This is a bug fix release, which includes some important fixes to --extra-opts (a way of specifying command line options within files).
* check_http has options to specify the HTTP method (#2155152)
* check_users thresholds were not working exactly as documented (>= rather
than >)
to 1.4.13. Approved by tonnerre@
main CHANGES since 1.4.11:
- lots of bug fixes
- Added ./check_nt -v INSTANCES to count number of instances (Alessandro Ren)
- New check_icmp -s option to specify the source IP address
- check_dns now sorts addresses for testing results for more than one
returned IP (Matthias Urlichs)
- check_disk should now work with large file systems (2TB+) on all archs
that supports it
- check_ntp_peer now checks for the LI_ALARM flag
- check_procs now accepts --ereg-argument-array for a regular expression
match to the argument array
- check_dig can now pass arguments to dig by using -A/--dig-arguments
- check_dns now allow to repeat -a to match multiple possibly returned address
(common with load balancers)
- check_mysql and check_radius now try clearing password in processlist
just like check_mysql_query
- check_mysql and check_mysql_query now support sockets explicitely
(-s, --socket)
- negate now has the ability to replace the status text as well
(-s, --substitute)
- Added performance data to check_ping (Christian Schneemann)
- On non-skipped stderr, check_by_ssh now returns UNKNOWN or worse
(result from command) instead of always UNKNOWN.
- check_dig now returns CRITICAL instead of WARNING when no answer section
is found
- check_procs now captures stderr in external command and adds to plugin output
- check_snmp now only prints perfdata for non numeric values (#1867716)
- check_icmp now supports packet size modification
- check_http -e now accepts a comma-delimited list of expected status
codes (Sven Nierlein)
- check_ntp_peer/check_ntp_time used to show port in --help but ignored
the argument - now implemented
crashes on various architectures and system, such as, for example,
the check_icmp bus error on sparc64.
Changes in 1.4.4:
- check_ntp is now written in C instead of Perl.
- check_disk bugfixes.
- check_udp2, check_udp and check_tcp are now united.
- check_mailq now reports mailq errors better.
- check_snmp now compiles with a sane amount of effort.
Changes in 1.4.5:
- Fixed bug in perl's is_hostname routine.
Changes in 1.4.6:
- check_ping and netutils.c now do less DNS lookups.
- alloca.h related compile fixes.
- check_swap now works on Solaris too.
- check_disk perf data can now be monitored.
- check_procs had a buffer overflow.
- Fixed UNIX socket error handling.
- check_by_ssh now can pass -q and -o to ssh.
- GNUlib sync.
- check_jabber can now return things different from a warning.
Changes in 1.4.7:
- check_procs uses /usr/ucb/ps on Solaris which fixes pst3 problems.
- check_smtp does a non-broken HELO now.
- check_icmp can now have a minimum number of required hosts and also
works if running for a long time on BSDs.
- check_ping timeout reduced.
- Everybody can now execute SUID check plugins unless indicated otherwise
to configure.
Changes in 1.4.8:
- check_disk now has an extra option for regex matching and grouping of FSes.
- check_ntp various fixes.
Changes in 1.4.9:
- New plugin check_cluster (not built by pkgsrc).
- check_by_ssh now has improved stderr/stdout handling options (-E/-S).
- check_ldap, check_radius and check_pgsql compile fixes.
- check_snmp 64-bit counter support.
- Better underflow checking for check_time.
- check_http output is more consistent now.
- check_http HTTP redirect segfault fixes.
- check_tcp doesn't segfault anymore when multiple expect strings are given.
- check_tcp now supports -A to check if all expect strings match.
Changes in 1.4.10:
- check_http redirect buffer overflow vulnerability fixed (was fixed
in pkgsrc before).
- check_http now shuts down HTTP/1.1 keepalive connections cleanly.
- check_ldaps doesn't guess anymore whether to use SSL or STARTTLS.
- check_disk now calls stat on all file systems.
- check_disk now supports the -L flag for local file system checks.
- check_disk now supports -i/-I for ignoring paths/partitions by regex.
- check_disk now supports -A to select all file systems explicitly.
- check_disk now needs to have the -E flag passed before -p or -r/-R.
- check_disk is no longer buggy when case sensitive and insensitive regexes
are mixed.
- check_dhcp now supports -u (unicast) to emulate a relay.
- check_dhcp now lets you specify the MAC address in the request using -m.
- check_dhcp -r and -s options now accept host names.
- check_icmp no longer bus errors on various platforms.
- check_smtp now handles multiple-packet server responses properly.
- Negate command line options are no longer evaluated twice by the shell.
- Negate commands to be run must now be fully qualified.
- Negate can now remap custom states.
- check_radius now supports radius-client-ng (was already in pkgsrc).
- check_by_ssh now supports multiline output.
- check_ntp now honors ntp flags.
Changes in 1.4.10:
- check_ntp returns UNKNOWN rather than WARNING if no jitter is available.
- check_cluster now accept all valid characters in its thresholds.
- check_ntp is now deprecated in favor of check_ntp_peer and check_ntp_time.
- check_disk no longer reports OK if disk usage exceeds 100%.
- check_load handles non-triplet arguments correctly now.
- Nagios::Plugin updated to 0.22.
