Designed at the dawn of the commercial internet, the Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) is a policy-based routing protocol that has long been an established part of the internet infrastructure. Historically, BGP was primarily of interest to ISPs and hosting service providers whose revenue depends on delivering traffic.

This release of Icinga Director includes a bunch of new options to make your daily monitoring business easier and more comfortable. It includes many fixes as well as some new features for Sync Rules, Configuration Baskets and Permissions. Check out the Changelog for a detailed list about all changes. You can get started with Icinga Director by just adding the module to your Icinga installation: Follow the installation guide.

The focus of the 2.5 version was on expanding support for HAProxy configuration keywords, and that’s where most of the effort during this release cycle was spent. We will continue doing that during the next couple of versions to gain complete feature parity with both the HAProxy configuration and Runtime API so that you can use the Data Plane API as a full-featured way to configure HAProxy.

We are delighted to share the immediate availability of the first series of updates to the Alloy Software ITSM/ITAM platform in 2022, including Alloy Navigator Enterprise, Alloy Navigator Express, and Alloy Discovery Enterprise. The maintenance release (2021.2.1) addresses issues reported in previous versions, delivers the latest audit tools, and improves both security and performance.

We just released the new SquaredUp 5.4 with some brilliant new features. Taking center stage was the new ODBC data source. (If you missed the release announcement you can catch up by reading the quick overview blog post where you can also watch the full release webinar.) With SquaredUp 5.4, you can now instantly visualize any data from almost any database with the addition of ODBC.