Bug 1009425

Summary: pnp4nagios dependent on nagios
Product: [Fedora] Fedora EPEL Reporter: Franky Van Liedekerke <liedekef>
Component: pnp4nagiosAssignee: Jan ONDREJ <ondrejj>
Status: CLOSED EOL QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Description Franky Van Liedekerke 2013-09-18 12:16:27 UTC
Description of problem:

When trying to install the latest pnp4nagios rpm from EPEL onto a centos server, I saw it was requiring nagios to be installed. Since pnp4nagios can run with icinga as well, I think this requirement should be removed.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
0.6.20 and 0.6.21


Additional info:
I checked the SPEC file for pnp4nagios and have come up with some improvements:
- remove the line "Requires: nagios"
- make it possible to give a username and groupname to be used when building the RPM from the spec file. The advantage is that then people can use "icinga/icinga" as user/group as well. The extra configure options for these 2 are "--with-nagios-user" and "--with-nagios-group"
- remove the extra subpath "nagios/html" everywhere: pnp4nagios stands on it's own, it has no need to be installed inside a nagios subtree
- also add a init-file for pnp_gearman_worker (a basic init script is included, but it's not redhat/fedora/centos compliant)

Comment 1 Jan ONDREJ 2014-09-02 13:16:57 UTC
Icinga is not a part of Fedora/EPEL, so I think there is no need to make these changes. Configuring pnp4nagios without nagios dependency should be difficult for most users.

I don't think, that there are many users, which can use feature of recompilation of source packages with icinga support.

Closing this bug, but please reopen it, if:
- you can provide patches for pnp4nagios to help usage with icinga
- icinga will be included in Fedora/EPEL repositories

Comment 2 Franky Van Liedekerke 2014-09-02 14:04:44 UTC
I guess I didn't make my case strong enough. I took icinga as an example, but in fact pnp4nagios can even be installed on a different server than nagios and have nagios forward the performance data via gearman to pnp4nagios (pnp4nagios fully supports gearman). So needing to install nagios there also is a bit overkill then.

If wanted, let me know and I can provide a patch for the spec file that at least makes it easier:
- remove the line "Requires: nagios"
- remove the extra subpath "nagios/html" everywhere: pnp4nagios stands on it's own, it has no need to be installed inside a nagios subtree
- also add a init-file for pnp_gearman_worker (a basic init script is included, but it's not redhat/fedora/centos compliant)

Comment 3 Jan ONDREJ 2014-09-02 17:01:26 UTC
OK, I can review your patch, but still I don't think removing of nagios dependency is a good solution for most users.

pnp4nagios usage wihout nagios is a bit complicated. I can't imagine, how to use it. But it's possible to make it configurable in spec file.

Comment 4 Ben Cotton 2020-11-05 16:49:41 UTC
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Comment 5 Ben Cotton 2020-11-30 15:05:20 UTC
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