[hobbit] Xymon version 4.2.2 RC1 available

Olivier AUDRY olivier at audry.fr
Mon Dec 1 13:59:16 CET 2008


Thx a lot Henrik  for all your job around Xymon.

On Mon, 1 Dec 2008 13:08:21 +0100, Henrik StÞrner <henrik at hswn.dk>
wrote:
> I've just made the release-candidate of version 4.2.2 available
> for download on Sourceforge.
> 
>
https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=128058&package_id=140220&release_id=644075
> 
> This is how I would expect the interim 4.2.2 release to be.
> It includes the following changes from 4.2.0:
> 
> *) Due to the Hobbit project being renamed to Xymon (for
>    legal reasons), the documentation has been updated to
>    refer to this as the name of the project.
> *) All patches from the "all-in-one" patch have been applied
> *) Patches from Debian and Mandriva source archives and
>    elsewhere have been merged, fixing:
>    - The "Critical Systems" configuration report would crash
>      when hosts were in NKview.cfg, but no NK tags were in
>      bb-hosts (from Mandriva)
>    - SSL certificates with 4-digit expiration years would
>      crash the network tester (from Debian)
>    - Newer OpenLDAP versions have a different API, so
>      the LDAP test code would not build correctly (from
>      Debian)
>    - Old Big Brother clients report disk output with no
>      header line (from Debian)
>    - The bb-hosts syntax for HTTP testing via a proxy
>      could not support https target-URL's (from Debian)
>    - Certain SuSE versions would not be identified by
>      the Linux client as such (only affected OS name
>      displayed in the "info" status).
> *) Support for sending custom graph data in a "trends"
>    data message (from
>    http://www.hswn.dk/hobbiton/2007/01/msg00236.html)
> *) Split-NCV and TRACKMAX support for custom graphs (from
>    http://www.hobbitmon.com/hobbiton/2007/03/msg00368.htm).
> *) Support for the "BBWin" client http://bbwin.sf.net/
>    in centralized (server-side) configuration mode.
>    Based on BBWin v. 0.12.
> *) Support for the "hobbit-perl-client" add-on
>    http://hobbit-perl-client.sf.net/ .
>    Based on perl-http-client v1.15
> *) Support for the "Devmon" SNMP data collector
>    http://devmon.sf.net/ based on Devmon 0.3.0.
> 
> A last-minute update for Devmon was missed in the RC1
> source file, so Devmon users should grab the latest
> hobbitd/rrd/do_devmon.c source from
>
http://hobbitmon.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/hobbitmon/branches/4.2.2/hobbitd/rrd/do_devmon.c?revision=6002
> and copy to hobbitd/rrd/do_devmon.c . This will be included
> in the final 4.2.2 release.
> 
> Please test this if you can, and report problems to the
> mailing list. Since all of this code has been in use for
> quite some time, I would not expect a lot of problems.
> So the target date for the 4.2.2 release is Dec. 10.
> 
> 
> Regards,
> Henrik
> 
> 
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