Version 1.4.16 Released

Holger Weiß, June 27, 2012

The Nagios Plugins Development Team is proud to announce a new release of the Nagios Plugins! This release contains several enhancements and bug fixes. Many thanks to all the contributors who raised issues or provided patches.

You can get the tarball from: https://sourceforge.net/projects/nagiosplug/files/

Enhancements

check_nt UPTIME accepts warning/critical thresholds
check_disk_smb now allows spaces in share names
check_http now uses standard threshold functions (enables floating point and ranges)
check_http now checks for and prints the certificate cn (hostname) in SSL certificate checks
check_http now supports an optional -S/--ssl value to choose the SSL protocol version
Add perfdata to check_ssh
New option to check_smtp to ignore failures when sending QUIT
New check_by_ssh -F option which allows for specifying an alternative ssh_config(5) file
check_sensors now detects faulty sensors unless --ignore-fault is specified
utils.sh now provides a check_range function
Improved the performance of check_users
Add perfdata to check_disk_smb
Updated Nagios::Plugin perl module
Add warning threshold to certificate expiration checks of check_tcp/http/smtp
Add --perf-oids option for check_snmp

Fixes

Fix check_disk free space calculation if blocksizes differ within a disk group
check_disk_smb now handles NT_STATUS_ACCESS_DENIED properly
Make check_snmp work more like v1.4.14 with regard to using special values (Timeticks, STRING) as numeric thresholds
Fix check_ldap overriding the port when --ssl was specified after -p
Fix check_procs where regex input of '|' would get displayed in output - now replaced with ','
Fix segfault in check_host when hostname returns multiple IP addresses
Fix check_smtp and check_tcp where duplicate messages were displayed for certificate errors
Fix check_ping's parsing of ping6(1) output
Fix a check_dhcp bug which was triggered by checking Windows 2003 DHCP servers
Disable RFC4507 support, to work around SSL negotiation issues with (at least) some Tomcat versions
Fix performance data label containing spaces in check_snmp