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op5 Monitor 6.1 Released

klasbern — Tue, 14 May 2013 08:44:19 +0000

op5 Monitor 6.1 includes a wide range of upgrades and new features, many of which focus on enabling user customization. We are trying to address the challenge with more and more data is accumulated, increasingly from outside the physical company environment. With that comes the need to be able to find and interpret the right data at the right time within this massive data stream, packaged in such a way that the user can understand and act on it without delay. The new approach in op5 Monitor 6.1 enables the necessary flexibility in an easy-to-use format. While traditional monitoring solutions have been designed by and for technicians and are often daunting to navigate and adapt, the data and presentation in op5 Monitor 6.1 can be refined down to an individual level, directly in the GUI, through a structure of available filters and list views.

We offer Free one to one Phone Demos where we show you how op5 Monitor 6.1 can be customized for your organization. You can send us your details by filling out the form or by sending us an email at info@op5.com

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News in 6.1

Filters and List Views
op5 Monitor 6 is capable to monitor far bigger environments than ever before and that leads to new demands on how the data volumes need to be presented and filtered. We are now introducing Filters together with a new List View that makes it possible to customize the views.

Trend Analysis and Failure Prediction
Failure Prediction, a feature that can utilize historical performance data to predict when a service will hit warning or critical levels – for instance, that hard disk space may run out in the next few months, allowing these issues to be handled well in advance. op5 Monitor 6.1 also supports Adaptive Thresholding, allowing for a more flexible way of setting warning levels that takes historical business loads and recurring traffic peaks into account, thereby further reduce the number of alarms caused by sudden but not un normal peaks or loads in the data center.

Additions to the API
In this development step of the API we will provide a way to extract the data from your op5 Monitor system.

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Maintenance release of op5 Monitor 5 series

klasbern — Mon, 15 Apr 2013 09:47:29 +0000

A maintenance release of op5 Monitor, version 5.8 is now available. This release is only intended for customers who are unable to upgrade to Monitor 6.

The op5 Monitor 5.8 release brings a new core module, based on Nagios 4 as well as Livestatus and Merlin. Those feature was introduced in the op5 Monitor 6 series but are now made available in 5.8. op5 Monitor 5.8 is possible to run on operating systems based on CentOS 5 and Red Hat Enterprise 5.

The most current release of op5 Monitor is 6.07 and there is a beta version available of the upcoming 6.1 release that will be made publicly available May 14th.

Release Notes

Release notes for op5 Monitor 5.8

Download op5 Monitor 5.8

Customers can download op5 Monitor 5.8 from our download archive.

op5 Monitor 6.1 Beta available for download

klasbern — Fri, 12 Apr 2013 13:46:13 +0000

op5 Monitor 6.1 is due for public release May 14 and the beta version is now available to download for test and evaluation. We are eager to get feedback from you, so let us know what you think! Please sen feedback and report any issues to https://bugs.op5.com or to our user list op5-users@lists.op5.com (and not to our regular support).

Here are a list of some of the exciting news in op5 Monitor 6.1

Read our development managers blog post on op5 Monitor 6.1 for further information.

API improvements

In this development step of the API we will provide a way to extract the data from your op5 Monitor system.

Filters and List View

op5 Monitor 6 is capable to monitor far bigger environments than ever before and that leads to new demands on how the data volumes need to be presented and filtered. We are now introducing Filters together with a new List View that makes it possible to customize the views.

Trend analysis

By calculating historical graph data we can now predict when a service will hit warning or critical level. As this feature is added as a normal graph template, this information will automatically be available in all standard reports.

Other news

Sorting of comments in reversed chronological order
Updated our Nagvis version to 1.7.3
Made Ninja icon set default in Nagvis
Create custom columns from custom variables in listview
Make it possible to select what columns to show (and in what order) in the new listview (per user setting under My account)
Make number of columns in Tactical Overview customizable (global setting)
Dynamic action button in service details (extinfo) by the use of custom variables.
Added a plugin to monitor domain expire date (does not work with .de .no .at .ch since these domains don’t publish expiry date in whois).

Disclaimer

Please note that this is a beta version and is not intended to run in any type of production environment. It is intended to be used for test and evaluation purposes only.

More Information

Release notes op5 Monitor 6.1 Beta
Change log

(German) M-net: neues Monitoring-System sichert störungsfreien IT-Betrieb

amansson — Wed, 23 Jan 2013 09:00:43 +0000

Sorry, this entry is only available in German.

op5 Monitor 6.0 Beta Available for Testing

klasbern — Mon, 12 Nov 2012 14:24:59 +0000

Next version of op5 Monitor, version 6.0 is due to be released on December 6th. You can read about the release on our developer blog.

op5 Monitor 6 features a new core built on Nagios* 4 as well as other architectual developments of the product. The aim of this release is to make op5 Monitor “Faster, Better and Easier to Extend” and to continue the lead as the only true Open Source based enterprise solution.

We are now inviting our customers, partners and members of the public to install, test and provide feedback for our new major version of op5 Monitor.

We appreciate all feedback, please report any issues at https://bugs.op5.com or to our developer user list op5-users@lists.op5.com.

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Disclaimer

Please note that this is a beta version and is not intended to run in any type of production environment. It is intended to be used for evaluation purposes only.

Downloads

Download op5 Monitor virtual appliance or install file for Centos/RHEL. Visit our download area for latest stable version of op5 Monitor.

op5 strengthens operations in Germany

msoderberg — Thu, 25 Oct 2012 12:14:12 +0000

op5, a market leading developer of Enterprise Network Monitoring solutions, continues to expand in Central Europe. op5 strengthens its sales efforts even more by employing three new team member to the Munich office in Germany, reinforcing its international network and expanding its physical presence in Germany, Austria and Switzerland.

New Area Manager for DACH is Guenther Klix and he will be responsible for business development. Also joining op5 in Munich is Nadine Schreiber, and Ernst M. Mutke. They all bring local competence and a high level of experiences in network monitoring and network operations.

Our new members join Christian Anton, who has been with op5 since august 2011.

“We see a lot of interest from the German market and we are now strengthening our operations in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. We will continue to broaden our existing customer base in these countries by demonstrating a commitment and by increasing our resources. There is a great opportunity to build a success in this region”

- Jan Josephson, CEO at op5

op5 is already working with a number of local partners in Germany and Austria such as ConSol Gmbh and Bacher System and the new partner QGroup. By increasing presence in the region op5 can together with partners deliver the best possible service and support to existing and new customers.

op5 system designer to speak at Nagios World

msoderberg — Thu, 09 Aug 2012 08:06:51 +0000

The Nagios World Conference is coming up and one of the speakers is op5 system designer and core Nagios developer Andreas Ericsson. He started working with Nagios in 2003 and in 2009 he was, in his own words, “was granted the highest honour available in this community when I became one of the core developers. Sort of like being knighted in the days of yore!”

Mr. Ericsson will be holding two presentation;

Nagios Core Worker Processes
This presentation will provide an in-depth look at how Nagios Core worker processes work, the API’s that make them tick and how additional addons can be quickly developed using those API’s.

Redundant and Load-Balanced Monitoring With Merlin
This presentation will provide a technical explanation of how Merlin works and why everyone should want to use it.

For more information on Nagios World Conference you can check out our event.

op5 Monitor is on Wikipedia!

msoderberg — Thu, 09 Aug 2012 07:00:49 +0000

Thanks to some contributors op5 Monitor now have a Wikipedia page. For now it holds mostly basic information but it will contain more informationin time. If you are a Wikipedia contributor and have some information about op5 Monitor or our company do not hesitate to update our page.

There is the link to op5 Monitor on Wikipedia.

op5 Monitor version 5.7 released

msoderberg — Mon, 25 Jun 2012 11:34:33 +0000

We are very exited to improve Monitor even futher with the stable release of op5 Monitor v. 5.7, which includes various new features and fixes. The main features are listed below. The full release notes can be found here.

API

Version 5.7 of op5 Monitor focuses on providing an API to be used for getting information in and out of op5 Monitor. op5 Monitor uses HTTP Rest API which is an industry standardized protocol. The output can be in json, xml or html.

With the API is it possible to easily integrate with tools such as (but not limited to):

CMDB (Configuration Management DataBases)
Device managers. When using a device manager to add or modify attributes of an object, the changes could be updated in op5 Monitor as well.
Automatic host config via agent. When installing an agent it can contact the central monitoring system and add itself.

With the possibility to get data out from op5 Monitor it is easier to create new way of presenting the data such as (but not limited to):

Smartphone apps
NOC consol
Customer portals

Custom variables

op5 Monitor 5.7 introduces a new functionality called “Custom variables”. It is now possible to add custom information to every object in op5 Monitor. This feature can be used to store extra information and makes it possible to use data from other sources in op5 Monitor such as (but not limited to):

CMDB data
Location
Model number

It is possible to add and modify custom variables by, for example, using:

Web config GUI
Config files
Web API (see above)

The info in custom variables can be used by plugins in MACROS which makes op5 Monitor more flexible.

Schedule Downtime Retrospectively

A problem in some organisations is that planned service maintenance is forgotten to be entered into the monitor system. The SLA reports and availability reports will show that the systems and services has been down, which might lead to penalties. This feature allows to add planned downtime after the actual downtime has occured. Of course it will be visible in the report that the scheduled downtime has been added afterwards.

op5 Presentations available online

msoderberg — Wed, 13 Jun 2012 09:31:40 +0000

In case you have missed it, many of our presentations and whitepapers are available online. Our presentations are a quick and easy way to get yourself acquainted with us as a company and op5 Monitors special features. There are a lot more presentations and documents except for those listed below at our docstock account. We update it as soon as we have anything new.

Make sure to follow us on Twitter so you do not miss anything.

Company presentation -light

This document presents op5, and what we can offer for your business when it comes to network monitoring.

View it here

IT Monitoring for Goverment and Public Sector

There are hundreds of public organisations using op5 Monitor, Governments, Government agencies, public administrations, schools, universities, local authorities and hospitals, to ensure that they deliver high quality IT services. Network monitoring within the public sector has unique challenges that require unique solutions. Public IT systems need to be accessible to a greater number of people and need to be reliable with minimal or no system down time. This presentation shows how op5 Monitor works with these challenges.

View it here

We have also added new some new whitepapers.

Whitepaper: Scalable Solutions

This white paper adresses key features for improving scalability by using op5 Monitor. Scalability and reliability of monitoring is a prerequisite for reliable service delivery in large scale IT environments.

View it here

Whitepaper: Unified Monitoring

This whitepaper talks about how a technology transparency network monitoring makes it possible to create a unified view and see through all layers of the IT environment whether it is physical, virtual or in the cloud by using op5 Monitor.

View it here