(Todd Vierling doesn't use mrtg any more :)
Changes from 2.8.12:
MRTG 2.9 is the biggest change in MRTG since the release of MRTG 2.0.
So let's hear the news first:
* The rrdtool integration allows for massively increased logging
performance.
* Routers which change their interface numbers are no problem any more.
MRTG can now reliably address interfaces by IP, MAC, Description,
Name and Type. The cfgmaker tool has been rewritten from scratch and
allows to generate configurations with any of the above mentioned
interface addressing methods.
* Indexmaker has be rewritten from scratch, it is now much more
flexible and fully documented.
* All the MRTG documentation has been reviewed and ported to perls
"Plain Old Documentation (POD)" format. This allows to provide all
documentation in text, HTML and man format. It is now all available
on the MRTG web-site.
* Config file parsing has been optimized. This makes reading
configuration files much faster. Especially large configuration files
are faster by factors
* Under UNIX, mrtg can fork into several instances while querying
routers. This improves data acquisition performance dramatically,
especially with slow networks.
* Graphs and webpages can be generated on the fly is mrtg is used with
rrdtool logging. Several tools in the mrtg contrib section are
available for this purpose.
* And there is more: MRTG has been translated into 29 languages, OS
detection has been automated, did I mention performance, many of the
contributed tools have been dated and a slew of new ones has been
added, The config file reading code is now available in a documented
library which simplifies the creation of other tools which need
access to the mrtg cfg file.
* In total, over 200 individual changes are listed in the change log
since the release of MRTG 2.9.2.
ones to do, and each compiled and installed/de-installed apparently
correctly.
As a side effect of the dynamic PLIST, we no longer need to have separate
-static and -shared PLISTs. It's now easier than ever to make a perl5
package for NetBSD :)
- make -M and -r work in indexmaker
- hungarian translation
- NoSpaceChar option. Supresses SPACE normally inserted between local value
and PRE or APPEND value.
- new features for cfgmaker --iponly, --options, --workdir
- make RunAsDaemon work ...
- Daemon mode now forks into background after cfgcheck
- Remove locks after sig INT and TERM
- make indexmaker ignore default values
- added ThreshDesc config option. Its value is assigned to the env variable
THRESH_DESC before and of the Thresh-Action scripts are called.
- bugfix for big5 locale
- bugfix for norwegian.pmd
- it is RunAsDaemon and not RunAsDeamon
- update for rrdtool integration 14all.cgi to 0.16
- updated danish translation
- have cfgmaker put specific comments into the mrtg.cfg file
regarding the reason for droping a certain interface ..
- Added RunAsDeamon mode. Start mrtg only once. No Cron necessary.
- linux ip-filter integration in contrib
- version 2.2 of mrtgmk in contrib
- catalan locales
- rateup.c fix for kMG override bug
- allow to set ShortLegend to ''
- better parsing of PageTop with intexmakers -P option
- fix for spanish translation (uptime had some probmlems)
- contrib: switchmaker produces mrtg cfg files for Cisco Catylst 5XXX
- made sure -lm comes last when linking ...
- converted remaining gifs to png
- make sure AbsMax is not smaller than MaxBytes
- translation to icelandic
- added japanese translations for ISO-2022-JP and EUC-JP
- added turkish translation
- update for rrdtool integration 14all.cgi
- Added more modular translation system
- Added German Translation
- Chinese Translation
- cfgmaker_ip ... keep first address and not last ..
- Malayan translation
- restored mibhelp to its old glory ..
- added ability to index interfaces by physical address analog to
the existing IP stuff ... there is now also a cfgmaker_phys
- polish translation
- graphing fix for rateup ...
- cpuinfo contrib
- contrib cisco config tftp
- updates and bugfixes for mrtgmk v2.0
- fix for -F/-f in indexmaker
- fix for view type in indexmaker
- cisco accounting contrib
- added -lm to LIBS in configure.in
- patching system for languages ... check translate directory
- NSI (Network Status Imager for MRTG) contrib
- updates for mrtg-archiver
Notable changes are:
- several bug fixes
- now uses GNU configure script
- documentation update
- cleaned up distribution
- new indexmaker accepts multiple config files
- optional 2-column layout
- option to specify bacground color
- option to specify overview graphs sizes
- few options to increase/decrease bells and whistles
- improvements for perminute perhour
- integration of SNMP_util and the latest SNMP_session
- changed cfgmaker to use ipaddress as name for targets
- fixed html in indexmaker and mrtg
- optional handling of two different MaxBytes settings
iostat, systat and a sample config file to use these. Also update the
MESSAGE to stats there is a sample config file.
Result can be seen at http://www.antioche.eu.org/mrtg/.
- New, optional Makefile variable HOMEPAGE, specifies a URL for
the home page of the software if it has one.
- The value of HOMEPAGE is used to add a link from the
README.html files.
- pkglint updated to know about it. The "correct" location for
HOMEPAGE in the Makefile is after MAINTAINER, in that same
section.
