Version 2.2 Released

Holger Weiß, November 29, 2016

The Monitoring Plugins Development Team is proud to announce version 2.2 of the Monitoring Plugins! This release comes with various enhancements and fixes provided by more than thirty 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

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
Let check_http check HTTPS web sites via proxies
check_http: add timeout to performance data as max value
check_http: report certificate expiry date in UTC
check_snmp: add IPv6 support
check_snmp's performance data now also includes warning/critical thresholds
New check_snmp -N option to specify SNMPv3 context name
Let check_smtp's -D option imply -S
Let check_smtp's -e option match against the full SMTP response
check_dig: expected response is now case-insensitive
New check_mailq -s option which tells the plugin to use sudo(8)
New check_nt -l parameters: seconds|minutes|hours|days
New -W/-C option for check_ldap to check number of entries
check_users: add support for range thresholds
check_fping now auto-detects IPv6 addresses
check_radius now supports the radcli library
Support OpenSSL 1.1

Fixes

check_http: fix host header port handling
Let check_real terminate lines with CRLF when talking to the server, as mandated by RFC 2326
Fix check_procs on HP-UX
check_smtp's -e/--expect option can now be combined with -S/--starttls
Fix incorrect performance data thresholds emitted by check_ups
Don't let check_procs miss some processes on busy Solaris systems

Warnings

The format of the performance data emitted by check_mrtgtraf has been changed to comply with the development guidelines
check_ssh now returns CRITICAL for protocol/version errors
If a plugin is invoked with -h/--help or -V/--version, the exit status is now UNKNOWN
The superseeded check_ntp.pl was removed, please use check_ntp_peer or check_ntp_time instead