From b3df8803c99104aedb24970841c4c8e8bd7ed99f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Holger Weiss Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2013 13:39:37 +0200 Subject: Import a few news articles from old web site diff --git a/web/input/news/domain-transfer.md b/web/input/news/domain-transfer.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..d206040 --- /dev/null +++ b/web/input/news/domain-transfer.md @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ +title: Domain Name Transfer +date: 2011-09-25 +--- + +The domain names for the Nagios Plugins website will be transferred to Nagios +Enterprises, as this project is owned by Nagios Enterprises. +The project will continue to be independently run and managed by the [Nagios +Plugins Development Team][team]. + +[team]: team.html + + diff --git a/web/input/news/release-1-4-15.md b/web/input/news/release-1-4-15.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..16ba4e3 --- /dev/null +++ b/web/input/news/release-1-4-15.md @@ -0,0 +1,54 @@ +title: Version 1.4.15 Released +date: 2010-07-27 +--- + +The Nagios Plugin Development Team are proud to announce the latest Nagios +Plugins release. This release contains several enhancements, including rate +calculation in `check_snmp`. There are also lots of bug fixes. Thanks to all +the contributors who raised issues or provided patches. + +You can get the tarball from: + + +## 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](#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 +* Updated Nagios::Plugin perl module +* Updated gnulib to June 2010 + +## Fixes + +* Fix `check_ircd` binding to wrong interface +* Add proxy-authorization option to `check_http` +* `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 +* Fix memory leak in `check_http` for large pages +* Fix compilation with GCC 2.96 +* 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 +* Fix translations when extra-opts aren't enabled +* Fix parsing of multi-line strings in `check_snmp` (broken in 1.4.14) and enhance output in such case +* 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 + + diff --git a/web/input/news/ton-voon-resigns.md b/web/input/news/ton-voon-resigns.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..32351df --- /dev/null +++ b/web/input/news/ton-voon-resigns.md @@ -0,0 +1,38 @@ +title: Ton Voon Resigns as Team Leader +date: 2011-11-04 +--- + +Due to personal reasons, I am resigning from being the team leader for the +Nagios Plugins. + +It's almost 7 years to the day since I started as team leader and I've been +honoured to have had a great team of people that have helped with coding and +translations and responding to the mailing lists. I'm particularly proud of +the Nagios::Plugin perl module, originally created by Gavin Carr, and some of +the fantastic tests added into the plugins code, started by Nathan Vonnahme. +Also Benoit Mortier did a great job on setting up the translations framework. +I also recall, when I first joined the team 9 years ago, racing with Matthew +Kent to get the most CVS commits! + +Other team members that have contributed over my tenure include Peter Bray, +Sean Finney, Ethan Galstad, Subhendu Ghosh, Stanley Hopcroft, Harper Mann and +Michael Wirtgen - thanks to all of them for their valuable time to make the +Nagios Plugins better. + +I especially want to thank Thomas Guyot-Sionnest, Matthias Eble and Holger +Weiss. Not only have they spent the most hours improving all aspects of this +project (the gnulib integration is just awesome!), but they've been the best +guys to work with: thanks for keeping me sane, encouraging me when you think I +am right and for being honest enough to tell me when I am wrong. I owe you +all a big drink next time we meet. + +Thanks to all the great community contributions and all the email messages +that have provoked, inspired and enlightened. + +Holger will be taking over the responsibility of team leader in the next +chapter of the Nagios Plugins. + +Regards, +Ton + + -- cgit v0.10-9-g596f