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2013/03/04 - released version 2.6.9
* be more careful about preventing xss attacks, re http://bugs.debian.org/659899 (tobi)
* provide more configurable replacements for remocular integration (tobi)
* Added new probe SendEmail -- Florian Coulmier <florian@coulmier.fr>
* re-initialize rand upon fork -- Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>
* add expect parameter to Curl.pm -- Jeremy Weatherford <jweather@xidus.net>
* allow to configure FPing probe to read fping output form stdout instead of stderr (tobi)
* allow title to be defined via cgi parameter when calling navigator interface directly (tobi)
* respect the probe timeout -- Dmitry Melekhov
* must provide the actual width when finding max or consolidation will cause problems - thanks david for the hint!
* wait for the first gen child to terminate (tobi)
* Template support for HTTP auth user - Darren Murphy <darren@victoriajd.com>
* fork alert handlers, so that smokeping does not block (tobi)
* in smokeinfo actually use the start and end options ... do not only
advertise them ... thanks to Chris Myers for reporting this -- tobi
* in the smokeping.fcgi sample, make sure to exec the script so that
mod_fcgi tracks the right process -- Eric Searcy
* Fork alert handler scripts so that sokeping does not block
2012/02/07 -- released version 2.6.8
* Make SipSak work with sip services actually implementing OPTIONS -- tobi
2012/01/11 -- released version 2.6.7
* be more careful in handling input from the web to prevent xss. Thanks to
Russ McRee <holisticinfosec@gmail.com> for pointing this out.
* Updated TCPPing probe -- Chris Wilson chris aptivate.org
* Make Median matcher work without complaint at startup and if unknown data elements occur in the stream.
2011/11/12 -- released version 2.6.6
* fixed embedded version number in Smokeping.pm
2011/10/30 -- released version 2.6.5
* improved configurability and generate config specific config.dist file
by Tim Wild
2011/10/20 -- released version 2.6.4
* fixed gettimeofday() in SSH.pm probe too as noted by Phillip Corchary
2011/10/20 -- released version 2.6.3
* make sure probes call gettimeofday with () as noted by Phillip Corchary
2011/10/11 -- released version 2.6.2
* migrated to github.com/oetiker/SmokePing
* added missing files from cropper tree
2011/09/28 -- released version 2.6.1
* improved install documentation
2011/09/28 -- released version 2.6.0
* added automake support
* fixed strftime to POSIX::strftime in Smokeping.pm -- reported by Joe Colin
2011/09/26 -- released version 2.5.1
* fixed version number in modules
2011/09/25 -- released version 2.5.0
* in zoom/ajax mode, do not exit ... fastcgis should not quit
* Switch from using SpeedyCGI to FastCGI. inspired by a patch from Ken Dreyer
* Added new OpenSSHJunOSPing probe to run ping from a juniper router via
ssh. This work has been sponsored by Juniper.
* Integrated Disman probe ( DISMAN-PING-MIB: RFC Ping ) by Bill Fenner. This
work has been sponsored by Juniper.
* removed smoketrace support. this and more functionality is now provided by
remocular (www.remocular.org)
* give more advise when resetting LC_NUMERIC is not successful -- Lee Thompson
* allow alert patterns with lower AND upper limit >a<b or >=A%<B% or ...
-- tobi idea by Justin LeMay
* new probe for SIP Ping test based on sipsak tool
-- tobi sponsored by ANI Networks
* bandaid fix for timeout issue in CiscoRTTMonEchoICMP probe ...
since the probe needs a longer timeout, the basefork parent needs to wait
longer too ... a local timeout configurable with higher default should fix
this. -- tobi
* make the build system compatible with HTML::Parser >= 3.64
--niko, reported as Debian bug #560562
* update prototype and scriptaculous libraries to make zooming work again on
ff3.5, to make it work, make sure to update the basepage.html to include
cropper/lib/scriptaculous.js?load=builder,effects,dragdrop
--tobi
* fixed url in alert messages triggered from slaves. as reported by Nathan
Long --tobi
* fix a typo in configuration example 4, spotted by Guglielmo Bondioni
<guglielmo.bondioni *gmail.com> --niko
* the Radius probe now has an 'allowreject' variable that makes it treat
rejected RADIUS authentications as OK.
Patch by Jeremy Laidman <jlaidman *rebel-it.com.au> --niko
* help --static to work a bit better by fixing the dummy script_name
implementation -- tobi
* disable __DIE__ handler inside evals -- tobi
* fix broken FPing.pm error message call -- tobi
* smokeinfo: new tool to extract numeric data from a smokeping installation
creation sponsored by Swisscom Hospitality -- tobi
* new matcher: ExpLoss.pm matcher.
It produces an exponential weighted average and supports RMON-like
thresholds to obtain stable node status detection. -- Veniamin Konoplev V.Konoplev rssi.ru
* let cgi processes die on config change this provides for smoother
behaviour than a horde of instances going for a cfg reload. --tobi
* tune speedy parameters for a more reasonable behaviour --tobi
* rewrite storing of multiple slave updates for better performance --tobi
* fix bug in storage of slave updatesL: when the local smokeping daemon
running only the first update could be read back, the others were hidden
in the storeable. --tobi
* set sig child to IGNORE for automatic reaping of zombies -- tobi
2008/7/24 -- released version 2.4.2
* added strict to both wrappers and fixed some followup errors -- tobi
* kill taint error in Smokeping.pm -- tobi
* better master/slave secrets documentation -- tobi
* do not load :sys_wait_h from POSIX perl module since this seems to
be missing in some linux distros and we can do alright without.
2008/6/13 -- released version 2.4.1
* fixed js packaging error ... s/VERSION/x/ was a bad idea
2008/6/10 -- released version 2.4.0
* building a --static version of the smokeping page is broken. Make
it a little less broken by providing a dummyCGI->script_name method.
--tobi
* added blazemode option to FPing, so that it sends an extra ping to
blaze a path to the destionation and then discarges it. Based on idea by
G.W. Haywood -- tobi
* fix for telneJunOSPing by Christian Hahn -- tobi
* fixed FPing regression created in r680 it broke the proper handling of old
version of fping. Found by Celedonio Miranda Torresano -- tobi
* first cut at mtr integration ... added new menuextra config item
to build mtr links. -- tobi
* use localtime to construct the rawlog filename
--tobi as reported by Kent Kuriyama
* allow slave names to have . in them but not target sections. --tobi
2008/4/26 -- released version 2.3.6
* add custom style for active menu link
-- tobi, patch by Daniel Rich drich employees.org
* honour the 'linkstyle' variable when zooming
-- niko, reported by Wolfgang Tremmel as Debian bug #476404
* the 'ralf' fix for cgi which is not able to read the secrets file. -- tobi
* display "all the smoke" even when it gets cut at the top end of the graph
--tobi
2008/3/29 -- released version 2.3.5
* make slaves kill their old children off before forking new ones when
the configuration changes. Reported by David Behr. --niko
2008/3/28 -- released version 2.3.4
* fix 'loss_background' documentation. Reported by David Tomic. --niko
* fix local variable override handling in connection with nomasterpoll
--niko
* add protocol level master/slave protocol to control upgrades --tobi
* fix ordering of menu entries again --tobi
* bail out if the master/slave shared secret file is world-readable
or writable --niko
* add some security notes to the master/slave documentation --niko
* Switch message hash generation to Digest::HMAC_MD5 (bundled) since this
prevents the extension attack. Note that this change requires that you
upgrade client and server in sync (you should do that anyway, but
especially because of this)! -- tobi
* make sure when loading the sortercache that we only load info about
graphs presently in the config. --tobi
* optionally precreate the directory structure under 'dyndir' if
'precreateperms' is set --niko
* store the slave updates in 'dyndir', defaulting to 'datadir' --niko
* change the slave update locking code so that reading works without
write access to the temporary storage file --niko
* allow SSH probe to config rsa1 key -- Walery Kokarev
* make zooming work properly even for graphs generated with the
navigator form time range fields. -- tobi
2008/3/10 -- released version 2.3.3
* use separate slave cache and longer slave timeout. this
helps with slave congestion -- Phillip Moore pdm yahoo-inc.com
* add an optional --pid-dir option to specify the pid directory
when running as a slave. --niko
* slaves were not polling targets where nomasterpoll was set --tobi
2008/2/25 -- released version 2.3.2
* make ajax mode work on IE again -- tobi
* make rawlog mode work again --tobi
* make ajax mode work for nomasterpol targets --tobi
* fixe ordering of menu versus overview page --tobi
2008/2/17 -- released version 2.3.1
* Master should not generate alerts for nomasterpoll targets --tobi
* Fixed div structure in hierarchy and filter form --tobi
2008/1/23 -- released version 2.3.0
* Integrated TCPPing Probe -- Norman Rasmussen
* Added new properties to target configuration
hide for hiding the target on the webinterface
nomasterpoll to exclude this target from polling on the master
-- tobi
* Added filter/search function to web interface. --tobi
* Added support for alternate presentation hierarchies
check Presentation->hierarchies and Target->parents --tobi
* fix javascript error about non existing zoom div -- tobi
* Switch to curl --help since some distros seem to compile without --manual
-- tobi
* made Smokeping.pm more portable by using %.1f in perl sprintf -- tobi
* fix file locking for solaris in master/slave setups. work in progress. -- tobi
* EchoPingHttp: add the 'accept_redirects' option, suggested by
Kelly Shutt <kelly *websitesource.com> --niko
* remove a leftover 'use HTTP::Request' from Smokeping::Master -- niko
* document the LWP dependency of the Smokeping::Slave module -- niko
* fix restart behaviour of clients in multiprocess mode. now we just send
ourself a SIGHUP and let 'it' happen -- tobi
* make sure tsmoke sends mime conformant mails -- tobi
2007/10/29 -- released version 2.2.7
* Make slaves with FQDN work properly -- tobi
* Report when *** slaves *** section and slaves statements in the
target section do not agree. -- tobi
* Make tsmoke work with multihost targets -- tobi
* Do not force a page reload more frequently than every 120s -- tobi
* Make sure slaves in targets match up with entries in the slaves section -- tobi
2007/10/28 -- released version 2.2.6
* removed some cruft from the release archive -- tobi
* fixed release process to prevent furture cruft -- tobi
* use curl --manual to figure which options are supported (this was in 2.2.5
already) --tobi
2007/10/27 -- released version 2.2.5
* removed all the 'live' tests from the echoping probes --niko
* log a warning message on the first 'round' of pinging if curl or
echoping exits with non-zero status --niko
* fixed parsing of slaves statements in config file. This did not work at
all it seems --tobi
* allow rightclicks in the legnd area of the zoom image. this allows to save
the image. -- tobi
* In the SSH probe let the user configure the port to use when talking to
the client --tobi
* Make master/slave work when slave names contain uppercase letters and full
dots. -- tobi
* Allow slave-name to be configured -- tobi
* switched to config grammar 1.10 -- tobi
* make sure reload_config reloads in any case even when the config has not changed ...
with this we solve the problem that maybe some @include configs have changed
which we would not find out otherwise -- tobi
* updated cropper: when selecting something outside the graph, multiply by
10. Use this to zoom out -- tobi
2007/9/16 -- released version 2.2.4
* Fixed zooming mode in multi host graphs -- tobi
* Warn when smokeping uses takes over 80% of the time available for a polling cycle -- tobi
* don't complain when there is no data in a graph yet while calculation stddev -- tobi
* in a multihost graph take the number of pings for each component into consideration -- tobi
* fixed problem with rounding error in calculating stddev -- tobi
* include the prototype.js license for completeness -- niko
* fix Smokeping.pm POD documentation -- niko
2007/9/06 -- released version 2.2.3
* alter ajax grapher mode to use seconds timestamps and not iso dates
this prevents timezone problems with the browser -- tobi
* 1.2 is required now ... -- tobi
* make sure start is before end in the cropper zoom -- tobi
* better documentation on multihost syntax added -- tobi
* slaves should skip multi target hosts -- tobi
* set Content-Length header to help multi request queries -- tobi
2007/8/30 -- released version 2.2.2
* fixed links to slave graphs from chart mode -- tobi
* minor cosmetic fixes -- tobi
2007/8/30 -- released version 2.2.1
* minor cosmetic fixes -- tobi
2007/08/30 -- released version 2.2.0
*** all the new features in this release has been done under contract with DynDNS ***
* Added multi-host function (show data from several links in one graph) -- tobi
* Added stddev caclulation -- tobi
* Added slave support into detail graphs -- tobi
* Made interactive Graph zoomer somewhat work on ie6 and ie7 -- tobi
* Integrated interactive Graph zoomer -- Roman Plessl rplessl oetiker.ch
* first drop of the master/slave code added. now the debugging beginns. -- tobi
* fix uses of uninitialized value in the loss_background code
-- niko, reported by yilmaz.atag *abs.gov.au
* added description of the master/slave mode I am implementing
for dyndns -- tobi
* fixed smoke when there is a lot of 'loss' -- tobi
* do not use 127.0.0.1 when testing echoping and curl functionality. There may be someone
behind this address. -- Michael Hanselmann public hansmi ch
* show all smoke in the detail graphs, even if it's out of the scale. -- niko,
reported by Oskar Liljeblad <oskar *osk.mine.nu> as Debian bug #412826
2007/05/02 -- released version 2.1.1
* fixed scaling of detail graphs. They were all scaled to max_rtt
if it was defined --tobi
2007/04/29 -- released version 2.1.0
* add new echoping 6 plugin probes: EchoPingDNS, EchoPingLDAP, EchoPingWhois
-- niko
* don't test echoping or curl usage if running as a CGI --niko
* bail out at startup with an error message if LC_ALL is set --niko
* New Presentation option Charts. Charts are based on the new 'sorter' plugins.
There are sample plugins for Loss, Max, Median, StdDev based Charts -- tobi
* new matcher Medratio (compare two medians) -- tobi
* fixes for Median matcher -- tobi
* make the CGI not croak if a password file is not readable. -- niko
* don't die if syslogd is dead -- niko, reported by
Christoph Biedl <cbiedl *gmx.de> as Debian bug #395056
* add sourceaddress configurability to FPing probe (requires -S flag) -- Norman Rasmussen norman rasmussen.co.za
* allow . in section names ...
* in FTPtransfer probe set destfilename to srcfilename if it is empty
* in FTPtransfer probe strip path elements from srcfile when building destfile
* alerts can now have a priority. if multiple prioritized alerts match,
only the one with the highest priority will cause any action. Alerts
without priority setting are not affected eitherway. --tobi
* make the LDAP probe 'scope' option actually work. -- niko
* new probe WebProxyFilter exercies a filtering web proxy firewall by
requesting banned pages. It tests if the data returned from the proxy
looks like the page telling users that they came upon a banned page. When
ever a real page can be retreived, a loss is logged. --tobi
* some touchups to the graph comments to be a bit less 'ping' focussed -- tobi
* configuration option mailtemplate lets you configure the alert message content -- tobi
* added new method ProbeUnit to base.pm in support of FTPtransfer.pm -- tobi
* new probe FTPtransfer.pm added. It measures available bandwidth by
actually sending data over the wire to test (don't try this at home) -- tobi
* make sure logo images get writen in binary mode or they will not be usable on windows -- tobi
* make PERL binary configurable in Makefile -- tobi
* fixed echoping test call to be compatible with echoping 6 -- tobi
* create a log entry when there are zero replies from a device. -- tobi
* maintaining trunk and branch is not realy sensible the way smokeping evolves.
I have merged everything back to trunk -- tobi
* Allow several Mailservers to be specified in Mailhost -- tobi
* Reduce timeout for Net::SMTP to 5 seconds. -- tobi
* new feature to color the graph background in sync with the loss -- grahame.bo
* new probe JunOS Telnet ping -- Shan Ali Khan shanali *singtel.com
2006/07/14 -- released version 2.0.9
* added matchers CheckLatency and CheckLoss -- tobi, from Dylan Vanderhoof DylanV semaphore.com
* added TacacsPlus probe -- tobi, from Gary.Mikula * nasd.com
* pass 'prevmatch' to alert matcher plugins.
-- niko, from Dylan Vanderhoof <DylanV *semaphore.com>
* fix subject in tSmoke 'morning' emails. --niko,
from Jean-Philippe Luiggi <Jean-Philippe.Luiggi *revolutionlinux.com>
* AnotherDNS.pm: added option 'require_answers' for testing
recursive DNS servers. -- niko
* fixed loss_color documentation (this is not in percent) -- tobi
* brought back the FPing.pm 'timeout' parameter, since it does something
after all. -- niko, requested by Peter Klausner <peter.klausner *gmail.com>
* fix running an external program on edge-triggered alerts.
-- niko, from Peter Klausner <peter.klausner *gmail.com>
2006/04/14 -- released version 2.0.8
* adjusted links to new home on oss.oetiker.ch
-- tobi
* let the name of the dns server be configured in DNS.pm
-- ark <yesv *ring.wtwf.com>
* make buggy_perl_version test work again
-- niko, noticed by Fran Boon <flavour *partyvibe.com>
2006/02/09 -- released version 2.0.7
* fixed POD markup escaping in 'linkstyle' documentation that broke the Smokeping
module documentation --niko
2006/02/08 -- released version 2.0.6
* make the way CGI self-referring links are created configurable, and
change the default (once more) to 'linkstyle = relative'
-- niko, for Dmitry Semyonov <linulin *gmail.com> (Debian bug #351783)
* make buggy_perl_version test work on perl 5.8.7 too ...
--tobi from Nathan Butcher <xqufa .yokohama.riken.jp>
* include a Date field in alert emails, since all M[ST]As don't insert it.
--niko
* Set an --end time for graphs so that fetch does get its its
undies in a twist when selecting the RRA and goes for hires
due to coverage -- tobi
* CiscoRTTMonEchoICMP.pm: new variable vrf
- Kevin Stewart <kevins *callplus.co.nz>
* SSH.pm: new variable 'keytype' + bugfixes
- niko, from Igor Petrovski <pigor *mm.st>
* fix a bug that broke target sections with the same name
in different branches -- niko, reported by Igor Petrovski <pigor *mm.st>
* really send a test email with 'tSmoke --testmail' -- niko
* Curl.pm: handle measurement of multiple URLs by adding the results together
-- niko, requested by Rob de Jong <rob *dejongnet.net>
* Curl.pm: new variables 'follow_redirects' and 'include_redirects'
-- niko, requested by Rob de Jong <rob *dejongnet.net>
* fixed spelling for height -- tobi
2005/11/14 -- released version 2.0.5
* remove the FPing 'timeout' variable, since it never really did anything
-- niko
* use the 'cgiurl' variable from the 'General' section for all CGI self-refering
links -- niko, from Christian Hammers <ch .*debian.org> (Debian bug #339019)
* Curl.pm: don't take '0' for 'true' with the 'ssl2' or 'insecure_ssl' options
-- niko, reported by Michael McCarn <mmccarn *sierracorp.us>
* add the 'scope' Net::LDAP search option to the LDAP probe
-- niko, from Seppo Syrjänen <seppo.syrjanen *helsinki.fi>
* make the Curl probe compatible with Perl 5.6
-- niko, reported by Ben Eisenbraun <bene *klatsch.org>
* get rid of 'Use of uninitialized value' messages when using the Avgratio matcher
and 'edgetrigger' -- niko, reported by John L Hoo <jhoo *antapex.ca>
* include the smallest ping value in the graphs too
-- niko, from ChunjingHan <chjhan *cstnet.cn>
2005/10/12 -- released version 2.0.4
* avoid creating new RRD files as the user running 'smokeping --reload'
-- niko, reported by Stefan Schmidt <s.schmidt *mcbone.net>,
http://bugs.debian.org/333373
* only warn if RRA parameters other than CF are different
in the config file and an RRD -- niko, for Javier Oviedo <joviedo *plcendesa.com>
* make having an older version of CGI::Carp a non-fatal error and
recommend a newer one in the docs
-- niko, reported by Ron Bisset <Ron.Bisset *cnrinternational.com>
* make it work (hopefully) with even older versions of CGI::Carp if
'changecgiprogramname' is set to 'no' in the General section
-- niko
2005/9/26 -- released version 2.0.3
* fixed FPing probe so it doesn't report 100% loss when the first ping is lost
-- niko, reported by Matthew Swainston <njunk *exemail.com.au>
* don't need to have all the external modules installed to build the
documentation -- niko
2005/9/20 -- released version 2.0.2
* 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>
* made some alert docs in smokeping_config visible --niko
* optionally only send alerts when the state changes ('edgetrigger')
-- niko, suggested by Marc Haber <mh+smokeping-users *zugschlus.de>
* 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>
* automatically regenerate the logo images if Smokeping.pm has been updated --niko
2005/9/5 -- released version 2.0.1
* fixed version number display in basetemplate -- tobi
2005/9/4 -- released version 2.0.0
* updated page template to match new logos and included Niko
-- tobi
* 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>