Monitoring manitou-mdx with Nagios

While manitou-mdx can be monitored with a stand-alone Perl program, most sysadmins prefer integrated tools such as Nagios. For those who want to monitor manitou-mdx with Nagios, the wiki now hosts a manitou-mdx plugin. It is based on the same logic than the stand-alone program: every ‘alive_interval‘ seconds as defined in its configuration file, manitou-mdx [...]

Debian/Ubuntu packages update

As of today, manitou-mdx is available as a package for Ubuntu 9/10 and Debian stable (lenny). Also, a slight change in how it’s installed makes it more portable across different Debian/Ubuntu releases. Until now, I used perl Makefile.PL DESTDIR=” PREFIX=/usr to create the Makefile. When using this command, the *.pm files typically get installed into [...]

Version 1.0.0

After 12 iterations of 0.9.X during 6 years, it’s time to bump to version 1.0.0… The current HEAD of the SVN repository is pretty much what will be the 1.0 release that will appear in the download section in a few days. Also, the new docbook documentation will be imported into the repository as well, [...]

Repackaged windows client available

Since HTML viewing has been integrated, I’ve had reports that under Windows, the images in messages weren’t always displayed, but my attempts at reproducing the problem were unsuccessful. I’ve recently understood that it was a packaging issue: on machines that don’t have Qt installed, image plugins must be distributed with the application (except for PNG [...]