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Hello all

As some of you might have noticed a fork of Nagios was announced on Wednesday last week. A lot of people has commented it and I thought a short note on this list would be appropriate since Nagios is the open source software that we crafted our business around and is a major part of op5 Monitor.

The fork was announced as a way to ensure the growth and speed up the development of Nagios which has been kind of slow lately mildly speaking.

A couple of days later I must say that it looks like this goal will be reached. The Nagios development team has grown from 1 person to 3 persons and last night commits started flooding in. It looks like this was the eye opener that was needed to get everyone focused towards the same goal and I really hope that it stays this way because then we have a truly promising future ahead for Nagios.

My, our design developer, just gave me a couple of new screenshots of the Ninja gui displaying the latest design of Tactical Overview and Host Details

Our thinking here is to provide a look and feel similar to the Nagios default but we have moved some things around to make it more logical and put focus on the interresting stuff such as the status output.

the screenshots are available at the Ninja project page.

Check it out and let us know what you think.

Merlin or, Module for Endless Redundancy and Loadbalancing In Nagios, as we also call it has been cooking for some time now.  Andreas put in quite a lot of work into the project over the last couple of weeks and it’s now in the state where it “should” be installable and testable by other persons than just op5 employees. It’s been running internally for a couple of weeks so if you are interrested please try it out.

For more info check out http://www.op5.org/community/projects/merlin/

feedback is much appreciated

Hello everyone

Last months socializing event was a huge success if you ask me,  everyone had a blast!

We invite customers, partners, users and other people interested in Nagios and op5 products to our office to have a beer and a chat with the dev team. This is for us an excellent way to meet with others, talk and just have a couple of laughs over a beer. So if you think it sounds like something nice to attend to, just do it, you are very welcome!

Join us at Första Långgatan 19, Göteborg, April 15, around 16:00

Happy easter everyone

/Johannes

Hey everyone

We have 2 new releases _soon_ available for download

op5 Appliance System - 3.3
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* Update of CentOS
* both 64 and 32bit available
* ghost image for factory installed appliances
* Bugfixes

op5 Monitor - 4.1.4
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bugfix release
- about 80 issues fixed

They will be available for download from http://www.op5.com/support/downloads/ as usual

Cheers

/Johannes

This week we have among other things thought a bit about possible implementations for a new network map

Here is a very interresting flash component that we are thinking of using as a replacement for the “Hyper Map” in Monitor. Take a look at RaVis.

I’m very curious at what people outside of our office thinks about it

Time for a social event, finally!!

During this year’s performance review talks I got feedback from the developers that it would be nice to see some users a bit more frequently.

When we started op5 many years ago, this was not an issue since we spent time with the customers, at the customers locations all the time, doing installations, consulting and such. But as time passes and the company grows the guys spending most time with our users are the brilliant partners and consultants we work with and not the developers. This has it’s advantages but also a lot of dissadvantages so I hereby invite all op5 users to have a beer and some snacks with us at the Gothenburg office, Första Långgatan 19, Göteborg, Sweden next wednesday March 18.

We will start somewhere around 16:00 and continue until we get tiered

Very welcome everyone! and please send me a quick note at jd@op5.com if you want to come so that I can make sure to have enough beer and snacks.

hopefully this is the start of a monthly tradition.

see ya!

Hey all

Believe it or not, but we have started the work on a gui that has the aim to be the preferred alternative opensource gui to Nagios!!

This is something we have wanted to do for years now and by judging of the amount of requests we get from our customers about improvements to the current gui we are not alone 

The project is in a very early stage and no code is yet publicly available but we have a couple of prototype screenshots that we would like to share with you.

Take a look at http://www.op5.org/community/projects/ninja for more info

note: although Ninja is a very cool name, we will change it since it’s a little bit to cool for us = already used by many other projects

So when can you download and use this new shining gui? Well I hope we can publish some code on git.op5.org within the next month or earlier  and we plan for having the gui stable and usable enough to base our product op5 Monitor on it in June!

Cheers

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Johannes Dagemark
CTO
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Hey all

this is my first blog post ever, hopfully of many to come! We will see