Software Update: Nagios 2.3 / 1.4

With the program Nagios you can monitor different 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 about, you can set different notifications that can then be delivered by mail or pager. The program can easily be 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 up this page to watch. The developers have released two new versions with 2.3 and 1.4 as the version numbers. The announcement and the list of changes look like this:

New versions of both the Nagios 1.x and 2.x code branches have been released and contain a fix for a content length (buffer) overflow that could affect the CGIs under certain web servers (although probably not Apache).

Version 2.3:

• Bug fix for negative HTTP content_length header in CGIs
• Added missing links for notes_url and action_url to service column of status detail page

Version 2.2:

• Minor bug fix in availability CGI
• Bug fix with temporary file location used for retention data
• Fix for segfault that occurred in 2.1 during service flapping notifications

Version 1.4:

• Bug fix for negative HTTP content_length header in CGIs