path: root/CHANGES

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 <tyamadajp *list.rakugaki.org>

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 <mh+smokeping-users *zugschlus.de>

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 <smokeping *leos.cz>

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 <mh+smokeping-users *zugschlus.de>
* return '404 not found' when DYNAMIC updates fail
  -- niko, suggested by Marc Haber <mh+smokeping-users *zugschlus.de>
* 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 <lists.smokeping.wfitzgerald *crtman.com>
* 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 <sam_ml *spacething.org>
* 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 <d.mcginn-combs *mindspring.com>
* Perl 5.8.0 compatibility fix ("missing max for DS uptime")
  -- niko, reported by Steve Wickert and Kennedy Clark <hkclark *gmail.com>
* RRDtool 1.2.x compatibility fix ("unknown RRD version: 0003" on restart)
  -- niko, reported by Sam Stickland <sam_ml *spacething.org>

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 <mspitzer *gmail.com>
* 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 <lists.smokeping.wfitzgerald *crtman.com>
* 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 <chris *aidworld.org>
* 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 <chris *aidworld.org>
* fix the LDAP probe killing the CGI with perl <5.6 -- niko, reported by Peter Farmer <pfarmer *hashbang.org.uk>
* 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 <chris *aidworld.org>
* FPing6: test against ::1 instead of localhost -- Sebastian Wiesinger <smokeping *tracker.fire-world.de>
* 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 <wrdnet *earthlink.net> 
  
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 ...