Nagios 2.0b1 Available

Nagios 2.0b1 has finally been released and is available for download 
from http://www.nagios.org.

Remember - this is a beta release, so be careful before deploying it 
in a production environment.  That said, much of the code has been in 
use for a long time, so hopefully most of the nasty bugs have been 
flushed out.

Some of the many changes since Nagios 1.x include:

- Extensive macro changes (see docs)
- Hostgroup escalations removed
- Freshness checking and an OCHP command added for host
- Added support for regularly schedule host checks
- Added support for passive host checks
- Better retention of status data across program restarts
- Embedded Perl improvements
- Notification are now sent for flapping start/stop events
- Improved notification logic
- Timeperiods and state options added to host and service escalations
- Service groups added
- New nagiostats command-line stats utility
- Some adaptive monitoring features introduced
- Native DB support dropped
- Faster CGIs through the use of hashes and other improvements
- Improved logging of initial host and service states
- Added support for config directory recursion
- Seperate threads are now used for internal worker processes
- Cached object config file created on startup
- Regular expression matching added to some object directives
- Added support for arguments in all types of commands
- Added event broker API, which allows for third-party modules to 
integrate with Nagios (docs to be developed seperately)
- Lots of other tweaks and improvements... 


Thanks to the many people who helped contribute to the development of 
2.0 in the form of suggestions, patches, and enhancements.  Your 
involvement is greatly appreciated.  Have a safe and happy holiday 
season.  Cheers!



Ethan Galstad,
Nagios Developer
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Email: [email protected]
Website: http://www.nagios.org



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