Shinken 1.0 feature freeze
The Shinken developers, hidden in their secret bunker in the Alps, have been hard at work preparing the big 1.0 release. This version is full of shocking features and enhancements. The focus is now on finishing up the installation script, templates, documentation and QA. It will soon be your turn to get in the action, to go crazy with the Heroic Hedgehog, review the documentation and generaly beat on it to shake out any remaining bugs. If you wish to participate in the development. You can consult the how to contribute page to learn how you can help make this a great release. The...
read more2011 restrospective and 2012 roadmap
Hi all, First of all, Happy new year Thanks to you 2011 was great! Last year was a great one for the Shinken project with some great features like escalations based on time, business rules, business impacts and of course the new WebUI. But code is just a small part of a project, and I would like to thank a lot every one that sent us bug reports, took some time to code or helped correct my horrible English in the web site and the wiki. And what about 2012? You asked for what is coming for 2012! There are two main objectives : simplification for beginners, very easy setup, ready to use...
read moreShinken conferences in France and Germany
Hi all, If you want discover some Shinken features or meet us, you can do it in the two Shinken conference this november : Tomorrow, 7PM, in Grenoble (France) by Vincent Riquer. More details here. The 30 November in the Open Source Monitoring Conference, in Nuremberg (Germany), by Gerhard Lausser and Jean Gabès. More details here. Both conferences will talk about Shinken’s features that help users in their day to day job like Root problem analysis or business impact ...
read moreMinor version 0.8.1 released
Hi, We just released the 0.8.1 version with two bug fixes that allows you to upgrade from 0.6 without issues and to run Shinken with the new Pyro 4.10 lib. You can get it from the download page. Good update
read moreShinken 0.8 is out, with a dedicated web interface!
There were few news since the 0.6 release, but we were far from sleeping. The 0.8 is here with some great new things! In core enhancements The first enhancement is for the root problems/impact and business impact (was criticity) features. Now you can define a time based modulation for the business impact. So if your payroll server is only “important” 3 days a month, you can set it easily. There are also new capabilities for the business rules definitions with “degraded” thresholds and inhibition (by default) of correction scripts (event handlers) if the element...
read moreHere come the Shinken forums!
Hi all, The common place for discussing Shinken was until today the development mailing list (here). To make it easier for new and existing users, we created a forum. You can post your questions; Look for answers; Help users. Exchange ideas on how to improve Shinken Jump to the forum to get in the action. See you there
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