Version 2.1 Released

Holger Weiß, October 15, 2014

The Monitoring Plugins Development Team is proud to announce version 2.1 of the Monitoring Plugins! This release comes with various enhancements and fixes provided by more than ten contributors. Many thanks to all of you!

For the list of notable changes in this release, see below.

You can get the tarball from our download page.

Enhancements

New check_hpjd -p option for port specification
New ./configure --with-qmail-qstat-command option to specify the path to qmail-qstat(8)
New check_ifstatus -n option to ignore interfaces by name
check_ntp_peer now has specific state output for each metric
New check_mysql -n option to ignore authentication failures
check_tcp now mentions IP address and port or socket name in error messages
New check_ntp_time -o option to add expected offset
In verbose mode, check_disk now shows which partitions actually cause an error state
check_dig now supports using the drill(1) tool
check_dig now supports the -6 option
check_file_age now emits performance data

Fixes

Fix check_jabber to work with Openfire servers
Fix bad string matching in check_oracle when testing TNS server
Fix check_ifstatus performance data output
Fix certificate expire time output
check_dns now verifies that the answer is coming from the queried server
Fix check_by_ssh to accept --hostname as argument

Warnings

This release doesn't ship with an RPM spec file, please contribute to PR #1283 if you are interested in it