The Ungoliant Project

• Its been a month of Saturdays since the last update.
  During that time development has went along well.
  
  A few things have been decided that I wanted to share.
  * We have developed and odd/even unstable/stable model for release numbers. Hopefully this will help you pick the version you are most comfortable with running on your network.
  * We have skipped the 0.2 release, as we saw that many things would need a major overhaul to get to a stable point.
  * We have decided that Fedora is no longer our target platform for development or deployment. There were a few major reasons that we have made this decision. The major issue is the Fedora Legacy project is closing down and that means that a Fedora release only gets updates for about a year(2 new Fedora versions). The other major reason for the switch is the size of a "minimal" install these days. It's huge and has far more services running than I am comfortable with. All this being said, we have switched our devel environment over to Ubuntu Server w/LTS(long term support). The long term support version will have updates for 6 years.
  * Stability and simplicity are the major goals for this release. A good deal of changes have already went in to help with this, such as web based configs. If you have any input about what you think needs simplified with Ungoliant, please drop us a line.
  
  As we get closer to our release, we will post up more information about how things are progressing. If you have any comments or suggestions, feel free to drop us a line on the user or devel mailing lists.
  submitted by Ravage (2007-03-08 05:59:09)

• We are not dead. We promise.
  
  Shawn and I have set aside a time each week when we can do serious development work towards a new release. The reference implementation at the University of Indianapolis has gained many features, and we plan to generalize those and add a handful of others. The planned new features can be read via the new .plan link at the top of the page.
  
  If anyone has any other suggested features, please post them in the forum or submit them to the ungoliant-devel mailing list. If you have had any issues installing or using Ungoliant, we'd love to hear about them via that list or ungoliant-users.
  
  A hiatus of this length was not planned, but Real Life™ has been interfering. We're back in the saddle now, however, and quite excited about it...
  submitted by Belarm (2007-02-04 18:11:18)

• Seems we had a bug in the ungoliant-0.1.tar.gz file. An incorrect comment delimiter was put in the ungoliant-0.1/etc/vmpsd.conf.header file. Please remove these lines:
  
  ; The following line must be modified if you intend to use anything but
  ; VLAN0001 as your default vlan (aka ungregistered vlan).
  
  This should fix the problem with the vmps daemon starting up.
  
  Sorry for the inconvenience.
  submitted by Ravage (2005-12-16 18:39:13)

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• Extremely scalable
• Non intrusive; No client side software
• Pluggable structure allows new sensors to be added and created easily
• Any device or service on your network could be a potential sensor

• Database Environment: MySQL
• Development Status: 3 - Alpha
• Intended Audience: System Administrators
• License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
• Operating System: Linux
• Programming Language: C, PHP
• Topic: Security, Monitoring
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