It was time to update the monitoring packages on my server, so I spent some time to get them all up-to-date to the newest versions that were released recently:
First of all, there is new version of cacti, with several patches from upstream. It corrects a few bugs that appeared after the release of version 0.8.7g. [...]
After the problems with Cacti release 0.8.7f a few weeks ago, the updated version 0.8.7g was released this week.
I successfully updated my server, which was a very simple process.
After installing the new package, the web-page automatically redirected to the upgrade-page and with a single click Cacti was up-and-running again.
The new SlackBuild is in [...]
Last Monday rrdtool-1.4.4 was released. It contains some bug fixes and improvements you can read about here.
The SlackBuild was also improved to solve some problems with the lua, tcl and ruby bindings, that are all installed in the correct paths now.
The new SlackBuild has been submitted and new packages can be downloaded from my site.
A few weeks ago the Cacti developers released version 0.8.7f of Cacti, but it was removed from their site shortly after the release because of some new bugs that were introduced.
While we’re waiting for the new version to be re-released, I built a package for the current release (0.8.7e) with all the patches that upstream [...]
Last week RRDtool 1.4.3 was released. It solves several minor bugs in the previous 1.4.2 version and adds a few new options. See here for the updated change log.
I updated the SlackBuild script and submitted it to SlackBuilds.org. Pre-built packages for Slackware 32+64 bits and ARMedslack can be downloaded from the usual page.
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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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