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=head1 NAME
smokeping_upgrade - Notes on upgrading Smokeping
=head1 OVERVIEW
This document tries to list incompatible or otherwise user-visible changes
in Smokeping versions, with instructions on how to fix any possible
problems. It also sporadically mentions new features and the like.
The document currently starts with changes from 1.34 to 1.37. If you
run into problems with upgrading from earlier versions, please send
a description of the problems, preferably with notes on how to fix
them, to the C<smokeping-users> mailing list, so they can be added to
this document. The same applies to any problems you find with current
versions that are not documented here, of course. Patch submissions
against the POD source of this file are most appreciated.
If a version is not listed, there are no known problems in upgrading
to it from the previous release.
An official list of changes with each release can be found in the CHANGES
file in the Smokeping distribution. This document tries to complement
that with upgrading instructions etc.
=head1 1.38 to 2.0
The biggest change with the 2.0 release is that the configuration file
is now parsed much more strictly. This should result in (hopefully
understandable) error messages making the configuration less of the
trial-and-error variety than it used to be. It also automates the
generation of the configuration documentation from the source code,
so the docs are now more accurate.
The configuration syntax has stayed mostly the same, except for the
issues below.
=over
=item PROBE_CONF
The PROBE_CONF subsections have been deprecated. All the target-specific
variables are now configured in the same section as the target is. Just
deleting the
++ PROBE_CONF
lines should fix this (for any number of '+', obviously.)
The existence of a PROBE_CONF section makes smokeping exit with an error
message at parse time.
Note for distributors: these lines could easily be removed automatically
during upgrade.
=item Variable order
The C<probe> variable must now be set before any variables that depend on
the selected probe. This is because setting C<probe> modifies the grammar
of the rest of the section dynamically at parse time.
Additionally, C<probe> must now precede C<host>, for reasons that have
to do with the current implementation of mandatory variable checking.
Both of these errors are recognized at parse time and produce error messages
accordingly.
Note for distributors: the C<smokeping> command now has a new '--check'
option that can be used to verify the syntax of the configuration
file. It might be a good idea to do this on upgrade and give the user
an explanatory note if the verification fails.
=item Target-specific variables in the Probes section
This is not an incompatible change, but it is mentioned here nevertheless.
Target-specific variables can now be specified in the Probes section as well,
and the values given become defaults for all the targets.
=back
In addition to this, some probes have had minor incompatible changes to
their configuration.
=over
=item L<RemoteFPing|Smokeping::probes::RemoteFPing>
The C<rbinary> variable is now mandatory. This is a side effect from a bigger change:
the probe is now derived from the FPing probe and supports all the variables
FPing does.
=item L<FPing6|Smokeping::probes::FPing6>
This probe is also now derived from FPing and supports all the variables FPing does.
=item L<Curl|Smokeping::probes::Curl>
The URL that will be used is now specified with the variable C<urlformat> instead
of C<url>. The new variable can (and usually should) include a placeholder
for the C<host> variable of each target as C<%host%>, eg. C<urlformat = http://%host%/>.
The new variable is mandatory.
The change was made to fix the confusing situation where the C<host> variable
was required for each actual target, but it didn't actually have any effect
(as the server to be probed came from the C<url> variable.)
=item L<EchoPingIcp|Smokeping::probes::EchoPingIcp>
The C<url> variable is now mandatory, as the old default "/" didn't make
sense because it's relative rather than absolute.
=item L<LDAP|Smokeping::probes::LDAP>
The C<filter> variable is now mandatory, as Net::LDAP bails out without it.
The C<sleeptime> variable was changed to C<mininterval> and its semantics
were changed accordingly (it's now the minimum time between two queries
rather than the time slept between the end of one and the start of the
another.)
=item L<Radius|Smokeping::probes::Radius>
The C<sleeptime> variable was changed to C<mininterval> and its semantics
were changed accordingly. See the LDAP explanation above.
=item L<AnotherDNS|Smokeping::probes::AnotherDNS>
The C<sleeptime> variable was changed to C<mininterval> and its semantics
were changed accordingly. See the LDAP explanation above. Additionally,
the time is now specified in seconds rather than microseconds.
=item L<AnotherSSH|Smokeping::probes::AnotherSSH>
The C<sleeptime> variable was changed to C<mininterval> and its semantics
were changed accordingly. See the LDAP explanation above. Additionally,
the time is now specified in seconds rather than microseconds.
=item L<telnetIOSPing|Smokeping::probes::telnetIOSPing>
The C<target> variable was removed. The target should now be specified
in the C<host> variable, like it is with all the other probes.
=back
=head1 1.34 to 1.37
=over
=item The L<RemoteFPing|Smokeping::probes::RemoteFPing> probe
The configuration of this probe was moved from the Targets section to the
Probes section, as all the variables are really probe-specific. The moved
variables were C<rhost>, C<rbinary> and C<rhost>.
=item Logging changes
The C<smokeping> daemon now warns at startup if syslog support is not turned on
in the config file. This is because many diagnostic messages will otherwise
get lost.
=item Concurrent probes
Each probe now runs in its own process, instead of them all running
sequentially in one process. This makes it possible to specify different
step lengths for different probes. You can get the old behaviour back
by setting 'concurrentprobes = no'.
=back
=head1 COPYRIGHT
Copyright 2005 by Niko Tyni.
=head1 LICENSE
This program is free software; you can redistribute it
and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public
License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either
version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later
version.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be
useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied
warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR
PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more
details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public
License along with this program; if not, write to the Free
Software Foundation, Inc., 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA
02139, USA.
=head1 AUTHOR
Niko Tyni <ntyni@iki.fi>
=head1 SEE ALSO
The other Smokeping documents, especially L<smokeping_config>.
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