What's this?

An administator's dashboard to everything interesting in their network, because sometimes Nagios is a bit too complex. More technically, it sucks.

Main points we stand for: * Log data is assumed to be valuable (after it goes through the filter) until administrator decides to purge it. So log data replication, command verification and priviledge separation, all going over secured connection, are just absolute minimum. * Watchdogs should always be running on the host being monitored (if it is possible at all), or they are useless. * Sensors should be lightweight, or they just help the machine to go down. Currently we implement them in plain C.

Bad news

• The project is in alpha stage, so even program names may change, so beware.
• Windows support is unlike.
• One of two authors gone away, and other does not have time now. Anyone?..

Good news

• OpenBSD, FreeBSD and Linux are already supported, more to come (especially if you help)!

We want

Any support: testing, code contributing, artwork, promoting… All except whining and trolling: "Why do we need another monitoring tool?", "C sucks", "PHP sucks", "Why do you move so slooooow" etc. If you you know what's bad with us, just help or shut up. Thank you for your attention.

Vadim "persgray" Zhukov especially wants shell access to more or less exotic operating systems (say, Haiku, or some unpopular Linux distribution) with compilers and manuals set up, for porting the monitoring and collecting parts there. Ready-to-use patches are welcome too, of course.

Wiki is on its way with the whole project, here is a brief description where to look for what:

• [Programs Brief description of each program]
• [ProtocolPeer Detailed explanation of inter-process protocol(-s)]
• [TODO Do not say that you do not know what does this mean ;)]
• [Replication Detailed data replication scheme]
• [RichUserInterface Plans for hot and cool us... errr... admin stuff] '>

Now back to work