News

02.06.10 | Habitat 1.2.1

Minor but vital changes to long term reliability: the restarting of the clockwork daemon from a job has been fixed and is configured to run every 24 hours in the default table.

Job tables now run from file system by default, rather than the default ringstore. There are now multiple tables shipped in the standard distribution for different modes of operation.

There is a new script to check on the clockwork daemon status, a new job method to shutdown completely and more error messages. Download Habitat.

09.03.10 | Habitat 1.2

Version 1.2 modifies the process monitoring probe with a built in filter and turns it on by default. The filter is set to ignore processes that report only a small amount of CPU, thereby saving space on processes which aren't doing much. The filter is simple and easy to customise with a simple set of directives, including floating point values.

Outbound replication to Harvest refactored and improved.
64 bit builds supported.

First version to run on Mac OS X under X11 but without working probes and a disabled clockwork collection agent. Instead you can browse ringstores, remote hosts running Habitat/clockwork and Harvest repositories. However, this is for the brave only at this stage and requires macports.

When upgrading a default installation, remove the job table from the local data store (use 'irs var/.rs clockwork' from the command line, then when in the tool type 'rm clockwork' and confirm to remove the table) or start a new data store by renaming the file (eg 'mv var/.rs var/.rs.old'). When the clockwork daemon runs again, the new job table will be loaded into the ringstore from the distribution.

Habitat can be downloaded from here.

27.05.09 | Habitat 1.1.1

A bugfix release of Habitat to allow Linux sessions to run for longer, give better fonts for Gtk 1.x compatibility and collect some VM metrics.

Fedora, Centos, Ubuntu and Mandriva packages of version 1.1.1 ready to download.

02.01.09 | Habitat 1.1

After a long wait, the latest version of Habitat 1.1 has been released. As it is open source (covered by GPL v2), it can be downloaded along with binaries for Fedora, Ubuntu, Mandriva and Solaris 10.

The main change is the ability to use Harvest as a repository for Habitat (currently download only). Harvest 2.0.8 is the current release that support Habitat. Needless to say, there are lots of bug fixes too.

Future planned changes include uploading to the repository, Windows & Mac ports and Gtk2.

17.06.08 | Harvest 2.0.1

The new release of Harvest allows users to select their own reporting dates from available aggregated data and choose what type of charting to visualise with (currently, image or flash). Each host page also give more analysis than previously, including the historic monthly traffic light (RAG) status and a summary of the data attached to each host.

29.05.08 | The New System Garden Design

System Garden has a new logo, new design and a new website.

Its easier to navigate, incorporates new products and the wiki-based support areas. There are still one or two blank areas as we populate the site with information, so please bare with us.

Many thanks to Domi and Liam of DNX Marketing

18.05.08 | Harvest 2.0.0

Harvest has now reached 2.0.0 and can be seen on the demo site (get in touch for login details).

It is the system to find underutilised hosts in your estate and features a simple portal for everyone to use. Each machine gets its own blog or message board in addition to the automated and standard assessments which form part of the efficiency process. Read about Harvest...