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NSClient++ 0.4.0 RC1! (Finally)
build 126, 127 will be out later tonight whith some fixes to NSCA unit-tests.
After years of vapor ware and many broken promises I can finally proudly pressent the first release candidate of NSCLient++ 0.4.0!
So what can you expect you ask? Quite a lot in fact but currently the rather sad answer will be unfortunetly "not much". Now this is a good thing and the reason is that the idea is that anyone runnign on a previous version of NSCLient++ should be able to just upgrade and not notice the difference (except for the odd bug fix here and there).
But for all the rest of you who do not want to "just upgrade" there is a massive amount of new features. The two biggest changes will undoubtedly be the linux support as well as is a shift from beeing a "NRPE client" to more of a monitoring gateway which supports more protocols (with even more in the pipe). Another other major change is ofcourse the embedded python interpreter and the very extensive python API making it possible to create plugins in python which can have state across your monitoring.
So now it is just for everyone to go out test it and let me know what is not working so we can release a bug free version in the near future. I have not set a date as I am relaying on the community (yes, that is you!) for doing much of the test work and that may or may not take a lot of time (depending on how much YOU! test).
Stability and quality wise I hope it is farily stable and everything works as-is but one never knows when there is such a massive update. Especially as it is apretty free-form application which has a lot of the edge cases. But another major improvment is that there are now unit-tests which test various parts of the application at the time of writing there is around 1000 unit tests which more to come.
Many new protocols
We now support a number of new protocols (as well as old).
Currently supported:
- NRPE
- NSCA
- "check_nt"
- SysLog?
- SMTP
- NSCP (early concept version, both as distributed (think gearman) and non distributed (think NSCA/NRPE))
In the works:
- http (rest)
- Graphite
- check_mk
- NRDP
- SNMP
- WMI
- "native remote windows checks"
Brand new API
Major new API changes which allows a lot more flexibility as well as extensible from modules and scripts.
Currently supported:
- Python
- plugins
- Lua (old API currently)
In the works:
- Lua
- .Net
Brand new settings sub systems
Brand new flexible settings sub systems which supports many new formats as well as generation and including cross formats.
Currently supported:
- ini-files
- registry
- http (ini files)
- old
- dummy (in memory store)
In the works:
- XML
- improved http
Other fixes and enhancments
We have of course a myrriad of bug fixes enhancments and and such here are a few highlights.
highlights:
- Brand new (easy to use?) command line interface
- Linux suppport (as mentioned previously)
- CheckProcState: Enchancements
- CheckEventLog: Real time checking
- CheckWMI: Remote check support (rather crude currently)
- lots of other things but focus is mainly on internals so checks are mainly the same
So! Test away, and hit me with your bugs, defects, problems, and issues... Michael Medin
Comments
nscp.exe is missing from the .zip downloads
Epic fail! I will update with a new zip (been using the MSI myself lately)
Michael Medin
Build 129 (in the nightly section) contains the exe file, I will update the blog entry with this info when I get back later today...
Why is it that there is no nsc.ini in RC2 zip downloads?
how to run it in debug(test) mode?
sorry...I don't know.
THis is something I am pondering the idea is that the ini file is not required per see...
If you use the installer you will get one tough (with some basic information).
But you can use the tool to create the ini file...
will give you some more details.
Michael Medin