OMD 0.46 release – The modern way managing Nagios installations

You think Nagios is rusty old stuff? Certainly not! Great things are happening around Nagios. One of these brand new innovations is OMD – The Open Monitoring Distribution. It has been released in version 0.46 yesterday. OMD is THE way of installing and managing Nagios installations these days. It brings you multi instance setups, one command upgrade of Nagios and all included addons and many other interesting things. You should definitely take a look at OMD.

Version 0.46 brings a lot of new features. Some of these are:

• Check_MK 1.1.9i8: This update brings lots of new features, such as WATO. Please read the Migration Notes for important details of the new version.
• Shinken 0.5.1: New in OMD
• Thruk 0.82.1: New statusmap layout and theme, display full commandline, improved excel export and more.
• NagVis 1.5.8
• PNP4Nagios 0.6.11
• RRDTool 1.4.5
• Site specific cron jobs have been added. Logrotate is used to handle the Apache log files
• Site user now have a fully functional perl environment and can use cpan to install modules for theirs site only. No root access required for installing modules.