Bacula-users

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

2009-04-06 18:35:46
Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] New Wiki entry - Nagios monitoring
From: Arno Lehmann <al AT its-lehmann DOT de>
To: bacula-users <bacula-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net>
Date: Tue, 07 Apr 2009 00:29:01 +0200
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?

Arno

-- 
Arno Lehmann
IT-Service Lehmann
Sandstr. 6, 49080 Osnabrück
www.its-lehmann.de

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