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The main emphasis of this release is stability. vsmon was using the mobile code feature of Pyro, a fonctionnality enabling the download of code from the backend to the frontend. This feature had a few problems (it was crashing the vsmon backend), so it is not used anymore. Code which has to be shared between the frontend and the backend is now in the vsmon-common package.

You are using Linux-VServer on a lot of machines. Each time you are looking for a vserver, you have to connect to each host and use the vserver-stat command? Or worse, you just have a big sheet of paper that nobody understands, especially the guy that is taking your job during your vacations?

Then, Virtual server monitor is the right tool for you!

This release contains major improvements:

- added a Nagios plugin to monitor memory, swap and disk space with minimal configuration
- reworked the web frontend to include a sumary of all hosts
- added a search field on the main page
- made backend work with kernel 2.6.18
- added the ability to monitor disk space
- made backend work without needing vservers tools ... read more

The first public release of the Linux-VServer monitoring tool (Virtual server monitor or vsmon) is available! This tool gives the complete list of all running vservers on all hosts of the park.

Visit http://vsmon.revolutionlinux.com/ for more details.