Category Archives: op5 Tech Blog

Anything and everything to do with the latest in technology, from network monitoring updates to random hacks for firewalls, you can find it here!

Maintenance, Improvements and Upgrades

We’d like to inform all our customers, partners and community-members that we’ve a planned maintenance window Thursday 22:nd of September between 14:00 – 16:00 UTC (16:00 – 18:00 CEST) where our website will be unavailable. — It’s been a while … Continue reading

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Upcoming features in Ninja

The work with Ninja continues. Just thought I should provide a brief update on what’s happening with Ninja by highlighting some of the new features that has been implemented lately: Apache authentication driver Authentication fallback Saved searches NOC master template

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Ninja 1.1.2

Ninja 1.1.1 is now stable and available for download. It is to be considered a maintenance release but with a strong focus on performance. The performance affects mainly the host/service group pages but the entire Ninja interface is now substantially faster. The main … Continue reading

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A salute to all Net Admins!

Better late then never and I blame it on my holiday as I was not logged in yesterday… in any case this is just to highlight the ”12th Annual System Administrator Appreciation Day” – our most important users and influencers to … Continue reading

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Pushing logs with NSCA

As you may know op5 monitor recommends a check interval of 5 minutes escalating to once time per minute if a check becomes critical. Running a critical system it may be of interest to have the check intervals being even … Continue reading

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We want you!

As most of you’ve seen we release op5 Monitor 5.3 today. This would never been possible without the great team we’ve at op5, and we’re looking to expand even further! We’re expanding our IT-team to further enrich your experience working … Continue reading

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Merlin 1.0.0-beta1

And so it has come. The day when Merlin outgrows its infancy is at hand.

The rite of passage into adulthood was smoother than expected, but not
without minor bumps. As with people, those bumps made the code stronger. Continue reading

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Getting notifications via Growl

At op5 we have a wide verity of client-machines for our employees. At this given time we’ve a good third of each major platform, Windows, Linux and OS X actively running. Being in IT you’ve to be able to support … Continue reading

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Consolidated PNP graphs for load-average with op5 Monitor

Running op5 Monitor gives you some nice performance-graphs generated with PNP. The default template however isn’t always as usable as one might want it to be. A good example is load_average where load1,5 and 15 is separated into different graphs … Continue reading

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Developer beer – November 23

It has been some busy month at the devel department but now when op5 Monitor 5.2.0 have been successfully released we think it is time to invite you all to come join us for some beer and snacks at the Gothenburg office. This … Continue reading

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