That's awesome part of a mailing list that "helps" people and as a developer that's your response. Glad it wasn't just a 1 to 1.
As for being wrong, I simply gave the definitions of both products, and pointed out the similarity, and for that I am wrong! As for hurting my chances, wow, I'm devastated. There are plenty of products out there that already do what I want (without asking for donations on the home page), I compliemnted you on the look and simply wanted to know if the 'monitoring' application that has links for alerts was in fact working.
The fact you had to reply right away with a poor comparison, now the 2nd one being an automated cacti makes much more sense as cacti's page says "Along with being able to maintain Graphs, Data Sources, and Round Robin Archives in a database, cacti handles the data gathering." It doesn't mention monitor for that fact. If I had a heart monitor and can look at graph's great, but if my heart stopped, I would want the monitor to fire an alert! Go ahead an poke at that definition as well I am simply trying to say calling it a monitor implies you can react (as you said there is even old code for it!)
So, in closing, your product does show good potential, some major pluses over competitors, and the fact you throw out a bad example, I call you on it and your answer is I won't help I'm sure will do wonders to that donate link as well.
:P Have fun as well (If nothing else, I am laughing as I type this)
~ Lance
On 12/12/12 1:08 PM, "Adam Armstrong" adama@memetic.org wrote:
On 12/12/2012 12:00, Lance Raymond wrote:
Gee, since you were so welcoming on a 1st post, I can't resist to reply as well.
So comparing nagios and observium is like Word and Lotus 123 huh, Word is a word processor and Lotus 123 is a spreadsheet app, completely different application uses.
But by definition; Nagios is a popular open source computer system and network monitoring software application. Observium is a PHP/MySQL-based Network Observation and Monitoring System
Looks pretty similar to me! As for alerts, is this something that is on the drawing board? Up/Down I would assume is part of monitoring IMO.
Observium is more like an automated Cacti. Arguing based on your own personal understanding of terminology just makes you sound crazy.
Not only that, but using such absurd semantics to try to prove me wrong and you right (even though you're wrong), utterly destroys any possiblity that I will implement any features or changes for you...
As for the "No idea what I'm talking about", well looking at all devices there is a grey box with items to search for. There is a link that says 'Remove Search'. The link points to a devices/format=list_detail/searchbar=hide/. I would like to see if there was a way to completely remove (or permanently hide) that search bar.
Oh, the search box on /devices/. There isn't currently a way of permanently hiding that box (or the similar box on /ports/)
It wouldn't be hard to make it hideable, but you've been irritating enough that I don't really want to help you. Well done, good luck, have fun.
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