Dear list members,
I'm glad to tell you that the new version 1.1.7i3 is now available
for download. The number of new features is not large this time,
but some important bugs have been fixed. Here is the ChangeLog (against
1.1.7i2):
Core, Setup, etc.:
* Fix extra_nagios_conf: did not work in 1.1.7i2
* Service Check_MK now displays overall processing time including
agent communication and adds this as performance data
* Fix bug: define_contactgroups was always assumed True. That led
to duplicate definitions in case of manual definitions in Nagios
Checks & Agents:
* New Check: hp_proliant_da_phydrv for monitoring the state of
physical disks
in HP Proliant Servers
* New Check: hp_proliant_mem for monitoring the state of memory
modules in
HP Proliant Servers
* New Check: hp_proliant_psu for monitoring the state of power
supplies in HP Proliant Servers
* PNP-templates: fix several templates not working with MULTIPLE
rrds
* new check mem.vmalloc for monitoring vmalloc address space in
Linux kernel.
* Linux agent: add timeout of 2 secs to ntpq
* wmic_process: make check OK if no matching process is found
Livestatus:
* Remove obsolete parameter 'accept_timeout'
* Allow disabling idle_timeout and query_timeout by setting them
to 0.
Multisite:
* logwatch page: wrap long log lines
Greetings and thanks for using Check_MK,
Mathias Kettner
Dear list members,
the new version 1.1.7i2 of Check_MK/Livestatus/Multisite is available.
This is an innovation release which brings lots of new features. The
current stable release is 1.1.6p1.
The new version brings a lot of new features. The download page is
http://mathias-kettner.de/check_mk_download.html
Here is the complete ChangeLog:
New in version 1.1.7i2
Incompatible Changes
* Remove config option define_timeperiods and option --timeperiods.
Check_MK does not longer define timeperiod definitions. Please define
them manually in Nagios.
* host_notification_period has been removed. Use
host_extra_conf["notification_period"] instead. Same holds for
service_notification_periods, summary_host_notification_periods and
summary_service_notification_periods.
* Removed modes -H and -S for creating config data. This now does
the new option -N. Please set generate_hostconf = False if you want only
services to be defined.
Core, Setup, etc.
* New config option usewalk_hosts, triggers --usewalk during normal
checking for selected hosts.
* new option --scan-parents for automatically finding and
configuring parent hosts (see online docu for details)
* inventory check: put detailed list of unchecked items into long
plugin output (to be seen in status details)
* New configuration variable check_parameters, that allows to
override default parameters set by inventory, without defining manual
checks!
Checks & Agents
* drbd: changed check parameters (please re-inventorize!)
* New check ad_replication: Checks active directory replications of
domain controllers by using repadm
* New check postifx_mailq: Checks mailqueue lengths of postifx
mailserves
* New check hp_procurve_cpu: Checks the CPU load on HP Procurve
switches
* New check hp_procurve_mem: Checks the memory usage on HP Procurve
switches
* New check hp_procurve_sensors: Checks the health of PSUs, FANs
and Temperature on HP Procurve switches
* New check heartbeat_crm: Monitors the general state of heartbeat
clusters using the CRM
* New check heartbeat_crm_resources: Monitors the state of
resources and nodes in heartbeat clusters using the CRM
* *nix agents: output AgentOS: in header
* New agent for FreeBSD: It is based on the linux agent. Most of
the sections could not be ported easily so the FreeBSD agent provides
information for less checks than the linux agent.
* heartbeat_crm and heartbeat_crm.resources: Change handling of
check parameters. Please reinvenurize and read the updated man page of
those checks
* New check hp_proliant_cpu: Check the physical state of CPUs in HP
Proliant servers
* New check hp_proliant_temp: Check the temperature sensors of HP
Proliant servers
* New check hp_proliant_fans: Check the FAN sensors of HP Proliant
servers
Multisite
* fix chown problem (when nagios user own files to be written by
the web server)
* Sidebar: Fixed snapin movement problem using older firefox than 3.5.
* Sidebar: Fixed IE8 and Chrome snapin movement problems
* Sidebar: Fixed IE problem where sidebar is too small
* Multisite: improve performance in multi site environments by
sending queries to sites in parallel
* Multisite: improve performance in high latency situations by
allowing persistent Livestatus connections (set "persist" : True in
sites, use current Livestatus version)
Livestatus
* Fix problems with in_*_period. Introduce global timeperiod cache.
This also improves performance
* Table timeperiods: new column 'in' which is 0/1 if/not the
timeperiod is currently active
* New module option idle_timeout. It sets the time in ms Livestatus
waits for the next query. Default is 300000 ms (5 min).
* New module option query_timeout. It limits the time between two
lines of a query (in ms). Default is 10000 ms (10 sec).
With best regards,
Mathias Kettner
Dear list members,
since a couple of minutes the new version 1.1.7i1 is available.
This is an innovation release with a lot of new features and
checks. Download on http://mathias-kettner.de/check_mk_download.html
Here are the changes:
New in version 1.1.7i1
Core, Setup, etc.
* New option -u for reordering autochecks in per-host-files (please
refer to updated documentation about inventory for details)
* Fix exception if check_mk is called without arguments. Show usage
in that case.
* install_nagios.sh: Fix download URL of NagVis 1.4.7 (sorry,
script still uses old version).
* New options --snmpwalk and --usewalk help implemeting checks for
SNMP hardware which is not present
* SNMP: Automatically detect missing entries. That fixes if64 on
some CISCO switches.
* SNMP: Fix hex string detection (hopefully)
* Do chown only if running as root (avoid error messages)
* SNMP: SNMPv3 support: use 4-tuple of security level, auth
protocol, security name and password instead of a string in
snmp_communities for V3 hosts.
* SNMP: Fixed hexstring detection on empty strings
* New option -II: Is like -I, but removes all previous autochecks
from inventorized hosts
* install_nagios.sh: Fix detection of PNP4Nagios URL and URL of NagVis
* Packager: make sanity check prohibiting creating of package files
in Check MK's directories
* install_nagios.sh: Support Ubuntu 10.04 (Thanks to Ben)
Checks & Agents
* New check ntp.time: Similar to 'ntp' but only honors the system
peer (that NTP peer where ntpq -p prints a *).
* wmic_process: new check for ressource consumption of windows
processes
* Windows agent supports now plugins/ and local/ checks
* [FIX] ps.perf now correctly detects extended performance data
output even if number of matching processes is 0
* renamed check cisco_3640_temp to cisco_temp, renamed cisco_temp
to cisco_temp_perf, fixed snmp detection of those checks
* New check hr_cpu - checking the CPU utilization via SNMP
* New check hr_fs - checking filesystem usage via SNMP
* New check hr_mem - checking memory usage via SNMP
* ps: inventory now can configured on a per host / tag base
* Linux: new check nvidia.temp for monitoring temperature of NVIDIA
graphics card
* Linux: avoid free-ipmi hanging forever on hardware that does not
support IPMI
* SNMP: Instead of an artificial index column, which some checks
use, now the last component of the OID is used as index. That means that
inventory will find new services and old services will become UNKNOWN.
Please remove the outdated checks.
* if: handle exception on missing OIDs
* New checks hp_blade* - Checking health of HP BladeSystem
Enclosures via SNMP
* New check drbd - Checking health of drbd nodes
* New SNMP based checks for printers (page counter, supply),
contributed by Peter Lauk (many thanks!)
* New check cups_queues: Checking the state of cups printer queues
* New check heartbeat_nodes: Checking the node state and state of
the links of heartbeat nodes
* New check heartbeat_rscstatus: Checks the local resource status
of a heartbeat node
* New check win_dhcp_pools: Checks the usage of Windows DHCP Server
lease pools
Multisite
* New view showing all PNP graphs of services with the same description
* Two new filters for host: notifications_enabled and acknowledged
* Files created by the webserver (*.mk) are now created with the
group configured as common group of Nagios and webserver. Group gets
write permissions on files and directories.
* New context view: all services of a host group
* Fix problems with Umlauts (non-Ascii-characters) in performance data
* New context view: all services of a host group
* Sidebar snapins can now fetch URLs for the snapin content instead
of building the snapin contents on their own.
* Added new nagvis_maps snapin which displays all NagVis maps
available to the user. Works with NagVis 1.5 and newer.
