NagMIN Update

[Fred Reimers]

All,

I want to thank those of you who have tried NagMIN so far.  I've gotten a lot of good feedback and have added many of the features requested.  I'm going to release NagMIN 1.0.6 this evening that will be the most stable beta so far.  It includes global field updating so that host_name, contact_name and other key fields included in parents, members, etc., gets changed or deleted everywhere and support for hostgroup escalations.

NagMIN can learn your network now and do port scans of your hosts and dynamically create your services, amongst other things.  Personally, I really like being able to verify a configuration before activating it.  There isn't a lot (or any) real documentation yet.  I'm shooting for two weeks to have the first stable release and then perform proper release management from that point.  I am creating updatennn.sql files for updating the schema for existing databases.  Make sure that you run all of the from the point that you first installed it.

The biggest problem I've encountered for release control so far was that I initially set some of the field lengths too short.  I've made a lot of changes to the database schema and I think 1.0.6 is pretty stable.  The port scanning was a bit slow but I sped my own server up dramatically by installing NMAP 3.20 (and rebooting it!!).  

I have release notes on SourceForge.  If you don't know how to find it, you click on the release name on the download page.  I'm going to be monitoring SourceForge for bug tracker, feature requests, etc..  There's nothing there now and I'm looking for your input.

Check http://nagmin.sourceforge.net for the latest information.


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Fred Reimers (CCIE #1469, CCSA)
Senior Network Consultant
Info Systems, Inc.
freimers at infosysinc.com



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