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1 This file documents the major additions and syntax changes between releases.
3 1.4.?? ??th ??? 200?
4 Fix Debian bug #460097: check_http --max-age broken (Hilko Bengen)
5 Optimised pst3 for systems with large number of processes (Duncan Ferguson)
6 Updated Nagios::Plugin to 0.27
8 1.4.12 27th May 2008
9 Added ./check_nt -v INSTANCES to count number of instances (Alessandro Ren)
10 New check_icmp -s option to specify the source IP address
11 check_dns now sorts addresses for testing results for more than one returned IP (Matthias Urlichs)
12 Fix segfault in check_ntp_time and (deprecated) check_ntp (Bug #1862300)
13 check_disk should now work with large file systems (2TB+) on all archs that supports it
14 Fixed check_disk disk usage calculation when using --group=NAME (related to bug #1348746)
15 Fix help text of check_ntp* (Bug #1880095)
16 Fix bugs and flaws in best offset server selection of check_ntp_time and (deprecated) check_ntp
17 check_ntp_peer now checks for the LI_ALARM flag
18 Sync to latest Gnulib (includes new floorf function)
19 check_pgsql now successfully builds with postgres lib v8.3 (Bug #1878972)
20 check_procs now accepts --ereg-argument-array for a regular expression match to the argument array
21 Reverted back to using pst3 for Solaris systems. Fixed issues re: -m64 needed to compile on 64bit systems
22 If applicable, Gettext linked dynamically instead of statically
23 check_dig can now pass arguments to dig by using -A/--dig-arguments (#1874041/#1889453)
24 check_ntp and check_ntp_peer now show proper jitter/stratum thresholds longopts in --help
25 check_dns now allow to repeat -a to match multiple possibly returned address (common with load balancers)
26 check_mysql and check_radius now try clearing password in processlist just like check_mysql_query
27 check_mysql and check_mysql_query now support sockets explicitely (-s, --socket)
28 negate now has the ability to replace the status text as well (-s, --substitute)
29 Added performance data to check_ping (Christian Schneemann)
30 Added support for --extra-opts in all C plugins (disabled by default, see configure --help)
31 Fixed passive option in check_by_ssh
32 On non-skipped stderr, check_by_ssh now returns UNKNOWN or worse (result from command) instead of always UNKNOWN.
33 Fix linking against OpenSSL where libdl is required
35 1.4.11 13th December 2007
36 Fixed check_http regression in 1.4.10 where following redirects to
37 relative URLs on virtual hosts failed if both "-H" and "-I" were used
38 Merged two new checks that deprecates check_ntp: check_ntp_peer and check_ntp_time.
39 You should read the --help output so see which one is suitable for you. check_ntp_peer
40 implement stratum thresholds support (feature request #1703823).
41 check_ntp now returns UNKNOWN instead of WARNING if jitter is unavailable (jitter=-1.000000)
42 as long as the thresholds range include -1. If no offset threshold is specified
43 and the offset is unavailable, will return UNKNOWN as well.
44 NOTE: If jitter thresholds are specified as integers it will return CRITICAL if jitter
45 is "-1" as the default range starts at 0. See Examples in --help output.
46 Fixed broken usage2 in check_snmp and check_cluster
47 check_cluster now accepts all valid characters in its thresholds ("-", "@", "~")
48 Fixed check_disk reporting OK if disk usage grows over 100% (bug #1348746).
49 The problem happens to be in Gnulib but a workaround have been implemented in check_disk.c
50 Fixed check_load argument handling when not passing triplets (bug #1831890)
51 Fixed buffer overflow in check_snmp (CVE-2007-5623)
52 Tinderbox builds now runs tests in a verbose mode
53 Updated Nagios::Plugin to 0.22
54 VPATH problem fixed for compiling plugins-root
56 1.4.10 28th September 2007
57 Fix check_http buffer overflow vulnerability when following HTTP redirects (CVE-2007-5198)
58 check_http now explicitly asks HTTP/1.1 servers to close the connection
59 after completion of the response
60 Check_ldaps' guessing which secure method to use (starttls vs. ssl on connect)
61 is now deprecated. See --help for further information.
62 Check_disk now calls stat() on all filesystems to check. (Old: only the ones selected using -p)
63 A meaningful error message (eg "Stale NFS Handle") is printed if stat fails.
64 New check_disk option -L: Only check local filesystems, but call stat() on remote ones, too.
65 Thus accessibility of remote filesystems can be checked without any threshold comparison.
66 Check_disk's --help now prints some examples for the new features introduced in 1.4.8
67 New check_disk -i/-I option to ignore pathes/partitions based on regular expressions
68 New check_disk -A option to select all filesystems explicitly
69 WARNING: check_disk's -E option must now be passed before -p or -r/-R arguments
70 Passing -E after -p or -r results in UNKNOWN state, now
71 This is needed due to the new ignore feature
72 Fix check_disk bug when mixing case sensitive and case insensitive regex arguments
73 New check_dhcp -u/--unicast option for emulating a DHCP relay in order
74 to check DHCP servers on remote networks
75 New check_dhcp -m/--mac option which allows for specifying the MAC
76 address to use in the DHCP request
77 The check_dhcp -r and -s options now accept host names, too
78 Fix possible check_icmp bus errors on some (non-x86/AMD64) platforms
79 Fix check_smtp's handling of multiple-packet server responses
80 WARNING: Fix for negate which may break existing commands:
81 - stop evaluating command line options through shell twice
82 - enforce a full path for the command to run
83 The "negate" utility can now remap custom states
84 Check_radius now supports radiusclient-ng
85 The (undocumented) positional parameter parsing which check_radius used
86 instead of getopt(3) if 8 arguments were given is no longer available
87 Check_by_ssh now supports multiline output
88 IPv6 support can now be disabled using ./configure --without-ipv6
89 Fix check_ntp now honor ntp flags
91 1.4.9 4th June 2006
92 Inclusion of contrib/check_cluster2 as check_cluster with some improvements
93 New/improved -E/--skip-stderr and -S/--skip-stdout options for check_by_ssh
94 check_snmp now supports Counter64
95 Fix compilation of check_ldap, check_radius and check_pgsql
96 check_load can optionally divide by number of cpus
97 Fix check_time returning wrong OK when time is before the epoch on some arch
98 Make check_http output more consistent
99 Fix possible check_http segfaults when following HTTP redirects
100 check_snmp don't warn anymore if something is printed on stderr
101 Fix check_tcp segfault when multiple expect strings are given
102 New option for check_tcp: -A/--all to test if all given expect strings match
104 1.4.8 11th April 2007
105 Respects --without-world-permissions for setuid plugins
106 check_disk extra options for regex matching of filesystems and grouping of filesystems
107 for collective thresholds
108 Better configure test for mysqlclient availability
109 Various check_ntp fixes
111 1.4.7 29th March 2007
112 check_procs uses /usr/ucb/ps if available - fixes pst3 problems on Solaris
113 Fixed MKINSTALLDIRS problem in po/
114 ./configure now detects if possible to compile check_mysql
115 Fixed broken HELO in check_smtp
116 check_icmp now allows to set a minimum number of hosts required for successs (-m)
117 check_icmp fix for *BSD when running for long time
118 check_ping times out 1 second quicker if host is unreachable
119 Root plugins installed with world executable
120 check_sybase from contrib now maintained in NagiosExchange
121 --with-nagios-user/group reinstated ./configure option
122 New --without-world-permissions ./configure option
124 1.4.6 5th February 2007
125 Reduced number of DNS lookups in check_ping and netutils.c for IPv6 configurations
126 Fixed compile problems with *BSD re: alloca.h
127 Fixed Solaris problems with check_swap (tested on Solaris 9)
128 Fixed check_swap for HP/UX where swapinfo command was incorrect
129 Fixed check_disk inode threshold checks, regressed at r1.4.4.
130 Fixed crit/warn for check_disk perf data
131 Fixed buffer overflow in check_procs
132 Fixed error handling for UNIX sockets in netutils.c
133 New -q and -o options for check_by_ssh which are handed over to ssh(1) as is
134 Synced with latest GNUlib
135 Fixed check_jabber always returns warning
137 1.4.5
138 Fixed bug in perl's is_hostname routine
140 1.4.4
141 New C based check_ntp. The perl version is now deprecated.
142 New check_apt plugin
143 Notice: plugins in contrib/ will start to be removed from this distribution.
144 Please check at http://www.nagiosexchange.org for contributed plugins
145 Major bug fixes to check_disk where values were incorrectly calculated and alerted on.
146 check_udp2 removed. check_udp is now linked to check_tcp.c
147 check_mailq now errors if the sub-program run returns non-zero return code. This would appear
148 as if mailqs were okay when the nagios user could not query the mail-queues
149 Compile problems with check_snmp fixed
151 1.4.3
152 Setuid plugins (check_dhcp, check_icmp) separated into plugins-root/. Run make install as root to install
153 SSL plugins work with gnutls as well as OpenSSL
154 check_mysql_query added to run arbitrary SQL commands, with threshold checking
155 libtool now required for development systems
156 Notice: check_udp (compiled from check_udp.c) will be deprecated in the next release.
157 check_udp2 should be used instead and will be renamed to check_udp
159 1.4.2
160 Fix for Redhat ES4 for check_dns and check_dig
162 1.4
163 IPv6 support in check_ping, check_by_ssh, check_http, check_ldap, check_smtp, check_tcp
164 Internationalisation support
165 Performance data added to most plugins
166 check_disk now using GNU coreutils code
167 New plugins - check_dhcp, check_icmp
168 contrib/check_citrix has been replaced by contrib/check_ica* (requires packet_utils.pm in libexec)
169 check_http --min changed to --pagesize, added max so min:max in check
170 check_vsz and check_rss deprecated - functionality moved into check_procs
171 check_swap % thresholds changed to measure amount free, instead of amount used
172 check_disk syntax changes for -p, -m/-M, defaults to MB instead of kB
173 check_procs -C expects no path for the command name