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.

Nagios Plugins 2.3.0 Released

The Nagios Plugins Development Team is proud to announce that nagios-plugins 2.3.0 has been released and is available for download.

Enhancements:

  • Added a plugin “remove_perfdata” to remove perfdata from another plugin’s output
  • Added a plugin “check_ssl_validity” which verifies a certificate through CRL or OCSP
  • Added directory plugins-python containing three Python plugins
  • check_apt: Add –only-critical switch
  • check_apt: Add –packages-warning (Marc Sánchez)
  • check_disk: Add –combined-thresholds to alert on a percentage AND raw units.
  • check_disk: Add –inode-perfdata to get extra performance data from inode statistics
  • check_disk: Add support for base-10 units kB, MB, GB, TB; rename base-2 units to KiB, MiB, GiB, TiB
  • check_disk_smb: Add configfile feature
  • check_disk_smb: Added additional smb support
  • check_disk_smb: Allow non-latin characters in names (Konstantin Shalygin)
  • check_file_age: Use extended plugin output to show one file per line
  • check_http: New parameter --verify-host will check if -H hostname matches the SSL certificate
  • check_icmp: Add Jitter, MOS, Score (Alessandro Ren)
  • check_ldap: Add support for checking LDAP cert age (Guillaume Rousse)
  • check_mailq: Add mailq -C option for config dir or config file
  • check_mailq: Add option for opensmtpd (brigriffin)
  • check_mailq: Add support for opensmtpd
  • check_mysql_query: Add –character-set flag
  • check_ntp: Add –delay flag to circumvent DOS detection
  • check_ntp: Add –allow-zero-stratum flag
  • check_ntp_time: Add –delay flag to circumvent DOS detection
  • check_ntp_time: Add support for monitoring stratum of timesources
  • check_oracle: Add support for Oracle XE databases (Peter Athaks)
  • check_ping: plugin output will now include hostname and IP address
  • check_pgsql: Add –print-query flag
  • check_procs: Add FreeBSD jail support (Mathieu Arnold)
  • check_procs: Allow process to be excluded from check_procs (Marcel Klein)
  • check_procs: Additional performance data metrics (azthec)
  • check_radius: Add calling-station-id (cejkar)
  • check_smtp: Add –proxy flag for PROXY protocol (Patrick Uiterwijk)
  • check_smtp: Add support for –sni (Arkadiusz Miśkiewicz)
  • check_snmp: Add –strict flag to ensure returned OID matches -o.
  • check_swap: Add –no-swap flag (Mario Trangoni)
  • check_ups: Add check for battery runtime left (gino0631)
  • lib: Added warning_string/critical_string to struct thresholds for storing originally parsed strings
  • ssl_utils: Added certificate expiry data in OK status (check_http, check_smtp, check_tcp) (Matt Capra)

Fixes:

  • build: Fix ax_with_python not crashing on Python3 (Michael Orlitzky)
  • build: fix configure.ac for FreeBSD SWAPFORMAT
  • build: Fix rpmbuild errors (Josh Coughlan)
  • check_disk: autofs being mounted despite ‘-l’. Fixed, and also excluded some system “fake” mountpoints
  • check_disk: Add missing timeout logic
  • check_dns: Fix for Bind 9.11.x AAAA records being reported with A record format (Troy Lea)
  • check_dns: reverse (PTR) check is now case insensitive
  • check_file_age: For multiple files, use the “worst” status instead of the “last” one
  • check_file_age: perfdata labels when using multiple files
  • check_file_age: For multiple files, don’t exit immediately on first file not found
  • check_http: Additional header/status checking
  • check_http: Fix –no-body
  • check_http: When checking certificate, don’t check content/status unless specified by –continue-after-certificate
  • check_load: Fixed for operating systems which don’t have commas in their load averages (like Mac OSX)
  • check_log does not check for “-O oldlog”
  • check_log lost ability to use regexes for query (-q) in 2.1.4
  • check_mysql_query & mysql_query: extra-opts causes crash
  • check_ntp/ntp_time/ntp_peer: Fix how thresholds are displayed in performance data
  • check_ntp_time calls write on a UDP socket without a successful call to connect
  • check_ntp_time: Periodically returns “Socket timeout” when one of several ntp server doesn’t respond
  • check_ntp.pl: Fixed crash due to references to undefined variables
  • check_ping: FreeBSD ping working natively
  • check_procs: Prevent buffer overflow/crash on Solaris
  • check_radius: Fix for null pointer dereference (Vít Heřman)
  • check_sensors: Fix fault test with –ignore-fault
  • check_snmp: Fix –authpasswd option
  • check_snmp: Fix perfdata not adhering to plugin dev guidelines
  • check_snmp: warning/critical perfdata is returned properly
  • check_ups: Change performance data units to match spec. (Temperature and voltage units can be accessed via -e)
  • check_wave: produces lots of errors if required arguments are not provided

Download Nagios-Plugins 2.3.0 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 to our plugin development forum.

Nagios Plugins 2.2.1 Released

The Nagios Plugins Development Team is proud to announce that nagios-plugins 2.2.1 has been released and is available for download.

Fixes:

  • check_users: not accepting zero as the threshold
  • check_http: reports warning where it should report ok with -e
  • check_snmp: does not work with -6 –ipv6 flags
  • check_swap: threshold calculation in bytes requires subtracting 65
  • check_uptime: fixed backward help text for thresholds
  • check_http: Don’t prematurely report success when checking HTTP TLS cert validity
  • check_http: fix parsing the last header
  • check_mailq: Fix for Postfix and better Sudo Checking
  • configure.ac: Fix spelling error
  • check_ntp_peer: requires newline when there is a socket timeout (fix in netutils.c)
  • check_users: segmentation fault if both thresholds are not provided
  • check_dns: DNS CRITICAL – expected ‘{hostname}.’ but got ‘name = {hostname}.’
  • check_mailq: Nullmailer Regex is not working for Ubuntu 16.04
  • check_swap: Downstream Fedora patch: Prevent check_swap from returning OK, if no swap activated
  • Building RPMs on Amazon Linux – Add ‘install-root’ on line 165 of spec file
  • check_http: Memory allocation error

Download Nagios-Plugins 2.2.1 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 to our plugin development forum.

Nagios Plugins 2.2.0 Released

The Nagios Plugins Development Team is proud to announce that nagios-plugins 2.2.0 has been released and is available for download.

Enhancements:

  • check_flexlm: if -F <license file> is not specified, will use LM_LICENSE_FILE environment var
  • check_load: Added per cpu load average message
  • check_smtp: add -L flag to support LMTP (LHLO instead of HELO/EHLO)

Fixes:

  • check_http: -e breaks -f
  • check_mrtg: Add state to status output
  • check_ping: ping runs 30 times when host is down
  • check_icmp: does not have the -p argument in the help
  • check_dns: Segfaulting with timeout > 26 sec
  • check_disk: missing -lrt on Solaris
  • check_http: segmentation fault
  • check_http: help text update for virtual hosts
  • check_snmp: Thresholds were being shown twice
  • check_hpjd: some jd 610 cards have a false flag that printer is offline
  • check_http: Handle reference redirect like //www.site.org/test
  • check_disk: alerts issued too soon
  • fix: Allocator sizeof operand mismatch
  • fix: Dead assignment
  • Shellcheck: fix most of the shellcheck warnings.
  • check_ntp: touch ntp servers at most once every seconds
  • check_dns: authoritative test (-A) is broken
  • check_dns: reports TXT records incorrectly
  • check_file_age: does not handle filenames WITHOUT space!
  • de,fr.po: fix syntax errors end-of-line within string
  • lib/parse_ini.c: fix gcc warning: implicit declaration of function ‘idpriv_temp_drop’ and ‘idpriv_temp_restore’
  • add openssl 1.1 support

Download Nagios-Plugins 2.2.0 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 to our plugin development forum.

Nagios Plugins 2.1.4 Released

The Nagios Plugins Development Team is proud to announce that nagios-plugins 2.1.4 has been released and is available for download.

Enhancements:
– SNI support in check_tcp (ddbilik)
– check_disk_smb.pl: add support for -k for kerberos authentication
– check_file_age.c: allow wildcard matching

Fixes:
– check_http: Don’t include default Accept header if one is provided
– check_disk: added “fuse.gvfsd-fuse” to list of fs types to ignore
– check_http: Fixed non-text chunked-encoded decoding
– check_http: segmentation fault (FreeBSD)
– check_dns: Update IF_RECORD to not erase query_found
– check_http: SSL Certificate check returns 12:00:00AM <local timezone>
– check_http: -u is misleading. Changed help text
– check_file_age: does not handle filenames with space
– check_snmp: units label option outputs the label in the incorrect location
– plugins-root/check_dhcp.c: fix a potential segfault
– check_users: not correctly detecting thresholds

Download Nagios-Plugins 2.1.4 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 to our plugin development forum.

Nagios Plugins 2.1.3 Released

The Nagios Plugins Development Team is proud to announce that nagios-plugins 2.1.3 has been released and is available for download.

Enhancements:
– SNI support in check_tcp (ddbilik)
– check_disk_smb.pl: add support for -k for kerberos authentication
– check_file_age.c: allow wildcard matching

Fixes:
– check_tcp.c: tools/build_perl_modules hardcodes the perl used
– check_game.c: reports ping as number of players (Jason Rivers)
– fix some gcc5 warnings (Mario Trangoni)
– check_cluster.c: Update wording in comments (Troy Lea)
– check_nagios.c: could not locate a running nagios process
– check_swap.c: does not accept threshold of zero
– check_swap.c: uses inconsistent checks on negative thresholds
– check_snmp.c: –offset does not appear to do anything (Troy Lea)
– sslutils.c: output has first line of “SSL Version: xxxxxx”
–   effects anything using sslutils including check_http, check_dhcp
– utils_cmd.c: when using ssh (or check-by-ssh) with ControlMaster/ControlPersist,
nagios times out the first time and one gets zombie processes (Gordon Messmer)

 

Download Nagios-Plugins 2.1.3 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 to our plugin development forum.

Nagios Plugins 2.1.2 Released

The Nagios Plugins Development Team is proud to announce that nagios-plugins 2.1.2 has been released and is available for download.

Enhancements:
– check_snmp’s performance data now also includes warning/critical thresholds
– New check_snmp “-N” option to specify SNMPv3 context name
– New check_nt “-l” parameters: seconds|minutes|hours|days
– New check_mailq -s option which tells the plugin to use sudo
– New -W/-C option for check_ldap to check number of entries
– The check_http -S/–ssl option now accepts the arguments “1.1” and “1.2” to force TLSv1.1 and TLSv1.2 connections, respectively
– The check_http -S/–ssl option now allows for specifying the desired protocol with a “+” suffix to also accept newer versions
– New check_disk “-v” option to show troubled partition in verbose mode
– Added a parameter -w (–max_warning) to check_log.sh defining upper value to return a warning code
– Add support for LDAP URIs in check_ldap
– Provide performance data in check_file_age
– Added –hostname support to check_by_ssh
– Add check_ifstatus option to ignore interfaces by name
– Introduce support for SNMPv3 context using “-N” option in check_snmp:
– Added IPv6 support to check_snmp.c
– Added support for checking SSL-Websites through Proxies to check_http

Fixes:
– check_dig can now also use “drill” instead of “dig”
– check_dig now honors the -4 and -6 switches
– Fix check_jabber to work with Openfire servers
– Fix “-n” and “-u” options in ifstatus.pl to ignore if either is set, not just both
– Fix perfdata to comply with perfdata UOM definition in check_mrtgtraf
– Change warning to critical for protocal/version errors in check_ssh
– Make header_value() and chunked-encoding decoding more robust in check_http
– Fix Host header if explicitly set with -k in check_http
– Enable check_proc to monitor processes in PID name-spaced environments.
– Prevent large tide values from truncation in check_disk
– Timeticks are now being parsed correctly before performance data in check_snmp
– Fixed mailer names in check_mailq.pl
– Improved output when swap space has zero size incheck_swap
– Check if OpenSSL supports SSLv3
– Optimize output if SSL certificate expires in less then 24 hours
– Increased MAX_RE_SIZE from 256 to 2048 in check_http
– Changed the ps command to allow for longer output in check_procs
– Allow a server to reply using only ‘HTTP/1.x 200 OK’ and a body, with no headers in check_http
– Other more minor fixes

 

Download Nagios-Plugins 2.1.2 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 to our plugin development forum.

Nagios Plugins 2.1.1 Released

The Nagios Plugins Development Team is proud to announce that nagios-plugins 2.1.1 has been released and is available for download.

Dang release gremlins.

FIXES
lib/utils_cmd.c – Reverted to fix check_procs segfault (abrist)

Download Nagios-Plugins 2.1.1 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 to our plugin development forum.