Lynch Consulting Blog - Nibbler

Nibbler - Simple Server Monitor - 0.2 release

Sat, 07 Oct 2006 15:40:00 --1000

Nibbler 0.2 has been released earlier this week (4-Oct-06) with good progress on the service logging area. The changes are below: Changes:

Saving status of services is now working
History page now working in limited fashion
Add user agent field to HTTP connection displays as "Nibbler Server Monitor (http://nibbler.sourceforge.net/)"

I've recently come across cakePHP and am looking at migrating it to use it as it will make the development of nibbler simpler and quicker. It will also enable the advanced features I want in it such as RSS feeds, AJAX interface and linking with multiple nibbler servers. I've already got the base structure in place so hopefully it won't delay the 0.3 release significantly. Cheers, Mark

Nibbler - Simple Server Monitor - 0.1 release

Thu, 28 Sep 2006 09:05:00 --1000

I've been working on a simple server monitor to make it easy for non guru administrators to monitor servers. It is designed to monitor web servers initially but built in a flexible way to allow extra services to be monitored such as SMTP and SNMP, DB's etc. I've just put the v0.1 release up and the release notes are below: NOTE: ALPHA release, not working in any useful way yet for systems monitoring - for developers only The basic structure of the application is coming together. The following functionality is available:

Create/edit/delete hosts
Create/edit/delete services (HTTP check only)
Run basic http check and return response

Next release is focussed around getting the tracking table populated to report on uptime and server status.