Icinga 2 bugfix release v2.3.5

by Michael Friedrich | Jun 17, 2015

While working on the design and concept for our next major feature release in 2.4, we’ve fixed several bugs in our stable 2.3.x tree. Be it clients disconnecting in the cluster, timestamps for DB IDO history, or additional documentation for functions in object configuration, cluster config sync best practices and cluster and client troubleshooting. We’ve also added new ITL plugin check command definitions for “mongodb”, “iftraffic”, “disk_smb” and added more command arguments for “dns”, “ftp”, “tcp”, “nscp”.
In addition to that, we’ve overhauled the Windows setup wizard for the Icinga 2 client in many ways:

NSClient++ is now bundled and can optionally be installed when configuring the Icinga 2 client (thanks a lot, Michael Medin!)
The Windows installer now provides an update mode and installs the Windows service by default
The local nscp checkcommands querying the nscp cli command are enabled by default on Windows
New check plugin check_perfmon and several plugin fixes, including plugin check command definitions and documentation

v2.3.5 is tagged in git, packages in your distribution’s repository should be available soon – meanwhile check the Changelog below.
Enjoy Icinga 2 and join the community channels!

Changelog

Changes

NSClient++ is now bundled with the Windows setup wizard and can optionally be installed
Windows Wizard: “include <nscp>” is set by default
Windows Wizard: Add update mode
Plugins: Add check_perfmon plugin for Windows
ITL: Add CheckCommand objects for Windows plugins (“include <windows-plugins>”)
ITL: Add CheckCommand definitions for “mongodb”, “iftraffic”, “disk_smb”
ITL: Add arguments to CheckCommands “dns”, “ftp”, “tcp”, “nscp”

Features

Feature 8116: Extend Windows installer with an update mode
Feature 8180: Add documentation and CheckCommands for the windows plugins
Feature 8809: Add check_perfmon plugin for Windows
Feature 9115: Add SHOWALL to NSCP Checkcommand
Feature 9130: Add ‘check_drivesize’ as nscp-local check command
Feature 9145: Add arguments to “dns” CheckCommand
Feature 9146: Add arguments to “ftp” CheckCommand
Feature 9147: Add arguments to “tcp” CheckCommand
Feature 9176: ITL Documentation: Add a link for passing custom attributes as command parameters
Feature 9180: Include Windows support details in the documentation
Feature 9185: Add timestamp support for PerfdataWriter
Feature 9191: Add “mongodb” CheckCommand definition
Feature 9238: Bundle NSClient++ in Windows Installer
Feature 9254: Add ‘disk_smb’ Plugin CheckCommand definition
Feature 9256: Determine NSClient++ installation path using MsiGetComponentPath
Feature 9260: Include <nscp> by default on Windows
Feature 9261: Add the –load-all and –log options for nscp-local
Feature 9263: Add support for installing NSClient++ in the Icinga 2 Windows wizard
Feature 9270: Update service apply for documentation
Feature 9272: Add ‘iftraffic’ to plugins-contrib check command definitions
Feature 9285: Best practices: cluster config sync
Feature 9297: Add examples for function usage in “set_if” and “command” attributes
Feature 9310: Add typeof in ‘assign/ignore where’ expression as example
Feature 9311: Add local variable scope for *Command to documentation (host, service, etc)
Feature 9313: Use a more simple example for passing command parameters
Feature 9318: Explain string concatenation in objects by real-world example
Feature 9363: Update documentation for escape sequences
Feature 9419: Enhance cluster/client troubleshooting
Feature 9420: Enhance cluster docs with HA command_endpoints
Feature 9431: Documentation: Move configuration before advanced topics

Bugfixes

Bug 8853: Syntax Highlighting: host.address vs host.add
Bug 8888: Icinga2 –version: Error showing Distribution
Bug 8891: Node wont connect properly to master if host is is not set for Endpoint on new installs
Bug 9055: Wrong timestamps w/ historical data replay in DB IDO
Bug 9109: WIN: syslog is not an enable-able feature in windows
Bug 9116: node update-config reports critical and warning
Bug 9121: Possible DB deadlock
Bug 9131: Missing “)” in last Apply Rules example
Bug 9142: Downtimes are always “fixed”
Bug 9143: Incorrect type and state filter mapping for User objects in DB IDO
Bug 9161: ‘disk’: wrong order of threshold command arguments
Bug 9187: SPEC: Give group write permissions for perfdata dir
Bug 9205: port empty when using icinga2 node wizard
Bug 9222: Missing custom attributes in backends if name is equal to object attribute
Bug 9253: Incorrect variable name in the ITL
Bug 9255: –scm-installs fails when the service is already installed
Bug 9258: Some checks in the default Windows configuration fail
Bug 9259: Disk and ‘icinga’ services are missing in the default Windows config
Bug 9268: Typo in Configuration Best Practice
Bug 9269: Wrong permission etc on windows
Bug 9324: Multi line output not correctly handled from compat channels
Bug 9328: Multiline vars are broken in objects.cache output
Bug 9372: plugins-contrib.d/databases.conf: wrong argument for mssql_health
Bug 9389: Documentation: Typo
Bug 9390: Wrong service table attributes in Livestatus documentation
Bug 9393: Documentation: Extend Custom Attributes with the boolean type
Bug 9394: Including <nscp> on Linux fails with unregistered function
Bug 9399: Documentation: Typo
Bug 9406: Selective cluster reconnecting breaks client communication
Bug 9412: Documentation: Update the link to register a new Icinga account