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1 This file documents the major additions and syntax changes between releases.
3 1.4.14 ...
4 check_users thresholds were not working excatly as documented (>= rather than >)
5 Updated tinderbox_build script to point to new tinderbox server
7 1.4.13 25th Sept 2008
8 Fix Debian bug #460097: check_http --max-age broken (Hilko Bengen)
9 Optimised pst3 for systems with large number of processes (Duncan Ferguson)
10 Updated Nagios::Plugin to 0.27
11 Fix Debian bug #479013: check_dig's -l is mandatory now (sf.net #1986306)
12 check_dig now returns CRITICAL instead of WARNING when no answer section is found
13 check_procs now captures stderr in external command and adds to plugin output
14 check_snmp now only prints perfdata for non numeric values (#1867716)
15 check_icmp now supports packet size modification
16 check_http -e now accepts a comma-delimited list of expected status codes (Sven Nierlein)
17 libtap now included with this distribution for easier testing. Run ./configure with --enable-libtap
18 check_ntp_peer/check_ntp_time used to show port in --help but ignored the argument - now implemented
19 Fix possible segfault in check_ntp_peer with deliberately invalid packets
21 1.4.12 27th May 2008
22 Added ./check_nt -v INSTANCES to count number of instances (Alessandro Ren)
23 New check_icmp -s option to specify the source IP address
24 check_dns now sorts addresses for testing results for more than one returned IP (Matthias Urlichs)
25 Fix segfault in check_ntp_time and (deprecated) check_ntp (Bug #1862300)
26 check_disk should now work with large file systems (2TB+) on all archs that supports it
27 Fixed check_disk disk usage calculation when using --group=NAME (related to bug #1348746)
28 Fix help text of check_ntp* (Bug #1880095)
29 Fix bugs and flaws in best offset server selection of check_ntp_time and (deprecated) check_ntp
30 check_ntp_peer now checks for the LI_ALARM flag
31 Sync to latest Gnulib (includes new floorf function)
32 check_pgsql now successfully builds with postgres lib v8.3 (Bug #1878972)
33 check_procs now accepts --ereg-argument-array for a regular expression match to the argument array
34 Reverted back to using pst3 for Solaris systems. Fixed issues re: -m64 needed to compile on 64bit systems
35 If applicable, Gettext linked dynamically instead of statically
36 check_dig can now pass arguments to dig by using -A/--dig-arguments (#1874041/#1889453)
37 check_ntp and check_ntp_peer now show proper jitter/stratum thresholds longopts in --help
38 check_dns now allow to repeat -a to match multiple possibly returned address (common with load balancers)
39 check_mysql and check_radius now try clearing password in processlist just like check_mysql_query
40 check_mysql and check_mysql_query now support sockets explicitely (-s, --socket)
41 negate now has the ability to replace the status text as well (-s, --substitute)
42 Added performance data to check_ping (Christian Schneemann)
43 Added support for --extra-opts in all C plugins (disabled by default, see configure --help)
44 Fixed passive option in check_by_ssh
45 On non-skipped stderr, check_by_ssh now returns UNKNOWN or worse (result from command) instead of always UNKNOWN.
46 Fix linking against OpenSSL where libdl is required
48 1.4.11 13th December 2007
49 Fixed check_http regression in 1.4.10 where following redirects to
50 relative URLs on virtual hosts failed if both "-H" and "-I" were used
51 Merged two new checks that deprecates check_ntp: check_ntp_peer and check_ntp_time.
52 You should read the --help output so see which one is suitable for you. check_ntp_peer
53 implement stratum thresholds support (feature request #1703823).
54 check_ntp now returns UNKNOWN instead of WARNING if jitter is unavailable (jitter=-1.000000)
55 as long as the thresholds range include -1. If no offset threshold is specified
56 and the offset is unavailable, will return UNKNOWN as well.
57 NOTE: If jitter thresholds are specified as integers it will return CRITICAL if jitter
58 is "-1" as the default range starts at 0. See Examples in --help output.
59 Fixed broken usage2 in check_snmp and check_cluster
60 check_cluster now accepts all valid characters in its thresholds ("-", "@", "~")
61 Fixed check_disk reporting OK if disk usage grows over 100% (bug #1348746).
62 The problem happens to be in Gnulib but a workaround have been implemented in check_disk.c
63 Fixed check_load argument handling when not passing triplets (bug #1831890)
64 Fixed buffer overflow in check_snmp (CVE-2007-5623)
65 Tinderbox builds now runs tests in a verbose mode
66 Updated Nagios::Plugin to 0.22
67 VPATH problem fixed for compiling plugins-root
69 1.4.10 28th September 2007
70 Fix check_http buffer overflow vulnerability when following HTTP redirects (CVE-2007-5198)
71 check_http now explicitly asks HTTP/1.1 servers to close the connection
72 after completion of the response
73 Check_ldaps' guessing which secure method to use (starttls vs. ssl on connect)
74 is now deprecated. See --help for further information.
75 Check_disk now calls stat() on all filesystems to check. (Old: only the ones selected using -p)
76 A meaningful error message (eg "Stale NFS Handle") is printed if stat fails.
77 New check_disk option -L: Only check local filesystems, but call stat() on remote ones, too.
78 Thus accessibility of remote filesystems can be checked without any threshold comparison.
79 Check_disk's --help now prints some examples for the new features introduced in 1.4.8
80 New check_disk -i/-I option to ignore pathes/partitions based on regular expressions
81 New check_disk -A option to select all filesystems explicitly
82 WARNING: check_disk's -E option must now be passed before -p or -r/-R arguments
83 Passing -E after -p or -r results in UNKNOWN state, now
84 This is needed due to the new ignore feature
85 Fix check_disk bug when mixing case sensitive and case insensitive regex arguments
86 New check_dhcp -u/--unicast option for emulating a DHCP relay in order
87 to check DHCP servers on remote networks
88 New check_dhcp -m/--mac option which allows for specifying the MAC
89 address to use in the DHCP request
90 The check_dhcp -r and -s options now accept host names, too
91 Fix possible check_icmp bus errors on some (non-x86/AMD64) platforms
92 Fix check_smtp's handling of multiple-packet server responses
93 WARNING: Fix for negate which may break existing commands:
94 - stop evaluating command line options through shell twice
95 - enforce a full path for the command to run
96 The "negate" utility can now remap custom states
97 Check_radius now supports radiusclient-ng
98 The (undocumented) positional parameter parsing which check_radius used
99 instead of getopt(3) if 8 arguments were given is no longer available
100 Check_by_ssh now supports multiline output
101 IPv6 support can now be disabled using ./configure --without-ipv6
102 Fix check_ntp now honor ntp flags
104 1.4.9 4th June 2006
105 Inclusion of contrib/check_cluster2 as check_cluster with some improvements
106 New/improved -E/--skip-stderr and -S/--skip-stdout options for check_by_ssh
107 check_snmp now supports Counter64
108 Fix compilation of check_ldap, check_radius and check_pgsql
109 check_load can optionally divide by number of cpus
110 Fix check_time returning wrong OK when time is before the epoch on some arch
111 Make check_http output more consistent
112 Fix possible check_http segfaults when following HTTP redirects
113 check_snmp don't warn anymore if something is printed on stderr
114 Fix check_tcp segfault when multiple expect strings are given
115 New option for check_tcp: -A/--all to test if all given expect strings match
117 1.4.8 11th April 2007
118 Respects --without-world-permissions for setuid plugins
119 check_disk extra options for regex matching of filesystems and grouping of filesystems
120 for collective thresholds
121 Better configure test for mysqlclient availability
122 Various check_ntp fixes
124 1.4.7 29th March 2007
125 check_procs uses /usr/ucb/ps if available - fixes pst3 problems on Solaris
126 Fixed MKINSTALLDIRS problem in po/
127 ./configure now detects if possible to compile check_mysql
128 Fixed broken HELO in check_smtp
129 check_icmp now allows to set a minimum number of hosts required for successs (-m)
130 check_icmp fix for *BSD when running for long time
131 check_ping times out 1 second quicker if host is unreachable
132 Root plugins installed with world executable
133 check_sybase from contrib now maintained in NagiosExchange
134 --with-nagios-user/group reinstated ./configure option
135 New --without-world-permissions ./configure option
137 1.4.6 5th February 2007
138 Reduced number of DNS lookups in check_ping and netutils.c for IPv6 configurations
139 Fixed compile problems with *BSD re: alloca.h
140 Fixed Solaris problems with check_swap (tested on Solaris 9)
141 Fixed check_swap for HP/UX where swapinfo command was incorrect
142 Fixed check_disk inode threshold checks, regressed at r1.4.4.
143 Fixed crit/warn for check_disk perf data
144 Fixed buffer overflow in check_procs
145 Fixed error handling for UNIX sockets in netutils.c
146 New -q and -o options for check_by_ssh which are handed over to ssh(1) as is
147 Synced with latest GNUlib
148 Fixed check_jabber always returns warning
150 1.4.5
151 Fixed bug in perl's is_hostname routine
153 1.4.4
154 New C based check_ntp. The perl version is now deprecated.
155 New check_apt plugin
156 Notice: plugins in contrib/ will start to be removed from this distribution.
157 Please check at http://www.nagiosexchange.org for contributed plugins
158 Major bug fixes to check_disk where values were incorrectly calculated and alerted on.
159 check_udp2 removed. check_udp is now linked to check_tcp.c
160 check_mailq now errors if the sub-program run returns non-zero return code. This would appear
161 as if mailqs were okay when the nagios user could not query the mail-queues
162 Compile problems with check_snmp fixed
164 1.4.3
165 Setuid plugins (check_dhcp, check_icmp) separated into plugins-root/. Run make install as root to install
166 SSL plugins work with gnutls as well as OpenSSL
167 check_mysql_query added to run arbitrary SQL commands, with threshold checking
168 libtool now required for development systems
169 Notice: check_udp (compiled from check_udp.c) will be deprecated in the next release.
170 check_udp2 should be used instead and will be renamed to check_udp
172 1.4.2
173 Fix for Redhat ES4 for check_dns and check_dig
175 1.4
176 IPv6 support in check_ping, check_by_ssh, check_http, check_ldap, check_smtp, check_tcp
177 Internationalisation support
178 Performance data added to most plugins
179 check_disk now using GNU coreutils code
180 New plugins - check_dhcp, check_icmp
181 contrib/check_citrix has been replaced by contrib/check_ica* (requires packet_utils.pm in libexec)
182 check_http --min changed to --pagesize, added max so min:max in check
183 check_vsz and check_rss deprecated - functionality moved into check_procs
184 check_swap % thresholds changed to measure amount free, instead of amount used
185 check_disk syntax changes for -p, -m/-M, defaults to MB instead of kB
186 check_procs -C expects no path for the command name