Announcement

Zenoss Core 2.1.70 (2.2 First Sprint Cycle) Available for Download

2008/01/08

The latest packaged version of Zenoss Core, version 2.1.70 (2.2 initial Sprint) is available for download. This release marks the beginning of the 2.2 development cycle. From now on, a Zenoss Sprint iteration will be released every 30 days.

Also for this release there is a new rpm for 64 bit Enterprise Linux 4x86.

Zenoss Core 2.1.70 is available from the Zenoss Sprint page:
http://www.zenoss.com/community/code/zenoss-2.2/zenoss-core-2-2.

Here are all of the tickets fixed for this release.

They can also be found in this report.

GENERAL

• 2336 Added a watchdog to all daemons to restart any daemons that hang.
• 398 Added ZenManager role and removed ZenMonitor role.
• 575 User Management screen update to make changes visible as soon as the role is changed.
• 1228 Added options to delete associated events, historical events and/or performance data when deleting a device.
• 1735 Viewing Performance Templates no longer crashes IE7.
• 2418 Device List URLs now encode properly.
• 2437 Deleting a group deletes a device's relation to a group.
• 2496 Added zenpatch command as an easy way to apply changesets to a live system.

APPLIANCE

• 2325 Fixed nagios-plugin:runtime trove.
• 1968 Created /home/zenoss/libexec directory on VMWare image.
• 2288 Changes to the zope trove so that ZenRestore and other scripts work again.

DataCollector

• 2461 Made sure heartbeat on zenmodeler isn't too long.
• 2511 Fixed zendisc error: "One of the zenpacks is missing or broken".
• 1828 Fixed storing of RRD files that mixed up different hosts with same name by changing the way the IP is transformed into a device name. Now prefers ptr records over snmp names.
• 2460 zendisc command line now allows Allow CIDR notation to avoid ambiguity within nested networks.
• 2523 Fixed UnicodeEncodeError when modeling Windows servers.
• 2349 Created a generic Python CollectorPlugin to supplement the Commands and SNMP plugins.
• Changeset 7962 Zendisc capable of auto-allocating devices via new zProperty (zAutoAllocateScript) and new zProperty (zZenDiscCommand) allows for customization of zendisc command.

USER INTERFACE

• 2024 Dialogs for adding datapoint and threshold graph points now prefetches the array for autocompletion.
• 1719 "Zenoss | Core" is now a link to the main dashboard view.
• 2151 Zenjmx and java-functions.sh now show up properly in the daemons list.
• 1390 Polished up the Event Detail popup.
• 2110 Changed Save Administrators menu item on the "Admnistration" page to a "Save" button.
• 872 Added descriptions to event classes (like the ones for device organizers).
• 1280 Added a new Backup tab in Zenoss Settings to create and manage backups of Zenoss data.
• 1473 Cleaned up old templates (referencing deviceMacros).
• 1707 Fixed Unicode error on windows service page.
• 1819 Added indicator on the template page when a threshold or graph is using a missing datapoint.
• 1912 Allow for manual addition of IP routes.
• 2001 Added tooltips help for settings and version information.
• 2141 Restricted autcomplete selection on ipservice and winservice dialogs to existing services .
• 2162 Removed select boxes on ZenPacks page since they do not need to be selectable.
• 2175 Breadcrumb "Manufacturer" link now correctly takes you Manufacturer list instead of zport/dmd.
• 2198 Made OS tab's context Device instead of OperatingSystem.
• 2331 Users and groups are now sorted alphabetically in dialogs.
• 2337 Allow adding of groups to role of ZenManager.
• 2362 Lowered the number of requests to .js and .css files to increase performance.
• 2406 Fixed FileGzipper dies on ZenNetMap.swf.
• 2427 Fixed error when adding a new filesystem.
• 2428 Fixed failure upon addition of new winservice.
• 2441 Upgraded YUI javascript library to 2.4.0
• 1696 Renamed "Default" severity on Event Classes to "Original" event severity.
• 2026 Fixed IP column sort to be numeric instead of alphabetical.
• 2148 Added tooltip description of each Google Maps node.
• 2166 Made event console auto-refresh a user setting.
• 2270 Prioritized dot colors and event status. More severe dots now appear on top and are larger.
• 2466 Fixed bottom of filterbox getting chopped off on event console.
• 1660 Added support for transparency in non-stacked graphs.
• 1914 Added template slot to modify page title, and added titles for pages under dmd.
• 2401 Log field for graph definitions badly named. Changed name to "Logarithmic Scale" instead.
• 2420 Removed outdated dashboard-related user settings.
• 2497 Always display route targets in CIDR notation.

ZenEvents

• 1308 zensyslog parseHEADER now handles ipaddress hostnames properly.
• 865 Added new indexes on indexes on status table to increase performance.
• 1403 Added navigate to History from Event Console by moving History into the More menu and adding a link on the viewEvents screen.
• 2503 Expanded eventKey column to 128 characters.
• 2527 Fixed SyslogProcessing failing to parse logs from Cisco ACS.
• 2206 Added Alerting rule option to send HTML or plain-text email.

ZENHUB

• 2471 Fixed bug in SNMPv3 collection.
• 1184 Refactored collectors to use intermediate objects and not flattening.

ZENMODEL

• 2396 ZenossInfo.py now imports sys module.
• 2479 Missing RRD file detection no longer breaks MultiGraph Reports in distributed environments.
• 2054 Allow multiple selection of devices and/or components when adding graphs to GraphReports.
• 2445 Removed pysnmp from Versions page.
• 2500 Fixed auto-clearing of threshold events.
• 2508 Added a set of default graphs/configs for collector stats.
• 961 Added zLocalIpAddresses zProperty to expose local IP selection to user.
• 1638 Made discoverDevices callable through XML/RPC.
• 2120 Fixed Commandable.manage_addUserCommand returns non-aq wrapped result.
• 2193 Removed device name from threshold event summary to save space.
• 2254 Fixed creation of a graphpoint named "time" that was confusing the system.
• 2370 Fixed events being set to Production after their devices enter a maintenance window.
• 2400 Made sure device component classes have all methods commented so they can be called via xmlrpc.
• 2478 viewRRDTemplate.pt more resilient to missing datasource/threshold classes.
• 2480 Fixed IpAddress/IpNetwork creation irregularities.
• 2517 Fixed problem with batch operations on a filtered device list.
• 2537 Fixed restricted users being logged out when clicking on the device list.
• 2238 Allow python: expressions in COMMAND datasources.
• 2515 DataPointGraphPoints now properly honor the line width setting when drawing.
• 2539 Less redundant and better information in threshold events.

ZENPACK

• 2146 Fixed failed install of winexesvc.
• 2161 Removed Delete ZenPack menu item (previously removed and then showed up again).
• 1852 Show entire contents of a ZenPack not just objects.xml (including daemons, model enhancements, etc.)
• 2309 Fixed ZenJMX config cycle creating duplicate call objects unnecessarily.
• 2474 Allow ZenJMX to collect floating point values.
• 1801 Zenpack script needs to ignore svn-commit files in daemons directory.
• 1803 zenpack installs and removes start/stop zenpack daemons as appropriate.
• 2453 Several less commonly used zenpacks removed from the zenpacks rpm.
• 2514 ApacheMonitor: Print better failure messages.
• 2516 ApacheMonitor now processes floating point return values properly.

ZENRRD

• 2230 Fixed zencommand ProcessExitedAlready error in zencommand.
• 2462 Added stats for many collector daemons. See ticket for more detailed description.
• 354 Added better view of all performance graphs on a box.
• 2484 Import PerformanceConfig to avoid InsecureJelly on zenperfsnmp .
• 2520 reduce error log chatter by curbing error log messages from zenperfsnmp and zenprocess timeouts.
• 2522 Cosmetic change to zenperfsnmp.log to alleviate confusion.

ZENREPORTS

• 2227 Removed ReportClass page menu.
• 1310 You can now edit a custom report if there is an error in query.
• 2201 Fixed general report objects handling of breadcrumbs.
• 2443 Added title tag to printable graphreports and multigraph reports.
• 2498 Fixed CollectionItem behavior so when components are removed it no longer breaks the graph reports the component belonged to.

ZENSTATUS

• 1796 Added Patch / Hack to make IP Service monitors for virtual IPs.
• 2422 Removed device name from ping down events (it was redundant).

ZENUTILS

• 1851 Clarified error message when running Zenbackup as root.
• 2255 Using python tarfile module to package perf and etc files in hopes of circumventing the elusive "file changed as we read it" warning.
• 2002 Moved invocation of zenmodeler to ZenUtils.

PYNETSNMP

• 2262 Fixed python futurewarning by moving to python 2.4.

ZENOSSINST

• 2030 cronjobs no longer run as root
• 1039 Added LDAP Products and Dependencies to Zenoss.
• 2442 Added patch to mysqldb module to allow build on Mac OSX 10.5
• 2494 Fixed python in the Mac source build.
• 2532 Updated GNUmakefile's rpath-install to work with the current rpath build environment.
• 2535 Fixed "canonicalization unexpectedly shrank by one character" error on FC8 builds.
• 2403 The ctypes package was changed so it will compile correctly on Solaris.
• 2390 Fixed zensocket.c compiling failure on solaris due to nonexistant include file.
• 2391 Fixed GNUmakefile expecting bash.
• 2392 Fixed Library issues compiling nagios-plugins on Solaris.
• 2531 Removed "autoinstall" artifacts.

Enjoy!

--Zenoss Dev Team