Nagios is one seriously awesome monitoring tool that has achieved extensive market penetration since its initial release in 1999. Despite being underfunded, Nagios has exploded onto the scene of enterprise-class network management tools and challenged well-established and well-funded competitors. This David-vs-.Goliath success story has been made possible through the grass-roots efforts of the Nagios Community members and their word-of-mouth-advocacy.
At Nagios Enterprises, we’ve been working overtime and behind the scenes to prepare for the launch of a new era in Nagios history. Look to 2009 as the year in which Nagios will rise to the top of the competition and rightfully claim its spot as undisputed King of Monitoring.
Oh, and our unofficial company theme song during these chaotic days is “Eye of the Tiger”. We think it sums our work up perfectly.
Don’t miss the chance to attend the upcoming Nagios Nordic Meet 08 in Stockholm, Sweden June 3-4.
Come and meet key individuals from the open source community and discuss the future of their OSS Projects, technical news, market trends and listen to case studies focusing on business value. There will be open discussions on development and technology challenges.
Speakers include:
Ethan Galstad, founder of Nagios
Tobias Oetiker, founder of RRD Tools
Balazs Scheidler, founder of SysLog-NG
Andreas Ericsson, developer and member of Nagios enterprise advisory bord
The PNP Developer Team has just released their new version of the graphing addon.
The last version was mainly released for some improvements of the optional “Bulkmode with NPCD” (Nagios Perfdata C Daemon), interesting for huge Nagios installations to decrease check latencies without loosing performance data processing and some minor bug fixes.
For more information, screenshots and downloads just have a look at http://pnp4nagios.sourceforge.net/
Nagios is one of the 2007 SourceForge Community Choice Awards finalists in the ‘Best Tool or Utility for SysAdmins‘ cateogy! Thanks to everyone who nominated it as one of their favorite apps.
Now that the nomination process is complete, the voting begins to determine the Community Choice Award winners in each category. Vote for Nagios and your other favorite OSS apps by visiting http://sourceforge.net/awards/cca/vote.php.
eWeek just included Nagios as one of the most important Open Source applications of all time. Awesome!
From eWeek: “System and network monitoring was jolted by Nagios, pushing high-end commercial products to innovate while making monitoring a possibility for small and mid-sized organizations.”
Thanks to everyone in the Nagios community who made this possible! You can see the list here.
NagVis is a alternativ addon for the statusmap in Nagios. With NagVis you are able to create image maps to display your workflow processes with underlying Nagios status data. NagVis use the NDO to display the maps in realtime. Features are:
Display of single Hosts, Services, Hostgroups, Servicegroups or another NagVis-Map as one icon
It was a small step for other, but a big step for us.
The PNP Developer Team is proud to announce that we’ve done the step and are now one of the many great Sourceforge.net projects.
Since a few weeks we have ported our svn repository and the release files to SF.net as the project name pnp4nagios.
PNP is a Nagios addon to establish performance data charts without doing big configuration on them. Our goal is to provide a tool “That just works.”.
Also we decided to establish a few mailinglists to communicate outside our german location.
We hope that you enjoy PNP and send us many nice ideas for further work.
It feels like it has been ages ago that I took to the stage to give the Lightning talk at FOSDEM about the Nagios Plugins. Actually, it was ages ago, I just never got round to sorting out the screencast of the presentation I gave. Well, now it is sorted and without further ado, you can grab the screencast and the example script from here. Warning, the movie is 35MB. But it’s worth it!
Synopsis: I talk about Nagios, the Plugins and how to create a cool (literally) plugin using the perl module Nagios::Plugin in under 8 minutes.
Update: Permissions on the example check_weather script were wrong, so couldn’t be downloaded. Sorry - I’ve fixed them now.
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