Download Nagios Core 4.3.3

The Nagios Core program allows you to monitor different parts of the network and services on your servers. The program can monitor smtp, pop3, http, and nntp services, among others, and resources such as processor load and disk usage. If 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. The developers have released a new version of Nagios Core with version number 4.3.3. The list of changes looks like this:

Version 4.3.3

FIXES

• Exodtemplate.c wrong option-deprecation code warning
• On-demand host check always use cached host state
• ‘á’ causes Service Status Information to not be displayed
• New Macro(s) to generate URL for host / service object
• Fix minor map issues
• Fix lock file issues
• Switch order of daemon_init and drop_priveleges
• Add an OpenRC init script (Michael Orlitzky)

Version 4.3.2

FIXES

• Every 15sec /var/log/messages is flooded with “nagios: set_environment_var”
• Changed release date to ISO format (yyyy-mm-dd)
• `make all` fails if unzip is not installed
• Quick Search no longer allows search by Alias
• flexible downtime on a service immediately turns off notifications
• Fix to allow url_encode to be called twice
• Update timeperiods.cfg.in (spelling)
• Spelling fixes
• Vent command pipe before remove to avoid deadlocks on writing end
• CGI utility cgiutil.c does not process relative config file path names properly
• xdata/xodtemplate.c bug in option-deprecation code
• Wildcard searching causes service status links to not work properly
• Quick search with no hits shows a permission denied error
• Setting a service as its own parent is not caught by the sanity checker (-v) and causes a segfault

Version 4.3.1

FIXES

• Backed out the changes related to the “login page” and “logoff link” from 4.3.0, since it was causing problems
• Service hard state generation and host hard or soft down status
• Comments are duplicated through Nagios reload
• host hourly value is incorrectly dumped as json boolean
• Bug – Quick Search no longer allows search by IP
• Config: status_update_interval can not be set to 1
• Check attempts not increasing if nagios is reloaded
• nagios hangs on reload while sending external command to cmd file
• Feature Request: return code xxx out of bounds – include message as well

Version 4.3.0

SECURITY

• Fix for CVE-2016-6209 – The “corewindow” parameter (as in has been disabled by default. See the UPGRADING document for how to enable it.

ENHANCEMENTS

• Added new flag to cgi.cfg: tac_cgi_hard_only to show only HARD state
• Add broker-event for the end of a timed event (NEBTYPE_TIMEDEVENT_END)
• There is no Macro to retrieve addresses of hostgroup members (now $HOSTGROUPMEMBERADDRESSES$)
• Add “Page Tour” videos to several of the core web pages
• Added a login page, and a `Logoff` links
• On the status map, the host name will be colored if services are not all OK.
• Added “Clear flapping state” command on host and services detail pages.
• User-entered comment now displays below generated comment for downtime

FIXES

• Fix early event scheduling
• on-demand host checks triggered by service checks cause attempt number increments
• Service notification not being send when host is in soft down state
• configure does not error if no perl installed on CentOS 7
• failed passive requests leave .ok files in checkresults dir
• Services don’t show in status.cgi if “noheader” specified
• Standardized check interval config file names
• “Event Log” (showlog.cgi) could not open log file
• “nagios_check_command” has been deprecated since v3.0. Last vestiges removed