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
<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
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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 <mailto:henrik (at) hswn.dk>]
-----Original Message-----
From: Henrik Størner [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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