FreeNATS Network Monitor

05/05/2017: Stable Rollup and nslast Bug

Six years (!!!) since the last stable release a rollup stable beta is out in the form of 1.18.0. Naturally this may have quite a few changes and, although tested thoroughly, could cause some issues with legacy installs so please backup before updating.

This also fixes a bug with the new nslast (last nodeside data) test which said 0 seconds (just now) was a failure condition causing some monitors to go a bit haywire. All fixed with the removal of a single character.

Any problems with the update or anything else: http://www.purplepixie.org/freenats/support.php

01/07/2016: MySQLi Migration

Following a bug report and request from a user all of FreeNATS has been updated to use mysqli (that is the main system and mysql...

07/02/2016: FreeNATS on Github

FreeNATS has its development codebase now fully hosted on Github, along with the new build and release scripts! Github will ...

06/02/2016: Docker Container Trial

As usual with our late adoption we are trialling a docker container for FreeNATS. Please note this is a pre-alpha trial and very...

20/07/2015: New Trial Virtual Appliance

Only a mere six years in the planning and five since the release of a corrupted version, a new FreeNATS virtual appliance is ava...

12/03/2015: Purplepixie on Facebook

Come on, come all to the social media ball! Showing up fashionably late to the party Purplepixie now have a Facebook page. ...

03/07/2012: Service Desk from PurplePixie

With great excitement I would like to announce the latest product from PurplePixie, an open-source service desk / helpdesk syste...

08/06/2012: Smallest NMS in the World

Some of you may have heard about the Raspberry Pi, a new ARM-based tiny computer on a board capable of running Linux. Well mi...

22/02/2012: Forum Registrations Blocked

Unfortunately owing to massively increased spam of an ever more dubious nature new user registrations for the forum have been te...

11/11/2011: Russian and Italian Language Packs

The latest development release (1.14.0a) now includes language packs for Russian and Italian. Credit for the Russian pack goe...

29/01/2011: User Survey 2011

In a continued effort to find out how people are using the system and any improvements or modifications they would like to see I...

11/01/2011: HTTP Authentication

From a user suggestion HTTP Authentication (Basic HTTP-AUTH) has been implemented. This feature is available as of version &l...

11/01/2011: IMAP and SMTP Bugs Resolved

Thanks to user Marc bugs with the IMAP and SMTP test modules have been identified and now resolved. These would both cause tests...

31/12/2010: Festive FreeNATS Greetings

A quick note to hope all FreeNATTERS out there had a good Christmas and wishing you all the very best for 2011. In 2011 I am ...

14/11/2010: Mailing List 14/11/2010

Dear FreeNATTERS,I hope you are well in your far-flung corners of the globe and your LANs are behaving themselves. It looks like...

14/11/2010: New Virtual Appliance Trial

Following a long search for a suitable replacement for rPath we believe the answer lies in TurnKey LAMP, an appliance based on U...

17/10/2010: Multi-lingual Support

FreeNATS now has multi-lingual support. Version 1.10.0a incorporates a new system to allow the use of language packs. Most of th...

03/10/2010: Sprechen sie Deutsch?

Any FreeNATTERS out there speak German? There's been a video posted on the newordner.net website which mentions FreeNATS but the...

13/08/2010: Windows Desktop Alerter

Following a number of false starts I am pleased to announce today the release of WinDAN, a Windows Desktop Alerter for NATS. ...

10/04/2010: Mailing List 10/04/2010

Dear FreeNATTERS, I hope you are well and your networks continue to thrash away fighting the good fight and passing spam emai...

08/04/2010: Win32 Nodeside Script Update

Thanks to a suggestion from Alex the Win32 nodeside script has been updated to include information on running processes (in addi...

15/01/2010: Mailing List 15/01/2010

Dear FreeNATTERs, Happy New Year! I hope you all had a good festive season and have eaten and made merry. * New Features *...

15/01/2010: URGENT: rPath Upgrade Bug

ATTENTION ALL VM APPLIANCE USERS A bug has been found with the rPath update option in the web interface whereby wget and comm...

24/11/2009: Utility Links

The latest alpha (1.08.0) features the inclusion of utility links. These links allow you to display up to three custom links ...

24/11/2009: Extras Package

Just a reminder; the extras package is now available in alpha releases from 1.06.0 upward. The extras are additional scripts ...

24/11/2009: Upgrade Script Bug

Please note that the update scripts on versions prior to 1.07.0 used the now depreciated reply flag within cp. This may have ...

17/08/2009: Mailing List 170809

Dear FreeNATTERS, I hope this finds you well with your network free of packet loss and servers serving promptly and correctly...

22/06/2009: POSIX Nodeside Bug

Thanks to user Shaun M a bug has been identified with the FreeNATS POSIX node monitor (version 0.04) with regard to disk space. ...

26/05/2009: Mailing List 260509

Dear FreeNATTERS, Greetings to you one and all. I hope your networks continue to be strong and mighty and that you are still ...

25/05/2009: Spim Spam

The phpBB forum.purplepixie.org has come under a bit of an attack recently from spammers posting all sorts of deliciously disgus...

06/05/2009: Search Failures

Thanks to the unbridled power of the Verrotech Control Panel, Google Analytics and Spyder on search.purplepixie.org I'm able to ...

30/04/2009: Sorry About 1.04.0a

Sorry but 1.04.0a was not packaged correctly and as such the DB schema update would have probably failed. In investigating th...

28/04/2009: Mailing List 28/04/2009

Dear FreeNATTERS, I hope all is well in your world both physical and virtual. I am writing this from sunny Namibia where the s...

12/02/2009: Mailing List 12/02/2009

Dear FreeNATTERS, Just a quick note to say that the ropey support and release schedule is liable to get a bit more ropey in th...

08/12/2008: Email Switcheroo

I have just changed my email over to google. I thought all had gone well with the switch and no mail was lost but it appears som...

13/11/2008: Upgrading to 0.02.3 or Beyond

Please be aware than 0.02.3 brings in a few changes to the way test runs work. Primarily you need to know that: (a) the datab...

15/10/2008: Icon Directory Scan

You can now simply drop icon files (32x32 images) into the server/web/icons directory and have them selectable in the UI. Thi...

24/09/2008: New MySQL Data Test

From a user suggestion (thanks Shaun) a new test type has been added to the latest version of FreeNATS. The MySQL data test p...

23/09/2008: iPhone Interface

Having played around with a bit of the Apple web SDK for the iPhone I have added an iPhone interface to FreeNATS. Usage is ve...

19/09/2008: Version 1 Beta

Following alpha testing the new version of FreeNATS has been released for beta testing and is now the current recommended versio...

19/09/2008: Mailing List 19/09/2008

Dear FreeNATTERS, I hope all is well, your secure sockets secure and your packets not being demonstrably lost in some dark int...

13/09/2008: Latest Updates

The latest v1 development version (1.01.0a) now includes a simple UDP connection test. This test (and now the TCP test also) ret...

09/09/2008: Six Months of FreeNATS

September marks a six month milestone for FreeNATS. It was released to the world (best as I can tell) on the 2nd of March and th...

28/08/2008: New in Version 1

The next major version of FreeNATS (version 1) is nearing the end of alpha testing (I hope) and will soon be made into a general...

28/08/2008: Mailing List 28/08/2008

Dear FreeNATTERs, I hope all is well in your data centers and your racks are humming nicely. We had a power outage here which ...

13/08/2008: World Domination

The misguided attempt by PurplePixie Systems to become the worlds biggest and most profitable software and information technolog...

13/08/2008: Search Warning

What is in a name... Well the difference between poor yet generally harmless network testing and dodgy trojan nasty-o-grams. ...

28/07/2008: Mailing List 28/07/2008

Dear FreeNATTER, How are things? I hope you and your network is well and that none of your fire suppression bottles have done...

28/07/2008: IMAP Issue Fixed

The IMAP issue has been fixed thanks to Ole Stanstrup (yet again). If you want to add IMAP and are running VM 3.2b or earlier (3...

27/07/2008: IMAP Fails in Virtual Appliance

A major bug and problem has come to light in that the Virtual Appliance PHP doesn't have the IMAP module installed. This means a...

20/07/2008: Version 1 Available

Just over a month after claiming semi-stability for version 0 a new round of testing, errors and refinement begins (though at le...

14/07/2008: Version 1 Preview

Version 1 is slowly crawling toward something that can be alpha tested and has many many changes. Some of these are actually for...

02/07/2008: FreeNATS in the News

FreeNATS is in the news... well mentioned in the blogosphere at least. Twice. One of these was not just in passing either! Ad...

26/06/2008: DNS Tests and API

DNS tests, simple lookups and complex remote-nameserver queries, are now supported in the stable release tree of FreeNATS from v...

26/06/2008: Mailing List 26/06/2008

Dear FreeNATTER, I hope this mail finds you well and the system continues to be useful. 1. API The latest stable beta (0.0...

23/06/2008: Contributions Welcome

FreeNATS is a still under development system and is shaped by user input. I would like to thank (again) all the people who ha...

21/06/2008: DNS Testing

DNS testing is now available for alpha testing in the current development release. Tests can be simple using PHP inbuilt geth...

17/06/2008: Stable Beta Release

The neverending alpha testing has finally come to an end and a stable beta is now available for source download. A new VM is bei...

17/06/2008: Mailing List 17/06/2008

Dear FreeNATTER, I hope this finds you well with your uptimes up and downtimes down. 1. Neverending Alpha Test to Actuall...

14/06/2008: Availability Reports

Historic service availability reports are now available (0.04.08a or later) and linked to from the main page (under the node lis...

14/06/2008: New Test Types

IMAP, SMTP and MySQL tests are now supported (in versions 0.04.xx or later). The IMAP test type will connect to an IMAP or PO...

08/06/2008: Use Graphs Directly

You can now make much better use of the test.graph.php script to generate graph images for your own pages and to your own specif...

07/06/2008: HTTP and Ping Changes

Following user feedback and suggestion (thanks Ole) there have been a few changes made to the way timing and the HTTP tests (web...

07/06/2008: Web Forum

A phpBB powered web forum is now available for FreeNATS support and general discussion. To avoid spammers you must register via ...

07/06/2008: Mailing List 07/06/2008

Dear FreeNATTER, I hope you are well and that this mail finds you and your network in good cheer! There have been a number o...

01/06/2008: VM 3.1a Released

The current virtual appliance download has been updated to 3.1a. There is no difference from the 3a image (other than the pre...

01/06/2008: Website Update

The main FreeNATS website has been refreshed to add better release visibility and version control. There is also a news page ...

01/06/2008: Views Available

Views are now available (in 0.02.71a or later). These allow you to create a custom view of specific nodes, groups tests etc. ...

01/06/2008: Mailing List 01/06/2008

Dear FreeNATTERS, I hope this finds you well and the system is proving to be useful for you. 1. Views Views are now fully ...

01/06/2008: DB Upgrade Change

Until recently new indexes added with a schema update would not be created for users upgrading (rather than doing a fresh instal...

31/05/2008: RSS News Feed

There is now an RSS news feed available from the website that will feed the latest release as well as any other posted news. Thi...

31/05/2008: Views available for testing

Views are now available in a kind of pre-alpha form. You can use them by setting the system variable dev.views to 1. You will...

31/05/2008: Mailing List 31/05/2008

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31/05/2008: Mailing List 25/05/2008

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31/05/2008: Mailing List 30/04/2008

Dear FreeNATTER, Thank you for registering on the FreeNATS mailing list. I hope you are finding the system useful. April has b...

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