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ANNOUNCE: moodss-21.3 and moomps-5.3

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Oct 11, 2006, 2:29:42 AM10/11/06

### CHANGES ###

- in moodss GUI:
- in thresholds dialog box, added "no trace" check button, useful
with
dashboards displaying colored cells for status, for which a
threshold
message in the trace window becomes disturbing
- made sure initialization messages, for modules, viewers, ... are
always
visible in the message area (useful when loading big dashboards)
- significantly improved performance on big dashboards with many
colored
thresholds
- in preferences predictor section, R statistical engine version 2.3
caused
version checking to fail
- selection sunken visual effect did not occur every time in adjacent
colored table cells
- in snmptrap module, added compatibility with Tnm version 3, added
source peer
address (or host) column and -n (no name lookup) option, removed
useless
--address and --port options
- made snmptrap module work on OS X
- in moomps installation stage, use global variables in makefile to
generate rc
initialization control script
- in moodss installation stage, use variable in makefile for moomps rc
file
location
- moodss and moomps now work on OS X, thanks to Mark Duling's excellent
work,
who made DarwinPorts packages and a great HOWTO
(http://homepage.mac.com/duling/halfdozen/Moodss-Howto.html)
- successfully tested Japanese input using SCIM on Fedora Core 5
platform

### README ###

This is moodss version 21.2 and moomps version 5.6, powerful modular
monitoring applications.

For Unix Review, moodss is "a must-have application for today's
network and systems administrators", and for Eric S. Raymond, in "The
Art of UNIX Programming" book: "the code is polished, mature, and
considered an exemplar in the Tcl community". For Joe Barr, at
NewsForge: "I downloaded the moodss tarball from the website,
decompressed it, and started it up. It's that easy. The main window is
deceptively simple. Great power lurks just below the surface of that
mild exterior".

Moodss is a graphical application, which, in real-time mode, displays
data processed by any number of dynamically loadable modules. Various
data tools (graphs, pie charts, formula builders, thresholds manager,
...) are used to build complete dashboards, very easily by drag'n'drop,
to monitor a single server up to a whole information system. Any
displayed data can also be archived in a SQL database, which moodss
can use for post-analysis and presentations, or even capacity planning
by predicting the future, using sophisticated statistical methods and
artificial neural networks.
Moodss companion daemon, moomps, works similarly around the clock, and
even allows distributed monitoring to feed remote moodss stations.

Modules, the link between the moodss and moomps cores and the
monitored data, can be easily created (in Tcl, Perl, Python, HTTP, C,
...).
Many modules are provided, such as a comprehensive set for Linux
system monitoring, MySQL, network, SNMP, Nagios compatibility, Python
and Perl modules examples. For instance, thoroughly monitor a dynamic
web server on a single dashboard with graphs, using the Apache, MySQL,
ODBC, cpustats, memstats, ... modules. If you have replicated servers,
dynamically add them to your view, even load the snmp module on the
fly and let your imagination take over...
There are currently about 100 usable modules for moodss (counting the
Nagios plugins)

Moodss is multi-lingual: English, Japanese and French are
supported. Help with other languages is very warmly welcomed.

###

You may find it now at the following locations:

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