Download Nagios Core 4.0.7

Version 4.0.7 of Nagios Core has been released. The program allows you to monitor various parts of the network and services on servers. Nagios Core can monitor smtp, pop3, http, and nntp services, among others, and resources such as processor load and disk usage. When something happens that you want to be kept informed about, you can receive notifications by mail or on your pager. For more information, please refer to this page and a bunch of screenshots is up this page to watch. You can also read this GoT topic. Version 4.0.7 was released last week and below is the list of changes made in the last few versions.

Version 4.0.7

Enhancements

• Added value of custom variables to Object JSON output for hosts, services and contacts

Fixes

• Fixed bug #616: Unescape plugin output read from checkresult files, fix multiline perf data concatenation, and avoid extra memory allocation and copies.
• Fixed bug #609: Image on home page doesn’t have correct image path prefix.
• Fixed bug #608: Extra newline in service check timeout output string.
• Fixed bug #596: Crashes checking contact authorization for host escalations. (duplicate #590, #586)
• Fixed bug #496: Syntax error in exfoliation’s common.css.

Version 4.0.6

Enhancements

• Added name of authenticated user to JSON CGI results object
• Added Nagios Core version to the Status JSON CGI programstatus query
• Added daemon status to main page

Fixes

• Fixed bug #600: Service Check Timeout State always returns OK
• Fixed bug #583: Status Check Output of (No output on stdout) stderr (duplicate of bug #573)
• Fixed bug #573: Service checks returns
• Fixed bug #438: Reloads during downtime causes wrong availability calculations
• Fixed feed updates when daemon can’t access external networks
• Archive JSON: Fixed bugs calculating availability
• Archive JSON: Allow missing logs to be skipped

Version 4.0.5

Fixes

• Fixed bug #595: Nagios 4 security fix
• Fixed bug #594: Nagios 4 fix contactgroups parsing
• Fixed bug #577: Nagios 4 checks stalled when write to socket failed
• Fixed bug #580: Nagios 4 memory leak
• Fixed init script to remove the switching of users when performing configuration verification which was causing failures if nagios user was set to nologin
• Fixed auto creation of RAMDISK via environment variables in init script to properly check existence using $RAMDISK_DIR environment variable.
• Fixed unreferenced variable NagiosVarDir in daemon-init
• Fixed bug where audio alerts wouldn’t work with a 0 height and width – http://support.nagios.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=26387

Version 4.0.4

Enhancements

• JSON CGIs moved to beta status

Fixes

• Fixed bug #491,#553: Rebuilt the daemon-init scripts back to something that should work on all systems

Version 4.0.3

Enhancements

• Aliased hourly_value to importance and minimum_value to minimum_importance and deprecated the former
• Added host and service importance macros
• Added notifications on flexible downtime expiration

Fixes

• Bug #548: Temporary fix that rejects all external command during restart to prevent Core from crashing
• Corrected calculation of host importance and importance defaults
• Fixed bug #498: Nagios 4 enable_environment_macros=1 not working
• No longer checks whether logs can be written when verifying configuration
• Fixed CGI bug where the CGI could read past the end of the list of CGI variables, potentially crashing the CGI
• Fixed inheritance of hourly_value from host and service templates
• Fixed bug #502: 4.0.0: Configuration -> Service Escalations = incomplete list
• Fixed bug #523: quotes and double quotes in plugin message are converted to HTML escapes in Nagios 4.0 (duplicate of bug #524)
• Fixed bug #524: URLs returned in plugin check results are not correctly displayed
• Fixed bug where passive service checks would return “Service check timed out after 0.00 seconds”