Version 2.3.2 Released

Sven Nierlein, October 20, 2022

The Monitoring Plugins Development Team is proud to announce version 2.3.2 of the Monitoring Plugins! This release comes with various fixes provided by more than 40 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.

General

Use netcat-openbsd for debian explicitely by @RincewindsHat in https://github.com/monitoring-plugins/monitoring-plugins/pull/1704
Replace egrep with grep -E by @RincewindsHat in https://github.com/monitoring-plugins/monitoring-plugins/pull/1791
Use silent automake by default by @RincewindsHat in https://github.com/monitoring-plugins/monitoring-plugins/pull/1747

Single Plugins

check_by_ssh: added option to exit with an warning, if there is output on STDERR by @nafets in https://github.com/monitoring-plugins/monitoring-plugins/pull/1301
check_by_ssh: Add "-U" flag (#1123). by @archiecobbs in https://github.com/monitoring-plugins/monitoring-plugins/pull/1774
check_by_ssh: Let ssh decide if a host is valid, enables usage of ssh .config file by @RincewindsHat in https://github.com/monitoring-plugins/monitoring-plugins/pull/1691
check_curl: Add an option to check_curl to verify the peer certificate & host using the system CA's by @bazzisoft in https://github.com/monitoring-plugins/monitoring-plugins/pull/1669
check_curl: fixed -ffollow for HTTP/2.0 (Fixes #1685): added major_version parsing to PicoHTTPParser by @andreasbaumann in https://github.com/monitoring-plugins/monitoring-plugins/pull/1742
check_curl: fixes check_curl: "CRITICAL - Cannot retrieve certificate subject." by @andreasbaumann in https://github.com/monitoring-plugins/monitoring-plugins/pull/1689
check_curl: fix if http header contains leading spaces by @sni in https://github.com/monitoring-plugins/monitoring-plugins/pull/1666
check_curl: Update check_curl.c to display a specific human-readable error message where possible by @bazzisoft in https://github.com/monitoring-plugins/monitoring-plugins/pull/1668
check_curl: verify certificates option should not force SSL to be used by @bazzisoft in https://github.com/monitoring-plugins/monitoring-plugins/pull/1688
check_disk: Description for -M was the wrong way around by @RincewindsHat in https://github.com/monitoring-plugins/monitoring-plugins/pull/1746
check_disk: Fixing the stuff that is broken on btrfs by @waja in https://github.com/monitoring-plugins/monitoring-plugins/pull/1388
check_disk: Fix perfdata for big values for check disk by @RincewindsHat in https://github.com/monitoring-plugins/monitoring-plugins/pull/1714
check_disk_smb: Add configfile feature by @Napsty in https://github.com/monitoring-plugins/monitoring-plugins/pull/1402
check_disk_smb: Add timeout by @cdruee in https://github.com/monitoring-plugins/monitoring-plugins/pull/1770
check_dns: Add --expect-nxdomain by @Jonny007-MKD in https://github.com/monitoring-plugins/monitoring-plugins/pull/1623
check_dns: split multiple IP addresses passed in one -a argument by @DerDakon in https://github.com/monitoring-plugins/monitoring-plugins/pull/1649
check_file_age: Make size parameter a little bit more intelligible by @RincewindsHat in https://github.com/monitoring-plugins/monitoring-plugins/pull/1730
check_fping: Implements 'host-alive' mode (Closes. #1027) by @waja in https://github.com/monitoring-plugins/monitoring-plugins/pull/1740
check_game: Update Url to qstat by @RincewindsHat in https://github.com/monitoring-plugins/monitoring-plugins/pull/1725
check_http: changed 'STATE_CRITICAL' to 'STATE_WARNING' for infinite loop by @xFuture603 in https://github.com/monitoring-plugins/monitoring-plugins/pull/1690
check_http: Increase regexp limit by @hydrapolic in https://github.com/monitoring-plugins/monitoring-plugins/pull/1566
check_http: Support http redirect by @waja in https://github.com/monitoring-plugins/monitoring-plugins/pull/1449
check_icmp: buffer offerflow by @RincewindsHat in https://github.com/monitoring-plugins/monitoring-plugins/pull/1733
check_icmp: delay set_source_ip() until address_family is detected by @ghciv6 in https://github.com/monitoring-plugins/monitoring-plugins/pull/1735
check_icmp: Fix "Invalid Argument" from sendmsg() under FreeBSD 13.1 and "setsockopt failed" for TTL setting by @eriksejr in https://github.com/monitoring-plugins/monitoring-plugins/pull/1771
check_icmp: Fix pkt perfdata in check_host mode by @sjoegren in https://github.com/monitoring-plugins/monitoring-plugins/pull/1721
check_ldap: Allows check_ldap to read password from environment variable by @mullumaus in https://github.com/monitoring-plugins/monitoring-plugins/pull/1724
check_load: add LOAD prefix to load plugin by @haraldj in https://github.com/monitoring-plugins/monitoring-plugins/pull/1694
check_load: Display total and scaled load values if check_load scales the values by number of CPUs by @RincewindsHat in https://github.com/monitoring-plugins/monitoring-plugins/pull/1778
check_log: Missing oldlog now aborts check_log by @RincewindsHat in https://github.com/monitoring-plugins/monitoring-plugins/pull/1732
check_mailq: Add mailq -C option for config dir or config file by @leeclemens in https://github.com/monitoring-plugins/monitoring-plugins/pull/1490
check_mailq: Check mailq domain specific warnings by @RincewindsHat in https://github.com/monitoring-plugins/monitoring-plugins/pull/1731
check_mailq: Fix regexp for nullmailer "mailq" output by @darksoul42 in https://github.com/monitoring-plugins/monitoring-plugins/pull/1493
check_mysql: fix segfaults with mysql-connector-c #1562 by @ghciv6 in https://github.com/monitoring-plugins/monitoring-plugins/pull/1644
check_pgsql: add --queryname parameter to check_pgsql by @datamuc in https://github.com/monitoring-plugins/monitoring-plugins/pull/1741
check_ping: Do not show RTA if no connection was possible by @RincewindsHat in https://github.com/monitoring-plugins/monitoring-plugins/pull/1697
check_ping: understang ping6 output from iputils package by @glensc in https://github.com/monitoring-plugins/monitoring-plugins/pull/1412
check_proc: Fix check proc ps detection by @sni in https://github.com/monitoring-plugins/monitoring-plugins/pull/1712
check_procs: exchange needle and haystack in strstr() for proper st… by @wolfgangkarall in https://github.com/monitoring-plugins/monitoring-plugins/pull/1654
check_smtp: add -L flag to support LMTP (LHLO instead of HELO/EHLO). by @ghen2 in https://github.com/monitoring-plugins/monitoring-plugins/pull/1715
check_snmp: Added option for null zero length string exit codes by @FracKenA in https://github.com/monitoring-plugins/monitoring-plugins/pull/1496
check_snmp: fix performance thresholds when using multiple oids by @sni in https://github.com/monitoring-plugins/monitoring-plugins/pull/1722
check_snmp fix segfaults by @adrb in https://github.com/monitoring-plugins/monitoring-plugins/pull/1589
check_snmp: put the "c" (to mark a counter) after the perfdata value by @lausser in https://github.com/monitoring-plugins/monitoring-plugins/pull/1465
check_swap: fix parsing swap values by @sni in https://github.com/monitoring-plugins/monitoring-plugins/pull/1780
check_swap: Fix perfdata for check swap by @RincewindsHat in https://github.com/monitoring-plugins/monitoring-plugins/pull/1707
check_swap: Fix unit for total in perfdata by @RincewindsHat in https://github.com/monitoring-plugins/monitoring-plugins/pull/1779
check_swap: Handle cached swap by @mdavranche in https://github.com/monitoring-plugins/monitoring-plugins/pull/1642
check_swap: Small fix to threshold validation and style (indentation) fixes by @RincewindsHat in https://github.com/monitoring-plugins/monitoring-plugins/pull/1723
check_ups: Fix possible overflow in check_ups by @phibos in https://github.com/monitoring-plugins/monitoring-plugins/pull/1727
check_uptime: Add option to report uptime in days instead of seconds by @amotl in https://github.com/monitoring-plugins/monitoring-plugins/pull/1750
check_uptime: Fix/improve output message "Uptime is ..." by @amotl in https://github.com/monitoring-plugins/monitoring-plugins/pull/1751

Multiple Plugins

check_http, check_curl: added --max-redirs=N option (feature #1684) by @andreasbaumann in https://github.com/monitoring-plugins/monitoring-plugins/pull/1744
check_http, check_curl: Enhancement --continue-after-certificate (backport from nagios-plugins) by @andreasbaumann in https://github.com/monitoring-plugins/monitoring-plugins/pull/1762
check_http, check_curl: Remove check_http and check_curl test which are somehow always failing by @RincewindsHat in https://github.com/monitoring-plugins/monitoring-plugins/pull/1777
check_log, check_oracle, check_sensors: Several fixes shellcheck complaining about by @waja in https://github.com/monitoring-plugins/monitoring-plugins/pull/1459
sslutils: use chain from client certificates by @tobiaswiese in https://github.com/monitoring-plugins/monitoring-plugins/pull/1664

Non functional changes

Trivial source code whitespace formatting fixes to standard. by @ziesemer in https://github.com/monitoring-plugins/monitoring-plugins/pull/1424
docs: fix simple typo, conspicuosly -> conspicuously by @timgates42 in https://github.com/monitoring-plugins/monitoring-plugins/pull/1652
Migrate to GitHub actions by @jacobbaungard in https://github.com/monitoring-plugins/monitoring-plugins/pull/1686
Point to Icinga Exchange instead of dead Monitoring Exchange by @RincewindsHat in https://github.com/monitoring-plugins/monitoring-plugins/pull/1737
github actions: fix check_users test case by @sni in https://github.com/monitoring-plugins/monitoring-plugins/pull/1713
Add CodeQL checks by @phibos in https://github.com/monitoring-plugins/monitoring-plugins/pull/1682
Fix some QL problems by @RincewindsHat in https://github.com/monitoring-plugins/monitoring-plugins/pull/1729
Update CodeQL and update runner before installing by @RincewindsHat in https://github.com/monitoring-plugins/monitoring-plugins/pull/1775
check_disk: Check disk compiler warnings by @RincewindsHat in https://github.com/monitoring-plugins/monitoring-plugins/pull/1758
check_disk: Trivial printf fix and a little bit of code style by @RincewindsHat in https://github.com/monitoring-plugins/monitoring-plugins/pull/1695
check_http: Docs: make -C obvious by @stblassitude in https://github.com/monitoring-plugins/monitoring-plugins/pull/1554
check_ifoperstatus: Re-attach a comment to where it actually belongs by @peternewman in https://github.com/monitoring-plugins/monitoring-plugins/pull/1699
check_ircd: Restrict the nickname length of the test user for check_ircd by @RincewindsHat in https://github.com/monitoring-plugins/monitoring-plugins/pull/1710
check_load: Check load compiler warnings by @RincewindsHat in https://github.com/monitoring-plugins/monitoring-plugins/pull/1759
check_log Modernize check log by @RincewindsHat in https://github.com/monitoring-plugins/monitoring-plugins/pull/1692
check_mailq: remove duplicate W=i/C=i args in check_mailq.pl by @ichdasich in https://github.com/monitoring-plugins/monitoring-plugins/pull/1755
check_ntp: Check ntp remove unused variables by @RincewindsHat in https://github.com/monitoring-plugins/monitoring-plugins/pull/1781
check_pgsql: Using snprintf which honors the buffers size and guarantees null temination. (Closes: #1601) by @waja in https://github.com/monitoring-plugins/monitoring-plugins/pull/1663
check_procs: Fix double percentage sign in usage by @RincewindsHat in https://github.com/monitoring-plugins/monitoring-plugins/pull/1743
check_sensors.sh: Make shellcheck happier by @RincewindsHat in https://github.com/monitoring-plugins/monitoring-plugins/pull/1679
check_snmp: Fixed option description authpassword -> authpasswd + whitespaces by @RincewindsHat in https://github.com/monitoring-plugins/monitoring-plugins/pull/1676
check_swap: Check swap compiler warnings by @RincewindsHat in https://github.com/monitoring-plugins/monitoring-plugins/pull/1756