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  1. This file documents the major additions and syntax changes between releases.
  2. x.x.x xxxx-xx-xx
  3. ENHANCEMENTS
  4. Added directory plugins-python containing three Python plugins
  5. check_http: New parameter `--verify-host` will check if -H hostname matches the SSL certificate
  6. 2.2.1 2017-04-19
  7. FIXES
  8. check_users: not accepting zero as the threshold
  9. check_http: reports warning where it should report ok with -e
  10. check_snmp: does not work with -6 --ipv6 flags
  11. check_swap: threshold calculation in bytes requires subtracting 65
  12. check_uptime: fixed backward help text for thresholds
  13. check_http: Don’t prematurely report success when checking HTTP TLS cert validity
  14. check_http: fix parsing the last header
  15. check_mailq: Fix for Postfix and better Sudo Checking
  16. configure.ac: Fix spelling error
  17. check_ntp_peer: requires newline when there is a socket timeout (fix in netutils.c)
  18. check_users: segmentation fault if both thresholds are not provided
  19. check_dns: DNS CRITICAL - expected ‘{hostname}.’ but got 'name = {hostname}.'
  20. check_mailq: Nullmailer Regex is not working for Ubuntu 16.04
  21. check_swap: Downstream Fedora patch: Prevent check_swap from returning OK, if no swap activated
  22. Building RPMs on Amazon Linux - Add 'install-root' on line 165 of spec file
  23. 2.2.0 2017-01-19
  24. ENHANCEMENTS
  25. check_flexlm: if `-F <license file>` is not specified, will use `LM_LICENSE_FILE` environment var
  26. check_load: Added per cpu load average message
  27. check_smtp: add -L flag to support LMTP (LHLO instead of HELO/EHLO)
  28. FIXES
  29. check_http: -e breaks -f
  30. check_mrtg: Add state to status output
  31. check_ping: ping runs 30 times when host is down
  32. check_icmp: does not have the -p argument in the help
  33. check_dns: Segfaulting with timeout > 26 sec
  34. check_disk: missing -lrt on Solaris
  35. check_http: segmentation fault
  36. check_http: help text update for virtual hosts
  37. check_snmp: Thresholds were being shown twice
  38. check_hpjd: some jd 610 cards have a false flag that printer is offline
  39. check_http: Handle reference redirect like //www.site.org/test
  40. check_disk: alerts issued too soon
  41. fix: Allocator sizeof operand mismatch
  42. fix: Dead assignment
  43. Shellcheck: fix most of the shellcheck warnings.
  44. check_ntp: touch ntp servers at most once every seconds
  45. check_dns: authoritative test (-A) is broken
  46. check_dns: reports TXT records incorrectly
  47. check_file_age: does not handle filenames WITHOUT space!
  48. de,fr.po: fix syntax errors end-of-line within string
  49. lib/parse_ini.c: fix gcc warning: implicit declaration of function ‘idpriv_temp_drop’ and ‘idpriv_temp_restore’
  50. add openssl 1.1 support
  51. 2.1.4 2016-11-17
  52. FIXES
  53. check_http: Don't include default Accept header if one is provided
  54. check_disk: added "fuse.gvfsd-fuse" to list of fs types to ignore
  55. check_http: Fixed non-text chunked-encoded decoding
  56. check_http: segmentation fault (FreeBSD)
  57. check_dns: Update IF_RECORD to not erase query_found
  58. check_http: SSL Certificate check returns 12:00:00AM <local timezone>
  59. check_http: -u is misleading. Changed help text
  60. check_file_age: does not handle filenames with space
  61. check_snmp: units label option outputs the label in the incorrect location
  62. plugins-root/check_dhcp.c: fix a potential segfault
  63. check_users: not correctly detecting thresholds
  64. 2.1.3 2016-09-12
  65. ENHANCEMENTS
  66. SNI support in check_tcp (ddbilik)
  67. check_disk_smb.pl: add support for -k for kerberos authentication
  68. check_file_age.c: allow wildcard matching
  69. FIXES
  70. check_tcp.c: tools/build_perl_modules hardcodes the perl used
  71. check_game.c: reports ping as number of players (Jason Rivers)
  72. fix some gcc5 warnings (Mario Trangoni)
  73. check_cluster.c: Update wording in comments (Troy Lea)
  74. check_nagios.c: could not locate a running nagios process
  75. check_swap.c: does not accept threshold of zero
  76. check_swap.c: uses inconsistent checks on negative thresholds
  77. check_snmp.c: --offset does not appear to do anything (Troy Lea)
  78. sslutils.c: output has first line of "SSL Version: xxxxxx"
  79. effects anything using sslutils including check_http, check_dhcp
  80. and others
  81. utils_cmd.c: when using ssh (or check-by-ssh) with ControlMaster/ControlPersist,
  82. nagios times out the first time and one gets zombie processes (Gordon Messmer)
  83. 2.1.2 2016-08-01
  84. SECURITY FIXES
  85. ENHANCEMENTS
  86. check_snmp's performance data now also includes warning/critical
  87. thresholds
  88. New check_snmp "-N" option to specify SNMPv3 context name
  89. New check_nt "-l" parameters: seconds|minutes|hours|days
  90. New check_mailq -s option which tells the plugin to use sudo(8)
  91. New -W/-C option for check_ldap to check number of entries (Gerhard Lausser)
  92. The check_http -S/--ssl option now accepts the arguments "1.1" and "1.2"
  93. to force TLSv1.1 and TLSv1.2 connections, respectively
  94. The check_http -S/--ssl option now allows for specifying the desired
  95. protocol with a "+" suffix to also accept newer versions
  96. New check_disk "-v" option to show troubled partition in verbose mode
  97. check_log.sh: Added a parameter -w (--max_warning) defining upper value to return a warning code
  98. check_ldap: Add support for LDAP URIs.
  99. check_file_age: Provide performance data
  100. check_by_ssh: added --hostname support
  101. check_ifstatus.pl: Add check_ifstatus option to ignore interfaces by name
  102. check_snmp: Introduce support for SNMPv3 context using "-N" option
  103. check_snmp.c: Added IPv6 support
  104. check_http: Added support for checking SSL-Websites through Proxies
  105. FIXES
  106. check_dig can now also use "drill" instead of "dig"
  107. check_dig honor the -4 and -6 switches
  108. check_ntp_peer: do not use uninitialized results for max state
  109. check_log.sh, check_oracle.sh, check_sensors.sh: Setting PATH at first
  110. check_log.sh: droping path from basename while evaluating PROGNAME
  111. check_tcp: Fix check_jabber to work with Openfire servers
  112. check_ifstatus.pl: Fix "-n" and "-u" options to ignore if either is set, not just both
  113. check_mrtgtraf: Fix perfdata to comply with perfdata UOM definition
  114. check_real, check_ntp: fix null termination
  115. check_apt: fix memset
  116. check_ssh: change warning to critical for protocal/version errors
  117. utils_cmd.c: avoid a segfault, if ulimit is set to unlimited
  118. utils_cmd.c: make constants from maxfd values
  119. configure.ac: Added particular ps command for HP-UX
  120. check_disk: Fix pthread start routine type
  121. check_http: Make header_value() and chunked-encoding decoding more robust
  122. check_http: fix Host header if explicitly set with -k
  123. sslutils.c: Forcing furter restriction of ciphers for current security concerns
  124. check_nagios, check_procs: Enable check_proc to monitor processes in PID name-spaced environments.
  125. check_dhcp.c: use /dev/urandom if available
  126. check_http.c: Don't decode page if it's not there
  127. check_disk.c: Prevent large tide values from truncation
  128. pst3.c: Fix for unclosed filehandle in pst3 on Solaris
  129. check_snmp: Timeticks are not being parsed correctly before performance data
  130. multiple *.h files: standardized header include fences
  131. multiple plugins/*.c files: fix unsafe signal handling
  132. sslutils.c: Fix compilation with GnuTLS which doesn't provide SSL_CTX_check_private_key()
  133. check_mailq.pl: fixed mailer names
  134. check_swap.c: Improving output when swap space has zero size
  135. check_icmp.c: Use kernel reception time on ICMP packets to compute rtt.
  136. check_icmp.c: make use of MSG_CONFIRM optional
  137. check_ldap.c: add counting of entries to check_ldap
  138. utils.c: add sperfdata() function which can handle threshold ranges
  139. sslutils.c: Check if OpenSSL supports SSLv3.
  140. check_dhcp.c: Fixes segfaults when running via monitoring worker (off-by-one)
  141. check_fping.c: autodetect ipv6 addresses
  142. sslutils.c: optimize output if certificate expires in less then 24h
  143. check_smtp.c: Let "-D" option imply "-S". Also QUIT SMTP connection when "-D" is used
  144. check_smtp.c: modified SSL check for use with -e
  145. check_tcp.c: Validate sent data size
  146. check_dns.c: conditional assignment
  147. check_dns.c: macro querytypes and auto cnames
  148. utils_cmd.c, utils_base.c: Multiple resource leaks
  149. check_http.c: Increase MAX_RE_SIZE from 256 to 2048
  150. check_procs.c: Changed the ps command args from axwo to axwwo allowing for longer output
  151. check_http.c: Allow a server to reply using only 'HTTP/1.x 200 OK' and a
  152. body, with no headers
  153. check_nt.c: check_nt does not correctly report a DNS entry it cannot resolve
  154. check_dhcp.c: check_dhcp broken on BSD
  155. TESTS
  156. check_procs.t: Add delay after forking in test to avoid race condition
  157. test.pl.in: Use "C" locale when running test suite
  158. check_http.t: Adjust date strings to the now-localized output
  159. check_dns.t - Fix Perl Warning. perl doesn't understand /d within "".
  160. check_snmp.t: skip extented snmp tests if snmpd has no perl support
  161. check_snmp.t: fix snmp test for included threshold
  162. check_http.t: fix tests for certificates expire date with seconds
  163. check_http.t: add faketime based tests for check_http
  164. LOCALIZATION
  165. 2.1.0 30th July 2015
  166. SECURITY FIXES
  167. ssl_utils.c - Disable SSLv3 & SSLv2 autonegotiation by default to limit poodle and other weak cipher attacks (sreinhardt)
  168. ENHANCEMENTS
  169. Timeout States Implemented - Plugins that support a timeout state will now also support specifying the exit state in case of timeout with the syntax -t <timeout>:<state> (abrist)
  170. Perl plugins now use FindBin for path discovery, obsoleting the nasty AWK script (evgeni, abrist)
  171. check_http.c - Added support for chunked transfer-encoding (koenwtje, dermoth, sreinhardt)
  172. check_radius.c - Added support for the FreeRADIUS Client library (weiss)
  173. check_snmp.c - Added thresholds to performance data (seemuellera)
  174. check_snmp.c - Added new option (-N) for SNMPv3 context (Johannes Engel)
  175. check_snmp.c - Added IPv6 support (abrist)
  176. check_ldap.c - Added a new option (-U) for LDAP URI support (qris)
  177. check_ifstatus.pl - Added new option (-n) to exclude interfaces (peelman, weiss)
  178. check_file_age.pl - Performance data output added (hggh)
  179. check_mailq.pl - Now supports sudo (Christopher Schultz, weiss)
  180. check_log.sh - Added a new option (-w) defining upper value to return a warning code (arvanus)
  181. FIXES
  182. check_by_ssh.c - Added --hostname support (sni)
  183. check_dbi.c - Spelling corrections (sreinhardt)
  184. check_dig.c - Fixed to work with dig/drill tools and ip version switch is now respected (abgandar)
  185. check_disk.c - Fix for hanging filesystems (Gerhard Lausser)
  186. check_disk.c - Partitions in problem state now reported in verbose mode (waja)
  187. check_disk.c - Prevent large tide values from truncation (JesperForsberg)
  188. check_dns.c - Server specific fixes and other cleanup (sreinhardt)
  189. check_http.c - Some small changes for readability (koenwtje)
  190. check_mrtgtraf.c - Added verbose output (sreinhardt)
  191. check_mrtgtraf.c - Perfdata now complies with UOM definition (Bobzikwick)
  192. check_ntp_peer.c - No longer uses uninitialized results for max state (sni)
  193. check_procs.c - Rare race condition fixed (Mikael Falkvidd)
  194. check_ssh.c - Now exits with CRITICAL when version/protocol string check fails to match (sni)
  195. check_tcp.c - Help description of escape characters now correct (Sebastian Herbszt)
  196. check_tcp.c - Fix to support Openfire servers with check_jabber (weiss)
  197. check_ups.c - Spelling corrections (sreinhardt)
  198. pst3.c - Fix for unclosed file handle in pst3 on Solaris (jwinkle01)
  199. plugins-scripts/*.sh - Trusted path fixes (waja)
  200. netutils.h - Decreased max path to 104 bytes to compensate for BSD paths (sreinhardt)
  201. configure.ac - Fix for HP-UX ps command (Tontonitch)
  202. lib/utils_cmd.c - Fix for potential segfault when ulimits are set to unlimited (nafets)
  203. lib/parse_ini.c - Many small fixes from coverity scans and the community (sreinhardt, weiss)
  204. lib/util_base.c - Code cleanup (sreinhardt)
  205. lib/utils_base.c - Add EIUD to state retention path for multi-user permissions support (sreinhardt)
  206. po/* - Spelling corrections (sreinhardt)
  207. Multiple resource leaks fixed (sreinhardt)
  208. Many other small fixes and cleanup caught by coverity (multiple contributors)
  209. TESTS
  210. Many small fixes to tests (multiple contributors)
  211. LOCALIZATION
  212. Many small fixes for locales and localizations (multiple contributors)
  213. 2.0.3 26th June 2014
  214. SECURITY FIXES
  215. parse_ini.c - Additional fixes for the SUID plugins vulnerabilities (sreinhardt)
  216. Added Gnulib module idpriv-droptemp (weiss)
  217. FIXES
  218. check_dns.c - Resolved issues with reverse lookup (sreinhardt)
  219. check_dns.c - Changed query types from ALL to ANY (sreinhardt)
  220. common.h - Include fixes for esoteric AIX compile issues (emislivec)
  221. negate.c - Small fixes from coverity (66479) (66480) (sreinhardt)
  222. check_dhcp.c - Small fix from coverity (66488) (sreinhardt)
  223. check_http.c - Potential memory leak and overflow fixed from coverity (66514) (sreinhardt)
  224. check_ntp.c - Small fix from coverity (66524) (sreinhardt)
  225. utils_cmd.c - Small file descriptor fix from coverity (66502) (sreinhardt)
  226. check_apt.c - Small fix for from coverity (66531) (sreinhardt)
  227. REVERTS
  228. check_mailq - Reverted autodetection commits to avoid awk parsing issues. Autodetection will return in version 2.1.0 as part of the changes in the FindBin branch (abrist)
  229. 2.0.2 20th May 2014
  230. SECURITY FIXES
  231. Fixed file access vulnerability with SUID binaries (check_icmp, check_dhcp) and extra-opts. Fixes were applied globally, so the new resrictions on fopen should apply to all plugins. Special thanks to Dawid Golunski for the submission. More information: http://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/33387/ (sreinhardt) (emislivec)
  232. ENHANCEMENTS
  233. check_disk - Now compiles in cygwin on windows (Gunnar Beutner)
  234. check_ping - Now compiles in cygwin on windows (Gunnar Beutner)
  235. check_users - Now compiles in cygwin on windows (Gunnar Beutner)
  236. netutils.c - Connection error verbosity increased. C plugins will now differentiate file socket errors from connection errors (Davide Madrisan)
  237. FIXES
  238. check_nt.c - Changed 'Mb' to 'MB' in MEMUSE output for clarity (abrist)
  239. 2.0.1 15th April 2014
  240. ENHANCMENTS
  241. check_snmp.c - Added thresholds to performance data (jccomputing)
  242. check_http.c - Added */* MIME support (Alex Gottschalk)
  243. check_mailq.pl - Added autodetection for mailq implementation (evgeni)
  244. check_mailq.pl - Added autodetected version to output (evgeni)
  245. FIXES
  246. check_dns.c - Record type corrections for default check (sreinhardt)
  247. utils.c - Changed comment type - now supported by AIX and should no longer fail compile (hkpatv)
  248. check_uptime.c - Fixed timeout option (abrist)
  249. check_uptime.c - Fixed help output and updated verbose usage (abrist)
  250. check_uptime.c - Removed executable permissions on check_uptime.c (abrist)
  251. check_uptime.c - Removed old code (Davide Madrisan)
  252. check_pgsql.c - Fixed help output (weiss)
  253. lib/Makefile.am - Avoid deprecated includes (Davide Madrisan)
  254. lib/tests/Makefile.am - Avoid deprecated includes (Davide Madrisan)
  255. plugins/Makefile.am - Avoid deprecated includes (Davide Madrisan)
  256. check_apt.c - Removed the verbose flag suggestion (skottler)
  257. check_oracle.c - Changed regex to compensate for tns string match edge cases (waja)
  258. check_snmp.c - Always privides the security name when noAuthPriv is specified (catharsis)
  259. 2.0 4th March 2014
  260. ADDITIONS
  261. check_uptime - New plugin (only supports linux due to dependency on clock.gettime(). More supported platforms to follow.
  262. ENHANCEMENTS
  263. check_mysql_query - Added performance data (sreinhardt)
  264. check_file_age - New option -i/--ignore-missing which returns OK if file is missing (waja)
  265. check_nt - Added performance data to UPTIME -l seconds|minutes|hours|days (abrist)
  266. check_hpjd - New -p option for port specification (abrist)
  267. check_disk - new -n option for multi-line output (tmcnag)
  268. check_mysql_query - New -f/-g options for reading for mysql options file (awiddersheim)
  269. check_mailq - New -M option for nullmailer support in the mailserver (Luca Corti)
  270. check_dig - New -r option for specifying number of retries (abrist)
  271. check_ntp_peer - Added state output for each checked metric (abrist)
  272. check_dns - Warning and critical thresholds added to perfdata (jccomputing) (abrist)
  273. check_dns - New -q options for several query types (AAAA,TXT,SRV,MX) (sreinhardt)
  274. check_tcp - Status output now includes hostname when host_specified is set (madrisan)
  275. check_mysql - New -n/--ignore_auth option to ignore authentication failure (Julius Kriukas)
  276. check_ssh - New -P/--remote-protocol option to monitor the ssh protocol version (monitoring-user)
  277. check_ntp - New -o/--time-offset option to compensate for the ntp server's offset relative to the local server (monitoring-user)
  278. configure.ac - Added support for --disable-maintainer-mode (weiss)
  279. FIXES
  280. check_http - The -C option no longer resets SSL version if e.g. -S 1 -C 5 is specified
  281. check_ide_smart - Now defaults to nagios-compatible output (sreinhardt)
  282. Fixed misleading timeout message for non-network plugins (sreinhardt)
  283. check_swap - Now fails with 100% usage and a new status output when swap is disabled or missing (abrist)
  284. check_ifstatus - Removed commas from perfdata - should now output valid perfdata in nagios format (waja)
  285. check_ping - Now gracefully handle the "time of day goes back" error. This issue is rare, most will not notice the change (waja)
  286. check_disk - Help output was clarified that it supports mount paths or partitions instead of just paths and partitions (waja)
  287. check_ide_smart - Fixed attribute comparison (waja)
  288. check_ntp_time - Fixed average time calculation (larsi)
  289. NPTest.cache - Empty or Missing file no longer blocks writing to the file (dermoth)
  290. parse.ini - Fixed newlines in output (dermoth)
  291. check_dig - Fixed wrong IPv6 arguments order (Stéphane Bortzmeyer)
  292. check_dig - Now honors timeout value specified by switch -t (Jethro Carr) (abrist)
  293. configure.in - Renamed to configure.ac to avoid deprecation warning (abrist)
  294. configure.ac - The option --enable-extra-opts is now enabled by default (dermoth)
  295. check_snmp - Now handles negative values properly (Stephane Lapie)
  296. WARNINGS
  297. check_procs - Now ignores its parent process to avoid unexpected results when invoked via certain shells
  298. utils.sh - No longer defines ECHO (weiss)
  299. check_ide_smart now default to nagios output, -n kept for legacy support (sreinhardt)
  300. check_ntp_peer - Status output changed, now includes individual state for offset, truechimers, stratum, and jitter (abrist)
  301. check_tcp - Status output has changed, now includes hostname (madrisan)
  302. TESTS
  303. check_procs - Performance data tests added (dermoth)
  304. check_snmp - Added tests for negative thresholds (dermoth)
  305. check_hpjd - Added tests for port options (abrist)
  306. check_dns - Added new tests for query types (abrist)
  307. check_pop - Added option to enable ssl for the test (abrist)
  308. check_jabber - Fixed status output tests to account for hostname (abrist)
  309. check_procs - Tests no longer fail if uid 501 is not present (sni)
  310. check_mysql - Test prompts clarified (dermoth)
  311. check_file_age - Added tests for --ignore-missing (waja)
  312. OTHER
  313. Numerous small typos fixed.
  314. Help output has been changed in many places for clarity and verbosity.
  315. 1.5 2nd October 2013
  316. ENHANCEMENTS
  317. New check_dbi plugin for checking an (SQL) database using DBI
  318. Let OpenSSL load its configuration file (see the OPENSSL_config(3) man page)
  319. Add performance data to check_apt
  320. Add performance data to check_procs
  321. Added -4/-6 options to check_dig (Ville Mattila)
  322. New check_oracle --connect option to perform real login
  323. New check_nagios -t option to override the default timeout
  324. New check_disk -f/--freespace-ignore-reserved option to ignore space reserved for root
  325. New check_disk -N/--include-type option to limit the filesystem types to check
  326. Allow for building the plugins in parallel
  327. Add --without-{dbi,ldap,radius} options to ./configure
  328. Made Verbose output of check_sensors compliant (Gabriele Tozzi)
  329. New switch -E/--extended-perfdata for check_http to print additional performance data (Sebastian Nohn)
  330. New check_http -d option to specify a string to expect within the response headers
  331. New check_http -J/-K options for client certificate authentication support
  332. Add support for executing queries to check_pgsql
  333. Let check_pgsql accept a UNIX socket directory as hostname
  334. New check_pgsql -o option to specify additional connection parameters
  335. New check_fping -S option to specify the source IP address
  336. New check_fping -I option to specify the interface to bind to
  337. Let check_fping support IPv6
  338. New check_procs -k option to ignore kernel threads (on Linux)
  339. Let check_procs use /proc/<PID>/exe (if available) instead of getpid(2), unless -T is specified
  340. Let check_mysql support SSL
  341. Let check_mysql add perfromance metrics for all checks
  342. New check_mysql -f option to specify a client options file
  343. New check_mysql -g option to specify a client options group
  344. New check_snmp --offset option to allow for adding/substracting an offset value to sensor data
  345. Let check_snmp support an arbitrary number of OIDs
  346. Let check_ide_smart support NetBSD
  347. FIXES
  348. Change the MAIL FROM command generated by check_smtp to be RFC compliant
  349. Fix compilation of check_http without SSL support
  350. Fix check_snmp reversed threshold ranges (backward-compatibility)
  351. Fix check_snmp memory violation when using more than 8 oids (Robin Sonefors)
  352. Fix check_apt security regular expression (Alex Bradley)
  353. Fix check_http handling extra header (-k) containing semicolons (Richard Leitner)
  354. Fix check_apt handling unknown exit codes from apt-get (Richard Leitner)
  355. Fix deprecated imports of check_nmap.py (Fabio Rueda)
  356. WARNINGS
  357. check_http behaviour of -k/--header changed since it does not seperate multiple headers by semicolons anymore. Use multiple -k switches instead.
  358. check_http's --proxy_authorization option is now called --proxy-authorization (it was always documented this way)
  359. The contrib directory has been removed from this distribution
  360. 1.4.16 27th June 2012
  361. ENHANCEMENTS
  362. check_nt UPTIME accepts warning/critical thresholds (Ryan Kelly)
  363. check_disk_smb now allows spaces in share names (#990948, #1370031, Debian #601699)
  364. check_http now uses standard threshold functions (enables floating point and ranges)
  365. check_http now checks for and prints the certificate cn (hostname) in SSL certificate checks (Stéphane Urbanovski)
  366. check_http now supports an optional -S/--ssl value to choose the SSL protocol version (#3066166 - Jason Lunn)
  367. Add perfdata to check_ssh (#3244097 - Marco Beck)
  368. New option to check_smtp to ignore failures when sending QUIT (#3358348 - Duncan Ferguson)
  369. New check_by_ssh -F option which allows for specifying an alternative ssh_config(5) file (#2895334 - Sven Nierlein)
  370. check_sensors now detects faulty sensors unless --ignore-fault is specified (Jan Wagner)
  371. utils.sh now provides a check_range function (Alex Griffin)
  372. Improved the performance of check_users (Marc Remy)
  373. Add perfdata to check_disk_smb (Debian #654259 - Charles-Henri Larose)
  374. Updated Nagios::Plugin perl module
  375. Add warning threshold to certificate expiration checks of check_tcp/http/smtp (William Leibzon)
  376. Add --perf-oids option for check_snmp (Jochen Bern)
  377. FIXES
  378. Fix check_disk free space calculation if blocksizes differ within a disk group (Bekar - #2973603)
  379. check_disk_smb now handles NT_STATUS_ACCESS_DENIED properly (Debian #601696)
  380. Make check_snmp work more like v1.4.14 with regard to using special values (Timeticks, STRING) as numeric thresholds
  381. Fix check_ldap overriding the port when --ssl was specified after -p
  382. Fix check_procs where regex input of '|' would get displayed in output - now replaced with ','
  383. Fix segfault in check_host when hostname returns multiple IP addresses (Sebastian Harl)
  384. Fix check_smtp and check_tcp where duplicate messages were displayed for certificate errors
  385. Fix check_ping's parsing of ping6(1) output (#1894850, Debian #514588, Debian #662638 - Matej Vela)
  386. Fix a check_dhcp bug which was triggered by checking Windows 2003 DHCP servers (#3503921)
  387. Disable RFC4507 support, to work around SSL negotiation issues with (at least) some Tomcat versions
  388. Fix performance data label containing spaces in check_snmp (Jochen Bern)
  389. 1.4.15 27th July 2010
  390. ENHANCEMENTS
  391. New check_ntp_peer -m and -n options to check the number of usable time sources ("truechimers")
  392. New check_disk_smb -a option which allows for specifying the IP address of the remote server
  393. New check_radius -N option which allows for specifying the value of the NAS-IP-Address attribute
  394. New check_snmp --rate option to store differences between invocations. Saves state in PREFIX/var/{plugin}
  395. check_snmp -l label option now also changes the perfdata label. See WARNINGS
  396. check_snmp has an --invert-search option which reverses status of the string and regexp searches
  397. check_http now displays the missing search string and the URL in the output when failed (Duncan Ferguson - #2999924)
  398. Updated Nagios::Plugin perl module
  399. Updated gnulib to June 2010
  400. FIXES
  401. Fix check_ircd binding to wrong interface (#668778)
  402. Add proxy-authorization option to check_http (Marcel Kuiper - #1323230, Bryan Irvine - #2863925)
  403. check_icmp now increment the sequence counter in each packet
  404. Fix usage of repeated -o options in check_snmp
  405. Try to detect arguments passed via --with-ping[6]-command and set options accordingly (#2908236)
  406. Fix memory leak in check_http for large pages (Jimmy Bergman - #2957455)
  407. Fix compilation with GCC 2.96 (Konstantin Khomoutov - #2977105)
  408. Fix regression introduced in #1867716 where partially valid performance strings would not be printed anymore
  409. Fix regression in check_http ssl checks on some servers - make SNI an option
  410. Fix guest mode support in check_disk_smb
  411. Fix check_disk_smb and check_ircd failures when run via ePN
  412. check_ldap now allows for specifying an empty LDAP base
  413. Fix compilation error of pst3 in Solaris 8
  414. Fix check_radius returning OK on unexpected results (Craig Leres - #2911752)
  415. Fix translations when extra-opts aren't enabled (Jan Wagner - #2832884)
  416. Fix parsing of multi-line strings in check_snmp (broken in 1.4.14) and enhance output in such case (#2832451)
  417. Fix detection of pst3 64-bit compile flags with Sun CC
  418. Fix cmd_run overwriting the environment, which would break some commands that needed it
  419. Allow check_ifstatus to accept version=2c - used to only allow version=2 (Brian Landers)
  420. Fix examples in check_disk, where it implied was possible to suffix unit values to warn/crit parameters
  421. WARNINGS
  422. Updated developer documentation to say that performance labels should not have an equals sign or
  423. single quote in the label
  424. check_http 1.4.14 introduced SSL SNI support - you now have to enable it explicitly with "--sni"
  425. check_snmp -l label option is also used for the performance label. This could change history from previous uses
  426. 1.4.14 16th September 2009
  427. check_http has options to specify the HTTP method (#2155152)
  428. check_users thresholds were not working exactly as documented (>= rather than >)
  429. Updated tinderbox_build script to point to new tinderbox server
  430. check_ifoperstatus -n flag now works as expected (sf.net #1569488)
  431. check_ifoperstatus now supports ifType based lookup for ifIndex
  432. check_ups now sends a LOGOUT string (debian bug #387001)
  433. Extra-opts (C plugins) now allows both '#' and ';' for comments (like N::P)
  434. Extra-opts (C plugins) does not allow trailing comments anymore (like N::P)
  435. Fixed dependency issue on libtap when ./configure --enable-libtap used. Warning: will install libtap
  436. Fixed segfault in extra-opts under some circumstance when reading multiple sections
  437. Fix long options parsing in check_disk, check_dns, check_mrtg, check_mrtgtraf and check_tcp
  438. Add missing long options for check_nt (for use with extra-opts)
  439. check_icmp now reports min and max round trip time perfdata (Steve Rader)
  440. Fixed check_http bug where additional headers with redirection caused a segfault (Dieter Van de Walle - 2089159)
  441. check_disk: make autofs mount paths specified with -p before we determine the mount list (Erik Welch)
  442. Fixed buffer overflow in check_ntp/check_ntp_peer (#1999319, Ubuntu #291265)
  443. 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
  444. Fixed check_mrtg returning UNKNOWN instead of OK (bug #2378068)
  445. Fixed check_http behaviour: all check are now performed as long as a valid response is returned (sf.net #1460312)
  446. check_http --onredirect=sticky follows using the same IP address (sf.net #2550208)
  447. check_http --onredirect=stickyport also follows the same port
  448. Fixed coredump from check_nt when invalid drive is specified (#2179754 - Olli Hauer)
  449. Fixed crash from check_nt when -H unspecified or given multiple times (sf.net #2731755, debian #521097)
  450. Fixed passing of quotes in OID for check_snmp (#1985230 - Jan Wagner, patch by John Barbuto)
  451. Fixed check_http sending HTTP/1.0 with v1.1 headers (#2638765)
  452. Fixed check_http not timing-out on redirects
  453. Fixed negate not printing the real timeout in ALRM handler when left to default
  454. negate timeout result is now configurable
  455. Fixed segfault in check_mysql with old slaves (#2696823 - Oskar Ahner)
  456. check_nt can return UNKNOWN on timeouts (-u)
  457. Fixed typos for check_disk (Chris Pepper)
  458. Fixed check_mysql* not using password set in my.cnf (#2531905 - Ben Timby) - Specify an empty password explicitly if you need to override it.
  459. Fixed awk subst.in/subst script path error (#2722832 - Martin Foster)
  460. check_http: Add SSL/TLS hostname extension support (SNI) - (#1939022 - Joe Presbrey)
  461. Fixed wrong perfdata label for output traffic in check_mrtgtraf (#2654308 - Gavin Williams)
  462. Fixed check_by_ssh interpretation of quotes in -C parameter (#1985246, #2268675)
  463. check_snmp now supports standard threshold ranges and doubles (floating numbers) in thresholds
  464. check_fping now supports passing target timeout and interval to fping (#2347686 - Martin Foster)
  465. Fixed SNMPv3 behaviour of check_ifoperstatus and check_ifstatus. Added -P to define privprotocol (#2343438 - Robin Schroeder)
  466. check_ifoperstatus and check_ifstatus are now more user-friendly in case of missing arguments
  467. pst3 compile fix for Sun Studio Compiler (Grant Byers)
  468. 1.4.13 25th Sept 2008
  469. Fix Debian bug #460097: check_http --max-age broken (Hilko Bengen)
  470. Optimised pst3 for systems with large number of processes (Duncan Ferguson)
  471. Updated Nagios::Plugin to 0.27
  472. Fix Debian bug #479013: check_dig's -l is mandatory now (sf.net #1986306)
  473. check_dig now returns CRITICAL instead of WARNING when no answer section is found
  474. check_procs now captures stderr in external command and adds to plugin output
  475. check_snmp now only prints perfdata for non numeric values (#1867716)
  476. check_icmp now supports packet size modification
  477. check_http -e now accepts a comma-delimited list of expected status codes (Sven Nierlein)
  478. libtap now included with this distribution for easier testing. Run ./configure with --enable-libtap
  479. check_ntp_peer/check_ntp_time used to show port in --help but ignored the argument - now implemented
  480. Fix possible segfault in check_ntp_peer with deliberately invalid packets
  481. 1.4.12 27th May 2008
  482. Added ./check_nt -v INSTANCES to count number of instances (Alessandro Ren)
  483. New check_icmp -s option to specify the source IP address
  484. check_dns now sorts addresses for testing results for more than one returned IP (Matthias Urlichs)
  485. Fix segfault in check_ntp_time and (deprecated) check_ntp (Bug #1862300)
  486. check_disk should now work with large file systems (2TB+) on all archs that supports it
  487. Fixed check_disk disk usage calculation when using --group=NAME (related to bug #1348746)
  488. Fix help text of check_ntp* (Bug #1880095)
  489. Fix bugs and flaws in best offset server selection of check_ntp_time and (deprecated) check_ntp
  490. check_ntp_peer now checks for the LI_ALARM flag
  491. Sync to latest Gnulib (includes new floorf function)
  492. check_pgsql now successfully builds with postgres lib v8.3 (Bug #1878972)
  493. check_procs now accepts --ereg-argument-array for a regular expression match to the argument array
  494. Reverted back to using pst3 for Solaris systems. Fixed issues re: -m64 needed to compile on 64bit systems
  495. If applicable, Gettext linked dynamically instead of statically
  496. check_dig can now pass arguments to dig by using -A/--dig-arguments (#1874041/#1889453)
  497. check_ntp and check_ntp_peer now show proper jitter/stratum thresholds longopts in --help
  498. check_dns now allow to repeat -a to match multiple possibly returned address (common with load balancers)
  499. check_mysql and check_radius now try clearing password in processlist just like check_mysql_query
  500. check_mysql and check_mysql_query now support sockets explicitely (-s, --socket)
  501. negate now has the ability to replace the status text as well (-s, --substitute)
  502. Added performance data to check_ping (Christian Schneemann)
  503. Added support for --extra-opts in all C plugins (disabled by default, see configure --help)
  504. Fixed passive option in check_by_ssh
  505. On non-skipped stderr, check_by_ssh now returns UNKNOWN or worse (result from command) instead of always UNKNOWN.
  506. Fix linking against OpenSSL where libdl is required
  507. 1.4.11 13th December 2007
  508. Fixed check_http regression in 1.4.10 where following redirects to
  509. relative URLs on virtual hosts failed if both "-H" and "-I" were used
  510. Merged two new checks that deprecates check_ntp: check_ntp_peer and check_ntp_time.
  511. You should read the --help output so see which one is suitable for you. check_ntp_peer
  512. implement stratum thresholds support (feature request #1703823).
  513. check_ntp now returns UNKNOWN instead of WARNING if jitter is unavailable (jitter=-1.000000)
  514. as long as the thresholds range include -1. If no offset threshold is specified
  515. and the offset is unavailable, will return UNKNOWN as well.
  516. NOTE: If jitter thresholds are specified as integers it will return CRITICAL if jitter
  517. is "-1" as the default range starts at 0. See Examples in --help output.
  518. Fixed broken usage2 in check_snmp and check_cluster
  519. check_cluster now accepts all valid characters in its thresholds ("-", "@", "~")
  520. Fixed check_disk reporting OK if disk usage grows over 100% (bug #1348746).
  521. The problem happens to be in Gnulib but a workaround have been implemented in check_disk.c
  522. Fixed check_load argument handling when not passing triplets (bug #1831890)
  523. Fixed buffer overflow in check_snmp (CVE-2007-5623)
  524. Tinderbox builds now runs tests in a verbose mode
  525. Updated Nagios::Plugin to 0.22
  526. VPATH problem fixed for compiling plugins-root
  527. 1.4.10 28th September 2007
  528. Fix check_http buffer overflow vulnerability when following HTTP redirects (CVE-2007-5198)
  529. check_http now explicitly asks HTTP/1.1 servers to close the connection
  530. after completion of the response
  531. Check_ldaps' guessing which secure method to use (starttls vs. ssl on connect)
  532. is now deprecated. See --help for further information.
  533. Check_disk now calls stat() on all filesystems to check. (Old: only the ones selected using -p)
  534. A meaningful error message (eg "Stale NFS Handle") is printed if stat fails.
  535. New check_disk option -L: Only check local filesystems, but call stat() on remote ones, too.
  536. Thus accessibility of remote filesystems can be checked without any threshold comparison.
  537. Check_disk's --help now prints some examples for the new features introduced in 1.4.8
  538. New check_disk -i/-I option to ignore pathes/partitions based on regular expressions
  539. New check_disk -A option to select all filesystems explicitly
  540. WARNING: check_disk's -E option must now be passed before -p or -r/-R arguments
  541. Passing -E after -p or -r results in UNKNOWN state, now
  542. This is needed due to the new ignore feature
  543. Fix check_disk bug when mixing case sensitive and case insensitive regex arguments
  544. New check_dhcp -u/--unicast option for emulating a DHCP relay in order
  545. to check DHCP servers on remote networks
  546. New check_dhcp -m/--mac option which allows for specifying the MAC
  547. address to use in the DHCP request
  548. The check_dhcp -r and -s options now accept host names, too
  549. Fix possible check_icmp bus errors on some (non-x86/AMD64) platforms
  550. Fix check_smtp's handling of multiple-packet server responses
  551. WARNING: Fix for negate which may break existing commands:
  552. - stop evaluating command line options through shell twice
  553. - enforce a full path for the command to run
  554. The "negate" utility can now remap custom states
  555. Check_radius now supports radiusclient-ng
  556. The (undocumented) positional parameter parsing which check_radius used
  557. instead of getopt(3) if 8 arguments were given is no longer available
  558. Check_by_ssh now supports multiline output
  559. IPv6 support can now be disabled using ./configure --without-ipv6
  560. Fix check_ntp now honor ntp flags
  561. 1.4.9 4th June 2007
  562. Inclusion of contrib/check_cluster2 as check_cluster with some improvements
  563. New/improved -E/--skip-stderr and -S/--skip-stdout options for check_by_ssh
  564. check_snmp now supports Counter64
  565. Fix compilation of check_ldap, check_radius and check_pgsql
  566. check_load can optionally divide by number of cpus
  567. Fix check_time returning wrong OK when time is before the epoch on some arch
  568. Make check_http output more consistent
  569. Fix possible check_http segfaults when following HTTP redirects
  570. check_snmp don't warn anymore if something is printed on stderr
  571. Fix check_tcp segfault when multiple expect strings are given
  572. New option for check_tcp: -A/--all to test if all given expect strings match
  573. 1.4.8 11th April 2007
  574. Respects --without-world-permissions for setuid plugins
  575. check_disk extra options for regex matching of filesystems and grouping of filesystems
  576. for collective thresholds
  577. Better configure test for mysqlclient availability
  578. Various check_ntp fixes
  579. 1.4.7 29th March 2007
  580. check_procs uses /usr/ucb/ps if available - fixes pst3 problems on Solaris
  581. Fixed MKINSTALLDIRS problem in po/
  582. ./configure now detects if possible to compile check_mysql
  583. Fixed broken HELO in check_smtp
  584. check_icmp now allows to set a minimum number of hosts required for successs (-m)
  585. check_icmp fix for *BSD when running for long time
  586. check_ping times out 1 second quicker if host is unreachable
  587. Root plugins installed with world executable
  588. check_sybase from contrib now maintained in NagiosExchange
  589. --with-nagios-user/group reinstated ./configure option
  590. New --without-world-permissions ./configure option
  591. 1.4.6 5th February 2007
  592. Reduced number of DNS lookups in check_ping and netutils.c for IPv6 configurations
  593. Fixed compile problems with *BSD re: alloca.h
  594. Fixed Solaris problems with check_swap (tested on Solaris 9)
  595. Fixed check_swap for HP/UX where swapinfo command was incorrect
  596. Fixed check_disk inode threshold checks, regressed at r1.4.4.
  597. Fixed crit/warn for check_disk perf data
  598. Fixed buffer overflow in check_procs
  599. Fixed error handling for UNIX sockets in netutils.c
  600. New -q and -o options for check_by_ssh which are handed over to ssh(1) as is
  601. Synced with latest GNUlib
  602. Fixed check_jabber always returns warning
  603. 1.4.5
  604. Fixed bug in perl's is_hostname routine
  605. 1.4.4
  606. New C based check_ntp. The perl version is now deprecated.
  607. New check_apt plugin
  608. Notice: plugins in contrib/ will start to be removed from this distribution.
  609. Please check at http://www.nagiosexchange.org for contributed plugins
  610. Major bug fixes to check_disk where values were incorrectly calculated and alerted on.
  611. check_udp2 removed. check_udp is now linked to check_tcp.c
  612. check_mailq now errors if the sub-program run returns non-zero return code. This would appear
  613. as if mailqs were okay when the nagios user could not query the mail-queues
  614. Compile problems with check_snmp fixed
  615. 1.4.3
  616. Setuid plugins (check_dhcp, check_icmp) separated into plugins-root/. Run make install as root to install
  617. SSL plugins work with gnutls as well as OpenSSL
  618. check_mysql_query added to run arbitrary SQL commands, with threshold checking
  619. libtool now required for development systems
  620. Notice: check_udp (compiled from check_udp.c) will be deprecated in the next release.
  621. check_udp2 should be used instead and will be renamed to check_udp
  622. 1.4.2
  623. Fix for Redhat ES4 for check_dns and check_dig
  624. 1.4
  625. IPv6 support in check_ping, check_by_ssh, check_http, check_ldap, check_smtp, check_tcp
  626. Internationalisation support
  627. Performance data added to most plugins
  628. check_disk now using GNU coreutils code
  629. New plugins - check_dhcp, check_icmp
  630. contrib/check_citrix has been replaced by contrib/check_ica* (requires packet_utils.pm in libexec)
  631. check_http --min changed to --pagesize, added max so min:max in check
  632. check_vsz and check_rss deprecated - functionality moved into check_procs
  633. check_swap % thresholds changed to measure amount free, instead of amount used
  634. check_disk syntax changes for -p, -m/-M, defaults to MB instead of kB
  635. check_procs -C expects no path for the command name