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Project History
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The Business Process module is based on the ideas of the Nagios(tm) [Business
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Process AddOn](http://bp-addon.monitoringexchange.org/) written by Bernd
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Strößenreuther. We always loved it's simplicity, and while it looks pretty
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oldschool right now there are still many shops happily using it in production.
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Compatibility
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We fully support the BPaddon configuration language and will continue to do so.
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It's also perfectly valid to run both products in parallel based on the very same
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config files. New features are (mostly) added in a compatible way.
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Configuration titles and descriptions, properties related to state types or
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permissions are examples for new features that didn't formerly exist. They are
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stored as commented metadata in the file header and therefore invisible to the
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old AddOn.
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The only way to break compatibility is to use newly introduced operators like
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`NOT`. Once you do so, the old AddOn will no longer be able to parse your
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configuration.
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Lot's of changes went on and are still going on under the hood. We have more
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features and new language constructs. We separated the config reader from the
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state fetcher in our code base. This will allow us to eventually support config
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backends like SQL databases or the Icinga 2 DSL.
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This would make it easier to distribute configuration in large environments.
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Improvements
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Major focus has been put on execution speed. So while the Web integration shows
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much more details at once and is able to display huge unfolded trees, it should
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still render and refresh faster. Same goes for the Check Plugin.
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Behaviour for all operators is now strictly specified and Unit-tested. You still
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can manually edit your configuration files. But much better, you also delegate
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this to your co-workers, as Business Process definitions can now be built directly
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in the GUI.
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