Nagios 2.9 is available

I was updating some Nagios configuration by hand editing various
configuration files. This “pain” reminded me to check and see if there were
any updates to Nagios, and of course there was a few updates (2.4 -> 2.9)
since the last time I updated it. I grabbed the latest Nagios and the latest
plugins to go with it… and updated my Nagios box.

I am now on the quest to see if I can find a Nagios configuration file
editor that works from PHP web pages. I have attempted to make NagEdit
work, but spending the better part of the morning getting the configuration
files/etc setup and read/written…. hasn’t produced a single page yet of
editable configuration for Nagios. So I will keep looking for this elusive
“tool” to make better use of Nagios.

If you don’t have a solid network monitoring program on your network, you
should give Nagios a try. It is rock-solid and has excellent
reporting/alerting features.

Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 R2 issues with TCP Offloading

If you install Microsoft Virtual Server on a “server” machine and after
starting a virtual host on the machine you lose all network connectivity to
the “host” machine you should read the following:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/888750

It indicates that VS2005R2 has an issue with TCP segmentation offloading or
other “offloading” to the NIC … so you have to disable those features of
your network card to maintain connections with the “host” machine.