[Xymon] Xymon 4.3.8 available

[Henrik Størner]

Hi,

I have uploaded a 4.3.8 maintenance-release of Xymon to Sourceforge. It 
should be available by the time you read this.

This release is an attempt to pick up the various patches and fixes that 
have appeared since the 4.3.7 release. Some issues - especially the 
problem with DNS timeouts - seemed important enough to warrant a 
maintenance release.

This release should also fix some build-problems that have occurred on 
some systems (e.g. newer Ubuntu systems). The build-scripts were 
backported from the current "trunk" version, so they haven't had as much 
testing as the rest of the code - if you run into problems, let me know. 
I know of one issue on older Red Hat Linux versions, where the PCRE 
include-files are not found automatically; adding "--pcreinclude 
/usr/include/pcre" to the configure-command should fix this.

There are also some enhancements, most notably the Enable/Disable page 
now allows you to select a specific time when the disable expires, 
instead of a time-interval; inode-monitoring now works on Linux clients 
(no other platforms, unfortunately); and the SSL certificate checks can 
now check the size of the certificate public key.

Several of these fixes and enhancements were contributed by members of 
the community - I am very pleased to see Xymon development being done by 
others than just myself.

The full list of bugfixes, enhancements and file hashes are below.

Regards,
Henrik


Bugfixes
* Workaround for DNS timeout handling, now fixed at approximately 25
   seconds.
* "hostinfo" command for xymond documented
* confreport only shows processes that are monitored
* analysis.cfg parsing of COLOR for UP rules was broken
* RRD handlers no longer crash after receiving 1 billion updates
* Using .netrc for authentication could crash xymonnet
* "directory" includes would report the wrong filename for missing
   directories.
* useradm CGI would invoke htpassword twice
* "include" and "directory" now ignores trailing whitespace
* SSLv2 support disabled if SSL-library does not support it
* Minor bugfixes and cleanups of compiler warnings.

Enhancements
* Service status on info page now links to the detailed status page.
* Add RRDGRAPHOPTS setting to permit global user-specified RRD options,
   e.g. for font to showgraph CGI
* Add check for the size of public keys used in SSL certificates
   (enabled via --sslkeysize=N option for xymonnet)
* Optionally disable the display of SSL ciphers in the sslcert status
   (the --no-cipherlist option for xymonnet)
* Improved build-scripts works on newer systems with libraries in
   new and surprising places
* Reduce xymonnet memory usage and runtime for ping tests when there
   are multiple hosts.cfg entries with the same IP-address.
* Add code for inode-monitoring on Linux. Does not currently work on
   any other client platform.
* Added the ability to disable tests until a specific time, instead of
   for some interval. Disabling a test also now computes the expire time
   for the disable to happen at the next closest minute.


SHA1 hashes:
b9bc428090c53c1938ac965f04affa293917c2ac  xymon-4.3.8.tar.gz
9a2ad2ebbed5e6796813810a3650bb5cce739f86  xymon_4.3.8_amd64.deb
ac1418540c0f45de387b079499b9d8efec234963  xymon-client_4.3.8_amd64.deb
e68f45327d8682a809cd8c800857b30bbdeb6c60  xymon_4.3.8_i386.deb
1e3df6d93747d9a8f87df91c48ab82bc901e775b  xymon-client_4.3.8_i386.deb

MD5 hashes:
fbd59ca20083a31442f9d1fb37c8c859  xymon-4.3.8.tar.gz
92c4297a8f7588ab40240fbc573b721d  xymon_4.3.8_amd64.deb
3ac5bbdd997aa449dc8da9b140792e2f  xymon-client_4.3.8_amd64.deb
3d74acee2450311445377ad120d31d90  xymon_4.3.8_i386.deb
42ef4f5a85460aabc4f2711f1788d24d  xymon-client_4.3.8_i386.deb