Announcing GroundWork Monitor 5.3

What's New in GroundWork Monitor 5.3

GroundWork Monitor 5.3 delivers a better monitoring experience from
deployment to reporting to help you better manage your systems.

Release highlights:

INCREASED SCALABILITY

GroundWork Monitor 5.3 greatly increases the capacity of a single
GroundWork server. In lab testing we measured an approximately 50%
increase in the out–of–the–box throughput. In larger distributed
environments further increases were measured. This improved scalability
was achieved by adopting the improvements in the Nagios® 3 release,
numerous performance code fixes and tuning the default configuration of
GroundWork Monitor 5.3 to match the needs of larger deployments.

IMPROVED PACKAGING AND INSTALLATION

Release 5.3 greatly simplifies the installation of GroundWork Monitor on
a new Linux server. All software prerequisites are now included in a
single, Linux distribution agnostic download. When a graphical
environment is available the wizard–based installation process walks
through the installation and initial configuration process. Console–mode
and unattended installations are also supported.

UPDATED OPEN SOURCE PACKAGES

GroundWork Monitor 5.3 includes updates to key Open Source projects
including, Nagios <http://www.nagios.org/>, RRDtool
<http://oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/>, MySQL, <http://dev.mysql.com/>BIRT
<http://www.birt-exchange.com/> and PHP <http://www.php.net/>. These
updates add functional improvements and bug fixes and security
improvements as part of our ongoing security improvement process.

NETWORK SERVICE NOTIFICATIONS

The new Network Service feature provides alerts about software updates
and patches directly to administrators within the GroundWork Monitor
interface. This offering alongside our support portal and knowledge base
ensures maximum value from your GroundWork subscription.

UPDATED PLUG-INS AND PROFILES

Numerous bug fixes to bundled plug-ins and profiles including SNMP
checks, VMware ESX, SAR, NTP and MySQL.