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March 30th, 2010 by Niels Horn in , , |

A new version for Zabbix - the open source enterprise monitoring solution - was released yesterday. This new version (1.8.2) solves some bugs in the previous version and introduces some new features and improvements. For the complete announcement, check this link.
I submitted the new SlackBuilds for the server and agent parts to SlackBuilds.org. Pre-built packages [...]

February 6th, 2010 by Niels Horn in , ,

Wireshark is a very nice network protocol analyzer / sniffer, that is very complete and totally free and open source. It is the standard for examining network packets, used by many professionals and home users. I've been using wireshark since the days when it was still called Ethereal, some years ago.
The last few days I [...]

January 28th, 2010 by Niels Horn in |

One more update before wrapping up: Zabbix released version 1.8.1
As suggested by upstream, I do not offer pre-built packages for the server, so I suggest you all wait for the SlackBuild to get out of the pending queue.
Packages for the new agent can be downloaded from my site already.
If you are upgrading from a previous [...]

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 [...]

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