Additionally, you can use the dashboard activity log to keep up to date or our reports engine to browse through the data – or you can go through the SQLite database yourself! It can also be automatically backed up with our free Snapt Backup plugin and emailed to you.

The activity log is the perfect example of the Snapt difference, Snapt is packed with features for everyone – from corporates needing to make sure they have accountability on their high availability cluster to technicians who are trying to track down that spike in memory usage.

Snapt Activity Log is a post from Snapt

Snapt Backup takes configurable, scheduled backups of the Snapt UI and can store them on disk or email them to you. These can also be restored at any time!
Dynamic DNS allows you to have Snapt update your DynDNS settings automatically – meaning you can get to your Snapt installations even with dynamic IP addresses!
Cron Manager allows you to schedule tasks (even outside of the scope of Snapt) through a friendly GUI, as well as manage tasks.
Support Tickets allows you to take config and system snapshots to send with when you log a Snapt support ticket – meaning much more effective support!

There is a huge amount of functionality built into the Snapt user interface – from Twitter updates to Google Gears, context sensitive help to live graphs of HAProxy traffic; so there is plenty more to discover!

Free Plugins At Launch is a post from Snapt

• FreeBSD
• Debian
• Ubuntu
• Fedora

We aim to support any flavour of BSD or Linux you are running, but for practical reasons can obviously only test the product on a given set (especially when it comes to Linux!).

Supported Operating Systems? is a post from Snapt

If you have 2 minutes to fill in our <10 question survey it will help us to gauge what the community is willing to pay for Snapt as well as a few other questions.

Go to the survey

Help Snapt Launch! is a post from Snapt

Remember to join our launch email list to be offered a discount when it’s available!

HAProxy Available Next Month is a post from Snapt

To do that, we had to write a more sophisticated cron – with abilities like “once off” or temporary tasks, that after running successfully are removed. We’ve also introduced load limits and retries – so a task can be set to only run when the unit is not heavily loaded.

Having done all of that, we thought why not give the user that ability; for free. And so was born a new, free plugin named “Snapt Cron”. Below is a screenshot of adding an example cron entry where it will reboot at night, and remove the cron task.

Snapt Cron is available with any Snapt Framework installation (e.g. Snapt HAProxy, Snapt Squid). If you would like to be notified when the product is available officially, please use our release notification list.

Handy Tools: Snapt Cron is a post from Snapt

We aim to make open source as easy and as powerful as it can be, while keeping the complexities of managing it and supporting it away from you, while providing corporate level support.

Diagnosing Problems Made Easy is a post from Snapt

Snapt comes free with an optional backup plugin that will save any Snapt configurations, and the configurations for any Snapt modules you have. In the screenshot below, you can see we automatically take a daily backup of our Snapt installation as well as our HAProxy config file.

The files can be stored on disk or emailed, and the configuration can be restored automatically after a failure by the Snapt Backup plugin. This is available free to all Snapt clients, as one of the optional plugins.

Snapt Backup, Free with Snapt is a post from Snapt

Selecting a language is very easy as you can see above, and is done in the initial Snapt Setup. Any strings that are available in the language you choose are then displayed using that language, and any missing strings are displayed in English, as you can see below.

Translations will be added as we can justify them based on our users, and will be free with Snapt. Obviously we will also accept any user submissions and roll them out automatically with updates of the framework.

Translation in Snapt is a post from Snapt

In the Squid example, it makes it easy to pick up HTTP (port 80) traffic and cache it without interfering with user configuration, or with HAProxy you can roll out load balancing without changing IP addresses and the like. Typically, this can get confusing and complicated – so we introduced an interception manager.

Each plugin is assigned a “space” in which it can operate to intercept traffic. Each space can have subspaces. For example, each HAProxy group effectively has its own space which can have any number of ports or IP addresses to intercept traffic on and redirect it to HAProxy.

The interception manager automatically integrates with your firewall (currently it supports PF or IPTables) and intercepts the data. You can disable and enable interception spaces without losing their configuration – allowing maintenance without downtime, and you can disable the entire system without losing your setup.

You can see an example of some live HAProxy groups intercepting data below

How Snapt Intercepts Data is a post from Snapt