I’ve been to Portland for Monitorama this year and it was really interesting. Do you believe that, an entire event only for Monitoring, that’s awesome ! The conferences were very interesting and the level of the talks was also good.

During the installation of your monitoring platform, you probably install nagios plugins package which provide some basic plugins. Until now everything is fine in this story but don’t expect for an happy end with Nagios … Troll inside Indeed the Nagios plugins project was splitted in two different projects (Nagios plugins and monitored plugins), you’ll tell me “OK hum but why this split ?

While Nagios® make some stupid things, in our case the Nagios Open Software License Version 1.3 for NPCA, I think it’s really the time to say good bye to some Nagios® products such as Nagios core, NSCA, NDO. I’m sure you don’t know if you have to use nagios plugins or monitoring plugins.

I’m testing Centreon 2.5 with Centreon broker since one week. That’s why I decide to write some lines about some interesting features or changes. In this way you will not be surprised when you’ll install this release. Centreon 2.5 release is out, I can publish these lines.

It’s not very easy to see your /var/log/messages when your poller receive a lot of check results and that’s why I wrote this post. This post only concern NSCA server and not the client. The latest stable version of NSCA (2.