Nagios 3.0a4 Released
The fourth alpha release of Nagios 3 is now available for more testing. As mentioned before, this is development code, so be careful when deployng it. Read the Changelog for changes since alpha 3. You can download the alpha release here.
Open Source, Nagios, and Corporate Responsibility
Will Hurley posted an interesting blog article at TalkBMC titled “ Welcome to Opensville, Population Zero. He talks about how some companies build their products on Open Source projects like Nagios, but fail to give back to the respective communities. Very interesting read that should provoke some good discussions.
New Releases: Nagios 2.9, Nagios 3.0a3, and NDOUtils 1.4b3
A couple of new releases today… Nagios 2.9 (stable) was just released to fix a few bugs present in the Nagios 2.8. Nagios 3.0a3 (development) was released as the latest alpha snapshot of the Nagios 3 code. And NDOUtils 1.4b3 was released with support for the latest Nagios 3 alpha code. Read the Changelog for […]
Nagios 3.0a2 Released
The second alpha release of Nagios 3 is now available for more testing. This is development code, so I wouldn’t recommend replacing your stable Nagios 2.x installation with it yet. Read the Changelog for changes since alpha 1. You can download the alpha release here. SourceForge seems to be having intermittent problems today, so be […]
eValid Web Application Monitoring
I’m pleased to announce that Nagios users can get a 10% discount on purchases of eValid’s Web Application Monitoring Solution. eValid allows you to perform browser-based functional tests of your applications from the perspective of an end user. The monitoring engine includes a number of powerful features like record/playback capability, validation, timing, and batch mode […]
Nagios 2.8 and NRPE 2.7.1 Released
Nagios 2.8 has just been released! This latest stable release fixes several bugs that were present in versions 2.7 and earlier (see the Changelog). NRPE 2.7.1 was also released with a minor bugfix to prevent compilations errors under AIX. You can download the new releases here.
Nagios 3.0a1 Released
The first official alpha release of Nagios 3 is now available! This is development code, so I wouldn’t recommend replacing your stable Nagios 2.x installation with it yet. Lots of improvements have been made since Nagios 2.x. Read What’s New for more information. You can download the alpha release here.
Nagios Community Site Open
NagiosCommunity.org has just been launched. It’s a new site that will hopefully prove to be useful for Nagios users. The blog will be used to communicate development information more effectively and the wiki is a user-run ecosystem of tutorials, presentations, event information, etc. Check it out and start contributing!
NRPE 2.7 Released
NRPE version 2.7 has just been released. The new release allow the NRPE daemon to continue if non-fatal configuration errors are encountered, and should detect the location of SSL header and library files better. You can download the new release of NRPE here.
Ton Voon @ FOSDEM 2007
If you’re headed to the FOSDEM 2007 conference in Brussels this coming weekend, make sure to check out Ton Voon’s “Lightning Talk” about the Nagios Plugins. Ton will give a quick introduction to Nagios and the Plugins and give a “how to write a plugin in 8 minutes” demonstration. More details can be found here.
