The Nagios Plugin Development Team are proud to announce the latest Nagios Plugins release.
This release contains several enhancements, including rate calculation in check_snmp. There are also lots of bug fixes.
Thanks to all the contributors who raised issues or provided patches.
You can get the download from: sourceforge.net/projects/nagiosplug/files/
ENHANCEMENTS:
[list]]New check_ntp_peer -m and -n options to check the number of usable time sources (“truechimers”)/]
]New check_disk_smb -a option which allows for specifying the IP address of the remote server/]
]New check_radius -N option which allows for specifying the value of the NAS-IP-Address attribute/]
]New check_snmp --rate option to store differences between invocations. Saves state in PREFIX/var/{plugin}/]
]check_snmp -l label option now also changes the perfdata label. See WARNINGS/]
]check_snmp has an --invert-search option which reverses status of the string and regexp searches/]
]check_http now displays the missing search string and the URL in the output when failed (Duncan Ferguson - #2999924)/]
]Updated Nagios::Plugin perl module/]
]Updated gnulib to June 2010/][/list:u]
FIXES:
[list]]Fix check_ircd binding to wrong interface (#668778)/]
]Add proxy-authorization option to check_http (Marcel Kuiper - #1323230, Bryan Irvine - #2863925)/]
]check_icmp now increment the sequence counter in each packet/]
]Fix usage of repeated -o options in check_snmp/]
]Try to detect arguments passed via --with-ping[6]-command and set options accordingly (#2908236)/]
]Fix memory leak in check_http for large pages (Jimmy Bergman - #2957455)/]
]Fix compilation with GCC 2.96 (Konstantin Khomoutov - #2977105)/]
]Fix regression introduced in #1867716 where partially valid performance strings would not be printed anymore/]
]Fix regression in check_http ssl checks on some servers - make SNI an option/]
]Fix guest mode support in check_disk_smb/]
]Fix check_disk_smb and check_ircd failures when run via ePN/]
]check_ldap now allows for specifying an empty LDAP base/]
]Fix compilation error of pst3 in Solaris 8/]
]Fix check_radius returning OK on unexpected results (Craig Leres - #2911752)/]
]Fix translations when extra-opts aren’t enabled (Jan Wagner - #2832884)/]
]Fix parsing of multi-line strings in check_snmp (broken in 1.4.14) and enhance output in such case (#2832451)/]
]Fix detection of pst3 64-bit compile flags with Sun CC/]
]Fix cmd_run overwriting the environment, which would break some commands that needed it/]
]Allow check_ifstatus to accept version=2c - used to only allow version=2 (Brian Landers)/]
]Fix examples in check_disk, where it implied was possible to suffix unit values to warn/crit parameters/][/list:u]
WARNINGS:
[list]]Updated developer documentation to say that performance labels should not have an equals sign or single quote in the label/]
]check_http 1.4.14 introduced SSL SNI support - you now have to enable it explicitly with “–sni”/]
]check_snmp -l label option is also used for the performance label. This could change history from previous uses/][/list:u]