Author Archives: Sebastian Wolf

Nagios Plugins 2.4.6 Released

The Nagios Plugins team is proud to announce that nagios-plugins 2.4.6 has been released and is available for download.

Bugfixes:

  • check_log: Fixed issue where /tmp directory would fill with unnecessary information (#724)
  • check_mailq: Correctly handle “Mail queue is empty” when monitoring Postfix over SSMTP (#611)
  • check_oracle: Reduce false positives when looking for “OK” messages (#723)
  • utils: Fix compiler warnings (#583, #637)

Download Nagios-Plugins 2.4.6 here.

Thanks to all who have contributed toward this release. If you need assistance installing or using the plugins, please visit our general support forum. Bug reports, feature requests, and additional comments are welcome and may be posted on our GitHub repo.

Nagios Plugins 2.4.5 Released


The Nagios Plugins team is proud to announce that nagios-plugins 2.4.5 has been released and is available for download.

Bugfixes:

  • check_dns: Fix buffer overflow on Ubuntu 22.04 (#699)
  • check_sensors: Use grep instead of deprecated egrep (#697)
  • check_tcp: Add –sni as an alias to -N (#701)
  • check_by_ssh: Prevent users from using ProxyCommand/LocalCommand/PermitLocalCommand (compile using ./configure –with-unrestricted-ssh-options=yes to re-enable)
  • build: fix bug when using VPATH builds (#700)

Download Nagios-Plugins 2.4.5 here.

Thanks to all who have contributed toward this release. If you need assistance installing or using the plugins, please visit our general support forum. Bug reports, feature requests, and additional comments are welcome and may be posted on our GitHub repo.

Nagios Plugins 2.4.4 Released


The Nagios Plugins team is proud to announce that nagios-plugins 2.4.4 has been released and is available for download.

Bugfixes:

  • check_log: improve file readability test to accommodate CAP_DAC_READ_SEARCH and similar (#604)
  • check_mrtgtraf: fix incorrect out_pct performance data metric (#600)
  • check_ping: handle “bad checksum” warning from ping output (#616)

Download Nagios-Plugins 2.4.4 here.

Thanks to all who have contributed toward this release. If you need assistance installing or using the plugins, please visit our general support forum. Bug reports, feature requests, and additional comments are welcome and may be posted on our GitHub repo.

Nagios Plugins 2.4.3 Released

The Nagios Plugins team is proud to announce that nagios-plugins 2.4.3 has been released and is available for download.

Bugfixes:

  • check_dig: Improve matching logic when using -a (#652)
  • check_mailq: Fix garbled output when checking postfix (#663)

Download Nagios-Plugins 2.4.3 here.

Thanks to all who have contributed toward this release. If you need assistance installing or using the plugins, please visit our general support forum. Bug reports, feature requests, and additional comments are welcome and may be posted on our GitHub repo.

Nagios Plugins 2.4.2 Released

The Nagios Plugins team is proud to announce that nagios-plugins 2.4.2 has been released and is available for download.

Bugfixes:

  • check_ntp/check_ntp_time: Fix calculation bug introduced in 2.4.1 (#667)

Download Nagios-Plugins 2.4.2 here.

Thanks to all who have contributed toward this release. If you need assistance installing or using the plugins, please visit our general support forum. Bug reports, feature requests, and additional comments are welcome and may be posted on our GitHub repo.

Nagios Plugins 2.4.1 Released

The Nagios Plugins team is proud to announce that nagios-plugins 2.4.1 has been released and is available for download.

Bugfixes:

  • check_ntp_time: Ensure -W/-C (stratum warning/critical thresholds) are available as short options (#661)
  • check_icmp: Fix “Invalid Argument” errors of FreeBSD 13.1 (#659)
  • check_icmp: Fix address binding in IPv6 (#666)
  • check_ntp/check_ntp_time: Fixed errors when compiling with strict aliasing (#665)
  • check_ifstatus: Fixed issue where OID 1.3.6.1.4.1.9.2.2.1.1.28 was queried on systems that didn’t support it (#650)
  • check_smtp: Fix regression when using STARTTLS (#649, #648, #651)
  • check_log.sh: Use temporary files to fix diffing for high-throughput logs (#566)
  • Fixed several compile errors for upcoming clang-16 (#670)

Download Nagios-Plugins 2.4.1 here.

Thanks to all who have contributed toward this release. If you need assistance installing or using the plugins, please visit our general support forum. Bug reports, feature requests, and additional comments are welcome and may be posted on our GitHub repo.

Nagios Plugins 2.4.0 Released

The Nagios Plugins team is proud to announce that nagios-plugins 2.4.0 has been released and is available for download.

Enhancements:

  • check_http: Add -o option (Append page body as performance data) (#615) (Tobias Leich)
  • check_icmp: Add -f and -F perfdata options (#567)
  • check_ifstatus: Add -d option (exclude interfaces by description regexp) (#548) (Alexandre Anriot)
  • check_smtp: Add support for SMTP over TLS (#565) (Franz Schwartau)
  • check_snmp: Add -M to multiply results by a given factor (#559) (Scott Baker)

Bugfixes:

  • lib: _np_state_calculate_location_prefix() should return non-void when running under suid (Kris Shannon)
  • pst3.c: Fix build issue on Solaris (#537)
  • check_by_ssh: Fix return code when ssh or the shell itself fails (#618) (Guillaume Rousse)
  • check_disk: Fix false DISK CRITICAL alerts on btrfs systems (#569) (George Hansper)
  • check_log: Fix error message for systems that don’t use bash (#539)
  • check_log: Fix linebreaks in documentation (#621) (Matt Capra)
  • check_mysql_query: Fix use-after-free (#602) (Simon F)
  • negate: Errors are now printed directly to stderr instead of being redirected to stdout (#571) (Geert Hendrickx)

Download Nagios-Plugins 2.4.0 here.

Thanks to all who have contributed toward this release. If you need assistance installing or using the plugins, please visit our general support forum. Bug reports, feature requests, and additional comments are welcome and may be posted on our GitHub repo.

Nagios Plugins 2.3.3 Released

The Nagios Plugins team is proud to announce that nagios-plugins 2.3.3 has been released and is available for download.

Bugfixes:

  • check_http: Fix several issues related to page length calculation (#535, #533, #536)
  • check_icmp: fix issues when not running in debug mode (#530)

Download Nagios-Plugins 2.3.3 here.

Thanks to all who have contributed toward this release. If you need assistance installing or using the plugins, please visit our general support forum. Bug reports, feature requests, and additional comments are welcome and may be posted on our GitHub repo.

Nagios Plugins 2.3.2 Released

The Nagios Plugins team is proud to announce that nagios-plugins 2.3.2 has been released and is available for download.

Bugfixes:

  • build: Fix broken builds on some systems, including Homebrew (#508)
  • check_disk: Change unit calculations to always use binary units for backward compatibility (#518)
  • check_dns: Improve error messaging for “connection timed out” and “connected refused” cases (#503) (Barak Shohat)
  • check_http: Fix host:port syntax when using -H (#514) (Isaac White)
  • check_icmp: All performance data tags should show when packet loss is 100% (#510)
  • check_icmp: Fix incorrect status when run against multiple hosts (#520)
  • check_mailq: Fix nullmailer regular expression to recognize minutes and seconds properly (#522)
  • check_ntp_peer: Fixed improper performance data by setting LC_NUMERIC to ‘C’ (#526)
  • check_ntp_time: Fixed improper performance data by setting LC_NUMERIC to ‘C’ (#526)
  • check_ping: Fixed inconsistent timeout behavior (#323, #419) (Barak Shohat)
  • perl dependencies: updated the included Module::Build to work with newer versions of perl (#505)

Download Nagios-Plugins 2.3.2 here.

Thanks to all who have contributed toward this release. If you need assistance installing or using the plugins, please visit our general support forum. Bug reports, feature requests, and additional comments are welcome and may be posted on our GitHub repo.

Nagios Plugins 2.3.1 Released

The Nagios Plugins Development Team is proud to announce that nagios-plugins 2.3.1 has been released and is available for download.

Fixes:

  • check_icmp: Fixed backward-compatibility issue with performance data (#480)

Download Nagios-Plugins 2.3.1 here.

If you need assistance installing or using the plugins, please visit our general support forum. Bug reports, feature requests, and additional comments are welcome and may be posted to our plugin development forum.