From: Andre Nathan <andre@...>
Date: 2004-03-15T03:14:47+09:00
Subject: [ANN] dime-0.2

Hi

Dime (Distributed Monitoring Environment) version 0.2 is out at

    http://dime.rubyforge.org

Dime is a real-time service monitor that tests a number of services on a set
of hosts and reports failures on those tests to the network administrator.
These reports can be configured to be sent as on-screen messages at the
network administrator's workstation (using ruby-libxosd2), or as an email
message.

New features on version 0.2:

- Alert messages can now be sent by email. This allows dime to be configured
  on a non-distributed setup, if ``email'' is the only notification method
  selected;

- Service-specific checks were added for HTTP, FTP, SMTP, POP3 and IMAP. If
  a different service is configured, dime will use the old generic check;

- The alert notifications are a bit more admin-friendly;

- Dime now uses Nathaniel Talbott's DRbFire DRb protocol, so that it can
  be used on firewalled setups.


Best regards,
Andre