Nagios-plugins web site taken over by Nagios

This is pretty serious! It appears that Nagios did some very underhanded things to gain control of that project.<p>The bigger concern is that the <i>new</i> maintainers have no reputation and no proven track recording quality, commitment, skills or experience on this project. I would <i>not</i> be happy accepting updates from them.

Blog post from Sam Kottler, the maintainer of nagios plugins in fedora&#x2F;epel on the matter:<p><a href="http://words.shk.io/on-the-nagios-plugins-drama" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;words.shk.io&#x2F;on-the-nagios-plugins-drama</a>

What alternatives to Nagios are out there? I&#x27;ve seen Icinga mentioned today, what else are people using?

monitoring-plugins is a good name. Not branded to any one company, and is a better destination for open-source development of monitoring plugins.<p>Anybody who really thought about it for a bit, must have known that Nagios LLC would eventually seize control of anything Nagios trademark related.

At least the community had the good sense to distribute under the GPL. Its harder to dump a community with that license, so they at least have a chance.

Reading through the mailing list thread announcing this, it&#x27;s clear that Nagios was never really an open project to begin with. As far as the plugins site goes - they transferred domain ownership a couple of years ago. The plugins hosted on the site are compatible with Nagios and all it&#x27;s forks.<p>This outcome and the way it happened should surprise no one.

I can&#x27;t read that exchange trail in the issue tracker without hearing this Life of Brian sketch in my head:<p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gb_qHP7VaZE" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=gb_qHP7VaZE</a> (some NSFW language)

What about Nagios itself? Maybe it needs a fork.