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GroundWork Monitor 5.3 Community Edition
Feb 11, 2009The GroundWork Open Source company out of San Francisco CA has released its Nagios-based monitoring software in a new version 5.3, including a free Community Edition.
more »Apt-Dater 0.7 for Mass Remote Updates
Jan 23, 2009The remote package update manager program apt-dater is now available in version 0.7. It performs software updates on a mass of remote hosts.
more »Top Ten Tops We pick the top ten Top tools
Nov 30, 2008The famous Unix admin utility known as Top has many imitators. We take a look at some of the top Top tools.
more »R1Soft Releases Linux Hot Copy
Nov 25, 2008Today R1Soft announced the beta release of Hot Copy for Linux, a command-line utility that takes instant readable and writeable snapshots of disks or volumes on any Linux server.
more »USENIX LISA: When 1000 Computers are too Slow
Nov 13, 2008Open source developer Tobias Oetiker, in his presentation at the USENIX LISA conference in San Diego, described how he could help one thousand Windows users at Swisscom.com speed up their computers.
more »FAN 1.0 Installs Nagios Plus Tools
Sep 26, 2008Fully Automated Nagios (FAN) is a CD distribution that should simplify the installation of Nagios along with numerous tools on a network monitoring server. FAN 1.0 is the current version.
more »Nagiosgraph 1.0.0 Offers New Approaches
Sep 11, 2008Nagiosgraph, an extension of the Nagios monitoring software, is available as version 1.0.0. The program merges the performance data from the Nagios plug-in and presents them graphically on a webpage.
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