1 This file documents the revision history for the Open Monitoring Distribution
3 1.40 (not yet released)
5 - FIX: Fixed streamed "omd restore" resulting in an exception
6 - FIX: Improved "omd restore" error handling in case of trying
7 to restore invalid backup files
8 - FIX: Added missing but documented --conflict flag to "omd restore"
9 - FIX: Skipping partially created sites during omd start/stop/restart
10 - FIX: Set correct shell environment for cronjobs
11 - FIX: Fixed possible "omd create" issue when APACHE_TCP_ADDR hook
12 was executed after APACHE_TCP_PORT
13 - omd backup: Can use --no-rrds,--no-logs or --no-past now to
14 exclude RRDs and/or the monitoring history from the backup. These
15 options can be used to make the backup/restore procedure faster
16 and reduces the size of the backup, but it is not a complete backup.
17 - Improved error message when trying omd action as non site user
18 - Printing usage info in case of unknown command
19 - Python: OMD is now shipping with own Python 2.7.11 interpreter. This
20 step has been made to make Python based components, like Check_MK,
21 be able to rely on one single Python version independent of the
22 distibution OMD is being installed on.
23 Python scripts should use "#!/usr/bin/env python" as shebang to be
24 working within OMD without change. Something like "#!/usr/bin/python"
25 would not use the interpreter shipped with OMD.
27 - Removed the shared mode (only one system wide apache process).
28 This mode was not used widely and it was a pain to maintain it,
29 so we decided to drop it. If you used the shared mode before,
30 it will be changed to own mode during update. You might need
31 to reload/restart your system apache manually once to apply
33 - Debian: Harmonized default version handling with RPM based distros.
34 Previous OMD installations were leaving previously set default version
35 untouched during installation of a new OMD package on Debian based
36 distributions. This was handled differently on Debian and RPM based
37 distributions and lead to confusions when using both platforms.
38 We decided to unify the behaviour on all distributins and make OMD
39 automatically set the default version to the new one during
40 installation of a new package.
41 - FIX: PHP-Sessions were not cleaned up during run time. The sessions
42 were only cleared on system boot.
43 Added a cron job to the sites that runs on a daily base at 0:10
44 to search the session directory at tmp/php/session to remove all
45 files which are older than 24 hours
47 - FIX: Starting nagios daemon with LC_ALL=C to prevent localization
48 of performance data output of e.g. check_icmp
50 - Update to version 1.9b3
51 - Icinga: Update to 1.13.3
52 - Thruk: Update to 2.08
53 - Phantomjs: Update to 2.1.1
54 - Added build support for SLES 12 SP1
55 - Added build support for Fedora 23
56 - Added build support for Ubuntu 16.04
57 - nsca: Update to 2.9.1
59 - Updated to Version 2016-06-26a
63 - Added "Basic / ADMIN_MAIL" hook to configure the target mail
64 address for eMails sent to the site user (e.g. created by
65 crontab). Finally this generates the ~/.forward file within
66 the sites directory. When a mail address is configured, the
67 file is written, when you have none configured, the file is
69 If you already have a ~/.forward file, the mail address will
70 automatically be used as ADMIN_MAIL value.
71 - Added backup/restore modes to backup and restore sites completely
72 You can backup your sites and restore them with the same or a
76 omd backup mysite /tmp/backup.tgz
79 omd restore restored /tmp/backup.tgz
81 You need to ensure you have the OMD version installed during
82 restore, which the site was using during backup.
84 You can also backup to stdout and restore from stdin which means
85 you can stream a backup cross the network. This might not only
86 be useful for backups, but also for migrations across servers.
87 - FIX: Update mechanism detects obsolete but non empty directories
88 correctly and asks the user whether or not to delete them
89 - FIX: SLES omd init-Script does not use default runlevel 4 anymore
90 - FIX: Added PYTHONPATH to site crontab for being able to access
91 the sites python modules as when run in interactive mdoe
93 - Update to version 1.8.5
94 - Removed deprecated directory var/nagvis/userfiles. This was
95 deprecated since version 0.52. During the update to 1.30, the
96 directory and all its contents will be removed. This should be
97 no problem for most users, because the directory is not used
98 anymore since a long time.
99 If you update from OMD 0.52 or below, you need to manually backup
100 files from var/nagvis/userfiles and copy them to
101 local/share/nagvis/htdocs/userfiles after the update to make them
103 Note: If you decide to downgrade from this or a following
104 version to version 0.52 or older, you will again need to care
105 about these files manually.
106 - FIX: The nagvis URLs were not correctly linking to e.g. Check_MK
107 when a site has been created with Check_MK as default GUI
108 - FIX: Fixed site not starting after "omd cp" when using
109 the arguments --no-past, --no-rrds or --no-logs
112 - moved log dir to var/log
113 - Added build support for SLES 12, 11 SP4
114 - Added build support for Ubuntu 14.10, 15.04, 15.10
115 - Added build support for Debian 8
116 - RedHat / CentOS: Builds are now only dedicated to the major
117 version, not caring about the minor versions anymore
118 - Mod-Gearman: Update 1.5.5
119 - Thruk: Update to 2.02
121 - Gearman: Updated to version 0.33-4
122 - PNP4Nagios: Update to 0.6.25
123 - Updated Monitoring-Plugins to 2.1.1
124 - Icinga: Update to 1.12.0
125 - updated to nail/mailx 12.5
126 - rrdtool: Update to 1.5.4
128 - mod_fcgid: update to 2.3.9, sles 11 and centos 5/6 only
129 - set graceful restart timeout
130 - Default redirects from /[site] and /[site]/ to /[site]/omd/ are
131 are now preserving the original requested protocol (http/https).
132 When using the apache own mode (which is the default), having
133 the system apache service the pages via HTTPS, you will need to
134 configure the system apache to provide the X-Forwarded-Proto
135 request header to the site apache, which can be done by
136 adding the line 'RequestHeader set X-Forwarded-Proto "https"' to
137 the proxy configuration related to the site.
138 - Apache is now using the default site profile (e.g. PATH)
140 - Updated to Version 2014-09-29d
141 - fix discarding all local settings on update
142 - check_webinject: Update to 1.88
145 - apache: Changed order of apache daemon startup/stopping
146 The webserver is now started after the monitoring core, but more
147 important, it is now stopped after the core. This should reduce
148 the time needed to bring down all worker processes, since there
149 are no hanging livestatus connections started by web clients anymore.
150 - debian packge: Removed non existant URL from changelog
152 - Added missing semikolon to fix syntax error
153 - Added Monitoring-Plugin module
155 - Added --apache-reload flag to omd create/rm for executing a
156 reload of the system apache instead of a restart
157 - Added nagios/icinga reload init hooks
158 - Added --tmpfs-size/-t option to omd create/mv/cp for specifying
159 an explicit maximum size for the sites tmpfs
160 - FIX: Providing correct exit codes when running "omd status"
161 - FIX: exit with 2 (partially running) when only some of the
162 sites are running or partially running using "omd status"
163 - FIX: Reducing duplicate config writes during site creation
164 - Init scripts return exit 0 when executing start and daemon is
165 already running (Modified nagios, apache and rrdcached scripts)
166 - diskspace: Fixed error messages in syslog which were caused by
167 exit codes of 3 when diskspace cleanup has not been configured
168 - FIX: Fixed logrotation when var/tmp does not exist
169 (seem to only be created when xinetd had been enabled before within a site)
170 - Check_MK/MK Livestatus: new version 1.2.4p5
171 - Thruk: Update to 1.84-6
172 - PNP4Nagios: Update to 0.6.24
173 - Icinga: Update to 1.11.4
174 - NagVis: Update to 1.8b6
175 - Dokuwiki: Fixed integration with multisite cookie authentication
176 - Added build support for Ubuntu 14.04
177 - Added build support for CentOS 7.0
178 - New command lc for sending a core command via Livestatus, e.g.
179 lc ENABLE_NOTIFICATIONS
180 - Updated Monitoring-Plugins to 2.0
183 - omd: More friendly error messages when init scripts do not exist
184 - omd: Added option to execute scripts during site creation by putting
185 files to ~/lib/omd/scripts/post-create
186 - python modules: added pysnmp and pyasn1 modules
187 - rrdtool: Also deliver python bindings
188 - rrdcached is now logging to ~/var/log/rrdcached.log
189 - added missing logrotation config for ~/var/log/xinetd.log
190 - added "diskspace" program which is meant to cleanup too old files
191 which are not needed/wanted anymore and are not handled by regular
192 logrotate (like e.g. the nagios archive). Is callec automatically
193 every hour when the OMD crontab is enabled. This can be changed by
194 editing the cron config etc/cron.d/diskspace
195 - Thruk: Update to 1.80-3
196 - Mod-Gearman: Update 1.4.14
197 - Nagios: Init script kills whole process groups during "stop"
198 - check_webinject: Update to 1.86
199 - gearmand: increase open files limit
200 - Fix bug on Debian/Ubuntu where start/stop script started/stopped
202 - cleanup checkresults dir of Nagios when (re-)starting Nagios
203 - Init scripts can now deal with upstart user sessions, where the
204 PPID is not 1 anymore, instead of it the PPID is the user session
205 init process (init --user). This was first seen on ubuntu 13.10.
206 - Added build support on Ubuntu 13.10 (Saucy Salamander)
207 - Check_MK/MK Livestatus: new version 1.2.2p3
208 - NagVis: Update to 1.8b4
209 - Nagios Plugins: Update to 1.5
210 - Support builds on CentOS/RedHat 5.10
213 - Nagios: Update to 3.5.0
214 - Icinga: Update to 1.9.1
215 - Thruk: Update to 1.72-2
216 - added cookie based login
217 - Apache: Enabling mod_status (if available) for 127.0.0.1 in own mode
218 - Check_MK/MK Livestatus:
219 - new version 1.2.2p2
220 - integrated Event Console
221 - Changed path for check manpages from share/doc/check_mk/checks
222 to share/check_mk/checkman to match the local/ path
223 - Installing livestatus python API module now
224 - Added config hook MULTISITE_AUTHORISATION to control some user
225 permissions in NagVis and pnp4nagios via multisite permissions
226 - NagVis: Update to 1.7.9
228 - new option --no-autostart, -A for omd create (set AUTOSTART
229 to off right at creation, useful for test sites!)
230 - update: Ensure execution of the target versions hooks
231 - update: Added update log ~/var/log/update.log
232 - FIX: Fixed handling of comments in distro files (repairs "omd
233 setup" on some platforms)
234 - PNP4Nagios: Updated to version 0.6.21
235 - Added INIT hooks to npcd and pnp_gearman_worker scripts
236 - Support Ubuntu 12.10 (Quantal)
237 - Support Ubuntu 13.04 (Raising)
238 - Webinject: Update to 1.76
239 - NRPE: Update to 2.13
240 - check_multi: updated to 0.26_581
241 - Mod-Gearman: Updated to version 1.4.6
242 - Gearman: Updated to version 0.33
243 - added queue retention
244 - mod_python: Fixed our sys.path patch not to destory the default
245 sys.path set during interpreter initialization
246 - Dokuwiki: Now supporting the new multisite cookie format
247 - rrdtool: Update to version 1.4.8
248 - compile and install Python binding
249 - nagios: Changed init script to kill still running processes during
250 "stop" call after 60 seconds waiting
251 - Added python module pysphere to make ESX monitoring easier
252 - Jmx4Perl: Update to 1.07 (Jolokia: 1.1.1)
253 - nsca: Cleaned up init script, better detection of stale pids / processes
258 - Fixed problem updating omd sites without tmpfs: Not removing
259 whole tmp/ directory but only the contents
260 - Improved exception handling during omd update/cp/mv (Asking
261 for retry/accept/abort now)
262 - RPMS: Not checking for removed version during pkg release update
263 (Does not mean omd version update.)
264 - check_multi: updated to 0.26_538
265 - Mod-Gearman: Updated to version 1.3.8
266 - Thruk: Update to 1.50
267 - Nagios Plugins: Update to 1.4.16
268 - PNP4Nagios: Update to 0.6.19
269 - NagVis: Update to 1.7.1
270 - Icinga: Update to 1.7.2
271 - Check_MK: Added 1.2.0p2 release
272 - Shinken: Update to 1.2
273 - jmx4perl: Update 1.05
274 - Support Ubuntu 12.04 (Precise)
275 - set log_initial_states=1 per default
279 - FIX: Fixed "omd umount" command when running without specific site
280 - new option --kill for umount, rm and disable, that will kill
281 processes using tmpfs before unmounting it
282 - output argument help when calling omd COMMAND --help
283 - new option --conflict=HOW for non-interactive omd cp/mv/update.
285 - Fix "omd stop apache", which was sometimes timing out
286 - Fix several DeprecationWarning messages when using python 2.6
287 - NagVis: Updated to NagVis 1.6.5
288 - Thruk: Update to 1.26
289 - RRDtool: Update to 1.4.7
290 - PNP4Nagios: Update to 0.6.17
291 - Webinject: Update to 1.72
292 - Mod-Gearman: Updated to version 1.2.6
293 - Gearman: Updated to version 0.25
294 - Debian 6.0: Added missing dependency for mod_python (libpython2.6)
295 - RPMs: Added "chkconfig --add <s>" commands before "chkconfig <s> on" commands
296 - Making etc/htpasswd file writeable by the site group
297 - Apache logrotate: Performing reload instead of restart
300 - add MongoDB as backend for livestatus logs
301 - Switch Check_MK to version 1.1.12p7
304 - Updated to Version 2012-01-25 Angua
305 - Template Vector now available
308 - Switch Check_MK to version 1.1.12p6 (Please refer to the migration notes
309 of Check_MK on http://mathias-kettner.de/checkmk_migration_notes.html!)
310 - FIX: WATO - Fixed permissions on conf.d directory for shared apache mode
311 - FIX: Fixed permissions for PHP temp files in shared mode
312 - Get rid of dummy host in a plain fresh OMD site
314 - Updated to NagVis 1.6.1
315 Note #1: The userfiles directory has been moved from var/nagvis/userfiles
316 to local/share/nagvis/htdocs/userfiles. The side individual files
317 shal be copied during update. The old files are left untouched in the
318 old directory. If everything works as expeced after update and you
319 don't plan to downgrade again you can savely remove the directory
320 var/nagvis/userfiles from your site
321 Note #2: During "omd update" omd might tell you that the file etc/nagvis/auth.db
322 is obsolete and you changed its contents. In normal cases you want to keep the
323 file (press k) to keep your user accounts, role assignments and permissions.
324 - local/ hierarchie can now handle .php files
325 - Moved nagvis-omd.ini.php to new conf.d/ directory
327 - Added 'umount' option to unmount the ramdisk of a site
328 - Added 'TMPFS' config option to be able to run omd without the tmpfs filesystem
329 - Handling comments and empty lines in .info files correcty
330 - Made 'setversion' work on broken links
331 - New commands 'disable' and 'enable'. OMD does not depend on the
332 home directories of disabled sites. This is useful in cluster environments.
333 - New option 'omd create --disabled' and 'omd init' which allows the creation
334 of a site with an empty home directory and afterwards population it. Again
335 this supports cluster environments.
336 - start, restart and reload now honor the option -f,--force: All
337 sites will then be affected, regardless of AUTOSTART
338 - FIX: omd update: page diff through less -F -X (-X is new). This fixes
339 a problem where the diff is not visible on dumb terminals like PuTTY.
340 - FIX: omd: site processes where missing supplementary groups when starting
341 the site as root via 'omd start SITE'
342 - FIX: omd update handled most files twice (without need). This is
344 - FIX: omd diff now correctly handles relative paths.
345 - FIX: omd diff now correctly instantiates templates before showing
347 - FIX: omd umount skips unmounting on partly running sites
348 - updated to jmx4perl 1.04
350 - npcd: Now detecting and handling stale pidfiles in init script
351 - updated to Mod-Gearman 1.1.1
352 - updated to Thruk 1.1.7
353 - updated to pnp4nagios 0.6.16
354 - updated to Icinga 1.6.1
355 - Support Ubuntu 11.10 (Oneiric)
356 - Cleanup up startscript of nagios
357 - New handler for Apache error messages (shows end of logfile)
358 - Ship own version of mailx alias nail as bin/mail
359 - Allow line continuation in nagios config with BACKSLASH LF
360 - Nagios: Skip emacs backup files while loading files from nagios.d directory
361 - Increased php memory limit on CentOS platforms to 64 MB
362 - dokuwiki auth: do not destroy htpasswd symlinks showing to another file
365 - Check_MK: fix problem with playing sounds
367 - added patch to remove host alias from state retention.
368 Changes of the alias in your configuration will now be
370 - updated to check_oracle_health 1.7.0
371 - updated to check_mysql_health 2.1.6
372 - updated to Thruk 1.1.1
373 - updated to Mod-Gearman 1.0.10
374 - updated to Gearman 0.23
375 - updated to Webinject 1.68
376 - updated to PNP4Nagios 0.6.15
378 - added 'reuse' option
379 - fix 'omd start core' (did simply nothing)
380 - added missing libperl dependency (fixes #217)
381 - fixed problem with mod_proxy sending duplicate pages
382 - fixed problem with mount on redhat/centos 6.0 (fixes #195)
383 - Fixed problem when doing 'omd restart' without mounted tmpfs
385 - Added the mandatory maintainer name
386 - mod_fcgid: Increased file upload limit from 128kb to 3MB
387 - npcd: Changed init script to find running processes with lost pidfile
391 - updated to Check_MK 1.1.10p3
392 - updated to Shinken 0.6.4
393 - updated to Thruk 1.0.4
394 - added Mod-Gearman 1.0.5
395 - added Gearmand 0.14
396 - updated Webinject 1.67
397 - updated to NagVis 1.5.9
398 - updated to PNP4Nagios 0.6.13
399 - added check_multi v439* (2011-02-19)
401 - Added @omd setversion@ command to change the default version of OMD
402 - Improved merge handling during @omd update@
403 - @omd cp@ now supports --no-rrds and --no-logs. Also -N/--no-past which combines these options. Please read the updated man page for details.
404 - Fixed bug while removing sites
405 - Added @omd diff@ command to show added/deleted/changed files compared to a clean site.
407 - added option --bare to @omd status@