From: Stephen L Johnson Date: Fri, 7 Jun 2002 00:30:27 +0000 (+0000) Subject: renamed RELEASE to RELEASE.NOTES X-Git-Tag: spong-2_8_0-beta1~79 X-Git-Url: http://git.etc.gen.nz/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=0eee8ae9db1f8662ca17520be155160c1a04b034;p=spong.git renamed RELEASE to RELEASE.NOTES --- diff --git a/RELEASE b/RELEASE deleted file mode 100644 index 2a01f19..0000000 --- a/RELEASE +++ /dev/null @@ -1,22 +0,0 @@ -These are release notes for Spong 2.7.6. There are a few new goodies in this -release along with a bunch of minor bug fixes. Also with this release I'm -switching the format of the Change log. - - It's tedious keeping the CHANGES file manually updated along with CVS commits. -So I have decided to use the CVS log as the new Change Log. Any additional -commentary or notes will be in the RELEASE notes file. - -The major new change are a new safe_exec Perl module for executing external -programs. The new module has better cleanup routines. It will do a long way -to prevent zombies and hung processes. - -Another change is the spong-server data_rrd_disk plugin module can now handle -NT clients. No changes are needed. The new plugin module will recognize the -spong-nt-client update and create the RRD databases. Just rerun the spong-rrd -program to create the new CGI programs. - -And there is a new beta spong-client module check_memory. The module is an -enhanced swap check. It checks both physical memory and virtual memory. Now -it's limited to using top or the Linux free command. - -Stephen L Johnson diff --git a/RELEASE.NOTES b/RELEASE.NOTES new file mode 100644 index 0000000..dc3d6e5 --- /dev/null +++ b/RELEASE.NOTES @@ -0,0 +1,57 @@ +For Spong 2.7.7 + +NEW FEATURES + +TCP Wrappers + +Spong Server can now use TCP Wrapper. You can control systems have access to +the different services that Spong Server listens to. If the Authen::Libwrap +module is installed then Spong Server will automattically use it. + +New module API for Spong Server + + Spong Server now has a new plugin modue API. There are two now module types +predata and postdata. Predata modules are run before normal processing is done. +Postdata modules are run after processing. + + Messages are passed to the modules are passed as hashes. This simplifies +the API and make it more flexible. And finally all message formats are send to +each module: status, ack and del-ack. + +IMPROVED FEATURES + +Spong Network - http module + + The check method (i.e. GET, HEAD) can be specified in the URI line. + +Spong Client - vmstat module + + This is a new partially implemented module (only for works in Linux, AIX, +Solaris and TruUnix64/OSF1). It runs vmstat on the local machine and sends the +data to the Spong Server. It's designed to work with the latest version of +Spong RRD. The data is stored in RRD databases for System Charts. There are +parameter check as yet. + +Spong Client - logs module + + A new exclude_pattern field has ben added to the logmon check. Log file +entries can now be filtered more precisely. + +Spong Client - disk module + + Coding for the @DFIGNORE field has been changed to allow slashes '/' to be +specified in the regular expressions. + +Spong Message + + Two new features to make sending HTML mail easier. + + There is a new output fieldxs for message templates, DETAILEDHTML. It's the +detail message field of a status mesage that has been HTML'ize to preserve +the ascii formatting. + +And the built in email() function now detects if HTML is present in the body +fields. If present is will add a 'Content-Type: text/html' header to the +e-mail message. + +