1 This file documents the major additions and syntax changes between releases.
3 1.4.14 ...
4 check_http has options to specify the HTTP method (#2155152)
5 check_users thresholds were not working exactly as documented (>= rather than >)
6 Updated tinderbox_build script to point to new tinderbox server
7 check_ifoperstatus -n flag now works as expected (sf.net #1569488)
8 check_ifoperstatus now supports ifType based lookup for ifIndex
9 check_ups now sends a LOGOUT string (debian bug #387001)
10 Extra-opts (C plugins) now allows both '#' and ';' for comments (like N::P)
11 Extra-opts (C plugins) does not allow trailing comments anymore (like N::P)
12 Fixed dependency issue on libtap when ./configure --enable-libtap used. Warning: will install libtap
13 Fixed segfault in extra-opts under some circumstance when reading multiple sections
14 Fix long options parsing in check_disk, check_dns, check_mrtg, check_mrtgtraf and check_tcp
15 Add missing long options for check_nt (for use with extra-opts)
16 check_icmp now reports min and max round trip time perfdata (Steve Rader)
17 Fixed check_http bug where additional headers with redirection caused a segfault (Dieter Van de Walle - 2089159)
18 check_disk: make autofs mount paths specified with -p before we determine the mount list (Erik Welch)
19 Fixed buffer overflow in check_ntp/check_ntp_peer (#1999319, Ubuntu #291265)
20 Re-bundled libtap as a built-in library (--enable-libtap): detects system library as pre-1.4.13 and does not install the built-in library anymore
21 Fixed check_mrtg returning UNKNOWN instead of OK (bug #2378068)
22 Fixed check_http behaviour: all check are now performed as long as a valid response is returned (sf.net #1460312)
23 check_http --onredirect=sticky follows using the same IP address (sf.net #2550208)
24 check_http --onredirect=stickyport also follows the same port
25 Fixed coredump from check_nt when invalid drive is specified (#2179754 - Olli Hauer)
26 Fixed crash from check_nt when -H unspecified or given multiple times (sf.net #2731755, debian #521097)
27 Fixed passing of quotes in OID for check_snmp (#1985230 - Jan Wagner, patch by John Barbuto)
28 Fixed check_http sending HTTP/1.0 with v1.1 headers (#2638765)
29 Fixed check_http not timing-out on redirects
30 Fixed negate not printing the real timeout in ALRM handler when left to default
31 negate timeout result is now configurable
32 Fixed segfault in check_mysql with old slaves (#2696823 - Oskar Ahner)
33 check_nt can return UNKNOWN on timeouts (-u)
34 Fixed typos for check_disk (Chris Pepper)
35 Fixed check_mysql* not using password set in my.cnf (#2531905 - Ben Timby) - Specify an empty password explicitly if you need to override it.
36 Fixed awk subst.in/subst script path error (#2722832 - Martin Foster)
37 check_http: Add SSL/TLS hostname extension support (SNI) - (#1939022 - Joe Presbrey)
38 Fixed wrong perfdata label for output traffic in check_mrtgtraf (#2654308 - Gavin Williams)
39 Fixed check_by_ssh interpretation of quotes in -C parameter (#1985246, #2268675)
40 check_snmp now supports standard threshold ranges and doubles (floating numbers) in thresholds
42 1.4.13 25th Sept 2008
43 Fix Debian bug #460097: check_http --max-age broken (Hilko Bengen)
44 Optimised pst3 for systems with large number of processes (Duncan Ferguson)
45 Updated Nagios::Plugin to 0.27
46 Fix Debian bug #479013: check_dig's -l is mandatory now (sf.net #1986306)
47 check_dig now returns CRITICAL instead of WARNING when no answer section is found
48 check_procs now captures stderr in external command and adds to plugin output
49 check_snmp now only prints perfdata for non numeric values (#1867716)
50 check_icmp now supports packet size modification
51 check_http -e now accepts a comma-delimited list of expected status codes (Sven Nierlein)
52 libtap now included with this distribution for easier testing. Run ./configure with --enable-libtap
53 check_ntp_peer/check_ntp_time used to show port in --help but ignored the argument - now implemented
54 Fix possible segfault in check_ntp_peer with deliberately invalid packets
56 1.4.12 27th May 2008
57 Added ./check_nt -v INSTANCES to count number of instances (Alessandro Ren)
58 New check_icmp -s option to specify the source IP address
59 check_dns now sorts addresses for testing results for more than one returned IP (Matthias Urlichs)
60 Fix segfault in check_ntp_time and (deprecated) check_ntp (Bug #1862300)
61 check_disk should now work with large file systems (2TB+) on all archs that supports it
62 Fixed check_disk disk usage calculation when using --group=NAME (related to bug #1348746)
63 Fix help text of check_ntp* (Bug #1880095)
64 Fix bugs and flaws in best offset server selection of check_ntp_time and (deprecated) check_ntp
65 check_ntp_peer now checks for the LI_ALARM flag
66 Sync to latest Gnulib (includes new floorf function)
67 check_pgsql now successfully builds with postgres lib v8.3 (Bug #1878972)
68 check_procs now accepts --ereg-argument-array for a regular expression match to the argument array
69 Reverted back to using pst3 for Solaris systems. Fixed issues re: -m64 needed to compile on 64bit systems
70 If applicable, Gettext linked dynamically instead of statically
71 check_dig can now pass arguments to dig by using -A/--dig-arguments (#1874041/#1889453)
72 check_ntp and check_ntp_peer now show proper jitter/stratum thresholds longopts in --help
73 check_dns now allow to repeat -a to match multiple possibly returned address (common with load balancers)
74 check_mysql and check_radius now try clearing password in processlist just like check_mysql_query
75 check_mysql and check_mysql_query now support sockets explicitely (-s, --socket)
76 negate now has the ability to replace the status text as well (-s, --substitute)
77 Added performance data to check_ping (Christian Schneemann)
78 Added support for --extra-opts in all C plugins (disabled by default, see configure --help)
79 Fixed passive option in check_by_ssh
80 On non-skipped stderr, check_by_ssh now returns UNKNOWN or worse (result from command) instead of always UNKNOWN.
81 Fix linking against OpenSSL where libdl is required
83 1.4.11 13th December 2007
84 Fixed check_http regression in 1.4.10 where following redirects to
85 relative URLs on virtual hosts failed if both "-H" and "-I" were used
86 Merged two new checks that deprecates check_ntp: check_ntp_peer and check_ntp_time.
87 You should read the --help output so see which one is suitable for you. check_ntp_peer
88 implement stratum thresholds support (feature request #1703823).
89 check_ntp now returns UNKNOWN instead of WARNING if jitter is unavailable (jitter=-1.000000)
90 as long as the thresholds range include -1. If no offset threshold is specified
91 and the offset is unavailable, will return UNKNOWN as well.
92 NOTE: If jitter thresholds are specified as integers it will return CRITICAL if jitter
93 is "-1" as the default range starts at 0. See Examples in --help output.
94 Fixed broken usage2 in check_snmp and check_cluster
95 check_cluster now accepts all valid characters in its thresholds ("-", "@", "~")
96 Fixed check_disk reporting OK if disk usage grows over 100% (bug #1348746).
97 The problem happens to be in Gnulib but a workaround have been implemented in check_disk.c
98 Fixed check_load argument handling when not passing triplets (bug #1831890)
99 Fixed buffer overflow in check_snmp (CVE-2007-5623)
100 Tinderbox builds now runs tests in a verbose mode
101 Updated Nagios::Plugin to 0.22
102 VPATH problem fixed for compiling plugins-root
104 1.4.10 28th September 2007
105 Fix check_http buffer overflow vulnerability when following HTTP redirects (CVE-2007-5198)
106 check_http now explicitly asks HTTP/1.1 servers to close the connection
107 after completion of the response
108 Check_ldaps' guessing which secure method to use (starttls vs. ssl on connect)
109 is now deprecated. See --help for further information.
110 Check_disk now calls stat() on all filesystems to check. (Old: only the ones selected using -p)
111 A meaningful error message (eg "Stale NFS Handle") is printed if stat fails.
112 New check_disk option -L: Only check local filesystems, but call stat() on remote ones, too.
113 Thus accessibility of remote filesystems can be checked without any threshold comparison.
114 Check_disk's --help now prints some examples for the new features introduced in 1.4.8
115 New check_disk -i/-I option to ignore pathes/partitions based on regular expressions
116 New check_disk -A option to select all filesystems explicitly
117 WARNING: check_disk's -E option must now be passed before -p or -r/-R arguments
118 Passing -E after -p or -r results in UNKNOWN state, now
119 This is needed due to the new ignore feature
120 Fix check_disk bug when mixing case sensitive and case insensitive regex arguments
121 New check_dhcp -u/--unicast option for emulating a DHCP relay in order
122 to check DHCP servers on remote networks
123 New check_dhcp -m/--mac option which allows for specifying the MAC
124 address to use in the DHCP request
125 The check_dhcp -r and -s options now accept host names, too
126 Fix possible check_icmp bus errors on some (non-x86/AMD64) platforms
127 Fix check_smtp's handling of multiple-packet server responses
128 WARNING: Fix for negate which may break existing commands:
129 - stop evaluating command line options through shell twice
130 - enforce a full path for the command to run
131 The "negate" utility can now remap custom states
132 Check_radius now supports radiusclient-ng
133 The (undocumented) positional parameter parsing which check_radius used
134 instead of getopt(3) if 8 arguments were given is no longer available
135 Check_by_ssh now supports multiline output
136 IPv6 support can now be disabled using ./configure --without-ipv6
137 Fix check_ntp now honor ntp flags
139 1.4.9 4th June 2006
140 Inclusion of contrib/check_cluster2 as check_cluster with some improvements
141 New/improved -E/--skip-stderr and -S/--skip-stdout options for check_by_ssh
142 check_snmp now supports Counter64
143 Fix compilation of check_ldap, check_radius and check_pgsql
144 check_load can optionally divide by number of cpus
145 Fix check_time returning wrong OK when time is before the epoch on some arch
146 Make check_http output more consistent
147 Fix possible check_http segfaults when following HTTP redirects
148 check_snmp don't warn anymore if something is printed on stderr
149 Fix check_tcp segfault when multiple expect strings are given
150 New option for check_tcp: -A/--all to test if all given expect strings match
152 1.4.8 11th April 2007
153 Respects --without-world-permissions for setuid plugins
154 check_disk extra options for regex matching of filesystems and grouping of filesystems
155 for collective thresholds
156 Better configure test for mysqlclient availability
157 Various check_ntp fixes
159 1.4.7 29th March 2007
160 check_procs uses /usr/ucb/ps if available - fixes pst3 problems on Solaris
161 Fixed MKINSTALLDIRS problem in po/
162 ./configure now detects if possible to compile check_mysql
163 Fixed broken HELO in check_smtp
164 check_icmp now allows to set a minimum number of hosts required for successs (-m)
165 check_icmp fix for *BSD when running for long time
166 check_ping times out 1 second quicker if host is unreachable
167 Root plugins installed with world executable
168 check_sybase from contrib now maintained in NagiosExchange
169 --with-nagios-user/group reinstated ./configure option
170 New --without-world-permissions ./configure option
172 1.4.6 5th February 2007
173 Reduced number of DNS lookups in check_ping and netutils.c for IPv6 configurations
174 Fixed compile problems with *BSD re: alloca.h
175 Fixed Solaris problems with check_swap (tested on Solaris 9)
176 Fixed check_swap for HP/UX where swapinfo command was incorrect
177 Fixed check_disk inode threshold checks, regressed at r1.4.4.
178 Fixed crit/warn for check_disk perf data
179 Fixed buffer overflow in check_procs
180 Fixed error handling for UNIX sockets in netutils.c
181 New -q and -o options for check_by_ssh which are handed over to ssh(1) as is
182 Synced with latest GNUlib
183 Fixed check_jabber always returns warning
185 1.4.5
186 Fixed bug in perl's is_hostname routine
188 1.4.4
189 New C based check_ntp. The perl version is now deprecated.
190 New check_apt plugin
191 Notice: plugins in contrib/ will start to be removed from this distribution.
192 Please check at http://www.nagiosexchange.org for contributed plugins
193 Major bug fixes to check_disk where values were incorrectly calculated and alerted on.
194 check_udp2 removed. check_udp is now linked to check_tcp.c
195 check_mailq now errors if the sub-program run returns non-zero return code. This would appear
196 as if mailqs were okay when the nagios user could not query the mail-queues
197 Compile problems with check_snmp fixed
199 1.4.3
200 Setuid plugins (check_dhcp, check_icmp) separated into plugins-root/. Run make install as root to install
201 SSL plugins work with gnutls as well as OpenSSL
202 check_mysql_query added to run arbitrary SQL commands, with threshold checking
203 libtool now required for development systems
204 Notice: check_udp (compiled from check_udp.c) will be deprecated in the next release.
205 check_udp2 should be used instead and will be renamed to check_udp
207 1.4.2
208 Fix for Redhat ES4 for check_dns and check_dig
210 1.4
211 IPv6 support in check_ping, check_by_ssh, check_http, check_ldap, check_smtp, check_tcp
212 Internationalisation support
213 Performance data added to most plugins
214 check_disk now using GNU coreutils code
215 New plugins - check_dhcp, check_icmp
216 contrib/check_citrix has been replaced by contrib/check_ica* (requires packet_utils.pm in libexec)
217 check_http --min changed to --pagesize, added max so min:max in check
218 check_vsz and check_rss deprecated - functionality moved into check_procs
219 check_swap % thresholds changed to measure amount free, instead of amount used
220 check_disk syntax changes for -p, -m/-M, defaults to MB instead of kB
221 check_procs -C expects no path for the command name