[Nagiosplug-devel] [OT] Nagios Plugins Used by Up.time

[Voon, Ton]

AJ,

Thanks for your post. I've been reading a lot up on the GPL recently, mainly
due to the SCO case, and this looks like a violation of the GPL. As you are
in possession of their code, can you take a look at
http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-violation.html and I will chase up.

My understanding is that they would be allowed to redistribute the code if
they retained the GPL and the copyright of the original source. 

Ton

-----Original Message-----
From: AJ McKee [mailto:aj.mckee at nmtbmedia.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, March 10, 2004 4:20 AM
To: nagiosplug-devel at lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: [Nagiosplug-devel] [OT] Nagios Plugins Used by Up.time


Hi All,

Sorry about the OT post, but I thought it should be brought to your
attention if it already has not. I downloaded a demo monitoring app the
other day called up.time from Uptime Software (www.uptimesoftware.com),
to give it a try and see how it compares with Nagios. Well the admin
interface is beautiful. A lot of effort there. However when I dug into
the file system I found some strange results. 

To cut to the chase there is a directory called libexec in
/opt/SPYNuptm/ and its contents are similar if not identical to that of
nagios. But all the plugins have been modified not to show the gpl
licence info that is there normally. So I was wondering if this was
known to nagios plugin developers, and if so sorry for going through
something which is already known. If not, bummer is this another example
of a company ripping off from the OSS community? I am in possession of a
document they publish (PDF if anyone wants it off list) which compares
their product to Nagios (Which I love BTW :), which to me seems
inaccurate to a great extent. 

So basically I was wondering what was everyone's thoughts etc on this? I
have included a dir listing and the output from their check_mysql
command for reference. 

Cheers in advance,

Yours
AJ


Have you see this elsewhere before :)
/opt/SPYNuptm/libexec
total 9340
-rwx--x--x    1 uptime      87399 Feb 26 02:45 check_by_ssh
-rwx--x--x    1 uptime        569 Feb 26 02:45 check_chk4
-rwx--x--x    1 uptime       1272 Feb 26 02:45 check_dhcp
-rwx--x--x    1 uptime      89113 Feb 26 02:45 check_dns
-rwxr-xr-x    1 uptime       2637 Feb 26 02:45 check_fscap
-rwx--x--x    1 uptime      90633 Feb 26 02:45 check_ftp
-rwx--x--x    1 uptime     159582 Feb 26 02:45 check_http
-rwx--x--x    1 uptime      90477 Feb 26 02:45 check_imap
-rwx--x--x    1 uptime      95427 Feb 26 02:45 check_ldap
-rwx--x--x    1 uptime     238700 Feb 26 02:45 check_mysql
-rwxr-xr-x    1 uptime       1033 Feb 26 02:45 check_nfs
-rwx--x--x    1 uptime      92464 Feb 26 02:45 check_nntp
-rwx--x--x    1 uptime        831 Feb 26 02:45 check_ntsvc
-rwx--x--x    1 uptime        459 Feb 26 02:45 check_oracle
-rwxr-xr-x    1 uptime      27423 Feb 26 02:45 check_ora_performance
-rwx--x--x    1 uptime       1715 Feb 26 02:45 check_ora_tablespace
-rwxr-xr-x    1 uptime    1094127 Feb 26 02:45 check_perf
-rwx--x--x    1 uptime      91168 Feb 26 02:45 check_ping
-rwx--x--x    1 uptime      90752 Feb 26 02:45 check_pop
-rwxr-xr-x    1 uptime       1852 Feb 26 02:45 check_processcount
-rwx--x--x    1 uptime       3082 Feb 26 02:45 check_smb
-rwx--x--x    1 uptime      91043 Feb 26 02:45 check_smtp
-rwx--x--x    1 uptime     102912 Feb 26 02:45 check_snmp
-rwx--x--x    1 uptime      89644 Feb 26 02:45 check_ssh
-rwx--x--x    1 uptime      96106 Feb 26 02:45 check_tcp
-rwx--x--x    1 uptime      90609 Feb 26 02:45 check_udp
-rwxr-xr-x    1 uptime        267 Feb 26 02:45 check_uptime
-rwx--x--x    1 uptime       1746 Feb 26 02:45 check_yp
-rws--x--x    1 uptime    1216515 Feb 26 02:45 dhclient
-rwx--x--x    1 uptime    4774504 Feb 26 02:45 dhclient_solaris
-rwx--x--x    1 uptime     576671 Feb 26 02:45 smbclient
-rwx--x--x    1 uptime       1292 Feb 26 02:45 solaris
-rwx--x--x    1 uptime      79910 Feb 26 02:45 urlize

Or better

 ./check_mysql --help
check_mysql (servmon-plugins 3.0.1) 1.4
Usage: check_mysql [-d database] [-H host] [-P port] [-u user] [-p
password]
       check_mysql --help
       check_mysql --version

There are no required arguments. By default, the local database with
a server listening on MySQL standard port 3306 will be checked

Options:
 -d, --database=STRING
   Check database with indicated name
 -H, --hostname=STRING or IPADDRESS
   Check server on the indicated host
 -P, --port=INTEGER
   Make connection on the indicated port
 -u, --username=STRING
   Connect using the indicated username
 -p, --password=STRING
   Use the indicated password to authenticate the connection
   ==> IMPORTANT: THIS FORM OF AUTHENTICATION IS NOT SECURE!!! <==
   Your clear-text password will be visible as a process table entry
 -h, --help
    Print detailed help screen
 -V, --version
    Print version information

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