelyhood of an update breaking something, as we won't have tested it on their system, and the whims of their system's packagers and policies.
The issue is significantly worse on alternative OSes like FreeBSD and Solaris, because we can't even rely on the behaviour of the userland applications.
You're simply making life difficult for yourself by being obtuse and insisting on running it on FreeBSD. You may get it working today, but at some point in the near future, it will stop working again, because of some difference between our development platforms and your installation. Then it'll happen again, and again.
adam.