* don't need to have all the external modules installed to build the documentation -- niko 2005/9/25 -- released version 20050925_trunk 2005/9/24 -- released version 20050924_trunk 2005/9/23 -- released version 20050923_trunk 2005/9/22 -- released version 20050922_trunk 2005/9/21 -- released version 20050921_trunk 2005/9/20 -- released version 20050920_trunk 2005/9/19 -- released version 20050919_trunk 2005/9/18 -- released version 20050918_trunk 2005/9/17 -- released version 20050917_trunk 2005/9/16 -- released version 20050916_trunk 2005/9/15 -- released version 20050915_trunk * reload the config file on HUP signal and switch to the new one if it isn't broken. After reloading, restart gracefully so that no measurement is interrupted. The signal can also be triggered by 'smokeping --reload'. -- niko, suggested by Taisuke Yamada 2005/9/14 -- released version 20050914_trunk * made some alert docs in smokeping_config visible --niko 2005/9/13 -- released version 20050913_trunk * optionally only send alerts when the state changes ('edgetrigger') -- niko, suggested by Marc Haber 2005/9/12 -- released version 20050912_trunk 2005/9/11 -- released version 20050911_trunk 2005/9/10 -- released version 20050910_trunk * try to trigger an alert with the minimum number of values needed for it rather than require a stack with the maximum number of possible values. See http://lists.ee.ethz.ch/smokeping-users/msg01654.html for the problem. -- niko, reported by Leos Bitto 2005/9/9 -- released version 20050909_trunk 2005/9/8 -- released version 20050908_trunk 2005/9/7 -- released version 20050907_trunk * automatically regenerate the logo images if Smokeping.pm has been updated --niko 2005/9/6 -- released version 20050906_trunk 2005/9/5 -- released version 20050905_trunk * don't create directories in "datadir" when running as a CGI -- niko * the DYNAMIC-related files (.adr and .snmp) can now be located outside "datadir" by specifying the new configuration variable "dyndir" -- niko, suggested by Marc Haber * return '404 not found' when DYNAMIC updates fail -- niko, suggested by Marc Haber * make errors in DYNAMIC updates appear in the web server error log -- niko * remove a quotemeta() call in Config::Grammar to allow metacharacters at the right side of '@define' -- niko, reported by Warrick FitzGerald * set LC_NUMERIC to C so that users who work with a locale like french that would use , as a decimal separator do not trip over failing regexp-matches (tobi) * bugfix for CiscoRTTMonEchoICMP packetsize variable -- niko, from Sam Stickland * tune DS properties min/max/heartbeat instead of just complaing about them not matching (tobi) 2005/05/31 - publish rc5 (tobi) * Officially include the tSmoke script from the contrib download directory. Note that this needs the new 'tmail' variable to be defined in the config file. -- niko, original script by Dan McGinn-Combs * Perl 5.8.0 compatibility fix ("missing max for DS uptime") -- niko, reported by Steve Wickert and Kennedy Clark * RRDtool 1.2.x compatibility fix ("unknown RRD version: 0003" on restart) -- niko, reported by Sam Stickland 2005/05/11 - publish rc4 (tobi) * Curl now has a new 'insecure_ssl' option for those not caring about CA paths -- niko, original patch by Marc Spitzer * document '@include' and its friends in smokeping_config in addition to Config::Grammar -- niko, from Marc Haber (Debian bug #307955) * AnotherDNS: Double check the answer from the dns server and optionally enforce a NOERROR response code -- Christoph.Heine in HaDiKo.DE * NEW Feature: when clicking on the graphs in detail view you can select different time ranges for the graph. The creation of this feature has been sponsored by BeverlyCorp.com -- tobi 2005/03/10 - 2.0rc3 (tobi) * Curl now has a new "extraargs" option for any extra arguments, like "--header" -- niko, requested by Warrick FitzGerald * change ISG::ParseConfig references to its new name, Config::Grammar -- niko 2005/02/28 - 2.0rc2 (tobi) * SYNOPSYS is really spelled SYNOPSIS. Shame on me. -- niko 2005/02/22 - 2.0rc1 (tobi) * don't create any RRD files if running as a CGI -- niko * Curl timeouts work better now -- niko, reported by Chris Wilson * Curl User-Agent string doesn't need quotes anymore -- niko * check at startup that existing RRD files conform to the config specifications -- niko * 3 pings is the official minimum now -- niko * graph fixes for small numbers of pings -- niko, reported by Chris Wilson * fix the LDAP probe killing the CGI with perl <5.6 -- niko, reported by Peter Farmer * make the LDAP probe work withouth IO::Socket::SSL -- niko * matchers start with a capital letter now -- niko * new probe programming interface -- niko - more strict config file checking giving helpful error messages when necessary - generate probe documentation automatically from the code - eliminate PROBE_CONF sections - several minor incompatible probe changes; see the smokeping_upgrade document for details * allow target-specific vars get defaults from Probes section -- niko * timeout fixes in basefork.pm -- niko * config file examples and smokeping_examples document -- niko * documentation updates and reorganizing -- niko * move all smokeping-specific perl modules into the Smokeping namespace -- niko * new commandline options '--config=X' and '--check' -- niko * FPing: support "-t", "-p" and "-i" fping params -- niko, suggested by Chris Wilson * FPing6: test against ::1 instead of localhost -- Sebastian Wiesinger * make sure mailsetup works before using it -- tobi * 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, reported by Jim Morris 2005/1/30 -- 1.38 * fixed error messages for environments with mixed ipv6 and ipv4 setups -- Peter W. Osel * fixed smoke coloring for 5 pings problem -- Tobi * fixed User-Agent example in Curl probe -- Sebastian Wiesinger 2005/1/12 -- 1.37 * base class did assume that concurrent probes were off by default -- Niko Tyni 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 - 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 * 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 * fixed many typos and some seemingly numeric comparisons -- Niko Tyni * new feature 'concurrentprobes' allow to run multiple probes in paralell and at different step width. -- Niko Tyni * allow to define multiple instances of a sigle probe -- Niko Tyni * 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 * fix for Radius probe -- Niko Tyni * 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 * 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 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 2004/03/14 -- 1.28 * do not repeat last rounds rtts in basefork if probe gets killed on timeout -- Niko Tyni 2004/03/09 -- 1.27 * allow . in labels -- Tobi * fix mkdir with missing permissions -- Xander Jansen * 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 * prevent requests to non existing pages -- tobi 2004/02/16 -- 1.26 * contributed radius and ldap probes -- Niko Tyni * 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 * added support for multiple alert recipients -- Dmitry Melekhov * fix for telnetIOSping.pm to consider packet size -- Paul Wulff * 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." * store iaxhight info in img cache -- Curtis Doty * 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 * new DNS.pm based on basefork by Igor Petrovski and Carl Elkins 2003/06/17 -- 1.21 * keep order of targets in config file when presenting on the web -- Tobi * fix mailsending with a b type addresses -- Aaron Schrab * made alert feature more robust -- Tobi * telnetiosping probe John A. Jackson * add iosint configurable to IOSPing.pm -- Mars Wei * added RemoteFPing Probe -- Luis F Balbinot 2003/04/12 -- 1.20 * replaced host foo with 127.0.0.1 in Echo*.pm probes -- John Sellens * curl probe -- Gerald Combs * DNS.pm should not use external binaries besided dig -- Tobi 2003/02/19 -- 1.19 * dns probe -- Andre Stolze * 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" 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 * added IOSPing.pm probe -- Paul J Murphy 2002/09/27 -- 1.15 * uptime color configuration was not working -- Alan Chen * 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 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 * 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 * 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 * allow logging via syslog -- Niko Tyni 2002/05/06 -- 1.10 * added avg loss to graphs -- tobi 2002/04/29 -- 1.9 * added Fping6 by Elmar Hoffmann * 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 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 * improve handling of PID file, cases where it could not be read or written wer not handlie gracefully -- Jan Ludewig * 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 **** INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE **** * EchoPing probes contributed by Niko Tyni 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 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 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 * Determine is fping reports in miliseconds or in 0.1 miliseconds -- Me * Wait for 3 seconds when restarting ...