Release Notes for zenoss-1.1x

Release Notes for zenoss-1.1.2

The latest packaged version of Zenoss Core, Version 1.1.2, is available for download. Zenoss Core Version 1.1.2 provides RHEL 5 Support as well as several minor bug fixes, including:

• RHEL 5 Support with native dependencies

• Addressed some issues affecting zenbackup restore feature.

• Corrected the zencommand parallel limit when parallel greater than 1.

• zSnmpVer now set based on Device class and no longer defaults to v1.

• Corrected a character encoding problem in twisted conch.

• Prevented winexe from building during MacOS installs.

NOTE: We have also reorganized the file system on the Sourceforge repository. We have now broken out Zenoss into the following release packages:

• zenoss – the repository for all of Zenoss Core files including RPMs, tarballs and the virtual appliance.

• documentation - The repository for the Zenoss Admin guide and any new documentation that comes along.

• zenplugins - The repository for all of the Zenoss plugin files.

• zenwin - The latest copy of zenwin, the helper application for collecting WMI information from Windows devices.

Release Notes for zenoss-1.1.1 (2-20-2007)

The latest packaged version of Zenoss Core, Version 1.1.1, is available for download. Zenoss Core Version 1.1.1 provides several minor bug fixes, including:

• Corrected failure to send messages in the presence of errors.
• Corrected zenprocess so it does not grow when it cannot communicate with the remote SNMP server.
• Clarified command, executable, and permission error messages.
• Put migration choice back into install.sh so you can do an upgrade on a box without zeo and mysql (ie: a remote monitor).
• Made provisions for unicode values in hardware manufacturer names.
• Allow monitoring of interfaces without names.

Release Notes for zenoss-1.1 (1-23-2007)

Overview

The latest release of Zenoss contains many new features and bug fixes. The key areas of new features are UI enhancements, reporting, change tracking, actions, and web transaction monitoring. Read on for a more detailed list of new features.

Important Note for RPM Users

The Zenoss RPM no longer includes conf files in /opt/zenoss/etc. If you have customized the conf files your changes will be lost when you upgrade. However, prior to removal the conf files are copied to /tmp/zenossrpmupgrade/<pid>. If you have not customized the conf files you can simply remove the /tmp/zenossrpmupgrade directory. If you have have customized the conf files and you wish to continue using your customizations you should copy the individual files from /tmp/zenossrpmupgrade/<pid> to /opt/zenoss/etc after you have executed the rpm -Uvh zenoss-1.1.0-0.i386.rpm command.

UI Enhancements

• View logs and editing configuration files of zenoss daemons from the UI
• Filtering of services by monitored state
• GUI based where clause builder on custom event views
• Graph surfing allows for AJAX based performance graph scrolling and zooming
• Log messages to an event so that work progress on the event can be tracked
• Undelete event that has been moved to the history table
• Allow descriptions to be added on any device organizer

Reporting

• Summary report of CPU, Interface, and Memory utilization
• Summary report of any performance threshold
• Availability report of any event class
• Export of all reports to CSV

Change Tracking

• As zenmodeler discovers changes during auto-discovery log the changes to the event system

Actions

• run commands on remote windows boxes from main zenoss server
• run commands based on events (for instance restart service when it fails)
• run commands from the web UI

Other Zenoss Core Features

• zenbackup script that creates tar ball that can be used to restore a zenoss system
• add priority field to device to give another parameter to control event alerting
• send alerts using mime emails so that they can be displayed and html or plain text
• batch XML loader dumper program for devices
• zenactions can do SMTP authentication when sending emails
• user configurable aging of events from status to history table
• improved documentation both in the Zenoss Admin Guide and on the dev.zenoss.org wiki

New Platform Support

• SLES 10 RPM
• Solaris 10 64-bit source build using Sun Studio 11 compiler

Zenplugins

• uptime tracking
• interface stats
• memory cache and buffer stats
• mysql performance stats
• apache performance stats