[Nagiosplug-help] Nagios Plugins 1.4.12

[Ton Voon]

Hi!

I'm proud to announce the availability of Nagios Plugins 1.4.12.

Included in this release is the --extra-opts syntax, available on all  
the core C based plugins, so you can now specify extra options that  
would act as if they were passed via the command line. This allows  
sensitive information to be stored in configuration files away from  
Nagios and in process listings. See http://nagiosplugins.org/extra- 
opts for more information. Note, this is only available by setting the  
configure option --enable-extra-opts, though it will be included by  
default in a future release.

Credit to Thomas Guyot-Sionnest for his hard work in porting this  
functionality over from the Nagios::Plugins perl module.

Speaking of which, this is a reminder that the Nagios::Plugin perl  
module is also included in this package. You need to run ./configure  
with --enable-perl-modules to include the perl libraries.

This release contains lots of fixes and minor enhancements from Holger  
Weiss and Matthias Eble.

Other highlights of this release:

   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)
   Updated Nagios::Plugin to 0.27
   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

Thanks to all the contributors in the community that have helped with  
raising reports or providing patches.

You can download the latest release at http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=29880

Ton

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