[hobbit] Xymon 4.3.0: Beta version available on Sourceforge

Mon Feb 9 22:48:48 CET 2009

All,

I loaded 4.3.0 on a Solaris 10 x86 server on top of an existing 4.2.2
installation.   Largely it worked well except for the items listed below.
The compile log is attached if anyone is curious.

Any suggestions are welcome - I can re-load this as needed.

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Administration | Enable/Disable does not work

http://my-server.net/hobbit-seccgi/hobbit-enadis.sh

"Internal Server Error
The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable
to complete your request.

Please contact the server administrator, user at testdomain.net and inform them
of the time the error occurred, and anything you might have done that may
have caused the error.

More information about this error may be available in the server error log."

Apache/2.0.59 (Unix) DAV/2 Server at my-server.net Port 80:

Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET
CLR 3.0.04506.30; InfoPath.1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; .NET CL
R 3.0.04506.648)
[Mon Feb 09 14:10:14 2009] [error] [client 10.139.201.168] Premature end of
script headers: hobbit-enadis.sh, referer:
http://my-server.net/hobbit/web/ws1/ws1.html

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Info does not work - similar errors
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All reports, sybpages of tests and web tools are missing the footer file.
"link bb_footer" appears at the bottom of the page

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Man pages still seem to be on version 4.2.2

Example
CLIENT-LOCAL.CFG
Section: File Formats (5)
Updated: Version 4.2.2: 15 Dec 2008
Index Return to Main Contents

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henrik at hswn.dk]
-----Original Message-----
From: Henrik StÃ¸rner [ <mailto:henrik at hswn.dk> mailto:henrik at hswn.dk]
Sent: Monday, February 09, 2009 9:03 AM
To: hobbit at hswn.dk
Subject: [hobbit] Xymon 4.3.0: Beta version available on Sourceforge

So you didn't think I'd do two releases in one day, eh?

I've uploaded the first beta version of xymon 4.3.0 to Sourceforge a few
moments ago. If you have the time and a spare system to test it with, I'd
appreciate any effort you can lend me in getting the bugs ironed out.

You should be aware that there IS a lot of new stuff in this version, and I
more or less expect it to crash spectacularly in your setup. So putting it
on mission- critical systems could be seen as slightly dangerous.

If you have looked at the "trunk" of the sourcecode repository, you will be
familiar with the new stuff in this version. However if you compare it to
what's in the current beta-release, you will notice that I have left out
some of the more "dangerous" new components from this release. This was done
to make testing a bit more manageable; I have a lot of new code for Xymon,
and throwing all of it into one release would just wreak havoc on everyones
systems.

So instead I am preparing for a series of releases over the coming months,
where new features will be introduced in a controlled fashion.

But the current release is not void of new stuff. Far from it - here are the
highlights of the 4.3.0 version:

Core changes:
* Hosts which appear on multiple pages in the web display can
  use any page they are on in the alerting rules and elsewhere.
* Support for defining holidays as non-working days in alerts and
  SLA calculations.
* Worker modules (RRD, client-data parsers etc) can operate on
  remote hosts from the hobbitd daemon, for load-sharing.
* New API's for loadhosts and sendmessage, in preparation for
  the full 5.0 changes.
* Always use getcurrenttime() instead of time().
* Various bugfixes collected over time.

Network test changes:
* Merged new network tests from trunk: SOAP-over-HTTP,
  SSL minimum cipher strength
* Changed network test code to always report a validity period
  for network tests, so it it possible to run network tests less
  often than every 30 minutes (e.g. once an hour).
* Make the content-type setting in HTTP POST tests configurable.
* Make the source-address used for TCP tests configurable.
* Make the acceptable HTTP result codes configurable.
* Use and save HTTP session cookies.

Web changes
* "NOCOLUMNS" changed to work for all columns.
* New "group-sorted" definition to auto-sort hosts in a group
* Use browser tooltips for host comments
* "Compact" status allows several statuses to appear as a single
  status on the overview webpages.
* Trends page can select the time period to show. Buttons provided
  for the common selections.
* Ghost list report now lists possible candidates for a ghost,
  based on IP-address or unqualified hostname.
* Support generic drop-down lists in templates.

Report changes
* Number of outages as SLA parameter

Miscellaneous
* hobbitlaunch support for running tasks only on certain hosts,
  and for a maximum time.
* Alert script get a unique ID for each alert.

The plan for the future is to let this release stabilize for a month or so,
depending on how many bugs show up. Then I'll introduce new releases about
once every two months - with the following schedule (everything subject to
change):

Version 4.4:
* SNMP support for data collection
* Status updates based on data collected in the RRD files (this is
  really nice - essentially, *any* value you put into an RRD file
  can trigger a new or modified status in Xymon. So you could eg.
  change the status of your "http" test to go red, if the response
  time of a webpage exceeds 5 seconds).
* Status "flap" handling, to catch statuses that change rapidly.

Version 4.5:
* Support for communication between clients and Xymon to use
  compression and/or encryption.
* Support for client authentication via SSL certificates (so
  you cannot spoof a client message).

Version 4.6:
* Revised web interface - eliminate the need for webserver-based
  authentication, and provide more fine-grained authorization
  for the various Xymon components.
* Per-user custom login pages, so the login will always show those
  systems that the user has responsibility for / is allowed to
  access.

Somewhere along the road I will also introduce a new "ping" test daemon - I
am getting to the point where ping'ing all hosts take longer than 5 minutes
(I have a lot of hosts). So something needs to be done, and I think I know
how to do it.

Have fun!

Henrik

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