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This file documents the major additions and syntax changes between releases.
-1.4.14 ...
- check_users thresholds were not working excatly as documented (>= rather than >)
+...
+ ENHANCEMENTS
+ check_nt UPTIME accepts warning/critical thresholds (Ryan Kelly)
+ check_disk_smb now allows spaces in share names (#990948, #1370031, Debian #601699)
+ check_http now uses standard threshold functions (enables floating point and ranges)
+ check_http now checks for and prints the certificate cn (hostname) in SSL certificate checks (Stéphane Urbanovski)
+ Add perfdata to check_ssh (#3244097 - Marco Beck)
+
+ FIXES
+ Fix check_disk free space calculation if blocksizes differ within a disk group (Bekar - #2973603)
+ check_disk_smb now handles NT_STATUS_ACCESS_DENIED properly (Debian #601696)
+ Make check_snmp work more like v1.4.14 with regard to using special values (Timeticks, STRING) as numeric thresholds
+ Fix check_ldap overriding the port when --ssl was specified after -p
+ Fix check_procs where regex input of '|' would get displayed in output - now replaced with ','
+ Fix segfault in check_host when hostname returns multiple IP addresses (Sebastian Harl)
+
+1.4.15 27th July 2010
+ ENHANCEMENTS
+ New check_ntp_peer -m and -n options to check the number of usable time sources ("truechimers")
+ New check_disk_smb -a option which allows for specifying the IP address of the remote server
+ New check_radius -N option which allows for specifying the value of the NAS-IP-Address attribute
+ New check_snmp --rate option to store differences between invocations. Saves state in PREFIX/var/{plugin}
+ check_snmp -l label option now also changes the perfdata label. See WARNINGS
+ check_snmp has an --invert-search option which reverses status of the string and regexp searches
+ check_http now displays the missing search string and the URL in the output when failed (Duncan Ferguson - #2999924)
+ Updated Nagios::Plugin perl module
+ Updated gnulib to June 2010
+
+ FIXES
+ Fix check_ircd binding to wrong interface (#668778)
+ Add proxy-authorization option to check_http (Marcel Kuiper - #1323230, Bryan Irvine - #2863925)
+ check_icmp now increment the sequence counter in each packet
+ Fix usage of repeated -o options in check_snmp
+ Try to detect arguments passed via --with-ping[6]-command and set options accordingly (#2908236)
+ Fix memory leak in check_http for large pages (Jimmy Bergman - #2957455)
+ Fix compilation with GCC 2.96 (Konstantin Khomoutov - #2977105)
+ Fix regression introduced in #1867716 where partially valid performance strings would not be printed anymore
+ Fix regression in check_http ssl checks on some servers - make SNI an option
+ Fix guest mode support in check_disk_smb
+ Fix check_disk_smb and check_ircd failures when run via ePN
+ check_ldap now allows for specifying an empty LDAP base
+ Fix compilation error of pst3 in Solaris 8
+ Fix check_radius returning OK on unexpected results (Craig Leres - #2911752)
+ Fix translations when extra-opts aren't enabled (Jan Wagner - #2832884)
+ Fix parsing of multi-line strings in check_snmp (broken in 1.4.14) and enhance output in such case (#2832451)
+ Fix detection of pst3 64-bit compile flags with Sun CC
+ Fix cmd_run overwriting the environment, which would break some commands that needed it
+ Allow check_ifstatus to accept version=2c - used to only allow version=2 (Brian Landers)
+ Fix examples in check_disk, where it implied was possible to suffix unit values to warn/crit parameters
+
+ WARNINGS
+ Updated developer documentation to say that performance labels should not have an equals sign or
+ single quote in the label
+ check_http 1.4.14 introduced SSL SNI support - you now have to enable it explicitly with "--sni"
+ check_snmp -l label option is also used for the performance label. This could change history from previous uses
+
+1.4.14 16th September 2009
+ check_http has options to specify the HTTP method (#2155152)
+ check_users thresholds were not working exactly as documented (>= rather than >)
Updated tinderbox_build script to point to new tinderbox server
check_ifoperstatus -n flag now works as expected (sf.net #1569488)
check_ifoperstatus now supports ifType based lookup for ifIndex
Extra-opts (C plugins) does not allow trailing comments anymore (like N::P)
Fixed dependency issue on libtap when ./configure --enable-libtap used. Warning: will install libtap
Fixed segfault in extra-opts under some circumstance when reading multiple sections
+ Fix long options parsing in check_disk, check_dns, check_mrtg, check_mrtgtraf and check_tcp
+ Add missing long options for check_nt (for use with extra-opts)
+ check_icmp now reports min and max round trip time perfdata (Steve Rader)
+ Fixed check_http bug where additional headers with redirection caused a segfault (Dieter Van de Walle - 2089159)
+ check_disk: make autofs mount paths specified with -p before we determine the mount list (Erik Welch)
+ Fixed buffer overflow in check_ntp/check_ntp_peer (#1999319, Ubuntu #291265)
+ 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
+ Fixed check_mrtg returning UNKNOWN instead of OK (bug #2378068)
+ Fixed check_http behaviour: all check are now performed as long as a valid response is returned (sf.net #1460312)
+ check_http --onredirect=sticky follows using the same IP address (sf.net #2550208)
+ check_http --onredirect=stickyport also follows the same port
+ Fixed coredump from check_nt when invalid drive is specified (#2179754 - Olli Hauer)
+ Fixed crash from check_nt when -H unspecified or given multiple times (sf.net #2731755, debian #521097)
+ Fixed passing of quotes in OID for check_snmp (#1985230 - Jan Wagner, patch by John Barbuto)
+ Fixed check_http sending HTTP/1.0 with v1.1 headers (#2638765)
+ Fixed check_http not timing-out on redirects
+ Fixed negate not printing the real timeout in ALRM handler when left to default
+ negate timeout result is now configurable
+ Fixed segfault in check_mysql with old slaves (#2696823 - Oskar Ahner)
+ check_nt can return UNKNOWN on timeouts (-u)
+ Fixed typos for check_disk (Chris Pepper)
+ Fixed check_mysql* not using password set in my.cnf (#2531905 - Ben Timby) - Specify an empty password explicitly if you need to override it.
+ Fixed awk subst.in/subst script path error (#2722832 - Martin Foster)
+ check_http: Add SSL/TLS hostname extension support (SNI) - (#1939022 - Joe Presbrey)
+ Fixed wrong perfdata label for output traffic in check_mrtgtraf (#2654308 - Gavin Williams)
+ Fixed check_by_ssh interpretation of quotes in -C parameter (#1985246, #2268675)
+ check_snmp now supports standard threshold ranges and doubles (floating numbers) in thresholds
+ check_fping now supports passing target timeout and interval to fping (#2347686 - Martin Foster)
+ Fixed SNMPv3 behaviour of check_ifoperstatus and check_ifstatus. Added -P to define privprotocol (#2343438 - Robin Schroeder)
+ check_ifoperstatus and check_ifstatus are now more user-friendly in case of missing arguments
+ pst3 compile fix for Sun Studio Compiler (Grant Byers)
1.4.13 25th Sept 2008
Fix Debian bug #460097: check_http --max-age broken (Hilko Bengen)
IPv6 support can now be disabled using ./configure --without-ipv6
Fix check_ntp now honor ntp flags
-1.4.9 4th June 2006
+1.4.9 4th June 2007
Inclusion of contrib/check_cluster2 as check_cluster with some improvements
New/improved -E/--skip-stderr and -S/--skip-stdout options for check_by_ssh
check_snmp now supports Counter64