Bacula-users

Re: [Bacula-users] New Wiki entry - Nagios monitoring

2009-04-07 03:53:49
Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] New Wiki entry - Nagios monitoring
From: Silver Salonen <silver AT ultrasoft DOT ee>
To: bacula-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net
Date: Tue, 7 Apr 2009 10:47:40 +0300
On Tuesday 07 April 2009 01:29:01 Arno Lehmann wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> 06.04.2009 10:15, Kevin Keane wrote:
> > Silver Salonen wrote:
> >> On Monday 06 April 2009 03:30:56 John Drescher wrote:
> ...
> >> * check_nagios.pl (by Julian Hein, www.netways.de) - plugin that queries 
> >> Bacula database. I'm using this myself and I've made some minor changes 
to the 
> >> script. I'm not sure about permission to redistribute the script though - 
> >> there's nothing said about that in the script, so.. what should be 
assumed? :)
> >>   
> > That script could be interesting. I'm generally not a big fan of 
> > bypassing UIs and accessing a database directly, but it seems to be the 
> > bacula philosophy to begin with.
> > 
> > As for redistribution: if in doubt, assume that it is not GPL. I didn't 
> > find the script on either nagiosexchange or netways.de, so unless the 
> > script is trivial, it probably is only included with support from 
> > netways.de. Or maybe he simply forgot to publish it. The only way to 
> > find out for sure is to ask.
> 
> I asked Julian, and he stated the license should be GPL v.2. I suppose 
> he'll update the distributed files some time... until then, I guess 
> it's safe to assume you can redistribute the script according to the 
> rules set by GPL v.2.
> 
> Good enough?

Yeah, I did it too and he claimed the same thing. He also said he doesn't have 
any memories about the script though, so I should just put some GPL header 
into the script and redistribute it :)

So I'll attach the script here and will then check how to get to update the 
wiki page too :)

-- 
Silver

Attachment: check_bacula.pl.gz
Description: GNU Zip compressed data

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