career opportunity – op5 is looking for a developer

op5 are expanding and we are now looking for a skilled C/PHP developer to our team in Gothenburg. So if you know anybody interested in working with Ninja Merlin and other opensource software have them look into the add at: http://www.op5.se/op5/om-op5/karriar (only in swedish)

Conference on Nagios & Open Source Monitoring in Bolzano Italy

op5 is joining the Conference on Nagios and OSS Monitoring, hosted by Würth-Phoenix in Bolzano, Italy, on May 20th.  A number of interesting speakers will make presentations, among others Ethan Galstad (The Nagios founder) and Michael Medin (NSClient++), read more about the event at http://www.wuerth-phoenix.com/en/company/event/nagios-event/

op5 will contribute with two speakers, our CEO, Jan Josephson , will talk about how opensource based solutions, particularly Nagios, are closing in and becoming a real alternative to the ‘big four’. I will also give a speech, presenting our work on Merlin and Ninja and how these projects can help making Nagios an even more awesome tool. We look forward to this event which will give us the opportunity to spread the word about the great tools we develop at op5. Also it will be very interesting to meet people from the Italian (and probably German) community aswell as getting an update from the various opensource projects that will be presented.

Merlin and Ninja stable releases

We are done! After little over a year of development we now have stable releases of both Merlin and Ninja. It has been a lot of hard work over the year for many people at op5 and especially the devel crew have done an amazing job and invested so much time to make this happen. You find tarball downloads at www.op5.org. This is a major milestone for op5 and we are very exited about the future and can’t wait to get input from Nagios users out there.

These two releases also form the base for op5 Monitor 5.0 which was made publicly available yesterday (Tuesday april 13). This is the biggest release in op5 history and I feel confident that it is also the highest quality release we have made. So if you are a op5 user or customer, make sure you upgrade and take advantage of the powerfull new gui.

op5 Monitor 5.0 release party – Final call

Tomorrow afternoon (Tuesday april 13th) we celebrate the release of op5 Monitor 5.0 by opening the doors to our Gothenburg and Stockholm (Kista) offices. If you have not signed up yet you’d better hurry up. Join us for some beer and snacks, live demo of the new features and the opportunity to talk to the developers. As of this morning close to 50 guest have signed up, evenly spread across the offices.

Let us know if you plan to join us. http://www.op5.com/op5/news/events/1106-op5-monitor-50-release-party

Merlin and Ninja release candidates available

Ninja-1.0.0-beta17 and Merlin-0.6.7-beta6 was released earlier this week. As always you find the tarballs at www.op5.org. These two releases are part of Release candidate 2 of op5-Monitor 5.0.0.

Fixes since last builds include:
* A number of style- and usability-issues fixes in Ninja
* More help texts Ninja
* Alert history and event log only show data the user are allowed to see
* Merlin test-suite now have 9175 semi-automatic tests
* Merlin no longer crash when scheduled downtime is aborted
* A couple of memory leaks have been removed from Merlin. Both the daemon and the module is now free from memory leaks
* Comments conserning scheduled downtime are removed when downtime ends.
* Scheduled downtime is removed when downtime ends.
* Nagis comments about flapping host/service are removed when flapping ends.
* The Ninja GUI now notify the user if Merlin or Nagios is not running.

The plan is to build the stable release on friday April 9. op5 Monitor 5.0 public release is set to April 13 but the Ninja and Merlin tarballs might be accessible a few days before.

op5 Monitor 5.0 release party

The op5 Monitor 5.0.0 release is getting closer, the entire devel team are busy killing the final bugs and the committed release date still stand.

Since this release is a major milestone for op5 we plan to celebrate this by inviting all customers, partners and users to a release party on April 13th. Both offices (Kista and Gothenburg) welcome you to join us for some snacks (and most likely beer ) to celebrate this. Read more about the event and let us know if you want to join at: http://www.op5.com/op5/news/events/1106-op5-monitor-50-release-party

Ninja-1.0.0-beta10

A new beta of Ninja is available for download from the ninja project page at www.op5.org. This version is part of op5-Monitor-5.0.0-beta2 which was released earlier this week. Still there are some issues to be resolved so we aim to release the next beta of Ninja and Merlin on March 16 (Tuesday).