netghost-announce — G.H.O.S.T. announcement list

[Luciano B. M. <dea...@us...>]

Hello!

	Yes, that's it! One year later, I decided to release the first version
of G.H.O.S.T. Unfortunately, the news are not so good. This version has born
dead, and by the time you're reading this, I've already started working on the
second version of G.H.O.S.T.

	There were many reasons that led me to this decision. One of them is
that it was taking too long to get in a desirable state and since it was first
designed its main ideas have evolved a lot. So I decided that it would be better
to release this already dead version of G.H.O.S.T., so I can gather feedback
from the internet community and improve even more G.H.O.S.T.'s next version,
instead of silently rewriting everything from scratch.

	You can download this new release from G.H.O.S.T.'s homepage, hosted at
SourceForge(tm). Please visit:

		http://sourceforge.net/projects/netghost/

for download information and release notes. Also, you can download it directly
by pointing your wget(1) to:

		http://download.sourceforge.net/netghost/GHOST-1.0.0.tar.gz

or if you want to get just one of its modules:

		http://download.sourceforge.net/netghost/endoGHOST-1.0.0.tar.gz
		http://download.sourceforge.net/netghost/mesoGHOST-1.0.0.tar.gz
		http://download.sourceforge.net/netghost/ectoGHOST-1.0.0.tar.gz

NOTE: ucd-snmp tarball is not included in endoGHOST-1.0.0.tar.gz 
      (but it's included in GHOST-1.0.0.tar.gz)

	For further information, you can subscribe to GHOST-users mailing list,
by sending an email to:

		net...@li...

with the word 'subscribe' in the Subject, or by visiting:

		http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/netghost-users


	And stay tuned! The next big version of G.H.O.S.T. (version 2.0) is
supposed to add at least the following features:

	* Python-based ectoGHOST 
        * SNMPv3 support 
        * IPv6 support 
        * Generic diagnosis algorithm support 
        * Hi-ADSD, Hi-ADSD with Timestamps, Hi-ADSD with Detours, other
	  Hierarchical Adaptive Distributed algorithm plugins 
	* Dynamic handling of diagnosed hosts 
        * SNMP information gathering from the ectoGHOST 
        * Management functions avaliable at ectoGHOST 
        * Fully functional diagnostic performance analyser: epiGHOST 


Best regards,

--
	Luciano Baretta Mandryk
	dea...@us...