Hello, everyone!
We have been busy improving M/Monit and today we have a new release
for you. This is a free upgrade for all M/Monit users.
The new release can be downloaded from http://mmonit.com/download/
Release information:
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NEW FEATURES:
* M/Monit will now send an alert if a Monit agent does not
report in on time.
* Various caching strategies have been added internally. This
should help M/Monit scale to hundreds of hosts and beyond.
* Replaced the Host drop down menu with a host search field in
the events page.
* Host groups can now be used, in addition to hosts, when
specifying an alert rule.
* Service groups can now be used, in addition to services, when
specifying an alert rule. A service group is defined in your
monitrc control file
* M/Monit can now send Jabber/GTalk alert messages in addition
to Mail messages.
* The M/Monit server now support SSL. Please consult the manual
to learn how to configure M/Monit to use SSL.
* The web user interface has got a modest face lift.
* Updated and improved manual
BUG FIXES:
* Evaluate all rules when processing events for sending alerts.
Previous versions only evaluated and acted on the first
matching rule. Thanks to Andrew Stott for report.
* Services and service groups are now pre-fetched from Monit
when Monit starts up and report to M/Monit. In earlier
versions of M/Monit, an event had to occur on a service before
the service was made available when specifying alert rules.
Note: this feature requires Monit-5.1, Monit-5.0.3 will also
work, but service names won't be synced.
* Added timezone in date header for mails sent by M/Monit.
Thanks to Thorsten Kampe for requesting this feature.
* Fixed a possible crash in Dashboard when an event from Monit
was received with a system time ahead of M/Monit's system
time. Thanks to Aleksander Kamenik for report.
* Improved the AJAX host search field to allow for a more
interactive search
* Improved message queue handling
* FreeBSD releases of M/Monit are now built using FreeBSD
version 6.0 and 7.0 instead of version 6.4 and 7.2. This
allows M/Monit to support a wider range of 6.x and 7.x FreeBSD
OS versions.
UPGRADING:
If you are upgrading from M/Monit 2.0.3 please perform the
following to upgrade the database:
If you use SQLite:
./upgrade/upgrade-2.0.3-2.1.sqlite
If you use MySQL:
cat ./upgrade/upgrade-2.0.3-2.1.mysql | \
mysql -u mmonit -p -D mmonit
If you use Postgresql:
cat ./upgrade/upgrade-2.0.3-2.1.postgresql | \
psql -U mmonit mmonit
Browser cache:
Please clear your Browser cache before login in to M/Monit 2.1.
Most pages have been changed in the web user interface and cached
pages from the previous version may create problems.
Contact:
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We hope that you will enjoy this new release and find it useful.
If you have questions, comments or any other feedback about this
release, please contact us at mmonit(a)tildeslash.com
With the best regards from the M/Monit team.
