Announcement

Zenoss Core 2.1.72 (zenoss-2.2-sprint3) Available for Download

2008/03/06

The latest packaged version of Zenoss Core, version 2.1.72 (zenoss-2.2-sprint3) is available for download. This release continues the 2.2 development cycle.

One of the major fixes for this release concerns the work-around for the WMI RPC_S failures that some users have been experiencing. This has been addressed in ticket #2800 and has been solved by by running the WMI connection in a separate process.

There are also new Fedora Core 8 RPMS called:

• zenoss-2.1.72-0.fc8.i386.rpm
• zenoss-2.1.72-0.fc8.src.rpm
• zenoss-2.1.72-0.fc8.x86_64.rpm

Here are all of the tickets fixed for this release.

All

• 1985 - Race Condition on Bordering Schedules
• 2710 - Creating a new Zenpack returns a StopIteration Error

DataCollector

• 2692 - zendisc no longer defaults to "walk mode"

User Interface

• 2720 - You can reset a device IP address to "blank"
• 1443 - WMI and pynetsnmp need to be added to Versions page

ZenEvents

• 1894 - Exception on alerting rule for event without a device
• 2553 - alerting repeat intervals were not working to expected schedule

ZenModel

• 2727 - setManageIp stopped allowing netmasks
• 2740 - DeviceProxy instance has no attribute 'manageIp'
• 2732 - Need migrate script for new DeviceHW relations
• 2781 - MinMaxThreshold missing line

ZenPack

• 2717 - Source upgrades need to modify sitecustomize.py to add ZenPacks to python path
• 2718 - Loading for plugins in new ZenPack eggs not working
• 2697 - Don't allow removal of ZenPacks that are dependencies of other install ZenPacks
• 2701 - Don't allow ZenPacks to specify non-egg ZenPacks as dependencies
• 2750 - eggifyzenpack fails with missing attribute "__of__"
• 2665 - Implement a ZenPackManager class
• 2726 - zenpack --remove failing in call to CleanupEasySetupPth
• 2770 - ZenPack plugin names are too long

ZenRRD

• 2046 - Zenoss daemon maturity
• 2648 - Failed OID collection no longer results in an event
• 2653 - Change zenperfsnmp eventKey from OID to data point name
• 2764 - dedupid for the "rrd files not updated" message is too unique

ZenReports

• 2763 - Interface utilization report percentage is incorrect
• 2728 - Interface utilization report uses bytes in total, not bits

ZenStatus

• 2340 - UDP ports display green even though they aren't checked

ZenUtils

• 2569 - Only turn the watchdog on for some daemons

pynetsnmp

• 2711 - pynetsnmp may fail to return complete data using SNMPv2 bulk fetches

zenossinst

• 2738 - inst/checkall.sh should ignore ZenPackTemplate files

zenplugins

• 2716 - Namespace issue with wmi plugins
• 2772 - No need to reinstantiate each plugin when zenPropertyOptions is called

zenwin

• 2800 - WMI RPC_S failures: create a work-around

Enjoy!

--Zenoss Dev Team