Software update: Nagios 2.0

With the Nagios program you can monitor various parts of your network and services on your servers. Among other things, it can check for SMTP, POP3, HTTP and NNTP services, and host resources such as processor load and disk usage. When something happens that you want to be kept informed of, you can set up various notifications that can then be delivered by email or pager. The program can be easily expanded to your own liking by using the plugin structure. For more information, we refer you to this page and a zipper with screenshots is finished this page to watch. The developers have released version 2.0 stable with the following announcement:

Nagios 2.0 (stable) has been released. Patches to the Nagios 2.0 code will go towards a 2.1 release in the future, and new features, changes, etc. will be applied to Nagios 3.0.

changes:

• Fix for segfault in timed event queue
• Removed length limitations for object vars/vals
• Updated config.sub and config.guess to versions from automake-1.9
• Doc updates

[break]Nagios 2.0 is available in the following two flavors:
Tarball
RPMs for Red Hat Linux, Fedora and Red Hat Enterprise