+++ /dev/null
-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>
-
-09/16/01
-
-FIXED - Updated check_cpu, check_disk, check_mailq and check_processes
-to use Spong::SafeExec::safe_exec() to safely run external programs and
-kill child processes.
-
-08/07/01
-
-FIXED - Updated check_ping, check_ntp, check_nfs, check_dns to use new
-Spong::SafeExec::safe_exec() routine to safely run external programs and kill
-child processes.
-
-ADDED - Spong::SafeExec.pm module into CVS
-
-06/20/01 - patch to check_tcp() in spong-network.pl to allow size of data
-grabbed from socket to be set. (Micheal B - michaelb@opentext.com)
-
-Spong 2.7.5
-
-06/07/01 - fixed logic bug in add_contact() routine with group recipients not
-being expanded - spong-message.pl
-
-05/25/01 - fixed problem with stop_after flag not being reset on servics after
-a flagged service - spong-network.pl
-
-Version 2.7.4
-
-05/07/01 - commiting various odl changed to CVS
-
-04/20/01 - fixed misplaced brace in my previous fix for spong-message.pl
-
-04/16/01 - fixed problem with contacts not being added to FIFO properly spong-message.pl. It broke delay/repeat notifications.
-
-04/16/01 - fixed array compare bug in load_config_files() routines. Added
-missing parens. (Thanks to John Faichney <faichney@opentext.com>)
- files - www-spong.pl
- www-spong-ack.pl
- wap-spong.pl
- spong-server.pl
- spong-network.pl
-
-04/12/01 - fixed bug in check_ntp module with $/ (record seporater) var
-being undef'ed and not restored.
-
-03/26/01
-FIXED - fixed wrong directory path bug of first_run logic in messaage_user
-(thanks to Christophe Delmon for the fix).
- spong-server.pl
-
-FIXED - fixed problem with sigmask not being cleared in restarted master
-processes in spong-server. (thanks to Christophe Delmon for the fix)
-
-FIXED - added wml_escape() around $summary in display_wml(). (thanks to
-Christophe Delmon for the fix)
- SPONGLIB/Spong/Service.pm
-
-Version 2.7.3
-
-02/08/01
-FIXED - replace wrong file version of spong-network in CVS tree
-
-01/30/01
-FIXED - Fixed problem with using month time for for minute field in BB
-emulation in spong-server.
-
-01/19/01
-FIXED - Fixed bug in 'skip_network_checks' flag logic, wrong variable name in
-spong-network.pl
-
-01/17/01
-FIXED - Added new check for /octets from/ from the Mandrake 7.2 ping command.
- file - /lib/Spong/Network/plugins/check_ping
-
-01/08/01
-CHANGED - Stephen Carpenter's 'stop_after' flag patch has been modified in
-spong-network.pl. The skipped service checks in the 'services' list will not
-be flagged with the new 'clear' status if the flagged service check fails.
-
-01/07/01
-CHANGED - Purple virtual statuses are now converted to real a status
-by the spong-server. Once a status is converted it a history event is
-generated for the host. (Thanks to Christophe Delmon <delmon@fingo.net>
-for the patches).
-
-ADDED - A new status clear/not-available has been added. This is used to
-indicated that the status of service is not currenly available.
- Files - spong-server.pl
- lib/Spong/HistoryList.pm
- lib/Spong/HistoryService.pm
- lib/Spong/Service.pm
- lib/Spong/ServiceList.pm
- lib/Spong/HostGroups.pm
- lib/Spong/HostList.pm
-
-
-Version 2.7.2
-
-01/06/01
-FIXED - Fixed problem in Status.pm perl module about a missing alarm(0)
-when the module die's after an unsuccessfull socket creation. (Thanks for
-David Bronder <david-bronder@uiowa.edu> finding the problem.)
-
-01/04/01
-UPDATED - The Status.pm module now allows you to specify multple Spong Servers
-along with the upate process port number. The full syntax is
- spong-server1[:port] [spong-server2[:port] ...]
-
-12/30/00
-CHANGED - Changed add_contact() procedure logic to not add actual 'group'
-contact on contacts FIFO.
- files - spong-message.pl
-
-ADDED - Added new 'last_if_match' attribute flag for messaging rules. If this
-attribute is set to '1' for a rules and it matches, the rules scanning engine
-will quit processing. The effect is to temporarily set $RULES_MATCH to
-"FIRST-MATCH" for that particular rule.
- files - spong-message.pl
-
-12/24/00
-ADDED - Added printing of new 'name' attribute of message rules to
---debug output. Added help() procedure to print out program usage.
- files - spong-message.pl
-
-12/21/00
-ADDED - Added a new attribute flag 'skip_network_checks' for the spong.hosts
-config file. It is for the spong-network program. When set for a host,
-spong-network will skip all of the testing for that host.
-
-FIXED - Fix problem in the Makefile with a 'tmp' dir not being created in 'make
-client' directory.
-
-CHANGED - Added enhanced section of testing $MESSAGING_RULES with spong-message
-program in the spongfaq.pod question #3.
-
-12/20/00
-ADDED - Added exclude_color / exclude_status matching to the spong-message
-matching rules. You can specify one or more status color to exclude on.
-(thanks to John Wingenbach <jwing@pliantsystems.com> for the changes)
-
-ADDED - Added ignore_interface facility to check_interfaces spong-network
-module. This change allows you to specify one or more network faces to ignore
-on a host. (Thanks to Joe <moebius@bitstream.net> for the changes.)
-
-FIXED - Fix a slight logical problem with the check_interfaces spong-network
-module. And added a slight enhancement to the summary line. It will now
-return the number of interfaces that are down. (Thanks to Duncan Sargeant
-<dunc-spong@rcpt.to> for the changes)
-
-ADDED - Added per service downtimes for spong.hosts file. Services are
-specified by a 'down:servicename' attribute in the host entry in spong.hosts.
-(Thanks to Andrew Ruthven <puck@chelmer.co.nz> for the patch)
-
-FIXED - Fixed syntax error in /lib/Spong/Host.pm module with the
-$WWW_PROB_ACTIONBAR actionbar generation code. (Thanks to Andrew Ruthven
-<puck@chelmer.co.nz> for the fix)
-
-12/19/00
-CHANGED - Added code in spong-server.pl to send "message" field of status
-message to spong-message program when notifications are sent.
-
-FIXED - Fixed problem in spong-message.pl with message throttling and
-contacts that are hashes. (Thanks to Michael Brown <michaelb@opentext.com> for
-the patches)
-
-FIXED - Fixed problem in spong-server.pl with SEND_MESSAGE = CHANGE mode.
-Notifications were being sent out if status was green and it was the first
-status update. (Thanks to Michael Brown <michaelb@opentext.com> for the
-patches)
-
-ADDED - Added "group" attribute for %HUAMNS entries. It allows a group
-of users to be specified. The change handles contact hashes properly. Read
-the documentation in the spong.hosts documentation for more info. (Thanks to
-Michael Brown <michaelb@opentext.com> for the patches).
-
-CHANGED - removed the pingecho() from check_ping spong-network module. And fixedalarm() timer problem with eval{} block.
-
-ADDED - (EXPERIMENTAL!!!) Added code to spong-network.pl to allow remaining
-tests for a host to be skiped if a flagged check(s) fail. Append a ":" to
-service name as the flag. Skipped tests will eventually turn purple. This is
-the first step of this modification. (Thanks to Stephen Carpenter
-<scarpe01@emerald.tufts.edu>)
-
-FIXED - Fixed timer problem in tcp_check() when running spong-network under
-perl debugger.
-
-12/18/00
-FIXED - A couple of syntax bugs squish from new code transplanted from test
-programs. Effected spong-network.pl and spong-serer.pl.
-
-12/15/00
-A belated thanks goes out to Stephen Carpenter
-<scarpe01@emerald.tufts.edu> for patches to the check_processes spong-client
-module 05/2000. His changes made the module more effecient and quicker. I
-missed documenting his patch in this CHANGES file.
-
-CHANGED - Put '^' into regexp matches instead of modifying pattern variable.
-This avoids spurious ^s in the output. (Thanks to Michael Brown
-<michaelb@opentext.com> for the patch.)
-
-ADDED - Added code in History.pm module to display full host name if
-HISTORY_FQDN variable is set to 1. Updated spong.conf.pod documentation.
-(Thanks to Michael Brown <michaelb@opentext.com> for the patch)
-
-ADDED - Added --test param to spong-server which is passed to spong-message
-which skips the actual send of notifications (Thanks to Michael Brown
-<michaelb@opentext.com> for the patch )
-
-12/14/00
-FIXED - Added code for maintain group names in order groups in the spong.groups
-config file. Group names order is now preserved in Host Goups displays. Files
-affect are spong-server.pl and SPONGLIB/HostGroups.pm.
-
-11/30/00
-FIXED - Added default message template in spong-message.pl if a default
-template is not found in spong.message config file.
-
-11/29/00
-CHANGED - Added code in check_http, check_interfaces and check_snmp use new
-spong.hosts host specific parameters. And added $Id: CHANGES,v 1.61 2001/09/16 18:07:00 sljohnson Exp $ RCS keyword.
-
-ADDED - Added wml_escape() in Service.pm module to escape WML format characters
-for display_wml() procedure. (Thanks to Christophe Delmon <delmon@fingo.net>)
-
-FIXED - Fixed problem in spong-server with save_ack and del_ack being called
-when an acknowledgment is deleted. (Thanks to Christophe Delmon
-<delmon@fingo.net>)
-
-Version 2.7.1
-
-11/21/00
-ADDED - Added code to www-spong.pl to default $WWW_TITLE_FRAME if not defined
-
-11/14/00
-ADDED - Added ability to adjust size of Top Frame of www-spong in 3 frame mode
-files - src/www-spong.pl
- config/spong.conf.in
- config/spong.conf.sample
-
-11/06/00
-
-FIXED - Fixed bug with $SPONGSLEEP defaulting to 300 in spong-server. moved
-sleep code to after loading of config files. (Thanks to David Bronder)
-
-FIXED - Fixed parsing bug with hostnames containing '-' in www-spong-ack.
-(thanks to David Bronder)
-
-11/07/00
-FIXED - Fixed problem with missing RPCINFO commands in spong.conf.* files.
-added -s in solaris ping command
-
-CHANGED - Add check_process changes by John Wingenbachm along with added
-optional critical counts for processes ( e.g. ['regexp:cnt','regexp:cnt'] )
-
-CHANGED - Changed chown commands in Makefile to chown / chgrp command pairs
-
-FIXED - Fixed problem with check_http Network module in HTTP/1.1 check for
-problem in IIS running virt server but not to serve under it's FQDN (thanks
-to David Bronder <dave-bronder@uiowa.edu>
-
-Version 2.7.0 Changes
-
-10/26/00
-FIXED - Fixed a bug with the new host group 'display' attribute code in
-HostGroup.pm
-
-10/17/00
-FIXED - Miscellenous Makefile/make syntax and spelling errors
-
-10/13/00
-ADDED - Added initial Makefile install support.
-
-09/25/00
-ADDED - Added initial support for a WAP based interface. WAP display program
-is still very beta but usable.
-
-09/19/00
-FIXED - Fixed problem with check_telnet network module. check was croak'ing
-on errors. changed errmode() to 'return' go that errors are returned properly.
-
-09/15/00
-ADDED - Added check_telnet spong-network modules into CVS
-
-CHANGED - Various documentation updates to POD documentation
-
-09/14/00
-ADDED - Added /pod/builddoc program to build Spong documentation from all POD
-sources in the distribution.
-
-09/13/00
-CHANGED - Replace check_dns spong-network modules with one that doesn not use
-Net::Ping. It uses nslookup or dig to do the actual query.
-
-CHANGED - Update the spong.conf.<os> files with the new $DNSCMD config variable.
-
-09/01/00
-CHANGED - Removed POD documetation from /src/*.pl source files to seperate
-files in /pod.
-
-08/21/00
-CHANGED - Changed WWWSPONG and WWWACK defaults in the spong.conf file by
-removing the "http://hostname/". It's not really needed.
-
-08/21/00
-UPDATED - Updated spong-client module to handle multiple mail queue directory
-capability of sendmail version 8.10 and higher. If spong.conf variables
-$MAILQ_SUBQ_WARN and $MAILQ_SUBQ_CRIT are defined, check_mailq will warning
-and critical counts checks for each queue directory.
-
-08/15/00
-CHANGED - Changed SendMsg to handle multiple servers in $SPONGSERVER variable.
-Port numbers can also be specified as a part of the host names. New syntax for
-$SPONGSERVER is now "hostname[:port] hostname2[:port] ...". If ":port" is not
-specified the the port will default to the $port variable passed in the
-function calls.
-
-08/02/00
-CHANGED - Changed status, event and page functions in /lib/Spong/Status.pm
-module to called a common SendMsg routine to send message. Updated error
-reporting to use main::error() routine.
-
-07/28/00
-UPDATED - Update question 2 in spongfaq.pod file with $HOST = "hostname" in
-spong.conf option
-
-07/26/00
-CHANGED - Various files. All other code that displays a date and/or a time
-have been changed to use the new DATETIMEFMT, DATEFMT, TIMEFMT, TIMEFMTNOSEC
-configuration varirables of the spong.conf file. These formatting varirables
-are strings that have strftime() presentation symbols to format the date
-and time to your local standards. Check out the defaults in the default
-spong.conf file. They are setting for North American Date and Time formats
-(i.e. Month / Day / Year for dates). Thanks to Andrew Ruthven
-<puck@chelmer.co.nz> for the patch that did most of the work.
-
-07/25/00
-CHANGED - Changed escalation code in spong-network to not report downgraded
-'red' statuses until after the re-checks. The final status state is reported
-to spong-server.
-
-07/23/00
-CHANGED - In spong-network changed check_tcp function to use
-socket,bind,connect code to check sockets. Added better code to return error
-code text to caller.
-
-07/20/00
-FIXED - added missing msg template code for 'contact:module' formatted contacts.
-(Thanks to Scott Hebert <scott@cae.ca>)
-
-07/13/00
-CHANGED - Updated spong-client and spong-server to use the $SPONGSLEEP{}
-has to allow for customizing sleep times on a per program basis.
-
-07/12/00
-UPDATED - Minor documentation updates. Especially the note in spong.groups
-about not have to put hosts as members of the 'all' host group.
-
-07/08/00
-ADDED - Adding message templates functionality to spong-message. Check
-spong.message config file for details.
- files - src/spong-message.pl
- config/spong.message
-
-CHANGED - Modified the messaging modules to use the new API calls from
-spong-message.
- files - lib/Spong/Message/plugins/*
-
-CHANGED - Update spong.message with new message templates section.
-
-CHANGES - Updates spong.conf with new DATEFMT, TIMEFMT and DATETIMEFMT
-variables for user configurable date and times formats using strftime
-formatting variables.
-
-06/26/00
-CHANGED - Various documentation updates and format conversion to POD.
-
-06/02/00
-FIXED - problem in spong-network with $color not being set if service is down when
-program starts up.
-
-05/14/00
-ADDED - Add updated documentation to spong-network.pl in pod format.
-
-05/12/00
-FIXED - save_status() function into spong-server didn't allow host names wot
-upper case letters. (Thanks to supermathie from SourceForce)
-
-05/09/00
-ADDED - Text displays code for all modes into HostGroups.pm. (Thanks to
-Andrew Ruthven <puck@chelmer.co.nz> for the changes)
-
-ADDED - Added code into spong text client interface program to call new
-text display code of HostGroup.pm. The new parameter is --grpsummary.
-(Thanks to Andrew Ruthven <puck@chelmer.co.nz> for the changes)
-
-05/04/00
-FIXED - Fixed some problems with my debugging code in the check_snmp and
-check_interfaces spong-network modules. The modules would never recover from
-reporting after an error. Every after would be reported as an error.
-
-ADDED - Added patch to HostGroups.pm by Andrew Ruthven <puck@chelmer.co.nz>
-that added a neat brief html view to the Host Groups Summary display.
-www-spong --brief --grp-summary or .../www-spong/brief/grp-summary/ (URL
-command string)
-
-05/03/00
-CHANGED - Perl POD format documenation was added to the check_snmp and
-check_interfaces modules. You can now use pod2man, pod2text, or any other pod
-convertor to get documenation on the modules.
-
-ADDED - Added check_snmp contributed by "mike bayliss"
-<mbayliss@datax.be>. I added some more error checking code for SNMP sesion
-problems and make the sysObjID check optional. SNMP Community names can be
-added to host entries in the spong.hosts file using the 'snmp_community'
-attribute name. The default community is 'public'. The sysObjID check can be
-enabled by adding an 'expect_objid' attribute to the host's entry in %HOSTS in
-spong.conf.
-
-FIXED - Fixed problem in spong-network where service that were previously down
-their status's where downgraded to yellow for the next cycle instead of
-remaining red. And critical count for services where not being reset at the
-start of the main check loop.
-
-05/02/00
-ADDED - Added check_interfaces contributed by "mike bayliss"
-<mbayliss@datax.be>. I added some more error checking code for SNMP sesion
-problems. SNMP Community names can be added to host entries in the spong.hosts
-file using the 'snmp_community' attribute name. The default community is
-'public'.
-
-04/21/00
-FIXED - Fixed problem with Time::HiRes module on system where it's not
-installed.
-
-CHANGED - Changed the problem escalation code to be a subloop to will recheck
-services that check as down. The services will be reported as a warning
-(yellow) until they fail $CRIT_WARN_LEVEL times. The retry sleep interval
-if seperately configurable.
-
-04/18/00
-ADDED - Added support for noping via a routine that munges the $services field
-in the %HOSTS array.
-
-04/16/00
-CHANGED - removed Net::Ping from spong-network, moved it to check_ping module.
-added support to use Time::HiRes module if loaded. reactived problem esclation
-code in spong-network. Changed check_tcp routine to use increasing timeouts
-instead of a flat 10 second timeout. Made check_tcp to report reson why service
-is down (time out or service refused).
-
-04/04/00
-FIXED - wasn't closing duplicate $client and $sock file handles in all forking
-code in spong-server
-
-CHANGED - renamed 'overview' functions and parameters to 'grp' to reflect
-'group' view name in spong-server and www-spong
-
-04/03/00
-CHANGED - listen_for_queries(), listeb_for_updates() and list_for_bb_updates()
-processes have been changed to use fork()'ing to handle incoming connections.
-
-03/14/00
-ADDED - listen_for_queries() routine now updates it's master list of services
-from the database every 15 minutes.
-
-FIXED - Fixed status color order in %COLORS hash. (thanks to "mike bayliss"
-<mbayliss@datax.be> )
-
-ADDED - Enchanced Error logging with Spong::Log modules. Parameter processing
-now uses Getopt::Long. Program will about if another instance of the program
-is already running. Current program status is written to $0 to show up in
-ps command displays.
- files - spong-network
- spong-client
-
-FIXED - Call to Spong::Logger->new() in open_error_log() was missing logopt
-parameter in module lib/Spong/Log.pm.
-
-03/13/00
-ADDED - Added three frame mode for www-spong. Added tool bars for title frame,
-and hosts in problem display (left frame).
- files - www-spong
- lib/Spong/Host.pm
- config/spong.conf
-
-ADDED - Added RedHat 6.x boot scripts to the contrib directory.
-
-03/09/00
-FIXED - fixed misspelling of breif.html in lib/Spong/Info.pm module
-(thanks to Andrew Ruthven <puck@chelmer.co.nz> )
-
-CHANGED - enchacement to spong-message to enable mulitple services to be
-placed in Spong Acks
-(thanks to Brian Jared <bjared@monster.com> )
-
-03/06/00
-FIXED - the background color of CELLS where invalid if WWW_USE_IMAGE = 0
- files - lib/Spong/HostGroups.pm
-
-03/01/00
-FIXED - added to build to chmod 755 to /lib/Spong/ directories
-(thanks to "Eric D. Christensen" <edc@ns.proadmin.com> )
-
-
-02/29/00
-FIXED - added fix for repeated notifications for contacts with a 'delay'
-attributed defined in spong-message
-
-FIXED - added default value to $WWW_DEFAULT_VIEW if it is not defaulted
-in spong.conf file
- file - www-spong
-
-FIXED - moved calling to already_running() to handle_signals() because the
-signals parmas could not be used in spong-server
-
-FIXED - added code to clear out the signal mask in spong-netowrk, spong-client
-and spong-server in case the process inherits a blocked signal
-(thanks to "mike bayliss" <mbayliss@datax.be> )
-
-
-02/23/00
-FIXED - fixed problem in HostList.pm where host URL's in display_html() are
-invalid when WWW_FQDN = 0 (Thanks to "mike bayliss" <mbayliss@datax.be>)
-
-ADDED - added interactive functions for host group overview web displays
-
-02/20/00
-ADDED - added display_problem() function to HostGroups.pm modules
- file - lib/Spong/HostGroups.pm
- spong-server
- www-spong
-
-FIXED - added eval block around status() to prevent program from dying if
-it can't connect to spong-server
-
-ADDED - added support for 'page' message type to spong-status.
- file - spong-status
- lib/Spong/Status.pm
-
-FIXED - Added eval block around status() function to prevent program aborts if
-spong-server can't be contacted.
- file - lib/Spong/Status.pm
-
-FIXED - removed use Data::Dumper; statement from Host.pm
- file - lib/Spong/Host.pm
-
-02/08/00
-ADDED - Added time to live parameter for status update messages.
- files - spong-server
- lib/Spong/Status.pm
-
-ADDED - Added new spong-status program to allow update messages to be sent to
-Spong server from scripts and other programs.
- files - spong-status
-
-ADDED - Added new message type "event". This is similar to a 'status' message,
-except an event message is only written to a host's history.
- files - spong-server
- spong-status
- lib/Spong/History.pm
-
-
-02/07/00
-ADDED - Added initial support for a new Overview displays. This command
-displays statuses by Host Groups. Currenly on standard type views are
-supported.
- files - lib/Spong/HostGroup.pm
- lib/Spong/HostList.pm
- cgi-bin/www-spong
- bin/spong-server
-
-
-01/30/00
-FIXED - change print line in debug() method to print to STDERR instead of
-STDOUT.
- file - lib/Spong/Log.pm
-
-01/30/00
-FIXED - spong-client.pid was being deleted instead of spong-network.pid if
---nosleep was specified.
- files - bin/spong-network.pl
-
-01/03/00
-FIXED - fixed problem with np_file deletion logic when $SEND_MESSAGE = "RED".
-
-01/24/00
-ADDED - New logging modules created. Logger is a generic logging class that can
-log to syslog, stderr, stdout, and a file. Log is modules to encapsulate all
-of the debug, error, and logging routines for spong program
- file - lib/Spong/Logger.pm
- lib/Spong/Log.pm
-
-01/25/00
-CHANGED - Modified spong-server to use the new Log module and enhanced
-logging routines. The --debug pararm now has an optional "debuglevel"
-option to control the level of debugging output. "debuglevel" is an integer
-that ranges from 1-9.
-
-01/25/00
-CHANGED - Modified spong-server to use Getopts::Long for parameter parsing.
-parameters are no longer position dependent.
-
-01/24/00
-FIXED - Fixed bug in services() and service_objects() method of ServiceList
-class. They were returning undef instead of a null list if there are no
-service status files.
-
-01/13/00
-FIXED - hostname and service name were not being added to www-spong-ack URL on
-Service Display web page.
- files - lib/Spong/Service.pm
-
-01/06/00
-FIXED - notification bug in spong-message where contacts without messaging
-method would no receive notifictions.
-
-01/06/00
-CHANGED - The debug loggin code in spong-message has been changed to allow
-the user to select how verbose the debugging output is.
-
-01/04/00
-CHANGED - Code for spwaning and handling child processes in spong-server has
-been rewritten. Update proceses can now be selectivedly turned off. The new
-code will make scaling up easier.
-
-12/28/99
-ADDED - The status updates associated with History entries are now kept. They
-are displayed by clicking the color icon or block in the first columns of
-the History Display web page. It is controlled by the $STATUS_HISTORY variable
-in spong.conf file.
- files - lib/Spong/HistoryService.pm
- lib/Spong/Service.pm
- lib/Spong/History.pm
- spong-server
- www-spong
- etc/spong.conf
-
-12/27/99
-ADDED - Added status summary line to image ALT text attribute to web pages
-using IMAGES. On most browsers this will display the status summary line
-in a popup window when the pointer is over the status icon.
- files - lib/Spong/HostList.pm
-
-
-Version 2.6 Changes
-
-12/08/99
-ADDED - Added data plugin mechanism to spong-server. This is a hook to
-the service status update to be used by output programs. Two sample plugin
-modules in contrib/plugins/spong-server are included. They both write data
-to RRD Tool databases. data_rrd_disk logs usage for file system on a host.
-data_rrd_la logs the load average, number of user and numbers of jobs.
-
-12/07/99
-FIXED - www-spong-ack was missing 'use Time::Local;' statement. This was
-causing web server error when an explicit date/time was used in the Duration
-field. (Thanks to Jonathan Byrne)
-
-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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