[Opensmart-devel] OpenSMART 2.0 released

[Ulrich H. <ulr...@uh...>]

Hello all,

we're proud to announce the release of

OpenSMART 2.0.

After 3 and a half year, many things have changed.

This is the change list:

CHANGES BETWEEN OpenSMART 1.2 and OpenSMART 2.0
===============================================

1. New checks

   - rfe #1921264: mqclearing: Are WebSphere mq messages are processed
   - rfe #1925820: lvmfreespace: monitor and report free space
                   in volume groups
   - rfe #1949671: Netbackup Monitoring / Reporting check added
   - rfe #2455742: SOAP-check / reporting added.
   - check tomcat / reporting jvm usage / thread count
   - rfe #1381535: SNMP check for OpenSMART added
   - rfe #2863590: ldap(s) check added
   - raid3ware: Check for monitoring 3ware-Raid-Controller on linux added.

2. New features

   - OpenSMART can now display filter states in image maps
   - rfe #1911158 implemented: timestamp of state change in monitorgui added
   - rfe #1922113: default rss feed for state changes on each filter
   - rfe #1922953: checkname as common tag for every check
   - rfe #1922412: improve usability of OpenSMART agent
             -> install a default osagent.conf.xml with an absolutly minimal
                configuration (OSAGENTCONFIG-tags)
             -> display a message when fetching new osagent.conf.xml
                (only in interactive mode)
	    	-> add a default self-monitoring for agent, for example monitoring
                the logfile for error messages.
   - rfe #1881276: agent_name in each check configurable
   - rfe #1891936: System-Count in Filter-View
   - rfe #1920140 implemented: reporting for windows performance 
counters added
   - each CHECKPOINT can now have a CHECKPOINTTIMEOUT on its own.
   - reporting defaults for windows systems added
   - defaults for reporting on linux systems added
   - rfe #1934329 implemented: future maintenance entries are displayed
   - in secured OpenSMART environment: use REMOTE_USER env to fill
       operator name in maintenance dialog
   - in secured OpenSMART environment: use REMOTE_USER env to fill
       operator name in comment downtime dialog
   - rfe #1926524: osreporter on unix: define defaults and report views
	-> CPU utilisation reporting for linux, aix, hpux and solaris
	-> IO tranfer statistics for linux, aix, hpux and solaris
	-> IO-Wait report for linux added
	-> swap reporting for linux, aix, hpux and solaris added
	-> report traffic on network for linux added
	-> usage of memory for linux, aix, hpux and solaris added
	-> LPAR reporting for aix systems added
   - new report for windows added: % used virtual memory
   - new report: tomcat jvm usage / thread count
     ( task manager view 'PF-Usage' )
   - rfe [ 1924249 ]: rework eventlog: not always parsing whole eventlog
   - check errpt: active errpts are now written to 
osmart_root/var/active-errpts.error
     (you don't need do do a 'errclear 0' any more)!
   - rfe: 2023582: Cache parsed XML data. That speeds up the parsing section
     (in every single check) with more than 750%.
   - static reporting feature added (generate_report)
   - oracle buffercache hitratio reporting added
   - rfe 1927828: a holiday calendar can be defined for notify rules
   - rfe 1948289: notify rules can now be based on filter definitions
   - rfe 2697216: deploygui: sort host list
   - rfe 2847658: GUI for testing notify rules added
   - xml schema description for osagent.conf.xml (at least for some 
checks) added.
   - rfe 2922656: logs check can filter output from commands, not just 
files.
   - Add your own perl-library-pathes for the whole OpenSMART server
     installation in just one file.
   - rfe #3085068: notify_rules with additional script for conditions
   - rfe #1465107: New archiver process, now highly configurable
   - rfe #3187475: db2ts knows about autoresize tablespaces
   - rfe #3273353: proc with NUMBER_MAX
   - rfe #3305776: logs-check reports data from regexes
   - new RUNIF-condition: RUNIF_FILE_EXISTS
   - RUNIF_FILE_EXISTS does work in OSAGENTCONFIG - for all checks - too.
   - report_errorlevel_per_filter added.
   - rss-feeds can now enabled (or disabled) per filter.

3. bugfixes

   - bug item #1923543 fixed: servdoc frontend is broken on OpenSMART 1.2
   - bug #1925822 fixed: disk check doesn't handle FIXCMD correctly
   - bug #1898835 and #1472100: complete re-write of webapp
   - bug item #1934602 fixed: Filter-GUI on DB2 isn't working
   - bug item #1647948 fixed:
   		language isn't recognized in monitorgui when using mod_perl
   - bug #1469640: osreporter doesn't work for HP/UX and Solaris
   - bug [ 1471295 ] fixed: re-work eventlog check
   - bug #1995146 fixed: load on HP/UX does sometime wrong reporting
   - bug #2019260 fixed: deployment not working with windows files
   - bug #2027646 fixed: correct handling of more than one collector,
                         if one is failing.
   - bug #2043271 fixed: incorrect report data from orats
   - bug #2090636 fixed: no errorlevel given when mountpoint is inactive
   - bug #2157192 fixed: osagent freezes in some timeout situation
   - bug          fixed: tabulardata reports negative numbers, if very 
big numbers are listed
   - bug #2539742 fixed: encoding problem in agent
   - bug #2640532 fixed: agent-deployment changes permissions on 
logs/opensmart.log
   - bug #2640188 fixed: archive_errors had problems with mysql
   - bug #2661110 fixed: report gui broken on IE (Internet Explorer)
   - bug #1925983 fixed: reportinggui: legende of graphics is wrong
   - webapp: in some cases the request body of http request was not analyzed
   - bug #2685959 fixed: soap check: no default errorlevel
   - patches from "nobody" ( no 1953455 ) implemented: solaris 
compatibility added
   - bugfix for mqconnect: When port is given in brackets, check fails
   - bug #2922443 fixed: no FIXCMD-handling in xen-check
   - bug #2922673 fixed: osagent sometimes outputs invalid xml
   - Bug #2922655 fixed: logs dies with incorrect regexes.
   - Bug #2928367 fixed: monitorgui outputs errors in apache.error.log
   - Bug #2935790 fixed: error in osagent, if simple-entry in your 
osagent.conf.xml with two script-entries
   - Bug #2999394 fixed: error in errpt, if OS-errpt times out.
   - Bug #3022021 fixed: sometimes nbu times out.
   - Bug #3035503 fixed: checkpoint reporting doesn't work correctly
                         in all cases
   - Bug #3034910 fixed: No downtime entries if check expires
   - Taint-mode for all GUIs and correct untainting of FindBin::Bin

4. Else

   - reporting of websphere mq curdepth added
   - reporting view for processor utilisation on windows systems added
   - reporting view context switches on windows systems added
   - reporting view for number of processes on windows systems added
   - reporting view for number of threads on windows systems added
   - reporting view for paging activity on windows systems added
   - reporting view for available memory on windows systems added
   - reporting view for disk utilisation on windows systems added
   - reporting view for disk run queue on windows systems added
   - reporting view for network utilisation on windows systems added
   - reporting for linux systems with the following statistics added:
	=> CPU idle reporting view
	=> I/O-waits view
	=> Swapping statistics
	=> memory utilisation reports
	=> I/O throughput reporting view
	=> Network/network error throughput
   - OpenSMART::dbaccess::configgui moved to 
OpenSMART::server::dbaccess::configgui
   - OpenSMART::frontend_reporting moved to 
OpenSMART::server::frontend_reporting
   - OpenSMART::frontend moved to OpenSMART::server::frontend
   - OpenSMART::frontend_tt moved to OpenSMART::server::frontend_tt
   - OpenSMART::slareporting moved to OpenSMART::server::slareporting
   - OpenSMART::dbaccess moved to OpenSMART::server::dbaccess
   - Handling of SQL-Statements in config for archiver and
     generate_reports unifed

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Uli