
Over 17 months, Asalhi contributed to the centreon/centreon repository by building and enhancing backend features focused on access control, API development, and secure configuration management. Using PHP, SQL, and JavaScript, Asalhi delivered robust audit logging, ACL-based data visibility, and OpenID Connect SSO integration, while modernizing database interactions with query builders and improving error handling. Their work included refactoring legacy modules, strengthening authentication and session management, and optimizing SQL queries for performance and security. By documenting database schemas and aligning code with security best practices, Asalhi improved maintainability, reduced operational risk, and enabled scalable, reliable monitoring and administration workflows.
February 2026 (2026-02) - Centreon core repository, centreon/centreon — Focused on stability, maintainability, and readiness for upcoming feature work. There were no new features or bug fixes committed this month. Efforts centered on code health, documentation alignment, and process improvements to accelerate future delivery while preserving reliability of the platform.
February 2026 (2026-02) - Centreon core repository, centreon/centreon — Focused on stability, maintainability, and readiness for upcoming feature work. There were no new features or bug fixes committed this month. Efforts centered on code health, documentation alignment, and process improvements to accelerate future delivery while preserving reliability of the platform.
January 2026 — Centreon: Key features delivered focused on security hardening and UX reliability, with no major bugs fixed this month. Business impact includes reduced data risk in contact management and more stable, predictable dashboards. Technologies/skills demonstrated include database hardening, error logging, and default metric provisioning with clear change tracing.
January 2026 — Centreon: Key features delivered focused on security hardening and UX reliability, with no major bugs fixed this month. Business impact includes reduced data risk in contact management and more stable, predictable dashboards. Technologies/skills demonstrated include database hardening, error logging, and default metric provisioning with clear change tracing.
December 2025: Delivered security-focused enhancements, performance fixes, and maintainability improvements for centreon/centreon. Implemented access control for autologin keys in Contact Management, improved performance graph filtering by host/host group, refactored the Open Tickets provider to remove custom command handling, and strengthened API connections with SSL verification and configurable CA paths, including a UI for SSL settings. Impact: Enhanced security posture, more reliable data filtering, streamlined ticket workflows, and easier future maintenance. Demonstrated proficiency in security, API integration, and codebase refactoring.
December 2025: Delivered security-focused enhancements, performance fixes, and maintainability improvements for centreon/centreon. Implemented access control for autologin keys in Contact Management, improved performance graph filtering by host/host group, refactored the Open Tickets provider to remove custom command handling, and strengthened API connections with SSL verification and configurable CA paths, including a UI for SSL settings. Impact: Enhanced security posture, more reliable data filtering, streamlined ticket workflows, and easier future maintenance. Demonstrated proficiency in security, API integration, and codebase refactoring.
November 2025: Delivered performance and reliability improvements in centreon/centreon. Key outcomes: 1) Media Selection Pagination Performance Enhancements—optimized SQL and removed total calculation from limit queries, reducing backend load and speeding pagination; 2) SNMP Trap Group Management Improvements—refactored handling with unique-name validation, improved DB interactions, and enhanced error handling. Impact includes faster media selection UX, stronger data integrity for trap groups, and improved maintainability of the codebase.
November 2025: Delivered performance and reliability improvements in centreon/centreon. Key outcomes: 1) Media Selection Pagination Performance Enhancements—optimized SQL and removed total calculation from limit queries, reducing backend load and speeding pagination; 2) SNMP Trap Group Management Improvements—refactored handling with unique-name validation, improved DB interactions, and enhanced error handling. Impact includes faster media selection UX, stronger data integrity for trap groups, and improved maintainability of the codebase.
October 2025: Security hardening and API reliability improvements in centreon/centreon. Key changes delivered: 1) Custom Views: enforce widget title edit permissions and sanitize input; 2) Dashboard API: always apply created_by join for creator-based search/sort. Impact: improved security, data integrity, and consistent data retrieval; better experience for non-admin users and creators. Key commits: fb2be6e6634bb6248cc3b1322dbd153062a332de, f01732d216d1dab8be08cc04f30c62385148a240.
October 2025: Security hardening and API reliability improvements in centreon/centreon. Key changes delivered: 1) Custom Views: enforce widget title edit permissions and sanitize input; 2) Dashboard API: always apply created_by join for creator-based search/sort. Impact: improved security, data integrity, and consistent data retrieval; better experience for non-admin users and creators. Key commits: fb2be6e6634bb6248cc3b1322dbd153062a332de, f01732d216d1dab8be08cc04f30c62385148a240.
September 2025 highlights for centreon/centreon include delivering new API endpoints for single-metric data and dashboard widget enhancements, with frontend consumption updates enabling per-metric values, current status, and thresholds to display in widgets. Critical fixes addressed meta-service handling and ACL visibility, including correct downtime display names, zero-parameter handling when disabling metaservices, and ACL-based visibility for duplicated metaservices. Business value: more accurate dashboards, improved governance, and reduced operator friction. The work demonstrates strong API design, frontend-backend integration, and cross-team collaboration across multiple authors.
September 2025 highlights for centreon/centreon include delivering new API endpoints for single-metric data and dashboard widget enhancements, with frontend consumption updates enabling per-metric values, current status, and thresholds to display in widgets. Critical fixes addressed meta-service handling and ACL visibility, including correct downtime display names, zero-parameter handling when disabling metaservices, and ACL-based visibility for duplicated metaservices. Business value: more accurate dashboards, improved governance, and reduced operator friction. The work demonstrates strong API design, frontend-backend integration, and cross-team collaboration across multiple authors.
Concise monthly summary for 2025-08 highlighting key accomplishments, features delivered, bugs fixed, and overall impact for the centreon/centreon repository.
Concise monthly summary for 2025-08 highlighting key accomplishments, features delivered, bugs fixed, and overall impact for the centreon/centreon repository.
July 2025 monthly summary for centreon/centreon focusing on security, identity integration, and maintainability. Delivered OpenID Connect SSO proxy integration and refactored custom views access control to enhance security and data integrity. These changes improve identity provider onboarding, reduce unauthorized access risks, and simplify future enhancements across Docker Compose deployments.
July 2025 monthly summary for centreon/centreon focusing on security, identity integration, and maintainability. Delivered OpenID Connect SSO proxy integration and refactored custom views access control to enhance security and data integrity. These changes improve identity provider onboarding, reduce unauthorized access risks, and simplify future enhancements across Docker Compose deployments.
June 2025 — Centreon/centreon: concise monthly summary focusing on key accomplishments, major fixes, and business impact with traceability to commits.
June 2025 — Centreon/centreon: concise monthly summary focusing on key accomplishments, major fixes, and business impact with traceability to commits.
May 2025 – Delivered Configuration Management Backend Enhancements for Centreon: consolidated backend improvements across configuration management modules, delivering improved query efficiency, robust error handling, modernized DB interactions via a query builder, and strengthened access control for configuration generation. These changes reduce risk, improve reliability, and enable authorized automation of config generation.
May 2025 – Delivered Configuration Management Backend Enhancements for Centreon: consolidated backend improvements across configuration management modules, delivering improved query efficiency, robust error handling, modernized DB interactions via a query builder, and strengthened access control for configuration generation. These changes reduce risk, improve reliability, and enable authorized automation of config generation.
April 2025 (centreon/centreon) delivered security and UX improvements with clear business impact: restricted user session disconnection to administrators, updated UI copy for security clarity, and a platform-aware UI refactor of meta-service configuration using a modern query builder. These changes reduce risk of improper access, improve configuration usability across cloud and on-prem platforms, and set the groundwork for easier future enhancements.
April 2025 (centreon/centreon) delivered security and UX improvements with clear business impact: restricted user session disconnection to administrators, updated UI copy for security clarity, and a platform-aware UI refactor of meta-service configuration using a modern query builder. These changes reduce risk of improper access, improve configuration usability across cloud and on-prem platforms, and set the groundwork for easier future enhancements.
March 2025 — Centreon/centreon: Delivered targeted documentation enhancements for the SQL schema to improve maintainability, readability, and governance. Focused on adding inline comments to service tables and related columns, clarifying foreign key relationships, and documenting downtime/escalation structures. These changes reduce onboarding time for new developers and support staff, improve maintainability, and support faster issue diagnosis across the platform.
March 2025 — Centreon/centreon: Delivered targeted documentation enhancements for the SQL schema to improve maintainability, readability, and governance. Focused on adding inline comments to service tables and related columns, clarifying foreign key relationships, and documenting downtime/escalation structures. These changes reduce onboarding time for new developers and support staff, improve maintainability, and support faster issue diagnosis across the platform.
February 2025 monthly summary for centreon/centreon focusing on secure data access and reliable visibility, feature completion, and code hygiene improvements. Delivered ACL-based access control and visibility enhancements across event logs, hostgroups widget, and service groups, enabling data access based on user group ACLs and improving security and usability. Fixed a MAP Bulk Mode visibility bug so service groups appear in BULK mode by excluding module hosts and refining the service registration condition, ensuring correct visibility and operation. Performed User Settings cleanup by removing an unused variable in listContact.php to stabilize read-only user settings handling and reduce potential confusion. Accompanied by refactoring and widget optimizations that improved maintainability and developer velocity. Key achievements for 2025-02:
February 2025 monthly summary for centreon/centreon focusing on secure data access and reliable visibility, feature completion, and code hygiene improvements. Delivered ACL-based access control and visibility enhancements across event logs, hostgroups widget, and service groups, enabling data access based on user group ACLs and improving security and usability. Fixed a MAP Bulk Mode visibility bug so service groups appear in BULK mode by excluding module hosts and refining the service registration condition, ensuring correct visibility and operation. Performed User Settings cleanup by removing an unused variable in listContact.php to stabilize read-only user settings handling and reduce potential confusion. Accompanied by refactoring and widget optimizations that improved maintainability and developer velocity. Key achievements for 2025-02:
Month: 2025-01 — Focused on reliability, correctness, and admin-user experience in centreon/centreon. No new user-facing features released this month; delivered two critical bug fixes that improve UI reliability and data display for admins, with strong traceability to issue numbers and commits.
Month: 2025-01 — Focused on reliability, correctness, and admin-user experience in centreon/centreon. No new user-facing features released this month; delivered two critical bug fixes that improve UI reliability and data display for admins, with strong traceability to issue numbers and commits.
December 2024 – Centreon repository (centreon/centreon) focused on strengthening monitoring widget data capabilities. Delivered a secure, robust query generation and export workflow across all monitoring widgets (service, service group, host, host group). Implemented validated sorting columns/directions, standardized ordering, improved filtering, pagination, and a reusable bind-parameter helper; added constants for order directions and default items per page. Fixed a Custom View bug affecting index/export of widget grouphost monitoring and stabilized related behavior across widgets. These improvements enhance data reliability, export fidelity, and user experience while reducing maintenance overhead and enabling scalable widget enhancements.
December 2024 – Centreon repository (centreon/centreon) focused on strengthening monitoring widget data capabilities. Delivered a secure, robust query generation and export workflow across all monitoring widgets (service, service group, host, host group). Implemented validated sorting columns/directions, standardized ordering, improved filtering, pagination, and a reusable bind-parameter helper; added constants for order directions and default items per page. Fixed a Custom View bug affecting index/export of widget grouphost monitoring and stabilized related behavior across widgets. These improvements enhance data reliability, export fidelity, and user experience while reducing maintenance overhead and enabling scalable widget enhancements.
November 2024 monthly summary for centreon/centreon focusing on reliability, security, and scalable admin workflows. Delivered three key items that improve user experience, data integrity, and mass-update capabilities, aligning with business goals of operational efficiency and robust monitoring data.
November 2024 monthly summary for centreon/centreon focusing on reliability, security, and scalable admin workflows. Delivered three key items that improve user experience, data integrity, and mass-update capabilities, aligning with business goals of operational efficiency and robust monitoring data.
October 2024: Delivered initial ServiceTemplate audit logging with a dedicated repository class and configuration updates, and fixed a bug in audit logging for NotificationType arrays to ensure accurate, string-based representations. These changes improve change traceability, governance compliance, and maintainability of the ServiceTemplate module, positioning the platform for scalable audits and faster incident investigations.
October 2024: Delivered initial ServiceTemplate audit logging with a dedicated repository class and configuration updates, and fixed a bug in audit logging for NotificationType arrays to ensure accurate, string-based representations. These changes improve change traceability, governance compliance, and maintainability of the ServiceTemplate module, positioning the platform for scalable audits and faster incident investigations.

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