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jNag 0.5 pre-release

jNag 0.5 pre-release

This release marks a major change in the codebase, and is pretty much a complete rewrite. jNag now works on a client / server model with a small plugin that sits on your Nagios install as the server and a pure HTML5 / javascript client talking to that server backend via JSON calls. The client […]

jNag 1.4.1 released

jNag 1.4.1 released

Minor ‘point’ release of jNag offering the following features: security enhancements suggested in this comment Faster initial problem polling when first loading the app debug option (run jNag with the debug variable set, ie: http://yourserver/jNag/?debug=true) [download id=”2″ format=”1″] And, in other news…. I’m currently working on a completely re-written version of jNag that runs entirely […]

jNag 0.4 released

jNag 0.4 released

jNag 0.4 is out now! This release allows you to select the livestatus backend instead of statusjson if you like. The problem list also now really auto refreshes! (in previous versions the count on the main page auto-refreshed, but once you went into the problems page itself you had to manually refresh) I’ve also tidied […]

jNag 0.2 released

jNag 0.2 released

Yesterday I released jNag, my new mobile web interface for the rather spiffy Nagios network monitoring tool. Today I’ve updated it with some new features: You can now see host problems as well as service problems Acknowledged problems now don’t show in the main list on the front screen (this is the major one) you […]

WP Akismet plugin behind proxy

WP Akismet plugin behind proxy

The new HTTP Api in wordpress 2.9 is fantastic, it standardises http requests and allows you to define a proxy through which all http requests are routed.  Useful if, like me, you run a wordpress server on a corporate network. You can configure your proxy server by adding the following lines to your ‘wp-config.php’ define('WP_PROXY_HOST', […]

PHP: clean up your includes!

PHP: clean up your includes!

If you’ve ever worked on any kind of PHP framework, you’ll likely know the pain that a misplaced ‘space’ in one of your includes can cause.  For the rest of you imagine this scenario: To load a page in my framework, I have an index.php that loads in a ‘core.php’ (which isn’t web accessible for […]