3 OMD - the Open Monitoring Distribution
7 For installing Nagios you have a choice: compiling the necessary packages from
8 source by yourself. Or you use the precompiled packages from your distribution.
9 Self compiling and installing means you have some manual work to do. If you will
10 use the packages from your distribution Nagios and other packages may not always
13 This is what OMD tries to solve: more current software releases but not all the
14 manual work of self compiling. And last but not least: you get the same
15 installation paths and directories on all platforms. The plan is to release
16 more often than normal linux distribution do. We try to integrate vital patches
17 in order to close the gap between releasing the patch and including it in the
23 OMD is no new Linux distribution. It is a collection of different software
24 packages round about Nagios:
29 * rrdtool including rrdcached
42 * Shinken (still experimental)
50 * More than one instance per host
52 OMD supports multiple but separated Nagios instances on the same machine,
53 i.e. for one production usage and one test environment.
55 * Separate omd user per instance
57 Each instance has its own user.
59 * Script based tarball building
61 If you decide to compile omd for yourself, you get a single tarball with all
62 necessary paths and binaries. Installing this tarball on hosts is as simple
63 as extracting a common tar file.
65 * Simple creation of new sites
67 OMD create mysite create the site and omd start starts all stuff.
69 * Supporting different omd version at the same time
71 You can install different versions in parallel, i.e. running your production
72 instance with the last hard rock version and using the most current version
73 in your test environment. There is an omd upgrade available, but at this time
74 don't rely on it, it is experimental!
76 * Platform independent paths
78 OMD installs to /opt/omd on all platforms. If you don't like this, you can
79 symlink omd to every location you want.
83 OMD is available under the terms of the GNU General Public License of
84 version 2. You find those terms in the file COPYING. Please note, that that
85 license only applies to OMD itself (its scripts, patches, configuration files,
86 etc.). The licenses of the packages it ships may differ. Please checkout
87 those packages for details on their licensing.
91 Visit the OMD homepage at http://omdistro.org for online documentation,
92 new releases, information on the mailing lists, etc.
94 Some german documentation is available under http://mathias-kettner.de/omd.html.