op5 is the leading provider of monitoring software in Europe. op5 uses Open Source and their monitoring services are now available in the Cloud via City Cloud, a cloud computing service from City Network. By introducing monitoring in a new business model, customers are now able to get professional monitoring [...]
I have registred me to attend the open Splunk event in Stockholm. Within 24 hours I got an email telling that they do not want competitors at the event and would like to discuss the purpose of me attending.
I called the Splunk representative and told him that op5 thinks Splunk is a competitor in some cases and in [...]
The release of the next generation Open Source Network Monitoring Software is only weeks away with the release of op5 Monitor 5. Here you can download a Beta version of the sofware intended for testing och evaluation or try it at a live demo.
op5 Monitor Beta, virtual image in ovf format
Try op5 Monitor Beta
The op5 [...]
An email sent to op5-users from op5s CTO, Peter Östlin.
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Hi All,
The op5 devel team has been kind of quiet on the list lately. The
reason for this is that we have been working very hard to complete the
next release of Merlin and Ninja. The result of this will be the
release of op5 Monitor 5.0 scheduled for [...]
Background
I was reading the Swedish computer magazine, Tech World. There was an article about an appliance solution that could give a report about unused switch ports. The box PortIQ from Infoblox costs approximatly 10.000 Euro.
op5 has developed this feature at a customer site and is included with op5 Monitor, op5 has published the code as opensource.
This [...]
https://bugs.op5.com/ is now also open for external users to sign up. By signing up you can post bug and feature requests, post bug-notes etc.
Before doing so, please check out the "How to Submit Bug/Feature" documentation available from within the bug tracker.
Note: op5 opensource projects Merlin, Ninja and Nacoma are for now available as categories on [...]
op5 AB is a world leading OSM – Open Source Management – company that delivers software based on open source for control of IT systems and networks. The award winning op5 Monitor is now released with important enhancements that will enable customers and other vendors to further improve usability and integration for optimized IT monitoring. [...]
op5 Announces Global Partner TruePath Technologies, Inc. For U.S.
Markets
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
-August 5, 2009-Swedish OS Management IT monitoring software developer,
op5, announced today their partnership alliance with American company
TruePath Technologies, Inc. – one of the premier monitoring service
companies in the United States.
Next week, op5 will release the new Nagios GUI called Ninja. The license is GPL and several people has reported the GUI work perfectly well on vanilla Nagios. Ninja uses a database backend. Merlin, another op5 developed software feeds the Nagios information into the database.
Links:
op5 -OpenSource based management software company
Ninja- Nagios Is Now Just Awesome
Merlin [...]
Op5 has written an excellent article howto monitor Esx3.x, ESXi, vSphere 4 and vCenter Server with op5 Monitor. This article is op5 Monitor centric but op5 Monitor is based on Nagios so this article can be used to implement Nagios vmware monitoring.
The plugin used to gather the information is GPLd and developed by op5.
Links
The article [...]
op5 develops plugins for op5 Monitor, based on Nagios. As a courtesy to the community the plugins developed are free and can be downloaded from:
http://www.op5.org/community/projects/op5-plugins
The plugins is also located in a Git repository and can be checked out from:
http://git.op5.org/git/
It has been very interesting and two intensive days. The highlights IMHO:
Tobias Oitiker gave a very good presentation about the linux kernel caching and described how it affected RRDtools.
Markus Almroth, describes Sysnagios which did the opposite of most monitoring projects. Sysnagios decentralized the configuration of systems and network monitoring in a controlled way. I will [...]
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 [...]
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.
I will be running a demo of op5 products at thursday April 23:th 16:00 CET.
The demo is hosted by Collax a op5 partner in Germany.
If you want to attend, register at:
http://www.collax.com/de/ueber-collax/events-collax-live/webcast-collax-monitoring-solution.html
op5 is proud to arrange Nordic Meet on Nagios 2009 June 3-4th in Stockholm.
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Welcome to Nordic Meet on Nagios 2009 (NMN2009) June 3-4th, the largest Nagios Meet in Scandinavia. The 2008 Meet was a great success! The event was filled to the last seat and a great atmosphere in great summer weather in Stockholm! [...]
Today we release op5 LogServer 3.4, a minor release containing the following features and fixes.
Code refactoring and bug fixes
Possibility to turn on and off full text indexing
Speed and robustness improvements to the query logic
My manager has confirmed that I will go to GoOpen 2009 in Oslo, Norway 16-17 April
op5 is a bronze sponsor and will have a booth where it will be possible to talk to me and my collegues face to face. My biggest problem is if I want to see Mamma Mia or meet Jon Maddog [...]
op5 has started the work on a gui that has the
aim to be the preferred opensource alternative gui to Nagios!!
This is something op5 wanted to do for years now and by judging of
the amount of requests we get from our customers about improvements to
the current gui we are not alone
The project [...]
The new features include:
Support for 64bit OS
op5 Monitor 4.1 will support the 64bit versions of RedHat and CentOS.
New improved performance graphs
The new feature provides automatic graphing for all graphable performance data (based on pnp4Nagios). This means that you will get graphs for most of your hosts and services with no effort.
Smarter Navigation
Op5 have improved [...]
Press release:
Open Source Management company op5 expands into Ireland
– Partners with Irish enterprise IT solutions company SecureLinx
Stockholm, the 18 December 2008 – Leading Open Source Management Company op5 partners with Irish enterprise IT solutions company SecureLinx. The new partnership is the latest move by op5 to expand its international channel business, which [...]
op5 are proud to announce that op5 have released op5 Logserver 3.3.0
This is a minor upgrade.
Whats new?
Summary Reports
Bidirectional editing of filters
Hierarchical filters
Configurable deafult filter per user
Bugfixes
Read more about it in the release-notes and changelog
This guide is a step by step guide howto integrate op5 Monitor with op5 Logserver.
Background
I would like to have an alert if root has logged into my firewall. I think this is very important to know fast and where ever I am so I want a SMS sent to my cellphone. I have op5 Monitor [...]
Cut-n-paste from http://www.op5.org/about
We want to give something back to the community
We have built a successful business around several opensource components, such as Nagios, RRDTool, Cacti, syslog-ng, NSClient++, Linux and several hundred GNU programs and libraries.
A big thanks to all the hundreds of programmers for their efforts.
Now that we have addons around and on [...]
