Version 2.3 Released

Jan Wagner, December 10, 2020

The Monitoring Plugins Development Team is proud to announce version 2.3 of the Monitoring Plugins! This release comes with various enhancements and fixes provided by more than thirty contributors, a highlight might be the inclusion of check_curl. 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

check_dns: allow 'expected address' (-a) to be specified in CIDR notation (IPv4 only).
check_dns: allow for IPv6 RDNS
check_dns: Accept CIDR
check_dns: allow unsorted addresses
check_dns: allow forcing complete match of all addresses
check_apt: add --only-critical switch
check_apt: add -l/--list option to print packages
check_file_age: add range checking
check_file_age: enable to test for maximum file size
check_apt: adding packages-warning option
check_load: Adding top consuming processes option
check_http: Adding Proxy-Authorization and extra headers
check_snmp: make calcualtion of timeout value in help output more clear
check_uptime: new plugin for checking uptime to see how long the system is running
check_curl: check_http replacement based on libcurl
check_http: Allow user to specify HTTP method after proxy CONNECT
check_http: Add new flag --show-body/-B to print body
check_cluster: Added data argument validation
check_icmp: Add IPv6 support
check_icmp: Automatically detect IP protocol
check_icmp: emit error if multiple protocol version
check_disk: add support to display inodes usage in perfdata
check_hpjd: Added -D option to disable warning on 'out of paper'
check_http: support the --show-body/-B flag when --expect is used
check_mysql: allow mariadbclient to be used
check_tcp: add --sni
check_dns: detect unreachable dns service in nslookup output

Fixes

Fix regression where check_dhcp was rereading response in a tight loop
check_dns: fix error detection on sles nslookup
check_disk_smb: fix timeout issue
check_swap: repaired -n behaviour
check_icmp: Correctly set address_family on lookup
check_icmp: Do not overwrite -4,-6 on lookup
check_smtp: initializes n before it is used
check_dns: fix typo in parameter description
check_by_ssh: fix child process leak on timeouts
check_mysql: Allow sockets to be specified to -H
check_procs: improve command examples for 'at least' processes
check_disk: include -P switch in help
check_mailq: restore accidentially removed options