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: ====================

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: ========

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@tildeslash.com

With the best regards from the M/Monit team.