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Effortless redundancy and Load-balanced Monitoring – op5 Monitor 5.2

klas.bernehjalt@op5.com (Klas Bernehjält) — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 07:52:23 +0000

The op5 development team is steaming ahead working on release version 5.2 of op5 Monitor. In 5.0 we introduced the new sleek and shiny user interface for the first time. This upcoming release features a new modern intelligent database back-end that steps up and steals the show by offering effortless redundancy and load-balancing.

Beta: September 27

Public stable release: November 2

In this new release of op5 Monitor you will benefit from:

Complex distributed setups
Load-balanced setups
Smooth fail over
Command forwarding logic for peered setups
Extended possibilities for monitoring of VMware
Configuration synchronization and other improvement to the configuration maintenance that improve the day-to-day work-flow and helps save time.

It's now possible to delegate monitoring of specific hostgroups to specific pollers and to share workload between peers in load-balanced setups. You will be able to easily combine redundant and distributed setups featuring both stand-alone and load-balanced pollers feeding results to single or redundant master servers.

This is a major step forward, enabling our product to scale from small office usage to really huge installs with several 10.000 of monitored hosts. Redundancy and load-balancing is hard to achieve with any other monitoring tool, now its effortless with op5 Monitor 5.2!

Improved VMware Monitoring Capabilities

With op5 Monitor 5.2 you can regain the visibility of your virtual, cloud based or outsourced services, letting you stay on top of your services, independent of technical platform. Monitoring VMware based virtual infrastructure and services has become faster and even more detailed. We now introduce possibilities to check if memory ballooning is active on host, VM or the datacenter, a hardware status check has also been added. The performance improvement for the checks reduce scalability issues and making the checks less resource demanding.

Configuration Management

The configuration manager, has received added functionality with easy configuration maintenance that improve the day-to-day work-flow and helps save time:

Improved auto-discovery of MS Windows services.
Improved features for monitoring encrypted e-mail protocols.
Easily propagate extended host and service information, such as icon images, notes urls, action urls etc to new objects.
Notification Escalation settings is now easy and fast to maintain and propagate to new objects.
You can now easily clone services to the same host.
Possibility to add repeating scheduled downtime.

Please let us know if you have any feedback, suggestion or otherwiseon our user mailing list

Release Schedule for op5 Monitor 5.2

klas.bernehjalt@op5.com (Klas Bernehjält) — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 13:53:46 +0000

We are currently working hard on the next release of op5 Monitor, reaching version 5.2. The release dates have been set to:

op5 Monitor 5.2 Beta is released September 27
Stable release is set for November 2

Planned maintenance July 16th

klas.bernehjalt@op5.com (Klas Bernehjält) — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 13:20:47 +0000

We are improving our web services in order to increase performance and stability. So we are planning to move of our web servers Friday July 16th between 16:00-20:00 (CET). The scheduled down time will effect all our websites during this time.

Monitor your web services with op5 Cloud Monitor

klas.bernehjalt@op5.com (Klas Bernehjält) — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 10:04:47 +0000

We are launching a new Cloud based service called op5 Cloud Monitor for fast and easy monitoring for your web based services. op5 Cloud Monitor is based on op5 Monitor and cloud services from City Cloud. You can choose to install a monitoring server just by selecting the op5 image in City Clouds App Center and have it up and running within a few minutes. op5 can monitor both the servers that you have in the Cloud and other web based services such as your web shop or home page. op5 will offer the Cloud Monitor exclusively through City Cloud thus making it possible to buy monitoring on demand. So, If you are in need of monitoring and want to be in control of both cost and performance, check out City Cloud and the op5 Cloud Monitor.

op5 Customer Support Survey

gunilla.enebro@op5.se (Gunilla Enebro) — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 07:33:04 +0000

Dear Customer, your opinion is important for us so please take the opportunity to tell us what we can do better. It will only take you a couple of minutes to fill in the nine questions. To the survey

New Service: op5 Premium Support

klas.bernehjalt@op5.com (Klas Bernehjält) — Tue, 25 May 2010 09:05:31 +0000

op5 Premium Support is an extension of the support plan for organizations with high demands on availability and response times in the support services. The premium service is well suited for customers with complex configurations in redundandant or distributed installations, and with high availability requirements of their monitoring systems. The plan include a short response time, which means you have access to the support service you need, when you need it. We can also assist directly by remote administration access to your system to quickly help fix any issue. The premium plan also include the possibility to use op5 products in a test or staging environment to test new configurations and new releases before being used in production.

op5 Monitor 5.0.1 Released

mattias.ryrlen@op5.com (Mattias Ryrlén) — Fri, 07 May 2010 14:39:53 +0000

op5 Monitor 5.0.1 Released!

This is a bugfix release focus on AD Authentication for Ninja.
Also containing some small bugfixes.

For full changelog click here

op5 Monitor 5.0 Released

klas.bernehjalt@op5.com (Klas Bernehjält) — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 23:00:00 +0000

We are proud to present the new version of op5 Monitor, taking the next step in Network Monitoring. op5 Monitor 5 is designed to give an effective overview and control via easily available visualizations of data and events, according to your business needs. We aim to provide you with a world class tool for operational control. With todays fast changing IT that includes virtualisation, cloud computing, outsourcing etc. the real challenge is to maintain operational control and op5 Monitor 5.0 is adding essential features to help you with that.

The goal for this new version has been to give the whole system a new modern and improved user interface. "With the new interface we have solved many major issues regarding usability and flexibility to make customizations and improvements" says Peter Östlin, Developer Manager at op5.

Win an HTC Hero Andoid Phone

klas.bernehjalt@op5.com (Klas Bernehjält) — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 08:54:56 +0000

op5 Monitor 5 Beta 3 was recently released and we are working hard on finding and resolv issues before the public release April 13th. Now you can join us in the hunt for bugs and be rewarded for your efforts!

Its easy!

Download the beta 3 and start the hunt for bugs! If you find a bug, report it into our bug tracking system no later than Friday March 31st

Please start by reading up on how to submit bugs to us.
The reported bug must be reported no later than friday march 31st and be acknowledged by op5 dev team.
In order to get the bug acknowledged the bug report need to be a detailed and descriptive report on a new and valid bug.
The mobile winner is drawn from the list of approved bugs, so the more bugs you report the greater is the chance of winning!

Happy bug hunting!

op5 dev team

New op5 Monitor 5 Beta available for testing

klas.bernehjalt@op5.com (Klas Bernehjält) — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 09:39:28 +0000

We have now release a new beta version of op5 Monitor 5 containing fixes from the beta testing. We hope that you will continue testing op5 Monitor 5 and help us develop an awesome release by reporting back any issues or feedback that you might have.

Download the new Beta version
Go here to download the new version

Some of the fixed issues
0003183: Miscalculation of alerts
0003176: Reporting -> Notifications -> Lists wrong information
0003222: Trends: concatenate repeting events
0003209: Add object to Geomap results in "The user "" has no
permission for this action"
0003137: Tick-boxes for interfaces in SNMP-scan doesn't work
0003132: Successfull save is a blank page
0003069: Several broken links in host/status detail page
And many many more.

Known issues
0003224: Trends do not show initial state
0003136: Not implemented: Locate Host On Map

How to Report bugs

Report direct into our bug tracking system where you also can see what bugs that has been found. https://bugs.op5.com/view_all_bug_page.php
Send an email to our users list http://www.op5.com/support/about-support/mailing-lists/the-op5-user-mailing-list

We are looking forward to your feedback!