Month: December 2012

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Zabbix

Zabbix is now available on Dotdeb

Let me introduce you Zabbix, a very nice all-in-one open source availability and performance monitoring solution that I use everyday on TextMe to ensure that all the applications and servers are going well. Below is a short list of features available in Zabbix:

  • auto-discovery of servers and network devices (great for autoscaled platforms)
  • low-level discovery (the killer feature of the 2.0 branch, imho)
  • distributed monitoring with centralized web administration
  • support for both polling and trapping mechanisms
  • server software for Linux, Solaris, HP-UX, AIX, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, OS X
  • native high performance agents (client software for Linux, Solaris, HP-UX, AIX, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, OS X, Tru64/OSF1, Windows NT4.0, Windows 2000, Windows 2003, Windows XP, Windows Vista)
  • agent-less monitoring
  • secure user authentication
  • flexible user permissions
  • web-based interface
  • flexible e-mail notification of predefined events
  • high-level (business) view of monitored resources
  • audit log…

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If you already use Nagios/Centreon/Shinken/whatever, you’ll certainly want to give Zabbix a try. So I’m glad to announce that Zabbix 2.0.4 is now available on Dotdeb for Debian 6.0 GNU/Linux “Squeeze” on both amd64 and i386 architectures.

Please note that :

  • Future Zabbix stable releases will of course be packaged as well as other pieces of software here on Dotdeb (Nginx, PHP, MySQL, Redis, Percona toolkit…), with production in mind.
  • As usual, packaging scripts are derived from Debian’s ones to ensure full compatibility and they’re available on Github.
  • For more info and support about Zabbix, feel free to visit Zabbix’ website : Documentation, mailing lists, bug trackers, forums and wiki are very helpful.

I really hope you’ll enjoy Zabbix.

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PHP

PHP 5.4.10 and PHP 5.3.20

On december 20th 2012, the PHP group has released PHP 5.4.10 and PHP 5.3.20 :

These releases fix about 15 bugs. Please note that the PHP 5.3 series will enter an end of life cycle and receive only critical fixes as of March 2013. All users of PHP are encouraged to upgrade to PHP 5.4.

The corresponding packages are now available on Dotdeb for Debian 6.0 “Squeeze” on both amd64 and i386 architectures.

As usual, please read the ChangeLog before upgrading and be sure to use to the latest packages before reporting any issue.

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MySQL

MySQL 5.5.29

Packages of MySQL 5.5.29 are now available for Debian 6.0 “Squeeze” on both amd64 and i386 architectures. They fixes some InnoDB- and replication-related issues and some more bugs.

Please note that the Pinba engine has also been rebuilt to be used with the new version.

As usual, please read carefully the full Changelog before upgrading.

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Nginx

Nginx 1.2.6

Dotdeb’s packages of Nginx 1.2.6 are now available for Debian 6.0 “Squeeze” (amd64/i386) with the following changes (see the Changelog) :

  • Feature: the $request_time and $msec variables can now be used not only in the “log_format” directive.
  • Bugfix: cache manager and cache loader processes might not be able to start if more than 512 listen sockets were used.
  • Bugfix: in the ngx_http_dav_module.

As usual, if you want to know which module has been included in each Nginx flavor, you just have to look at this document.

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Redis

Redis 2.6.7

Redis 2.6.7 has been packaged, bringing two changes (take a look at the Changelog) :

  • [BUGFIX] Don’t crash if BLPOP & co are called with the same key repeated multiple times (issue #801).
  • [BUGFIX] Jemalloc updated to 3.2.0

The upgrade urgency is :

  • high if you experienced one or more crashes, or if you BLPOP using the same key multiple times,
  • moderate if Redis is running fine for you.

The packages are now available for Debian 6.0 “Squeeze” on both amd64 and i386 architectures.