[hobbit] Xymon 4.3.0: Beta version available on Sourceforge

Tue Feb 10 00:30:47 CET 2009

On 10/02/2009 8:48 AM, Keith Meserole wrote:
>
>
> 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.
>
> +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>
>  
> 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 
> <mailto: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
>  
>
> +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>
> Info does not work - similar errors
> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>
> All reports, sybpages of tests and web tools are missing the footer 
> file.    "link bb_footer" appears at the bottom of the page
>  
> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>
> 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
>  
> +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>
> henrik at hswn.dk <mailto:henrik at hswn.dk>]
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Henrik StÃ¸rner [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
>
>
> To unsubscribe from the hobbit list, send an e-mail to
> hobbit-unsubscribe at hswn.dk
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> To unsubscribe from the hobbit list, send an e-mail to
> hobbit-unsubscribe at hswn.dk
Good so I'm not the only one thats getting script errors on either an 
upgraded or fresh install on a box that already had 4.2.something

Initially just configure make make install didnt like me, so I moved all 
of the dirs elsewhere and did the same again and got the same again.

This is on a Centos 4.7 x86 machine that has been running hobbit since 
sometime early 2007

Allan