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I have been meaning to write a blog entry for a while but time is always against me, so here is an update on things:

• I started my new job in the MySQL division of Sun Microsystems at the beginning of October.  They are a really fantastic group to work for.
• ndb_watch is officially abandoned.  CMON is already a much better product and I cannot even hope to catch it up.
• I went to Montreal last week with the MySQL AMER support team, it was great to meet them all.
• I found a bottle of 'Vim' in a local shop! (see below)
• Hopefully I won't leave it as long before my next blog post

VIM

Hot on the heals of ndb_watch 0.6.0, 0.6.1 has been released.  This is primarily a bug fix release dealing with minor reporting issues and a couple of potential crashes.

0.7 is also nearing completion and will have features such as better configuration handling and better memory status reporting.

0.6.1 can be downloaded at SourceForge and 0.7.x is currently in the SVN trunk hosted there.  I will branch it as soon as I am ready to declare a feature freeze.

After a year of almost no development I decided recently to pickup ndb_watch again and see if I could improve it.  A few weeks later and I have 0.6.0 ready for the world to use.

ndb_watch is a utility I written in C to monitor MySQL Cluster NDB nodes and mail a systems administrator when they fail.

It has many new features such as memory statistics (thanks to Monty Taylor), multiple management nodes and better email handling.  There are also many bug fixes.

If you fancy taking a look please go to its sourceforge page.

I am open to patches, bug reports and suggestions for future versions.

UPDATE 10th August
There is now an Ubuntu Hardy i386 package on SourceForge for this too.  Built against the packages at https://launchpad.net/~ndb-bindings/+archive