NagVis 1.5b1 released

Today we released the first beta of NagVis 1.5. We added many big and small changes. Here a list of the major changes from 1.4 to 1.5b1:

General:
- New default backend is: MKLivestatus (!!!)
- New Authentication and Autorisazion mechanism
- NagVis default location is not in nagios/share anymore
- Many installer improvements
- The installer can remove deprecated options from the maps now

Frontend:
- Misc redesigns of frontends and styles
- Templates, Iconsets, ... are located in a dedicated directory (userfiles/)
- URLs can be used as background image on maps
- Possible to enable/disable the header and hover menus by url parameter
- Using new template format now (Powered by Dwoo)
- Added new line types (Weathermap lines and line without arrows)
- Added stateless lines
- Added automatic language detection
- Styles of fonts in textboxes/labels can be customized easier using CSS
- Colors, sounds and state weights in NagVis are now configurable

Automap:
- Multiple automap configuration files allowed now
- Added problem automap
- Added most NagVis frontend features to automap (e.g. Context menu, automap to automap links)

WUI:
- Added optional grid to make positioning of icons easier
- The header menu is used in WUI now
- Textboxes can easily be resized using drag+drop features
- Template objects can be managed using the WUI now
- Objects can be cloned now

There are a lot of other much or less important changes. For a full and detailed list of changes take a look at the changelog (http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/nagvis/report/17) in our tracking system.

For details about the new features please take a look at the documentation (http://docs.nagvis.org/1.5/en_US/index.html).

Documentation: http://docs.nagvis.org/1.5/en_US/index.html
Changelog: http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/nagvis/report/17
Download: http://www.nagvis.org/downloads