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@@ -0,0 +1,372 @@ +* fix for basefork.pm IO::Select property has_exception is very platform dependent + by ignoring it altogether things actually work better. Especially on Solaris which + does have propper support for has_exception as oposed to linux. -- Niko Tyni <ntyni *iki.fi> + +2005/1/30 -- 1.38 + +* fixed error messages for environments with mixed ipv6 and ipv4 setups -- Peter W. Osel <pwo *Infineon.COM> +* fixed smoke coloring for 5 pings problem -- Tobi +* fixed User-Agent example in Curl probe -- Sebastian Wiesinger <smokeping *tracker.fire-world.de> + +2005/1/12 -- 1.37 + +* base class did assume that concurrent probes were off by default + -- Niko Tyni <ntyni *iki.fi> + +2005/1/7 -- 1.36 (1.35 was an internal release) + +* concurrent probes are default now, together with + a 'random' offset to make sure not all smokepings hit the net + at the same time -- Tobi +* fixes for loggin -- Niko Tyni <ntyni *iki.fi> + - warn if no logging method is active while daemonizing. + - turn debugging on before loading the config file. + - make do_debuglog a no-op if $use_debuglog isn't set + - add debug info to FPing* probes + - print the RRD create and update strings when debugging +* Allow probe- and target-specific number of pings -- Niko Tyni <ntyni *iki.fi> +* RemoteFPing probe revisited and fixed. Note this probe allowed + PROBE_CONF config where this was technically not possible. Now these settings + are done in the ***Probes*** section ... you have to fix your + config files -- Niko Tyni <ntyni *iki.fi> +* fixed many typos and some seemingly numeric comparisons -- Niko Tyni <ntyni *iki.fi> +* new feature 'concurrentprobes' allow to run multiple probes in paralell and at different step + width. -- Niko Tyni <ntyni *iki.fi> +* allow to define multiple instances of a sigle probe -- Niko Tyni <ntyni *iki.fi> +* fix --filter again ... pathprefix was still in there -- tobi + +2004/11/29 -- 1.34 (1.32 + 1.33 were internal only releases) + +* added SNPP support as suggested by jdelisle -- tobi +* added ipv6 support to EchoPing probe -- Niko Tyni <ntyni *iki.fi> +* fix for Radius probe -- Niko Tyni <ntyni *iki.fi> +* added new alert plugins called matchers -- tobi +* created matcher::avgratio sponsored by virtela.net -- tobi +* make --filter option actually work -- tobi +* removed maxmedian magic regexp ... -- tobi +* added new alert type matcher -- tobi +* fixed pod errors -- Niko Tyni <ntyni *iki.fi> +* allow to mix programs and email addresses in alerts --tobi +* allow to define recipient per alert --tobi + +2004/08/04 -- 1.31 + +* added anotherdns and anotherssh probes -- Christoph.Heine *HaDiKo.DE +* modify FPing probes to skip ICPM errors in the output -- Tobi +* modify RemoteFPing probe to work with normal fping that outputs + via stderr. -- Tobi +* allow timeout to be specified in base::forks based probes -- Tobi +* Added ssh probe -- Christian Recktenwald <smokeping-contact *citecs.de> + +2004/05/12 -- 1.30 + +* fix nodata_color syntax --tobi + +* when inserting unknown values into sorted rtt list, do this on the outside + ... U:U:1:2:3:U:U and not in the middle. This will make the graphs more + smokei when there is data loss. --tobi + +* config files with different probes should work ... fixed problem introduced in 1.29 --tobi + +2004/05/08 -- 1.29 +* while running, make all die and warn things go to the log file if there is one --tobi +* added rawlog option for logging actual gatherd data --tobi (for virtela) +* added alertee option to send a copy of any alert generated to additional 'per branche' people --tobi +* cgi should not complain about non existing hosts ... the daemon does that already --tobi +* actually allow empty alerts -- tobi + +* added nodata_color property to specify background color for graph when + when no data is available -- David Hull <hull *dslextreme.com> + +2004/03/14 -- 1.28 +* do not repeat last rounds rtts in basefork if probe gets killed on timeout -- Niko Tyni <ntyni *iki.fi> + +2004/03/09 -- 1.27 +* allow . in labels -- Tobi +* fix mkdir with missing permissions -- Xander Jansen <Xander.Jansen *surfnet.nl> +* make echoping probes complain when they do not get a 0 return value -- Tobi +* make manu and title = host if not set -- tobi +* forbid . in section names .. bad things will happen when used. -- tobi +* patches for the Radius and LDAP probes -- Niko Tyni <ntyni *cc.helsinki.fi> +* prevent requests to non existing pages -- tobi + +2004/02/16 -- 1.26 +* contributed radius and ldap probes -- Niko Tyni <ntyni *cc.helsinki.fi> +* added new 'offset' parameter to config file which allows to shift startup + time of smokeping polling -- Tobi (for Virtela) +* new option --static-pages to generate a static website (mrtg like) -- Santeri Paavolainen <santtu *iki.fi> +* added support for multiple alert recipients -- Dmitry Melekhov <dm *belkam.com> +* fix for telnetIOSping.pm to consider packet size -- Paul Wulff <paul.wulff *ap.marconi.com> +* added --logfile option and generally enhanced logging ... + smokeping will not die and log instead. -- Tobi + +2004/01/04 -- 1.25 +* enhaced Alert patterns: S for matching at startup + *X* pattern for timeshift matches. See docs. -- Tobi +* Added timeout option the EchoPingHttp -- Tobi +* fixed RemoteFPing probe -- Keith Patton + +2003/10/05 -- 1.24 +* The new --filter option allows you to run the smokeping deamon on a big config file, + but have the config file filtered and only measure the entries that pass + the filter. This allows to use rsync to consolidate measurements from + different hosts at a central location for presentation. -- Tobi +* new lookup option for DNS probe -- "Poetzel, Christopher J." <cpoetzel *anl.gov> +* store iaxhight info in img cache -- Curtis Doty <Curtis *GreenKey.net> +* new probes: ICMP echo response times - CiscoRTTMonEchoICMP.pm, + DNS query response times - CiscoRTTMonDNS.pm, + TCP connect times - CiscoRTTMonTcpConnect.pm -- joerg.kummer at roche.com + +2003/07/15 -- 1.23 +* added missing ; in DNS.pm + +2003/07/11 -- 1.22 + +* fix stderr redirection: David Hull <hull *dslextreme.com> +* new DNS.pm based on basefork by Igor Petrovski <pigor *myrealbox.com> and Carl Elkins <carl *celkins.org.uk> + +2003/06/17 -- 1.21 + +* keep order of targets in config file when presenting on the web -- Tobi +* fix mailsending with a b <x *y> type addresses -- Aaron Schrab <aaron *schrab.com> +* made alert feature more robust -- Tobi +* telnetiosping probe John A. Jackson <johnj *infoave.net> +* add iosint configurable to IOSPing.pm -- Mars Wei <MarsWei *ncic.com.tw> +* added RemoteFPing Probe -- Luis F Balbinot <hades *inf.ufrgs.br> + +2003/04/12 -- 1.20 + +* replaced host foo with 127.0.0.1 in Echo*.pm probes -- John Sellens <jsellens *generalconcepts.com> +* curl probe -- Gerald Combs <gerald [AT] ethereal.com> +* DNS.pm should not use external binaries besided dig -- Tobi + +2003/02/19 -- 1.19 + +* dns probe -- Andre Stolze <stolze *uni-muenster.de> +* fixed label formatting error -- Tobi + +2002/12/05 -- 1.18 + +* allow sub millisecond patterns -- Tobi + +* report a full link in smokeping alerts + suggested by "Nipper, Arnold" <arnold *nipper.de> + +2002/10/19 -- 1.17 +* Change the absolute max possible rtt to 180 seconds when creating new rrd files + +2002/10/13 -- 1.16 + +* add Hostname as a 5th argument for external alert scripts --Tobi + +* when runnning fping -i must be > 10 ... (whatever 10 is) -- Tobi + +* fix graphing in logarithmic presentation. Handle fast pings better -- Paul J Murphy <Paul *murph.org> + +* added IOSPing.pm probe -- Paul J Murphy <Paul *murph.org> + +2002/09/27 -- 1.15 + +* uptime color configuration was not working -- Alan Chen <alan *digikata.com> + +* allow to call an external script upon matching an alert pattern -- Tobi + +* unifie mail sending tools -- Tobi + +* made loss for 0.x sized values work -- rodrigo.cunha *corp.vodafone.pt + +* send syslog events through unix domain socket on bsd and linux systems -- Ed Ravin <eravin *panix.com> + + +2002/09/10 -- 1.14 + +* fixed docs ... remove alert_email property from docs --tobi + +* fixed Data output for email alerts -- tobi + + +2002/09/08 -- 1.13 + +* Added all new Alerts function. Smokeping can now match + alert patterns against the loss and rtt values gatherd + and send email when a pattern matches. -- Tobi + +* Display AVG loss in % -- Tobi + +* Add help functions back in -- Tobi + +* make graphs with large ping times graph properly. + -- Jack Cummings <jack *mudshark.org> + +* make FPing.pm handle dead hosts more gracefully + '-B1','-i'. int($self->{pingfactor}/1000),'-r1' --Tobi + +2002/05/29 -- 1.12 +* make probes announce themselves at startup + -- Niko Tyni <ntyni *cc.helsinki.fi> + +* really ... log full loss if no pings get through ... -- Tobi +* allow FPing probe to take packetsize option -- Tobi + +2002/05/08 -- 1.11 +* If no pings get trough, log a full loss and not unknown loss -- tobi +* have a timeout to prevent hanging echoping processes + -- Niko Tyni <ntyni *cc.helsinki.fi> +* allow logging via syslog + -- Niko Tyni <ntyni *cc.helsinki.fi> + +2002/05/06 -- 1.10 + +* added avg loss to graphs -- tobi + +2002/04/29 -- 1.9 + +* added Fping6 by Elmar Hoffmann <elho *elho.net> +* added description about installing EchoPing, Fping and sock6 to + install notes +* do not test for FPing binary when running as a cgi + +2002/04/24 -- 1.8 + +* make sure smokeping.cgi manages to show its errors on the web. + +2002/04/12 -- 1.7 + +* complain if fping is not seuid root -- tobi + +* kill one div zero bug -- Jan Ludewig <chaot *isch.de> + +2002/03/27 -- 1.6 + +* fixed bug in monitoring function where targets that + had subtargets on the same level were ignored ... -- tobi + +* in basefork.pm test if IO::Select knows has_error() but not + has_exception() -- Jan Ludewig <chaot *isch.de> + +* improve handling of PID file, cases where it could not be read or written + wer not handlie gracefully -- Jan Ludewig <chaot *isch.de> + +* remove --help and --man option they never worked ... + +2002/03/10 -- 1.5 + +* missed one module in the distribution ... + +2002/03/09 -- 1.4 + +* make sure FPing does not hand if no targets are defined. + +* new mandatory config option piddir to specify where the pid file + should be -- Jose Carlos Garcia Sogo <jsogo *debian.org> + **** INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE **** + +* EchoPing probes contributed by Niko Tyni <ntyni *cc.helsinki.fi> + there is a webpage on http://www.helsinki.fi/~ntyni/smokeping/ + +2002/03/01 -- 1.3 + +* fixed messed up links in distribution archive ... + +2002/03/01 -- 1.2 + +* improve error messages in probe setup + +* be smarter about detecting fping reporting unit. -- Kai <spdev *vega.fur.com> + +2002/02/12 -- 1.1 + +* make detailed view colors work even if number of pings is not even + ++INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE+ modified the definition of smokelogo and rrdlogo in the + webtemplate file. he tags now provide the image tage and the anchor + around. Please modify your template accordingly + +* Toby Weingartner provided some patches to clean up error messages + +* removed default sites from config file to protect the innocent. + +* detect probe loading failiours + +2002/02/09 -- 1.0 + +* made basepage links stand out ... + +2002/01/31 -- 0.99.18 +* Fixed loss color config handling and documentation + +2002/01/28 -- 0.99.17 +* Get description of Ping from Probe +* Fixed quote parsing in config parser + +2002/01/27 -- 0.99.16 +* fixed unison scaling ... I was picking the wrong value as median. +* do not refuse to start if a host is missing from DNS ... just complain + +2002/01/27 -- 0.99.15 +* now the color works you have to use rrggbb not #rrggbb +* added scrftime configurable to format time in lower + righthand corner of the graph + + +2002/01/27 -- 0.99.14 +* guess [0-f] does not work it should be [0-9a-f] + +2002/01/26 -- 0.99.13 +* switched back to normal scaling for overview graphs +* added average and latest median rtt numbers to graph +* added more color settings to graph +* allow configuration of loss and uptime colors (not tested) + +2002/01/23 -- 0.99.12 +* Use -alt-y-scaling for better grid in overview graphs +* Added max_rtt to overview graphs + +2002/01/22 -- 0.99.11 + +* files which must be modified are now named *.dist (thanks paul) +* added maxrtt configurable +* introduced new colors for link uptime using INF +* added thin black line 'connecting the 'measurements' + +2002/01/20 -- 0.99.10 + +* Added cache file for graph.max values ... this will improve unison scaling + in lazy mode +* changed drawing of madian to AREA and STACK to take into account that this + is not anything contious we are looking at but samples ... + + +2002/01/17 -- 0.99.9 + +* allow --nodaemon as well +* added new configurables lograrithic and unison_tolerance + this should help smokeping deal better with spikes + +2002/01/03 -- 0.99.8 +* Change colors for LOSS display ... make small losses simpler to see +* Sort Graphs in Overview +* --nodemon option +* Allow cgi urls with https:// + +2001/11/17 -- 0.99.7 + +* Make DYNAMIC work with hosts who do not support snmp +* do not print anything from FPing.pm if used from CGI + +2001/11/03 -- 0.99.6 + +* updated the default basepage.html to include automatic reload and cache expiery ... -- Me +* smokeping.cgi adds header information to the webpage with expiery and charset -- Me +* split the pod docs off the smokeping and smokeping.cgi scripts -- Me +* created a special version of fping where configure works ... added it to the + download area of smokeping. -- Me +* spell fixes for Smokepin.pm (smokeping_config.pod) -- S. William Schulz <ss *ssLinux.com> + +2001/11/01 -- 0.99.5 + +* Deal with nan as well as NaN -- Me +* Deal with DYNAMIC hosts who do not allow for SNMP -- Me +* mkdir needs a mode (0755) -- S. William Schulz <ss *ssLinux.com> +* Determine is fping reports in miliseconds or in 0.1 miliseconds -- Me +* Wait for 3 seconds when restarting ... |