[Perfparse-devel] First release candidate for perfparse-0.101.1

[Yves M. <yme...@li...>]

Hi developers !

After much work, I and Ben are proud to announce that perfparse-0.101.0ym=
10 is the first
release candidate for the next version 0.101.1.
This version and other 0.101.0 versions can be downloaded here :
http://ymettier.chez.tiscali.fr/perfparse-devel/index.php

This version contains major changes in the perfparse scanner, and nearly =
no changes in
the database and cgis.

The perfparse scanner has been rewritten, nearly from scratch. New featur=
es :

- more modular.
   -> Have a look on storage_print.c to see how you can play with it :)
   -> output modules like storage_print and storage_mysql will probably b=
e extracted and
become stand-alone plugins one day.
   -> new perfdata parser that may become a stand-alone library one day

- raw output : perfparse can output what it reads, in optionnally-rotated=
 files.
- input : perfparse can still read a file, but also reads from stdin

- file deletion for nagios logs is no more supported. This is not the job=
 of perfparse.
You can do it with scripts. Future version will probably make obsolete th=
at need itself
(using sockets...)

- file positionning is no more supported either. This was probably a nice=
 feature of
perfparse, but was hard to make a clean implementation of it, and we prob=
ably not need
it in the future.


Ben plans to add new features on the CGIs. They may be included in 0.101.=
1 or not. Wait
and see :)

Please test 0.101.0ym10 and tell us about bugs. 0.101.0ym10 does not have=
 too many new
features compared to all that we can implement in it now. The reason is t=
hat we want to
validate that it works. If yes, future developments for the parser will b=
e, in priority
:

- client-server ability to avoid nagios log files (me)
- new storage modules (contributions welcome, particularly oracle and pos=
tgresql
storage, rrd output...)
- extraction of the parser into a standalone library (me and Ben)
- stand-alone storage modules instead of built-in ones (me)
- optionnal loading of stand-alone storage modules (me).
- ...

I don't mention Ben's ideas for the CGI and the database, but there are m=
any too :)

Happy perfparsing :)

Yves


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