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Copyright (C) 2006-2008 Adam Armstrong <adama@project-observer.org>
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2008-03-09 21:13:27 +00:00
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Please see license.txt for usage requirements and restrictions.
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2007-04-03 14:10:23 +00:00
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Introduction
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2008-03-09 18:58:56 +00:00
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Observer is an auto-discovering network monitoring system.
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It's designed to be an easily-navigable interface to the health of your network.
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2007-04-03 14:10:23 +00:00
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2007-04-03 18:25:39 +00:00
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Installation
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2007-06-24 17:12:02 +00:00
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Installation of Observer is currently not for the faint of heart! There is no automated
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install script, so it'll probably take quite a bit of fiddling!
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2007-04-03 18:25:39 +00:00
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Please see http://www.project-observer.org.
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Changelog
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2008-04-01 01:19:59 +00:00
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Pre-Release 0.3.3
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2008-07-22 08:24:34 +00:00
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Much prettier front page
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Tidied up service checking layout
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2008-04-01 01:19:59 +00:00
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Release 0.3.2.1 ( 27th March 2008 )
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Minor bugfix to interface discovery engine.
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2008-03-26 16:48:05 +00:00
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Release 0.3.2 ( 26th March 2008 )
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Added BGP peer detection and watching
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Cleaned up the front page and made it more useful
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Added better syslog support
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Added some Juniper Netscreen support
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Wrote a better OS detection system
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Added some billing features
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Rewrote and restructured a lot of the discovery
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Rewrote some polling stuff
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... This release is greatly improved, and threatens
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to actually work properly for people other than me!
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2008-03-09 21:13:27 +00:00
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Release 0.3.1 ( 30th November 2007 )
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Fixed a great many things and made it prettier!
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2008-03-26 16:48:05 +00:00
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.. This release took so long that I've largely forgotten
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what's been changed. Again!
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2008-03-09 18:58:56 +00:00
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2007-06-24 17:00:31 +00:00
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Release 0.3.0-pre1 ( 24th June 2007 )
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Added VLAN features for cisco devices
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Added scripts to check for interface errors
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Added extraction of current interface rates from rrd files
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Added some syslog stuff
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Added email notification for device reboots
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.. Lots of other updates, most of which i've forgotten about!
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2007-04-03 16:16:53 +00:00
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Release 0.2.5
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Added new CDP detection code and proper CDP link removal
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Added service addition page
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Added device overview
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Added more interface pages
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Added syslogging using syslog-ng
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Added temperature monitoring and discovery
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Added TCP/IP/UDP/ICMP statistics collection and graphing
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Fixed some graphs
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Tidied up some font sizes
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Added stylesheet variable into config.php to allow custom files to be used
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2007-04-03 14:10:23 +00:00
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Release 0.2.4
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Fixed some misnamed files
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Fixed some hardcoded binary locations
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Removed some messy AJAX
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Replaced the menu bar
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Added some new menu items
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Cleaned up presentation of some pages
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Release 0.2.3
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Fixed some broken graphing code
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Added host add/remove to web interface
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Added host/interface/service status to web interface
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Tidied up some code
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Release 0.2.2
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Replaced old layout with new 'Project Observer' layout
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Added recognition of SNOM SIP phones, data collection and some graphing
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Modified standard layout to remove Vostron-specific elements
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Added cpu graphing for ProCurve devices
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Added tabs for device page and AJAX loading of contents
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Detection of HP ProCurve devices
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Detection of m0n0wall devices by new snmp-id
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Can now disable the Transit, Peering and Customer sections
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Added some tabbing to Interface
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Added detection of Net/Open/DragonFlyBSD
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Release 0.2.1 - 19th January 2007
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Modification of graphing disply style
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Seperatation of device types
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Implementation of storage graphing
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Release 0.2.0 - 20th December 2006
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Cleanup of graphing code
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Seperation of customer-accessible interface
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Preliminary alerting system
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Release 0.1.2 - Late November 2006
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Graphing of additional server-related data
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Release 0.1.1 - November 2006
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Removal of large amounts of perl.
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Release 0.1.0 - October 2006
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Initial Release.
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Basic discovery in place. Graphing in place.
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Feature Waiting List
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* Verification of discovered devices and interfaces
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* Serial number tracking
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* Manual layer 1 linking
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* Proper Service Monitoring
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* Alerting
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