Linpro RRD

File Release Notes and Changelog

Release Name: 0.9.9

Notes:
Version 0.9.9 of LRRD is mostly a bugfix release, but one major change is a change in format of the configuration file of the server. Some contributed plugins have also been added to the distribution. Version 0.9.9 is subject to a feature freeze. Only bugfixes will be done before it is released as version 1.0.

Changes:
* New plugin: sybase_space. Keeps track of sybase database space usage.
* New plugin: psu_ wildcard plugin, by Andras Korn (Deb#214210)
* Lrrd-client: addressed uid/gid-issues from Deb#214277
* Lrrd-update: client port number now configurable (Deb#214114)
* Squid-plugins: now rewritten to use new config format (Deb#214186)
* Lrrd-update: each node now has its own lockfile.
* Squid-plugins: Modified them to autoconf. Prettier graphs. Now auto.
* Lrrd-client: Don't mess with environment. Not my problem.
* Lrrd-client: host_name can now be set in the plugin configuration.
* Lrrd-client: plugin configuration format changed slightly.
* Lrrd-client: added parameter (conffile and cli) to turn paranoia on/off.
  Default is now off. (Deb#214186, Deb#216401)
* New plugin for linux: entropy, graphs available entropy.
* Lrrd-client-configure: Remove "use" of Config::General (Deb#216176)
* SunOS-plugins: Enhancement submitted by Lupe Christoph. (SF#825937)
* SunOS-portability: Various bugfixes reported by Lupe Cristoph.
  (SF#825909, SF#825911, SF#825926, SF#825936, SF#826670, SF#826356)
* FreeBSD-plugins: Bugfixing patches by Lupe Cristoph applied. (SF#826352,
  SF#837014)
* Lrrd-server: New format for server.conf.
* Mysql-plugins: Make mysqladmin/mysqlshow locations configurable.
  (SF#825974)
* Plugins: New plugins by Lupe Cristoph (SF#834529, SF#826002, SF#835208)
* Lrrd-server: Only require installed Config::General if using old config
  format.
* Mysql-queries-plugin: rewritten by Per A. Buer.
* Lrrd-nagios: Be nice to Nagios, don't DOS it with thousands of services.
* Lrrd-client-configure: Check what to do with new plugins when upgrading.
* Plugins: contributions by Finn-Arne Johansen (SF#839210, SF#839212,
  SF#839209, SF#842703, SF#845692)
* Lrrd-update: More graceful handling of dead hosts. (SF#841345)
* Plugins: graph_noscale redefined to graph_scale.
* New plugin surfboard contributed by Andrew Ryder.