If you want to have influence in what direction Nagios is going, you have the chance now.
Ethan Galstad, the founder of Nagios has done a great job to open up the project and listening to input from the community.
Go to http://ideas.nagios.org/ and vote or add the functionality you want in Nagios so others can vote for it.
I have added the idea that Nagios should have a programable rule engine. When I worked as a Tivoli consultant it was essential to collect information from different sources and write som rules and present the result. All the enterprise monitoring solutions has a rule engine, i.e PEM (Patrol Enterprise Manager), T/EC (Tivoli Enterprise Console) and so on.
The Merlin project was initially started to create an easy way to set up distributed Nagios installations allowing Nagios processes to exchange information directly as an alternative to the standard nagios way using NSCA. When starting the Ninja project we realised that we could continue the work on Merlin and adopt the project to function as backend for Ninja by adding support for storing the status information in a database, fault tolearance and some other cool things. This means that Merlin now are responsible for providing status data, acting as a backend, for the Ninja GUI.
Happy with my sucess in my motion alarm project I wanted better resolution. In my stupidity I did not check if it was working with Linux.
I bought a Philips SPC230NC at a fair price/performance for my needs. I connected it to my box where I have my other web camera attached and dmesg showed that a new unknown USB device was attached. After some Googling I found the following at Philips website:
May 1, 2009.
We are pleased to announce the official release of OpenBSD 4.5.
This is our 25th release on CD-ROM (and 26th via FTP). We remain
proud of OpenBSD's record of more than ten years with only two remote
holes in the default install.
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Demo of how the Nagios based network monitoring tool op5 Monitor works and how easy it is to use. This part contains demo of the reports module and how to make SLA reports.
A demo of the benefits with op5 Monitor and what you can monitor with this Nagios based network monitoring tool. This first part gives a short introduction and overview of the tool.
