Milestone 0.4.0

5 weeks late (01/03/12 00:00:00)

61%

Number of tickets:
closed:
51
active:
32
Total:
83
CheckSystem

6 / 9
CheckWMI

3 / 3
Core

29 / 50
Core Module

3 / 5
NRPEListener

2 / 2
NSClientListener

2 / 3
None

3 / 6
check_nrpe

1 / 3
check_nt

2 / 2

The two biggest changes will undoubtedly be the linux support as well as is a shift from beeing a "NRPE client" to more of a monitoring gateway which supports more protocols (with even more in the pipe). Another other major change is ofcourse the embedded python interpreter and the very extensive python API making it possible to create plugins in python which can have state across your monitoring.

So now it is just for everyone to go out test it and let me know what is not working so we can release a bug free version in the near future. I have not set a date as I am relaying on the community (yes, that is you!) for doing much of the test work and that may or may not take a lot of time (depending on how much YOU! test).

Stability and quality wise I hope it is farily stable and everything works as-is but one never knows when there is such a massive update. Especially as it is apretty free-form application which has a lot of the edge cases. But another major improvment is that there are now unit-tests which test various parts of the application at the time of writing there is around 1000 unit tests which more to come.

Many new protocols

We now support a number of new protocols (as well as old).

Currently supported:

  • NRPE
  • NSCA
  • "check_nt"
  • SysLog?
  • SMTP
  • NSCP (early concept version, both as distributed (think gearman) and non distributed (think NSCA/NRPE))

In the works:

  • http (rest)
  • Graphite
  • check_mk
  • NRDP
  • SNMP
  • WMI
  • "native remote windows checks"

Brand new API

Major new API changes which allows a lot more flexibility as well as extensible from modules and scripts.

Currently supported:

  • Python
  • plugins
  • Lua (old API currently)

In the works:

  • Lua
  • .Net

Brand new settings sub systems

Brand new flexible settings sub systems which supports many new formats as well as generation and including cross formats.

Currently supported:

  • ini-files
  • registry
  • http (ini files)
  • old
  • dummy (in memory store)

In the works:

  • XML
  • improved http

Other fixes and enhancments

We have of course a myrriad of bug fixes enhancments and and such here are a few highlights.

highlights:

  • Brand new (easy to use?) command line interface
  • Linux suppport (as mentioned previously)
  • CheckProcState: Enchancements
  • CheckEventLog: Real time checking
  • CheckWMI: Remote check support (rather crude currently)
  • lots of other things but focus is mainly on internals so checks are mainly the same
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