Quick blurb: Nagios is forked

Date May 8, 2009

Jack Hughes over at The Tech Teapot posted today that Nagios has been forked. Apparently the lead developer (and sole person with commit access) has been very busy and not committing updates. This caused some self-described protagonists to launch “Icinga“.
It’s going to be very interesting to see where this goes. I personally hope that Nagios [...]

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Future (or current?) replacement for Nagios?

Date April 15, 2009

I was unaware of this project, but thanks to stephenpc on twitter, I read an excellent (if a bit dated) article on RootDev which brought OpenNMS to my attention as a possible replacement for nagios.
I was mildly surprised, mostly because I haven’t been shopping for a Nagios replacement since I installed and configured Nagios [...]

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Possible Nagios Conference in Baltimore

Date April 10, 2009

The LinkedIn Nagios Users Group posted a link to a survey to gauge interest in Nagios conference in Baltimore, MD timed to coincide with LISA, the misnamed Large Installation Systems Administration conference.
If you’re considering going to LISA (and you should at least consider it) and you’d like to attend a Nagios Conference at the [...]

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Mobile Notifications

Date June 23, 2008

I briefly touched on having a monitoring system for your network, but that’s only half the battle. The other half is getting the alert and taking action on it.
The way my system is configured, I have Nagios monitoring a couple of hundred resources around the network, from pings to diskspace to server room temperature. [...]

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