[Python-modules-team] pynag and syslog in Debian

[Clint Byrum]

Excerpts from Daniel Pocock's message of 2014-06-26 08:31:42 -0700:
> 
> Hi Clint, Pall,
> 
> Chandrika, one of our Google Summer of Code students for Ganglia, has
> added support for bulk check results into pynag.  It has been accepted
> upstream.
> https://github.com/pynag/pynag/commit/dda3098c027c3e62d512aecdca15d11f731b29c9
> 
> I've built a local package of pynag (from Git) for testing and I've also
> uploaded some related packages:
> 
> python-netsyslog  - provides a SysLog collector/server/parser for
> receiving syslog events over TCP
> syslog-nagios-bridge - uses pythong-netsyslog to receive events and uses
> pynag to write them out as checkresults
> 
> Future versions of the ganglia-nagios-bridge package will also use it
> very soon (that is another thing Chandrika is working on)
> 
> Would you be able to make an update of the pynag package so that the
> checkresult support is available for these other packages to use?

I'm quite time constrained now, but if Palli can do the package updating
and testing, I can sponsor it in.