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-This is the changes for the the enhacements that I have been adding into
-Spong. You can pick up this file at http://monsters.org/pub/spong/CHANGES.
-You can pick up the latest spong version from:
- http://monsters.org/pub/spong/spong.tar.gz
-
-Stephen L Johnson <sjohnson@monsters.org>
-
-
-
-Version 2.6 Changes
-
-12/06/99
-CHANGED - Moved spong-cleanup's configuration parameters to spong.conf file.
-
-CHANGED - Update documentation with new changes.
-
-12/05/99
-FIXED - Fixed bug in spong-message which cause contact with a delay and
-repeat attributes to be continually notified.
-
-FEATURE - Added host_groups and exclude_host_groups matching to spong-message.
-The hostname will be checked to see if it in any of the host groups defined
-in host_groups and exclude_host_groups.
-
-CHANGE - Moved the &load_msg_func() function from begging of program to
-after the rules scanning. They messaging functions will now only be loaded
-it there are notifications to be sent.
-
-CHANGE - Create module Status.pm to encapsulate the &status() function.
-Changed spong-network and spong-client to use the new package.
- files - lib/Spong/Status.pm
- spong-client
- spong-network
-
-12/01/99
-FIXED - Added error checking code to query process display routined. Querying
-for invalid information caused the query process to crash.
-
-11/27/99
-CHANGES - Various documenation updated and additions.
-
-11/24/99
-FIXED - spong-network and spong-client had a wrong variable name in the
-&status() function if the inet_aton() function failed. (Thanks to Tom Brown)
- files - spong-client
- spong-network
-
-FIXED - Changed file permissions setting of CGI programs installation in the
-'build' program. The CGI programs were installed with write permission for the
-$WEB users in the build program. (Thanks to Tom Brown)
-
-CHANGE - The uiowa.edu "Machine Info" link on the Web Displays has been
-replaced with a $WWW_ACTIONBAR_CUSTOM variable in the spong.conf configuration
-file. If the $WWW_ACTIONBAR_CUSTOM variable is defined, the contents of
-the variable will be included in the Display frame's Action Bar. Only
-HTML code should be used in this variable.
-
-11/22/99
-FIXED - Some machines were core dumping in the spong-message program in the
-&load_msg_funcs() procedure on a glob() function. This function loads the
-messaging plugins from the library. The &load_msg_funcs was rewritten to
-use opendir() and readdir() instead of glob().
-
-FIXED - spong-server had a bug in the --restart logic. It was not handling
-the terminated of it's child processes correctly. The HUP handler function
-(hup_handler) was rewritten to waitpid() explicit on the child process pids,
-instead of using the standard &chld_handler() function.
-
-FIXED - spong-server had another latent bug in the &chld_handler function.
-It was not reinitializing the $SIG{CHLD} signal handler. This has to be done
-on systems using System V based libraries.
-
-FIXED - spong.conf.solaris had a bug if spong-client was not run as root.
-The &gets_swap() function called "swap -s" without an explicit path. The
-fix was to call "swap -s" with the full path name to the swap command.
-
-CHANGED - Changed the check_ntp network check to be a bit less draconian
-with a critical error. It will not only be a critical is the service is
-not running. A yellow conditions will be reported if the time is more then
-one second off or it the ntp server is not synchonized yet.
- files - lib/Spong/Network/plugins/check_ntp
-
-11/15/99
-ADDED - Added code to spong-server to have it automatically daemonize itself
-and disconnect from the foreground. It is using a new Daemon.pm library
-module.
- files - spong-server
- lib/Spong/Daemon.pm
-
-CHANGED - The child process handle logic has been changed to better handle
-termination signals. The child processes now exit gracefull.
- files - spong-server
-
-CHANGED - spong-client and spong-network daemonize code has been replace with
-the Daemon.pm module.
-
-11/02/99
-CHANGED - Changed daemonize code to use the POSIX setsid() function to become
-session leader. Programs where not disconnecting from tty in FreeBSD.
- files - spong-network
- spong-client
-
-ADDED - Added new OS configure. FreeBSD. The uptime program has weird
-behaviour when called with full path name.
-
-ADDED - Added new client check 'check_mailq'. It checks sendmail mail queue
-levels against $MAILQWARN and $MAILQCRIT. It uses $MAILQ as the command to
-execute to display the mailq. Added $MAILQ to all spong.conf files.
-
-FIXED - spong-client program has a bug in the load_plugins subroutine. It was
-trying to use $HOSTS from spong.hosts, but the program doesn't use spong.hosts.
-Change the logic to look for $CHECKS in the spong.conf file instead.
-
-11/01/99
-FIXED - Fixed missing @@PERL@@ substitution variable for #! line of spong-clientand spong-network.
-
-10/30/99
-CHANGED - Added new client check plugin mechanism similar to spong-network. Client checks are now plugs that can be configured at runtime. Client plugs
-resident in the lib/Spong/Client/plugins directory. The current plugsin are
-the 'disk','cpu','processes','logs'.
-
-Spong-client now looks for a 'checks' field in the $HOSTS hash to see what
-plugins to run. The syntax the the same as the 'services' field. If no
-'checks' field is present, spong-client defaults to 'disk_space cpu_load
-processes log_files' and &check_local if present.
-
- 10/29/99
-FIX - Fixed forking and signal login of spong-server to fork off properly
-and terminate properly when signalled.
-
-10/28/99
-CHANGED - spong-network now, by default, forks, disconnects from the console
-and runs in the background. spong-network will run in the foreground if the
---debug parameter is used.
-
-CHANGED - spong-message has been enchanced with a new messaging function
-plugin mechanism (like spong-network's). New messaging functions can be
-added by adding the msg_* file into the lib/Spong/Message/plugins directory.
-The old messaging functions converted use the new plugin mechanism, and a
-couple of others have been added to show the full functionality of the
-new code.
-
-CHANGED - spong-message contact syntax has been enhanced to allow finer
-control over the to whom messages are sent. Your can specify which message
-function/carrier to notify rather than all of a $HUMANS defined notifications.
-I.E.: 'sjohnson:email' or 'unix-oncall:teletouch' or 'thebosses:sprintphone'.
- Files - bin/spong-message
- etc/spong.message
-
-ADDED - You now specify an initial delay before notifications are send out
-(e.g. Don't page until a service has RED for at least 15 minutes). And you may
-also specify a repeat interval for notifications after the initial notification
-(e.g. Keep paging every 10 minutes until problem is acknowledged). The new
-synatx is detailed in the comments of spong.message configuration file.
- Files - bin/spong-server
- bin/spong-message
- etc/spong.message
-
-10/12/99
-ADDED - NTP (Network Time Protocol) spong-network plugin. This plugin checks
-the NTP offset of the server using the "ntpdate -q" command. If the ntpdate
-checks returns "Server not suitable for sync...", the status is red. Otherwise
-if the offset is not than one second the status is yellow. A $NTPDATE variable
-with the path to the ntpdate command must be added to the spong.conf
-configuration file.
-
-10/11/99
-ADDED - Secure Shell (ssh) spong-network plugin. It checks whether the Secure
-Shell service is running or not.
-
-10/07/99
-ADDED - A timestamp has been added to the services status file to track
-event duration. The start time of an event is defined as a when a change of
-status for a service. A new field 'stime' (Start Time) has been added to
-the Service.pm object. The display of the event duration has been added to
-the Service::display_* routines for a full format displays.
- Files - bin/spong-server
- lib/Spong/Service.pm
-
-10/06/99
-ADDED - Added code to spong-client to allow it to fork and daemionize.
-spong-client will not daemonize is run with --debug.
-
-
-version 2.5 Changes
-
-CHANGED - Updated basic help html files.
-
-spong-server
-
-ADDED - Code to handle purple colored service status files in the database.
-The start of code to allow spong-server to handle old status as a real
-status state.ADDED - Big Brother server emulation. The server can now
-handle Big Brother Clients. The emulation is not 100% percent yet. The
-client must be configured to use FQDN names. And the server can't handle
-PAGE commands.
-ADDED - Added new a type of SEND_MESSAGE rule: RED-CHANGE. The spong-server
-will attempt to send out messages on any status transition to or from RED.
-FIXED - Fixed problem with in save_acks with 2 acks bein created with-in
-the same second. The second ack would overlay the first ack with the same
-file name.
-
-spong-client
-CHANGED - The old log scanning code is gone. There is a new Object Oriented
-log scanning routine logmon. logmon monitors the log file by monitoring
-the end of a file like "tail -f". Events are not reported over and over
-again until he file is rotated or edited. They will be reported for a
-specified period of time and then are discard. This does not work if
-spong-client is run with --nosleep from a crontab.
-ADDED - Added new OS specified get_swap routines to check swap space levels
-in the disk checks.
-
-spong-network
-CHANGED - Change the check routines to a new plug-in mechanism. New checks
-can be added by writing a plug-in module and placing it in the plugin
-directory. The new service can be used by referencing in the spong.host
-file. spong-network will load the routine and it will be registered with
-the plugin registry.
-ADDED - Added a new escalation mechanism to guard against transiant network
-problems. A RED status is not reported until a service for host has failed
-a certain number of times. Otherwise it is reported as a YELLOW status.
-CHANGED - Added a loop to &check_tcp to check a service 3 time before
-reporting that it is down. This is guard against temporary network gliches.
-
-spong-message
-ADDED - Added new rules based messaging. The new code is configured in the
-new spong.message configuration file. The rules allow for host and service
-based include and/or exclusion, along with version flexible time and day
-selection. Multiple contacts can also be specified.
-
-spong-ack
-FIXED - Replace unreliable getlog() call with getuserbyname($<) to get user
-login name.
-FIXED - Made sure to exit with a non-zero exit code on any errors. This is
-to make it more script friendly.
-CHANGED - Change options processing to use GetOpts modules for to simplifiy
-checks.
-ADDED - Added --batch parameter which forces program to print the ack. id
-instead of the more verbose output. This is to make it more script friendly.
-
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