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iPhone Apps for Icinga

Amanda Mailer — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 11:37:24 +0000

Icinga Mobile is our user interface for your smartphone or tablet’s browser (web-kit based), be it on iOS, Android, BlackBerry Tablet OS or webOS. It’s pretty handy when you want to view host or service status details and send commands on the go. Not to mention, it’s open source and free.

Nonetheless, some of our users prefer a native app. That we can understand, so just as we’ve previously taken a look at IcingaDroid and aNag for Android devices – now we turn to apps for the iPhone. We know of the following iOS apps to be Icinga compatible:

Nagify

Quick views: Alerts, Warnings, Downtimes, Sites
Commands: Send commands in batches, toggle notifications, acknowledge issues
Usability: Search function
Beyond the app: Multiple instances supported, support for self-signed server
certificates, automatic detection of instance version and date format used, no server side configuration changes necessary

Version compatibility: Icinga Core all versions | iOS 5 or later | iPhone, iPod Touch, iPad

More info: http://nagify.com/

TouchMon

Quick views: Problems, Instances, Settings, About
Commands: Schedule downtimes, acknowledge issues, enable/disable notifications, schedule next check
Usability: Search, sort and filter functions, show performance graphs (PNP4Nagios or NagiosGrapher)
Beyond the app: Multiple instances supported, no server side configuration changes necessary

Version compatibility: Icinga Core 1.3 -1.6 | iOS 4.2 or later| iPhone, iPod Touch

More info: http://www.s-team.at/en/touchmon

iNag

Quick views: Tactical, Event Log, Hosts, Services
Commands: Over 30 commands eg. Active/passive checks, flap detection, schedule downtimes, acknowledge issues etc.
Usability: Sort and filter functions
Beyond the app: Multiple instances supported
Version compatibility: Icinga Core all versions | iOS 3.1.3 or later | iPhone, iPod Touch, iPad

More info: http://idevelop.fullnet.com/iapps/modules/apps/inag.php

If we’ve missed any details or other cool apps, let us know in the comments below!

OS X Mountain Lion Developer Preview

Apple Hot News — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 20:07:25 +0000

Apple today released a developer preview of OS X Mountain Lion — the ninth major release of the world’s most advanced operating system — which brings popular apps and features from iPad to the Mac and accelerates the pace of OS X innovation. Mountain Lion introduces Messages, Notes, Reminders, and Game Center to the Mac, as well as Notification Center, Share Sheets, Twitter integration, and AirPlay Mirroring. The preview release of Mountain Lion is available to Mac Developer Program members starting today. Mac users will be able to upgrade to Mountain Lion from the Mac App Store in late summer 2012.

Mooresville’s Shining Example (It’s Not Just About the Laptops)

Apple Hot News — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 20:06:01 +0000

The New York Times reports that a MacBook Air one-to-one program is helping raise student attendance, engagement, and performance at North Carolina’s Mooresville Graded School District, which “has quietly emerged as the de facto national model of the digital school.” The article notes, “Mooresville ranks 100th out of 115 districts in North Carolina in terms of dollars spent per student — $7,415.89 a year — but it is now third in test scores and second in graduation rates.”

Mooresville’s Shining Example (It’s Not Just About the Laptops)

Apple Hot News — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 20:06:01 +0000

Apple Releases OS X Mountain Lion Developer Preview with Over 100 New Features

Apple, Inc. Press Releases — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 13:30:00 +0000

CUPERTINO, California—February 16, 2012—Apple® today released a developer preview of OS X® Mountain Lion, the ninth major release of the world’s most advanced operating system, which brings popular apps and features from iPad® to the Mac® and accelerates the pace of OS X innovation. Mountain Lion introduces Messages, Notes, Reminders and Game Center to the Mac, as well as Notification Center, Share Sheets, Twitter integration and AirPlay® Mirroring. Mountain Lion is the first OS X release built with iCloud® in mind for easy setup and integration with apps. The developer preview of Mountain Lion also introduces Gatekeeper, a revolutionary security feature that helps keep you safe from malicious software by giving you complete control over what apps are installed on your Mac. The preview release of Mountain Lion is available to Mac Developer Program members starting today. Mac users will be able to upgrade to Mountain Lion from the Mac App Store™ in late summer 2012.

“The Mac is on a roll, growing faster than the PC for 23 straight quarters, and with Mountain Lion things get even better,” said Philip Schiller, Apple’s senior vice president of Worldwide Marketing. “The developer preview of Mountain Lion comes just seven months after the incredibly successful release of Lion and sets a rapid pace of development for the world’s most advanced personal computer operating system.”

The developer preview of Mountain Lion features the all new Messages app which replaces iChat® and allows you to send unlimited messages, high-quality photos and videos directly from your Mac to another Mac or iOS device. Messages will continue to support AIM, Jabber, Yahoo! Messenger and Google Talk. Starting today Lion users can download a beta of Messages from www.apple.com, and the final version will be available with Mountain Lion. Reminders and Notes help you create and track your to-dos across all your devices. Game Center lets you personalize your Mac gaming experience, find new games and challenge friends to play live multiplayer games, whether they’re on a Mac, iPhone®, iPad or iPod touch®.

Mountain Lion presents notifications in an elegant new way, and Notification Center provides easy access to alerts from Mail, Calendar, Messages, Reminders, system updates and third party apps. System-wide Share Sheets make it easy to share links, photos and videos directly from Apple and third party apps. Twitter is integrated throughout Mountain Lion so you can sign on once and tweet directly from Safari®, Quick Look, Photo Booth®, Preview and third party apps. Mountain Lion also introduces AirPlay Mirroring, an easy way to wirelessly send a secure 720p video stream of what's on your Mac to an HDTV using Apple TV®.

More than 100 million users have iCloud accounts, and Mountain Lion makes it easier than ever to set up iCloud and access documents across your devices. Mountain Lion uses your Apple ID to automatically set up Contacts, Mail, Calendar, Messages, FaceTime® and Find My Mac. The new iCloud Documents pushes any changes to all your devices so documents are always up to date, and a new API helps developers make document-based apps work with iCloud.

Gatekeeper is a revolutionary new security feature that gives you control over which apps can be downloaded and installed on your Mac. You can choose to install apps from any source, just as you do on a Mac today, or you can use the safer default setting to install apps from the Mac App Store, along with apps from developers that have a unique Developer ID from Apple. For maximum security, you can set Gatekeeper to only allow apps from the Mac App Store to be downloaded and installed.

Mountain Lion also has features specifically designed to support Chinese users, including significant enhancements to the Chinese input method and the option to select Baidu search in Safari. Mountain Lion makes it easy to set up Contacts, Mail and Calendar with top email service providers QQ, 126 and 163. Chinese users can also upload video via Share Sheets directly to leading video websites Youku and Tudou, and system-wide support for Sina weibo makes microblogging easy.

Hundreds of new APIs give developers access to new core technologies and enhanced features within OS X. The Game Kit APIs tap into the same services as Game Center on iOS, making it possible to create multiplayer games that work across Mac, iPhone, iPad and iPod touch. A new graphics infrastructure underpins OpenGL and OpenCL and implements GLKit, first introduced in iOS 5, to make it easier to create OpenGL apps. Using Core Animation in Cocoa apps is easier than ever, and new video APIs deliver modern 64-bit replacements for low-level QuickTime APIs. Enhanced Multi-Touch™ APIs give developers double-tap zoom support and access to the system-wide lookup gesture. Kernel ASLR improves security through enhanced mitigation against buffer overflow attacks.

Apple designs Macs, the best personal computers in the world, along with OS X, iLife, iWork and professional software. Apple leads the digital music revolution with its iPods and iTunes online store. Apple has reinvented the mobile phone with its revolutionary iPhone and App Store, and is defining the future of mobile media and computing devices with iPad.

Press Contacts:
Monica Sarkar
Apple
monica_sarkar@apple.com
(408) 862-3204

Bill Evans
Apple
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(408) 974-0610

Fair Labor Association Begins Inspections of Foxconn

Apple Hot News — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 00:06:57 +0000

Apple today announced that the Fair Labor Association will conduct special voluntary audits of Apple’s final assembly suppliers, including Foxconn factories in Shenzhen and Chengdu, China, at Apple’s request. “We believe that workers everywhere have the right to a safe and fair work environment, which is why we’ve asked the FLA to independently assess the performance of our largest suppliers,” said Tim Cook, Apple’s CEO. A team of labor rights experts led by FLA president Auret van Heerden began the first inspections Monday morning at the facility in Shenzhen known as Foxconn City.

Fair Labor Association Begins Inspections of Foxconn

Apple, Inc. Press Releases — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 13:30:00 +0000

CUPERTINO, California—February 13, 2012—Apple® today announced that the Fair Labor Association will conduct special voluntary audits of Apple’s final assembly suppliers, including Foxconn factories in Shenzhen and Chengdu, China, at Apple’s request. A team of labor rights experts led by FLA president Auret van Heerden began the first inspections Monday morning at the facility in Shenzhen known as Foxconn City.

“We believe that workers everywhere have the right to a safe and fair work environment, which is why we’ve asked the FLA to independently assess the performance of our largest suppliers,” said Tim Cook, Apple’s CEO. “The inspections now underway are unprecedented in the electronics industry, both in scale and scope, and we appreciate the FLA agreeing to take the unusual step of identifying the factories in their reports.”

As part of its independent assessment, the FLA will interview thousands of employees about working and living conditions including health and safety, compensation, working hours and communication with management. The FLA’s team will inspect manufacturing areas, dormitories and other facilities, and will conduct an extensive review of documents related to procedures at all stages of employment.

Apple’s suppliers have pledged full cooperation with the FLA, offering unrestricted access to their operations. The FLA’s findings and recommendations from the first assessments will be posted in early March on its website, www.fairlabor.org. Similar inspections will be conducted at Quanta and Pegatron facilities later this Spring, and when completed, the FLA’s assessment will cover facilities where more than 90 percent of Apple products are assembled.

Apple has audited every final assembly factory in its supply chain each year since 2006, including more than 40 audits of Foxconn manufacturing and final assembly facilities. Details of Apple’s supplier responsibility program, including the results of more than 500 factory audits led by Apple throughout its supply chain over the past five years, are available at www.apple.com/supplierresponsibility.

In January, Apple became the first technology company admitted to the Fair Labor Association. The FLA conducts independent monitoring and verification to ensure that the FLA’s Workplace Standards are upheld wherever FLA company products are made.

Apple designs Macs, the best personal computers in the world, along with OS X, iLife, iWork and professional software. Apple leads the digital music revolution with its iPods and iTunes online store. Apple has reinvented the mobile phone with its revolutionary iPhone and App Store, and is defining the future of mobile media and computing devices with iPad.

Press Contacts:
Kristin Huguet
Apple
khuguet@apple.com
+1 (408) 974-2414

Carolyn Wu
Apple
carolyn_wu@apple.com
+86 108 525 5952

Fair Labor Association Begins Inspections of Foxconn

Apple, Inc. Press Releases — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 13:30:00 +0000

v1.7 Rescheduled

Bernd Erk — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 11:25:23 +0000

With quality and testing front of mind, Team Icinga has decided to reschedule the release of v1.7 to 16 May.

In order to ensure the quality of the next release, we have decided to allow more time for testing. This will only be worthwhile if you help us test. Your feedback is instrumental to helping us root out bugs and offer features you really want.

A patch release for Icinga Web (1.6.2) is however on the way, as well as an automated source package to make Icinga Web testing a easier.

Our release cycle remains the same, and we will release a Beta version for you to help us test prior to the official 1.7. See our roadmap for what you can expect.

We thank everyone – especially those who keep a close eye on our release ticker – for their understanding.

So help us make the most of the extra 2.5 months – get active on our development tracker and report a bug or (even better) send in a patch!

Apple Scores with Digital Textbooks and App

Apple Hot News — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 19:40:56 +0000

USA Today reviewer Edward C. Baig describes his experience using the first Multi-Touch digital textbooks published for the iBooks 2 for iPad app, noting that they are “engaging in ways that were simply not possible with the textbooks I grew up with.” Baig likes the portability, updatability, and low pricing of iBooks 2 digital textbooks and touts specific features like instant search, highlighting, bookmarking, and interactive graphics. Writes Baig, “It’s better to see an animated tour of the genome in E.O. Wilson’s Life on Earth than just to read about it. ”