Multiple Big Sister plugins released
2006-06-21 08:54 - Big Sister
A number of new plugins featuring various SNMP based health checks have been released. They are ready for download/installation from http://www.bigsister.ch/plugins.html .

Many thanks to Niels Baggesen for these contributions!
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Big Sister Professional Solutions
2006-02-10 06:02 - Big Sister
While Big Sister is and will always be a non-commercial freeware software project it is however linked with non-commercial and commercial real world. The Big Sister project web site tries to feature this links a little bit more than in the past.
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Big Sister NetApp plugin released
2006-02-06 04:31 - Big Sister
The NetApp plugin now available from the plugins download page (http://www.bigsister.ch/plugins.html) makes the 'disk' health check available for remote NetApp Filer monitoring.
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Big Sister 1.02 released
2006-01-23 02:26 - Big Sister
Release 1.02 comes with rather unspectacular new functionality. Besides the new performance data database allowing Big Sister to display more expressive charts (see http://www.bigsister.ch/snapshots.html) and simple statistical analysis of trends, the new SLA report generator does now processcollected availability data into management readable form. A few new health checks have been implemented - such as the new ping test collecting line performance data, a file access performance test, the BT-Ethernetbox test monitoring environmental data (see http://www.messpc.de/) and a new interface for custom-made health checks. Of course, a number of bugs have also been fixed.
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Big Sister Agent for Windows 1.00 pre-release 2
2005-11-26 08:33 - Big Sister
Revision 2 of the Big Sister Agent for Windows MSI package fixes an annoying problem: If running as a service the agent stopped whenever a user interactively logged out of the Windows machines console. The agent 1.00rev2 now ignores user logoffs as one would expect from a background service.
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Big Sister online manual up-to-date
2005-11-16 14:45 - Big Sister
The searchable online version of the Big Sister manual 1.9 is available now. Browse through it on http://www.joerg.cc/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?BigSister
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BigSister manual release 1.9
2005-11-11 00:40 - Big Sister
The official Big Sister manual has been brought up to date. Release 1.9 of the manual is in sync with the development version of Big Sister and the forthcoming 1.01 release. Besides numerous other changes the manual includes a new health check reference section as well as a chapter on the new database backend.
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Big Sister Agent for Windows pre-release 1.00 (MSI/exe)
2005-10-11 11:02 - Big Sister
An up-to-date release of the ".exe"-Version of Big Sister has been promised long ago. Now, we just have made a big step forward to achieving this: a pre-release of the Agent for Windows is ready for download at
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Big Sister 0.99c3 released
2005-06-15 04:58 - Big Sister
Big Sister is an SNMP aware network and system monitoring application. Release 0.99c3 is a service release solving a few issues, including a few modules that have been available via separate downloads for a while, and officially including debian packages.
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Big Sister Roadmap
2005-03-07 10:10 - Big Sister
Big Sister is a multi platform SNMP-aware system and network monitoring application. The latest news is nearly one year old and people start wondering if Big Sister is still developed.

The answer is "yes, slowly, but yes". In order to get a little information out we have published a rough roadmap on http://bigsister.graeff.com/roadmap.html. - please have a glance at it in order to find out what is to be coming next.
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Big Sister bstray client for Mac OS X
2004-03-29 01:19 - Big Sister
Big Sister is a multi platform SNMP-aware system and network monitoring application. Now available is bstray for Mac OS X, a small client application displaying the overall network status permanently on screen without the need for a permanently running web browser.
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Big Sister on iSeries (AS/400)
2004-03-15 04:17 - Big Sister
Big Sister is a multi platform SNMP-aware system and network monitoring application. A successfull prototype installation on an iSeries machine (AS/400) has been made and fully documented.

The Detailed documentation on how to get the Big Sister agent running on AS/400 has been contributed by Mihael Knezevic and is available via the Big Sister documentation project's home page http://www.joerg.cc/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?BigSister.
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Big Sister for Windows is back
2004-03-01 03:59 - Big Sister
Big Sister is an SNMP aware cross-platform system and network monitoring application. For the current release the Windows specific code has been brought up-to-date and tested against newer versions of Windows.
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Big Sister 0.98c8 released
2003-10-27 06:08 - Big Sister
Big Sister is an SNMP aware network and system monitoring application. Release 0.98c8 is a production/stable release mainly fixing a few portability issues and other bugs discovered since 0.98c7 release.
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Big Sister NUT UPS monitoring module released
2003-10-03 09:16 - Big Sister
Big Sister is an SNMP aware network and system monitor
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