Shinken v1.2.3 Release Notes

Release Date: 2013-01-30 // about 11 years ago
  • CORE FIXES
    * Fix : (Romain Forlot) wrong plugin owners after installation
    * Fix : (Romain Forlot) add mysql-client for Debian when install the server.
    * Fix : (Romain Forlot) Make arbiter last after all daemons except skonf because of issue 647
    * Fix : (reported by: opc and ppj) get back the arbiter spare management.
    * Fix : Manage sudoers to use nmap by discovery process
    * Fix : Set the HOME var to use the home of shinken, instead of the root's.
    * FIX : #689 add sudo prerequisite
    * Fix : Poller handling of abnormal plugin failures. Non-english shell stderr is captured too
    * Fix : Honor check_for_orphaned_* config params + add time_to_orphanage support for service and host
    * Fix : bad_start test for environments where groupname != username
    * Fix : Daemon timeout and receiver module options descriptions
    * Fix : bad import in shinken-admin
    * Fix : add default pack_distribution_file to nagios.cfg file, so it fix #576
    * Fix : (reported by: ethtricks) manage hosts macros addressX. Fix #640
    * Fix : (reported by: Rémi BUISSON, fixed by Olivier Hanesse) the "too much notification" bug after a restart, and also a potential bug for hosts downtimes overlap.
    * Fix : (By : Olivier Hanesse) schedule times load from retention were used even if the time was past, and make launch a bunch of useless checks.
    * Fix : (from rdumonnet) and remove alias for generic-host, so the value will be used from real hosts instead.
    * Fix : more Pyro exceptions handling
    * Fix : new way of parsing the complex expressions for hostgroups and templates. Fix #676
    
    CORE ENHANCEMENTS
    * Add : (Jean-francois BUTKIEWICZ) Windows installation for shinken, using .net services instead of instsrv.
    * Add : (Romain Forlot) distro support to install notify_by_xmpp
    * Add : (Denetariko) Added pnp4nagios, multisite and nagvis add-on's config folders into restore function (prior version didn't restore them)
    * Add : (from : Joel Ramat) include the -property feature in discovery.
    * Add : making orphanage time configurable
    * Add : first version of a Trending broker module, and libexec scripts.
    * Add : auto-magically add the shinken root dir parent to the PYTHONPATH environ variable in the daemons if the shinken lib is nout found.
    
    MODULES FIXES
    * Fix : Canopsis module - File handler and os path join
    * Fix : LiveStatus Correct bug with indexed access connected to issue #648.
    * Fix : let livestatus handle display_name correctly
    * Fix : (from Nicolas Pichon) Graphite, URI generation when using datasource, _GRAPHITE_PRE and _GRAPHITE_post
    
    MODULES ENHANCEMENTS
    * Add : (from Thibault Cohen) realm and poller_tag attributes in Livestatus module
    * Add : mongodb replicat set management in the scehduler retention module.
    * Add : hot host dependencies with libvirt
    * Add : Better handling of Carbon connection.
    * Add : (from Nicolas DUPEUX) SO_REUSEADDR to nsca sock to allow fast stop/start
    
    UI FIXES
    * Fix : WebUI manage service description with / for actions.
    * Fix : skonf stop script
    * Fix : (reported by:sebguilbaud) fix #668  : was not managed in webui for names.
    
    UI ENHANCEMENTS
    * Add : (from : Caez) webui,auth manage the $1$ htpasswd md5 way.
    * Add : (From Frescha) shinken informations
    * Add : (from Frescha) Logout link moved to admin submenu and submenu moved to the right
    * Add : (from Steve Schnepp) dashboard/currently, use a 24H clock format
    * Add : "Beta" badge
    * Add : caps lock detection login form
    
    DEFAULT PACKS
    * Fix : discovery for safekit cluster
    * Add : postgreSQL monitoring pack
    * Add : first part of tomcat pack. This pack need a proper installation of jmx4perl on shinken server (or poller) and a proper installation off jolokia