Three months ago version 2.0 of Monitoring Plugins [https://www.monitoring-plugins.org/] was released. Since then many changes [https://github.com/monitoring-plugins/monitoring-plugins/compare/v2.0...master] were integrated. You can find a quick overview in the upstream NEWS [https://github.com/monitoring-plugins/monitoring-plugins/blob/master/NEWS]. Now it's…
You may wonder why the old good nagios-plugins [https://packages.qa.debian.org/nagios-plugins] are not up to date in Debian [https://www.debian.org/intro/about] unstable [https://www.debian.org/releases/unstable/] and testing [https://www.debian.org/releases/testing/]. Since the people behind and maintaining the plugins…
It seems to be a great time for monitoring solutions. Some of you may have noticed that Icinga [http://icinga.org] has released [https://www.icinga.org/2014/06/16/icinga-2-0-has-arrived/] it's first stable version of the completely redeveloped Icinga 2 [https://www.icinga.org/icinga2/] . After several changes in…
Last night it seems the so called 'Nagios Plugins' project [http://www.nagios-plugins.org/] was cut off. The story started a decade ago when development of the plugins compatible with Nagios [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nagios] was taken over by an independent group of developers [https://www.monitoring-plugins.org/…
Today the Nagios Plugins Development Team [https://www.nagios-plugins.org/team.html] released [https://www.nagios-plugins.org/doc/release-notes/1-5.html] the long awaited version 1.5 of the Nagios Plugins. It contains several bug-fixes as well as new features. The project moved to a new home at nagios-plugins.org…
Some of you might have noticed there is a new nagios-plugins [http://nagiosplugins.org/] version in the row [http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=31356051]. To support upstream in evaluating bugs and bringing the code to a wider audience, I uploaded [http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-nagios-devel/…
Short before Debian is freezing [http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2012/06/msg00006.html] the upcoming release of a new version of nagios-plugins [http://nagiosplugins.org/] is scheduled for Wednesday. The good news is, that a recent version is available in unstable and testing. Upstream only fixed some check_ping…
Having monitoring for dualstack connectivity inplace [https://log.cyconet.org/2012/03/09/monitoring-dualstacked-systems-with-icinga] helps a lot. Unfortunately in most cases we are running also services we want to offer dualstacked. In the past we just monitored in those cases IPv4 only or created a separate check for the same…