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Release announcements, technical guides and monitoring insights from the ConSol team.
SNClient 0.12 was released
Tuesday, November 07, 2023 in Releases
A new release of SNClient was released. Breaking Changes: Features Add built-in check_http / check_tcp / check_dns Add check_omd check Changed Bugfixes MSI windows installer: do not change windows service during updates Download https://github.com/ConSol-Monitoring/snclient/releases/tag/v0.12
SNClient 0.11 was released
Friday, October 27, 2023 in Releases
A new release of SNClient was released. Breaking Changes: Features Add (prometheus) node/windows exporter and custom exporters Support filter regex syntax: attr ~~ /value/ Changed Return error if using unknown check arguments Bugfixes Fix check_drivesize showing wrong disk on linux Fix windows installer removing snclient.ini on update Download https://github.com/ConSol-Monitoring/snclient/releases/tag/v0.11
SNClient 0.10 was released
Sunday, October 22, 2023 in Releases
A new release of SNClient was released. Breaking Changes: Windows: add firewall on program, not ports Features Add prometheus exporter exporter listener Add support for shared listeners Add on demand macros Changed Bugfixes Download https://github.com/ConSol-Monitoring/snclient/releases/tag/v0.10
SNClient 0.09 was released
Saturday, October 07, 2023 in Releases
A new release of SNClient was released. Breaking Changes: Features check_network: add name/exclude and speed Changed Use shared_path as working directory when running check_process: fix showing all processes check_drivesize: do not apply default filter if disk is specified Bugfixes Download https://github.com/ConSol-Monitoring/snclient/releases/tag/v0.09
check_nwc_health 11.2 was released
Friday, September 15, 2023 in Releases
A new version of check_nwc_health was released. Breaking Changes: Features The --mode interface-status will now output the configured VLANs on an interface. ... --mode interface-status --name GigabitEthernet0/0/32 OK - GigabitEthernet0/0/32 (alias Uplink S+, vlan(s): vlan209) is up/up Changed The mode hardware-health for Huawei devices caches the contents of the hwEntityTable for an hour and only requests a few rows from the hwEntityStateTable, so that the runtime is significantly reduced. (Ths also avoids hitting a rate limit) Bugfixes Download https://github.com/lausser/check_nwc_health
SNClient 0.08 was released
Thursday, September 07, 2023 in Releases
A new prerelease of SNClient was released. Breaking Changes: Features Powershell and BAT scripts no longer need a wrapping. Changed Bugfixes Some common cmd.exe errors are caught. Fix restart after an update from the cli. Installation creates a logfile folder. Download https://github.com/ConSol-Monitoring/snclient/releases/tag/v0.08
Replacing check_http by check_curl - Lessons Learned
Friday, July 28, 2023 in Insights
In a customer’s installation we had the problem, that an http-check (using the plugin check_http) could not successfully connect to a website. $ check_http -H cts-freq.cloud -t 120 --ssl -u "/" --ssl --onredirect follow -vvv CRITICAL - Cannot make SSL connection. 140484279109552:error:14077410:SSL routines:SSL23_GET_SERVER_HELLO:sslv3 alert handshake failure:s23_clnt.c:769: SSL initialized A test with check_curl showed that this newer plugin was functioning as expected. $ check_curl -H cts-freq.cloud -t 120 --ssl -u "/" --ssl --onredirect follow -vvv HTTP OK: HTTP/1.1 200 OK - 449 bytes in 0.605 second response time |time=0.604714s;;;0.000000;120.000000 size=449B;;;0 As check_curl was designated as the successor for check_http, we decided to decommission check_http and use check_curl …
SNClient 0.06 was released
Thursday, July 27, 2023 in Releases
A new prerelease of SNClient was released. Breaking Changes: Features relative include paths are now considered to be in the parent ini-file Changed Bugfixes wmi: improve error handling Download https://github.com/ConSol-Monitoring/snclient/releases/tag/v0.06
SNClient 0.05 was released
Friday, July 21, 2023 in Releases
A new prerelease of SNClient was released. You can now install the MSI, put an additional ini-file with your customizations in the install directory and therefore don’t have to modify anything in the download package. Any local settings are made in separate from it. Breaking Changes: Features add configuration dialog to .msi installer setup windows firewall rules during installation add wildcard support for includes add conf.d directory support for includes added check_tasksched added nrpe mode to test cmd Changed Bugfixes fix osx installer (#27) fix linux check_drivesize (#14) fix missing byte in nrpe response (#21) Download https://github.com/ConSol-Monitoring/snclient/releases/tag/v0.05
Naemon 1.4.1 is here
Thursday, February 02, 2023 in Releases
Today we released the version 1.4.1 of naemon-core and naemon-livestatus. This release includes bugfixes only and fixes a memory leak along with some packaging cleanup. Features None Changed Use /run/naemon instead of /var/run/naemon Bugfixes Fix bashisms in scripts Fix fg: no job control output Fix memory leak in cmd parser Fix closing worker filehandles Livestatus Fix service parents to be always a list of host,service tupels Fix g_tree_foreach: assertion `tree != NULL’ in logs table