This file documents the major additions and syntax changes between releases.
1.4.16 27th June 2012
ENHANCEMENTS
check_nt UPTIME accepts warning/critical thresholds (Ryan Kelly)
check_disk_smb now allows spaces in share names (#990948, #1370031, Debian #601699)
check_http now uses standard threshold functions (enables floating point and ranges)
check_http now checks for and prints the certificate cn (hostname) in SSL certificate checks (Stéphane Urbanovski)
check_http now supports an optional -S/--ssl value to choose the SSL protocol version (#3066166 - Jason Lunn)
Add perfdata to check_ssh (#3244097 - Marco Beck)
New option to check_smtp to ignore failures when sending QUIT (#3358348 - Duncan Ferguson)
New check_by_ssh -F option which allows for specifying an alternative ssh_config(5) file (#2895334 - Sven Nierlein)
check_sensors now detects faulty sensors unless --ignore-fault is specified (Jan Wagner)
utils.sh now provides a check_range function (Alex Griffin)
Improved the performance of check_users (Marc Remy)
Add perfdata to check_disk_smb (Debian #654259 - Charles-Henri Larose)
Updated Nagios::Plugin perl module
Add warning threshold to certificate expiration checks of check_tcp/http/smtp (William Leibzon)
Add --perf-oids option for check_snmp (Jochen Bern)
FIXES
Fix check_disk free space calculation if blocksizes differ within a disk group (Bekar - #2973603)
check_disk_smb now handles NT_STATUS_ACCESS_DENIED properly (Debian #601696)
Make check_snmp work more like v1.4.14 with regard to using special values (Timeticks, STRING) as numeric thresholds
Fix check_ldap overriding the port when --ssl was specified after -p
Fix check_procs where regex input of '|' would get displayed in output - now replaced with ','
Fix segfault in check_host when hostname returns multiple IP addresses (Sebastian Harl)
Fix check_smtp and check_tcp where duplicate messages were displayed for certificate errors
Fix check_ping's parsing of ping6(1) output (#1894850, Debian #514588, Debian #662638 - Matej Vela)
Fix a check_dhcp bug which was triggered by checking Windows 2003 DHCP servers (#3503921)
Disable RFC4507 support, to work around SSL negotiation issues with (at least) some Tomcat versions
Fix performance data label containing spaces in check_snmp (Jochen Bern)
1.4.15 27th July 2010
ENHANCEMENTS
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
FIXES
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
WARNINGS
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
1.4.14 16th September 2009
check_http has options to specify the HTTP method (#2155152)
check_users thresholds were not working exactly as documented (>= rather than >)
Updated tinderbox_build script to point to new tinderbox server
check_ifoperstatus -n flag now works as expected (sf.net #1569488)
check_ifoperstatus now supports ifType based lookup for ifIndex
check_ups now sends a LOGOUT string (debian bug #387001)
Extra-opts (C plugins) now allows both '#' and ';' for comments (like N::P)
Extra-opts (C plugins) does not allow trailing comments anymore (like N::P)
Fixed dependency issue on libtap when ./configure --enable-libtap used. Warning: will install libtap
Fixed segfault in extra-opts under some circumstance when reading multiple sections
Fix long options parsing in check_disk, check_dns, check_mrtg, check_mrtgtraf and check_tcp
Add missing long options for check_nt (for use with extra-opts)
check_icmp now reports min and max round trip time perfdata (Steve Rader)
Fixed check_http bug where additional headers with redirection caused a segfault (Dieter Van de Walle - 2089159)
check_disk: make autofs mount paths specified with -p before we determine the mount list (Erik Welch)
Fixed buffer overflow in check_ntp/check_ntp_peer (#1999319, Ubuntu #291265)
Re-bundled libtap as a built-in library (--enable-libtap): detects system library as pre-1.4.13 and does not install the built-in library anymore
Fixed check_mrtg returning UNKNOWN instead of OK (bug #2378068)
Fixed check_http behaviour: all check are now performed as long as a valid response is returned (sf.net #1460312)
check_http --onredirect=sticky follows using the same IP address (sf.net #2550208)
check_http --onredirect=stickyport also follows the same port
Fixed coredump from check_nt when invalid drive is specified (#2179754 - Olli Hauer)
Fixed crash from check_nt when -H unspecified or given multiple times (sf.net #2731755, debian #521097)
Fixed passing of quotes in OID for check_snmp (#1985230 - Jan Wagner, patch by John Barbuto)
Fixed check_http sending HTTP/1.0 with v1.1 headers (#2638765)
Fixed check_http not timing-out on redirects
Fixed negate not printing the real timeout in ALRM handler when left to default
negate timeout result is now configurable
Fixed segfault in check_mysql with old slaves (#2696823 - Oskar Ahner)
check_nt can return UNKNOWN on timeouts (-u)
Fixed typos for check_disk (Chris Pepper)
Fixed check_mysql* not using password set in my.cnf (#2531905 - Ben Timby) - Specify an empty password explicitly if you need to override it.
Fixed awk subst.in/subst script path error (#2722832 - Martin Foster)
check_http: Add SSL/TLS hostname extension support (SNI) - (#1939022 - Joe Presbrey)
Fixed wrong perfdata label for output traffic in check_mrtgtraf (#2654308 - Gavin Williams)
Fixed check_by_ssh interpretation of quotes in -C parameter (#1985246, #2268675)
check_snmp now supports standard threshold ranges and doubles (floating numbers) in thresholds
check_fping now supports passing target timeout and interval to fping (#2347686 - Martin Foster)
Fixed SNMPv3 behaviour of check_ifoperstatus and check_ifstatus. Added -P to define privprotocol (#2343438 - Robin Schroeder)
check_ifoperstatus and check_ifstatus are now more user-friendly in case of missing arguments
pst3 compile fix for Sun Studio Compiler (Grant Byers)
1.4.13 25th Sept 2008
Fix Debian bug #460097: check_http --max-age broken (Hilko Bengen)
Optimised pst3 for systems with large number of processes (Duncan Ferguson)
Updated Nagios::Plugin to 0.27
Fix Debian bug #479013: check_dig's -l is mandatory now (sf.net #1986306)
check_dig now returns CRITICAL instead of WARNING when no answer section is found
check_procs now captures stderr in external command and adds to plugin output
check_snmp now only prints perfdata for non numeric values (#1867716)
check_icmp now supports packet size modification
check_http -e now accepts a comma-delimited list of expected status codes (Sven Nierlein)
libtap now included with this distribution for easier testing. Run ./configure with --enable-libtap
check_ntp_peer/check_ntp_time used to show port in --help but ignored the argument - now implemented
Fix possible segfault in check_ntp_peer with deliberately invalid packets
1.4.12 27th May 2008
Added ./check_nt -v INSTANCES to count number of instances (Alessandro Ren)
New check_icmp -s option to specify the source IP address
check_dns now sorts addresses for testing results for more than one returned IP (Matthias Urlichs)
Fix segfault in check_ntp_time and (deprecated) check_ntp (Bug #1862300)
check_disk should now work with large file systems (2TB+) on all archs that supports it
Fixed check_disk disk usage calculation when using --group=NAME (related to bug #1348746)
Fix help text of check_ntp* (Bug #1880095)
Fix bugs and flaws in best offset server selection of check_ntp_time and (deprecated) check_ntp
check_ntp_peer now checks for the LI_ALARM flag
Sync to latest Gnulib (includes new floorf function)
check_pgsql now successfully builds with postgres lib v8.3 (Bug #1878972)
check_procs now accepts --ereg-argument-array for a regular expression match to the argument array
Reverted back to using pst3 for Solaris systems. Fixed issues re: -m64 needed to compile on 64bit systems
If applicable, Gettext linked dynamically instead of statically
check_dig can now pass arguments to dig by using -A/--dig-arguments (#1874041/#1889453)
check_ntp and check_ntp_peer now show proper jitter/stratum thresholds longopts in --help
check_dns now allow to repeat -a to match multiple possibly returned address (common with load balancers)
check_mysql and check_radius now try clearing password in processlist just like check_mysql_query
check_mysql and check_mysql_query now support sockets explicitely (-s, --socket)
negate now has the ability to replace the status text as well (-s, --substitute)
Added performance data to check_ping (Christian Schneemann)
Added support for --extra-opts in all C plugins (disabled by default, see configure --help)
Fixed passive option in check_by_ssh
On non-skipped stderr, check_by_ssh now returns UNKNOWN or worse (result from command) instead of always UNKNOWN.
Fix linking against OpenSSL where libdl is required
1.4.11 13th December 2007
Fixed check_http regression in 1.4.10 where following redirects to
relative URLs on virtual hosts failed if both "-H" and "-I" were used
Merged two new checks that deprecates check_ntp: check_ntp_peer and check_ntp_time.
You should read the --help output so see which one is suitable for you. check_ntp_peer
implement stratum thresholds support (feature request #1703823).
check_ntp now returns UNKNOWN instead of WARNING if jitter is unavailable (jitter=-1.000000)
as long as the thresholds range include -1. If no offset threshold is specified
and the offset is unavailable, will return UNKNOWN as well.
NOTE: If jitter thresholds are specified as integers it will return CRITICAL if jitter
is "-1" as the default range starts at 0. See Examples in --help output.
Fixed broken usage2 in check_snmp and check_cluster
check_cluster now accepts all valid characters in its thresholds ("-", "@", "~")
Fixed check_disk reporting OK if disk usage grows over 100% (bug #1348746).
The problem happens to be in Gnulib but a workaround have been implemented in check_disk.c
Fixed check_load argument handling when not passing triplets (bug #1831890)
Fixed buffer overflow in check_snmp (CVE-2007-5623)
Tinderbox builds now runs tests in a verbose mode
Updated Nagios::Plugin to 0.22
VPATH problem fixed for compiling plugins-root
1.4.10 28th September 2007
Fix check_http buffer overflow vulnerability when following HTTP redirects (CVE-2007-5198)
check_http now explicitly asks HTTP/1.1 servers to close the connection
after completion of the response
Check_ldaps' guessing which secure method to use (starttls vs. ssl on connect)
is now deprecated. See --help for further information.
Check_disk now calls stat() on all filesystems to check. (Old: only the ones selected using -p)
A meaningful error message (eg "Stale NFS Handle") is printed if stat fails.
New check_disk option -L: Only check local filesystems, but call stat() on remote ones, too.
Thus accessibility of remote filesystems can be checked without any threshold comparison.
Check_disk's --help now prints some examples for the new features introduced in 1.4.8
New check_disk -i/-I option to ignore pathes/partitions based on regular expressions
New check_disk -A option to select all filesystems explicitly
WARNING: check_disk's -E option must now be passed before -p or -r/-R arguments
Passing -E after -p or -r results in UNKNOWN state, now
This is needed due to the new ignore feature
Fix check_disk bug when mixing case sensitive and case insensitive regex arguments
New check_dhcp -u/--unicast option for emulating a DHCP relay in order
to check DHCP servers on remote networks
New check_dhcp -m/--mac option which allows for specifying the MAC
address to use in the DHCP request
The check_dhcp -r and -s options now accept host names, too
Fix possible check_icmp bus errors on some (non-x86/AMD64) platforms
Fix check_smtp's handling of multiple-packet server responses
WARNING: Fix for negate which may break existing commands:
- stop evaluating command line options through shell twice
- enforce a full path for the command to run
The "negate" utility can now remap custom states
Check_radius now supports radiusclient-ng
The (undocumented) positional parameter parsing which check_radius used
instead of getopt(3) if 8 arguments were given is no longer available
Check_by_ssh now supports multiline output
IPv6 support can now be disabled using ./configure --without-ipv6
Fix check_ntp now honor ntp flags
1.4.9 4th June 2007
Inclusion of contrib/check_cluster2 as check_cluster with some improvements
New/improved -E/--skip-stderr and -S/--skip-stdout options for check_by_ssh
check_snmp now supports Counter64
Fix compilation of check_ldap, check_radius and check_pgsql
check_load can optionally divide by number of cpus
Fix check_time returning wrong OK when time is before the epoch on some arch
Make check_http output more consistent
Fix possible check_http segfaults when following HTTP redirects
check_snmp don't warn anymore if something is printed on stderr
Fix check_tcp segfault when multiple expect strings are given
New option for check_tcp: -A/--all to test if all given expect strings match
1.4.8 11th April 2007
Respects --without-world-permissions for setuid plugins
check_disk extra options for regex matching of filesystems and grouping of filesystems
for collective thresholds
Better configure test for mysqlclient availability
Various check_ntp fixes
1.4.7 29th March 2007
check_procs uses /usr/ucb/ps if available - fixes pst3 problems on Solaris
Fixed MKINSTALLDIRS problem in po/
./configure now detects if possible to compile check_mysql
Fixed broken HELO in check_smtp
check_icmp now allows to set a minimum number of hosts required for successs (-m)
check_icmp fix for *BSD when running for long time
check_ping times out 1 second quicker if host is unreachable
Root plugins installed with world executable
check_sybase from contrib now maintained in NagiosExchange
--with-nagios-user/group reinstated ./configure option
New --without-world-permissions ./configure option
1.4.6 5th February 2007
Reduced number of DNS lookups in check_ping and netutils.c for IPv6 configurations
Fixed compile problems with *BSD re: alloca.h
Fixed Solaris problems with check_swap (tested on Solaris 9)
Fixed check_swap for HP/UX where swapinfo command was incorrect
Fixed check_disk inode threshold checks, regressed at r1.4.4.
Fixed crit/warn for check_disk perf data
Fixed buffer overflow in check_procs
Fixed error handling for UNIX sockets in netutils.c
New -q and -o options for check_by_ssh which are handed over to ssh(1) as is
Synced with latest GNUlib
Fixed check_jabber always returns warning
1.4.5
Fixed bug in perl's is_hostname routine
1.4.4
New C based check_ntp. The perl version is now deprecated.
New check_apt plugin
Notice: plugins in contrib/ will start to be removed from this distribution.
Please check at http://www.nagiosexchange.org for contributed plugins
Major bug fixes to check_disk where values were incorrectly calculated and alerted on.
check_udp2 removed. check_udp is now linked to check_tcp.c
check_mailq now errors if the sub-program run returns non-zero return code. This would appear
as if mailqs were okay when the nagios user could not query the mail-queues
Compile problems with check_snmp fixed
1.4.3
Setuid plugins (check_dhcp, check_icmp) separated into plugins-root/. Run make install as root to install
SSL plugins work with gnutls as well as OpenSSL
check_mysql_query added to run arbitrary SQL commands, with threshold checking
libtool now required for development systems
Notice: check_udp (compiled from check_udp.c) will be deprecated in the next release.
check_udp2 should be used instead and will be renamed to check_udp
1.4.2
Fix for Redhat ES4 for check_dns and check_dig
1.4
IPv6 support in check_ping, check_by_ssh, check_http, check_ldap, check_smtp, check_tcp
Internationalisation support
Performance data added to most plugins
check_disk now using GNU coreutils code
New plugins - check_dhcp, check_icmp
contrib/check_citrix has been replaced by contrib/check_ica* (requires packet_utils.pm in libexec)
check_http --min changed to --pagesize, added max so min:max in check
check_vsz and check_rss deprecated - functionality moved into check_procs
check_swap % thresholds changed to measure amount free, instead of amount used
check_disk syntax changes for -p, -m/-M, defaults to MB instead of kB
check_procs -C expects no path for the command name
