op5 Monitor 5.0 Beta is now available for imidiate download. The release of op5 Monitor 5.0 public release date april 13 is getting closer and we now release a virtual appliance beta release for testing and evaluation. The beta contain all the major features and news scheduled for the 5.0 final release. Please observe that the release is not intended for use in production envirnoment.
Our Network monitoring tool, op5 Monitor is reaching a major milestone with this release that includes several major news, including a brand new easy to use user interface (GUI) with widgets and an powerful data visualization module integrated with Google Maps, improved reports and more!
The date for the op5 Monitor 5.0 Beta release is set to February 26th and will be made available to download on our website www.op5.com.
The dates for the 2010 spring training courses are available for booking.
Basic Course
This is the essential course for all op5 users. Our professional instructors use a combination of theory and hands-on lab exercises to provide you with the skills and knowledge you need to setup, configure, customize, and administer an op5 Monitor and op5 Statistics installation.
Take your skills a step further and realize more of the possibilities offered by op5 Monitor and Statistics. This course will teach you in-depth advanced monitoring of services and applications, also how you can create your own, customized plugin to op5 Monitor.
op5 announces the immediate release of op5 Monitor 4.2.6 a bug fix release solving many minor bugs mainly related to the new beta user interface Ninja.
Main fixes in op5 Monitor 4.2.6:
Authentication issues in Ninja - Limited users in some cases see to much and in other too little information
Reports debug tool - Make test case to help when debuging
Lots of minor fixes in the Ninja, Nacoma and op5 reports modules.
We recomend all users to upgrade to the latest release.
Our goal is to develop a Network Monitoring solution that is easy to use. We now launch a limited campaign where we have put together “The Complete IT Monitoring Package” that is easy to understand and easy to use!
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Infrastructure i.e. switches, routers, printers, firewalls etc. etc.
Operating systems & Servers, i.e. Dell, HP, IBM, MS, Unix, Linux, OS400 etc.
Applications i.e. webservers, databases, mail system etc.
Traffic flows i.e. links on LAN and WANs
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The bugs and features tracking system Mantis has been made publicly available on our support portal www.op5.com/support. Now users and visitors can view bugs and feature requests, change logs and road maps for all op5 products and projects. By registering it will also be possible to submit bugs and feature requests!
The event Nordic Meet on Nagios that was hosted by op5 is over. The meet was very interesting with alot of exiting news reveled by Ethan, the founder of the Nagios project. Did you miss the event? We hope to be able to repeat the also in 2010! so dont miss it.
There has been an announcement on an fork of the Nagios project called Icinga. op5 has since the start 2003 successfully built a business around the Nagios project. Nagios is an amazing project that has enabled us to help our customer creating rock solid IT environments. We will continue to support and work with Nagios, posting patches and developing addons to make Nagios even better.
Johannes Dagemark CTO / VP Engineering jd@op5.com 0733-709024 op5 AB
The aim is to improve customer services by increasing the accessibility and to be able to deliver high quality support services for our growing customer base. We have changed our phone system to a new IP based system from Sipgear and changed our phone operator to Tele2. The new system give us the opportunity to scale incoming phone traffic and to enable functions to improve the customer experience.
The system is up and running on a very basic level during the intial test period to make sure everything work as planned, with the intent to implement the new services during the next couple of months. New phone numbers will be introduced (see new office numbers belowe), however the old numbers will continue to be working during this year. The support number is not changed at this time.
New phone numbers to op5s offices: Stockholm office: +46-8-58 83 01 00 Gothenburg office: +46-31-352 56 00
The 2008 Meet was a great success! The event was filled to the last seat and a great atmosphere in lovely summer weather in Stockholm! Watch a video from 2008
The date for 2009 is set to June 3-4, so dont miss Scandinavias largest Nagios event. Come and meet key open source profiles and discuss the future of their Nagios Related OSS Projects, listen to technical news, market trends and case studies focusing on business value. There will be open discussions on development and technology challenges. This year we develop the meet further with a longer program with more speakers, workshops and a whole lot of fun! We hope to meet you on Nordic Meet on Nagios 2009.
Go to the NMN2009 homepage for more information and registration.
The Norwegian Airport Express operator Flytoget AS is one of the happy IPnett/op5 customers in Norway. IPnett is op5 local partner on the Norwegian market, delivering a solution based on op5 Network Management Suite to Flytoget.
op5 Monitor 4.0 is work in progress and planned for release on October the 23rd. This will be a major release as the op5 Monitor backend will be upgraded to Nagios 3.
We are currently working on release 3.2 for op5 LogServer. This is an important release that includes two major features as promised in conjunction with the 3.0 release.
op5 Smart Search in op5 LogServer 3.0 utilize a full text indexing in an easy to use query language that enables advanced and very fast smart searches in to large amounts of log data. This reduces time and resources for fault management and makes general cumbersome log management into a simple task!
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