Big Sister is geen nieuw Endemol programma maar een hoogwaardige netwerk en systeem monitor met SNMP ondersteuning. Hiermee kan je op een eenvoudige manier het netwerk in de gaten houden en kritieke punten tijdig opsporen. Daarnaast kan er ook een geschiedenis worden bijgehouden van de veranderingen in het netwerk. Versie 0.98c8 is onlangs als stable uitgebracht en heeft de volgende release notes meegekregen:
This is a bug fix release. The only new feature included is the NUT UPS monitor also released for 0.98c7 as an installable module.[break]De volgende downloads zijn beschikbaar:
- Made SystemV sar monitor AIX compatible.
- Fixed FQDN handling. Switch to FQDN now via "DEFAULT fqdn=yes ALL" in uxmon-net.
- Added the NUT UPS monitor.
- The 'realhttp' test got two extra arguments: "extraheaders" and "extraheadersvalue" allowing to send custom headers.
- Made logging via syslog more robust. It should now behave a little bit more reasonable on systems where the Perl syslog module fails to use Unix domain sockets.
- Fixed high granularity time measurement. It now works on every platform where Perl >=5.8 is installed and does not crash on platforms that do not support the gettimeofday() system call.
- Added swap monitor implementation for Solaris so that we get a swap memory usage on this platform, too.
- Fixed the "users" sensor.
- The RPM now creates the Big Sister user "bigsis" in the system users' uid space.
- Fixed %Rsync which was broken since version 0.98beta4.
- The default config files are those provided by Herb Rubin.
- uxmon command now shows a Usage string when invoked with wrong arguments.
bigsister-0.98c8-2.noarch.rpm
bigsister-0.98c8-2.src.rpm
big-sister-0.98c8.tar.gz
bigsister-agent-0.98c8-2.noarch.rpm
bigsister-server-0.98c8-2.noarch.rpm