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Note: a complete re-compile of the XML is required after upgrading.

In this release:

-- BerkeleyDB stability has significantly improved due to new signal handlers.

-- View parameters can be overridden with URL variables "Gstart",
"Gend" and so on.

-- Collector initialization time is improved by shifting some work
to the XML compiler.

-- New command-line utility: srvderive. It combines several serviceIDs into
a single report by calculating their sum or maximum value
(sponsored by nexellent ag, www.nexellent.ch)... read more

05-AUG-2008: Torrus release 1.0.7

In this release:

-- Added and improved vendor support for Symmetricom, Juniper JunOS,
Cisco SCE,

-- New discovery parameters, selectors and selector actions.

-- Default value for "collector-timeoffset-step" increased from 30 to 60
seconds. 30 seconds is too short for many installations.

-- Support for PostgreSQL in reports generator.

-- Support for IPv6 in SNMP discovery and collector.... read more

03-AUG-2007: Torrus release 1.0.6

In this release:

-- All the trees need to be recompiled after Torrus upgrade.

-- Search capability. The nodes can be searched within a tree or globally.
The search database needs to be updated with "torrus buildsearchdb"
utility.

-- GUI improvements. Recursive view is restricted and is not offered
averywhere. Bugfix for Mozilla browser compatibility: now the graph
images are clickable.... read more

The new plugin allows quick adding of custom
SNMP OID's to Torrus configuration.
See for more info:
http://torrus.org/plugins/tp-easytarget.pod.html

25-JAN-2007: Torrus release 1.0.5

This is a major release with many new features.

In this release:

-- Bugfixes in SNMPv3 support

-- Perl multithreading. If threads are supported by local Perl,
Devdiscover can perform parallel discoveries per output file.
Also the Collector runs a background thread for RRD updates.

-- Improvement in SNMP collector initialization. Now the collector expands
the interface names and other maps asynchronously, which dramatically
reduces the initialization time for large installations.
Cisco QoS plugin needs an upgrade to version 1.4 or higher.... read more

New Torrus release is available.

20-JUL-2006: Torrus release 1.0.4

This is a major release with many new features.

In this release:

-- SNMP Version 3 support in Devdiscover and SNMP collector.

-- Usage reports for billing. Including 95% percentile reports.
More details at http://torrus.org/reporting_setup.pod.html

-- Various improvements in SNMP discovery engine and new equipment
vendor support

-- Improved monitor notifications. New parameter: "severity"
and new action "action_notify".... read more

27-JUL-2005: Torrus release 1.0.2

The new release requires one additional Perl module to be
installed: Date::Parse. You can install it from CPAN by using the command:
perl -MCPAN -e 'install Date::Parse'

In this release:

-- Unreachable SNMP devices handling has significantly improved.
The default unreachable timeout is set to 6 hours.

-- Support for the new mod_perl 2.0 layout.

-- New OID in TORRUS-MIB: torrusMonitorDesc, for easier processing of
SNMP traps.... read more

the new releases of Torrus and Cisco QoS plugin are out.
The old QoS plugin is not compatible with the new torrus version, so you
need to upgrade both if you use it.

regards,
Stan

In this release:

-- SNMP errors are now handled better. See the User guide for more details.

-- New command line option for monitor: --delay. The init script
launches the monitor with 20 minutes delay, to allow the collector
update RRD files before monitoring them.... read more

10-JUN-2005: Torrus release 1.0.0

In this release, compared to RRFW release 0.1.8:

-- New directory structure, with local configuration completely separated
from the distribution files

-- Comand-line wrapper "torrus" for executing all commands, with short aliases
("dd" for "devdiscover" etc.)

-- Plugins may be easily added to existing installation

-- Relative file names in DDX files searched in the right directories... read more