An older version of Ortro (updated to the latest version right in these days) was already used in such departments of Telecom Italia as an experimental software for application monitoring.

But in the last time I had a confirm Ortro is, as I like to define it, mainly a “Framework” helping you to solve the daily problems encountered in monitoring and job activities.

Some months ago some people in Telecom Italia asked me if Ortro could be used as a valid alternative to a commercial product specialized in secure file transfer activity.

So I‘ve realized a proof of concept keeping in mind the 80-20 rule and after a second phase of security, performance and functional tests Ortro was result to be a valid choice to replace the commercial product.

At writing time some real pilot projects was identified for an “on the job” final test.

The results of these activities are the actual version of Ortro (1.3.4) and the advanced file transfer plugin.

Following these positive results Telecom Italia asked me to verify if Ortro could be also used as an alternative to some commercial enterprise scheduler software Telecom is using.

So another challenge is started…

Stay tuned… the 1.4 is around the corner

Help and comments are always welcome, see http://www.ortro.net for full changelog and details.

Ortro 1.3.4 and the plugins may be downloaded as usual from:
http://www.ortro.net/download

This release add the capability to use compression during transfer and enable the recursive copy of files and folders.
Download and enjoy

This release add the capability to filter the copy using whitelist or blacklist based on the host:path string and the saving of transfer time.
Download and enjoy

In evidence the capability to lock a host or a system so to lock all jobs at once such as the possibility to receive notification on job event (i.e. start and end).

In addition the File Watch plugin was added and the Service Check plugin now is able to check multiple services at once allowing to select the most commonly used service directly from a default list.

Help and comments are always welcome, see http://www.ortro.net for full changelog and details.

Ortro 1.3.3 and the plugins may be downloaded as usual from:

http://www.ortro.net/download

Now the Pear::Auth package is used for authentication and the timeout for long running jobs was added.
The memory free and mysql database table check plugins were added.
In addition the installer was improved and FCKeditor library was updated.

Help and comments are always welcome, see http://www.ortro.net for full changelog and details.

We recommend everyone update immediately.

In addition to the security fix, the Net_Nmap library was updated making the autodiscovery without OS detection more faster, the capability to upload files for plugins and the Web Service Test Plugin using SoapUI were added.

The SimpleTest and FCKeditor libraries were updated.

Help and comments are always welcome, see http://www.ortro.net for full changelog and details.

Ortro 1.3.1 and the plugins may be downloaded as usual from:
http://www.ortro.net/download

This version comes with some interesting features such us the auto discovery of the hosts and an import/export tools.
The Auto discovery tool is built on top of the Pear Net_Nmap library and allows to scan your network and successively add automatically the discovered hosts in a specified System.

For a detailed list of bug fixes and improvements you may see the changelog.

Ortro 1.3.0 and the plugins may be downloaded as usual from:
http://www.ortro.net/download