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July 27th, 2011 by Niels Horn in , |

Nagios 3.3.1 was released a few days ago and since it is a program I like a lot, I immediately started working on the updated SlackBuild script.
What is new
The complete ChangeLog for version 3.3.1 can be found here. Basically, it contains several improvements and bug-fixes "under the hood", but it also has some new enhancements [...]

October 9th, 2010 by Niels Horn in , , |

Just over a month ago I wrote about the release of Nagios 3.2.2 and now it's time to update already
Nagios announced the release of version 3.2.3 a few days ago, resolving a few bugs. According to the announcement updating your installation is recommended.
Since the ChangeLog is quite short, I copy it here:

Fixes problem where [...]

September 7th, 2010 by Niels Horn in , , , , , |

The distributed build system has been working fine for the last few days / nights, so I managed to build several packages for ARMedslack.
These are now available for download on my site:

viewvc + Pygments (browser interface for cvs and svn)
xspacewarp (Time-Trek like game for X-Windows)
inadyn (Dynamic DNS updater)
nagios + nagios-plugins (IT monitoring system)
ntop + GeoIP [...]

September 4th, 2010 by Niels Horn in , , |

Nagios released version 3.2.2 of Nagios Core this week.
It contains several fixes and a new configuration interface (although I don't use it, I do all my configuration with Vim ) A detailed ChangeLog can be found here.
As a happy and satisfied user of Nagios, I updated my SlackBuild script immediately and after a [...]

November 29th, 2009 by Niels Horn in , , , , , |

I've been busy over the last few weeks evaluating some software to monitor servers, network utilization, etc. I have tested several programs and ended up using three: nagios, cacti, and ntop.
All of these are free & open software. For nagios and cacti you can download SlackBuild scripts from slackbuilds.org maintained by me. For cacti, if [...]