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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