source: nscp/trunk/changelog @ 34f5502

TODO: 
 * Process times and similar ?
 * Fix configuration GUI (low priority)
 * Fix installer (after configuration UI)
 * Add module for relaying events
 * Add API for rehashing the daemon (or implement it the API is there but does nothing)

2008-02-18 MickeM
 + Added propper output handling to process subsystem (now you can execute programs tat return "much" data.
 + Added select support for SSL_write (now you can send "any amount of data" to the (SSL) socket.
   Since check_nrpe doesn't do this it wont work in that end, but still...

2008-02-16 MickeM
 + Refactored ExternalCommand handling so NRPE and new module does the same thing.

2008-02-14 MickeM
 + Added so commands starting in host_ (NSCA Handlers) are sent as host-commands
 * Fixed a copy constructor in NSCA Commands (now service checks are sent as service checks)

2008-02-13 MickeM
 + Added string_length to [Settings] as well (used internally) for all "injected" buffers.
 * Fixed issue with scripts result truncated efter 1024 chars 
    (now they return "all" output and thus you can use the NRPE settings I adde yesterday :)
 + Added hostname setting to [NSCA] section (must have been braindead when I did not add it before)
 + Added to NSCA truncates output when to long.

2008-02-12 MickeM
 + Added new option for the [NRPE] section string_length which is the length of the NRPE strings 
   (notice you need to recompile the check_nrpe to match this value)
 * Improved exception handling in the PDH collector (hopefully less deadlocks)

2008-02-11 MickeM
 + Added encryption support for NSCA module (about half of the algorithms are avalible, 
     if someone wants to use one not available let me know, and I will try to add it)

2008-02-09 MickeM
 + New module CheckExternalScripts to handle 1, external script (similar to the old NRPE but in its own module)
   - Can Check batch/vbs/programs/*
   - Works with NSCA module (if you don't want to have NRPE at the same time)
   - Simpler syntax (discarded old and added new section for alias)
   - Started to add "sample alias" to ease initial setup and give some nice ideas (please provide me with feedback on them)

2008-02-08 MickeM
 + Added some more default catch handlers (on the "core" side of plugin-calls).

2008-02-07 MickeM
 + Added default catch handlers to all wrapped plugin calls.

2008-02-05 MickeM
 * Fixed issue with checkEventLog (sometimes you got the wrong message back)

2008-02-04 MickeM
 *** Happy Birthday bogi!! :)
 * Fixed issues with performance counter rendering (mainly checkDisk)

2008-02-03 MickeM
 + Added encryption subsystem to NSCA module (still no mcrypt support, but at least you have "xor" and passwords)
 + Added API for scripts to register commands
 + Added command descriptions (for some modules)
 * Fixed issue in NRPE that displayed a console window when running commands
 * New improved "inject" dialog from the system tray
   Lists available commands, and shows command descriptions and a lot of other improvements.
 + Added an internal log windows that displays log in real-time.
 + Fixed some issues with the dialog procs (should work smoother now, especially Termination)

2008-02-02 MickeM
 * Might have fixed the "missing eventlog messages" problem.
 + Added %count% parameter to syntax which (when used with unique) will display the number of hits for each message displayed.

2008-01-27 MickeM
 * Fixed a memory-leak in format_time
 * Fixed so time/date is displayed in "local time" (not UTC) for the eventlog check
 + Added %message% to eventlog check. Will display the "proper formated eventlog message" as in the eventlog viewer.
   For this to work you need to have the descriptions flag set
   In short: /nrpe -H 192.168.0.147 -c checkEventLog -a truncate=1024 "syntax=%generated%: %message%" descriptions=true file=System MaxWarn=1 MaxCrit=1 filter+eventType==error filter+generated=\<12h filter=new filter=all filter=in
 + Added option "unique" to CheckEventLog If this is present only unique errors will be returned.
   The uniqueness is defined by event-log, event-source, event-id and event-category.

2007-12-16 MickeM
 + A lot of new features in the LUA module only "arguments" missing (as well as exposing more of the API)
 * Changed some exceptions that were thrown wrong

2007-12-11 MickeM
 + Added support for index-lookups of PDH counters (hopefully *all* locale problems are now fixed (yeah right))

2007-12-10 MickeM
 + Added initial draft for LUA module

2007-12-09 MickeM
 + Added a check if the service is started when running with /test so you get a warning
 + Improved the socket thread with:
    * a default-catch
    * If the socket fails to start we still wait for it to shut down (no error message)
 + Added first version of the NSCA agent (NSCAgent.dll)
   (no encryption support as of yet, but will come)

2007-12-04 MickeM
 ! 0.3.0 Released

2007-12-01 MickeM
 * Fixed issue with date formating in FILEAGE

2007-11-29 MickeM
 * Fixed issue with date formating in FILEAGE

2007-11-28 MickeM
 ! 0.3.0 RC-1
 * Fixed some UNICODE issues with process-listings
 + Added an error message if the "detected" process enumeration method is not available.
 + Fixed some more Unicode issues Password encrypt/decrypt: #107
 * Fixed Unicode issues with "external programs" #109
 * Fixed so default string for check_nt:s FILEAGE command is "delta" is 5 minutes ago (and not absolute ie. 1970...), Issue #39
 + added support for  <date strings> to check_nt:s FILEAGE command, Issue #39
    append: .<date string> if you want to use a "custom date" like so: ... -v FILEAGE -l c:\\windows,Date: %Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S" -w 5 -c 6 ...
    Only the above listed %<char> works, and default to 0 so might not be to pretty but works...

2007-11-26 MickeM
 + Fixed a socket issue (erroneously reported "Could not read NSClient packet from socket :(")
 * More 2k5 build tweaks

2007-11-23 MickeM
 * Converted to Unicode (damn sometimes I **HATE** C++)
 + Added support for escaping " on the /test syntax so now you can do: CheckWMI MaxCrit=3 "MinWarn=1" "Query:load=Select * from win32_Processor"

2007-11-22 MickeM
 * Fixed so the "default path" is correct even when running as a service (issue: #96)

2007-11-21 MickeM
 * Fixed process counter so checkProcState  now return the *correct* number (previously it was correct-1)
 * Fixed some missing exceptions that were not caught
 + Added "AliasCol" option to CheckWMIValue to allow a column to be used as "alias" for a result set:
     CheckWMIValue -a "Query=select Caption, ThreadCount from Win32_Process" MaxWarn=50 MaxCrit=100 Check:threads=ThreadCount AliasCol=Caption
    will give you: "System threads: 98 > warning, svchost.exe threads: 87 > warning"
 - Removed  from SVN (as it is old and outdated and no longer used)

2007-11-20 MickeM
 + Added new option to CheckSystem to override detected language (force_language=0x0014)

2007-11-19 MickeM
 * Fixed a minor issue in reading registry keys
 + Added -noboot option to startup used for running command line utilities without booting the client
   "nsclient++ -noboot RemoteConfigruation ini2reg" for instance
 + Added fall back to try <module> and <module>.dll if the module was not loaded (when running command lines)
 * Migrated 2008 project files to new name and back ported to 2005 project files.

2007-11-16 MickeM
 * Fixed an NRPE issue I added when I improved the sockets_timeout (now SSL works as well :).
 + Added sample VBS script and definitions

2007-11-15 MickeM
 * Improved error message when external NRPE command failles.

2007-11-14 MickeM
 + Added multi-line output support ( issue #91 )
 * Improved error handling for external commands
 * Fixed an issue with NRPE/NSClient socket-reading (introduced by the socket_timeout)
 + Added an English fall back if "local" language PDH counters fail.

2007-11-12 MickeM
 + Added option to configure socket_timeouts (default is now 30 seconds) should (I hope) fix issue #85

2007-11-11 MickeM
 + Added option to configure the behavior of CheckService CheckAll (#64)

2007-11-08 MickeM
 + Added CheckWMIValue to check result-values from a WMI Query
 * Changed so performance values are "collapsed" i.e. 75362115584 = 70.0G (#89)
    If anyone don't want this let me know and I will make an option for it.

2007-11-06 MickeM
 + Added CLI interface to CheckWMI to check queries

2007-11-04 MickeM
 * Rewritten WMI handling as well as checks so things should be more useful now (cf. the wiki page for details)

2007-10-29 MickeM
 * Restructured build and include to work from CLI
 + Started to add makefiles to build from CLI
 + Added Finnish counters (#98)
 * Fixed performance counter issue with check_nt (#99)
 
2007-10-06 MickeM
 + Added auto-upda-te of versions and dates on build to make versions better updated.
 + Fixed x64 build and cleanup a bit.

2007-09-15 MickeM
 + Added better error messages (now return codes are displayed as text). Not implemented all over yet but the infrastructure is there.

2007-09-11 MickeM
 + Added Dutch performance counters to counters.defs
 + Added Spanish performance counters to counters.defs
 + Added #69 [includes] directive to INI-file to include other files
 * Fixed #75 (spelling issue)

2007-06-23 MickeM
 * Might have fixed #53 I was not able to get the problem locally but I have fixed the problem ias at op5 discovered at least...
 * Fixed the "check memory" issues for real this time.
 * Fixed problem with : in counter names #50 (anything starts with \ is considered a counter so if you use aliases with \ this will break things for you.

2007-06-20 MickeM
 * Fixed #24 crash in NSClient++.exe CheckSystem listpdh | debugpdh
 * Fixed #62 Problems with CheckServiceState and services with spaces.

2007-03-06 MickeM
 ! 0.2.7 released

2007-03-05 MickeM
 * Fixed -v FILEAGE check_nt (NSClient) check.
 * Added license agreement header to all files

2007-03-04 MickeM
 + Added script_dir option to NRPE section as well as some sample scripts in the scripts/
   subdirectory. The script_dir will use all files in this directory as scripts for NRPE
 + Added Japanese counters to counters.defs from patch (thanx!!!)

2007-02-25 MickeM
 + Added possibility to check many memory checks in one go, just stack type options.
     type=paged type=physical etc...
 * Fixed a performance check bug in the last nightly.
 * Fixed a potential crash when a malformed check-file-age command was issued.
 + Added support for more then and NSClient command
 + Added net mask support to allowed_hosts (try with 192.168.0.1/24 and such)
 
2007-02-22 MickeM
 + Added debug output to see if the socket is bound and/or has shutdown.
 * Fixed a potential bug in the thread manager.
 + Added configuration option for suppressing performance data to the NRPE section.
   Set performance_data=0 to stop sending performance data to nagios
 + New (better?) (simpler?) event log checking
 + Added option to most commands (ignore-perf-data) to suppress performance data
 + Added option CheckAll for checking all auto-start services to checkServiceState.
   Also an exclude=<service> to exclude checking that.
 * Fixed return syntax for PROCSTATE nsclient

2007-02-21 MickeM
 * Fixed "broken password check" (again) in NSClient listener (this time it is correct! :)

2006-12-02 MickeM
 + Managed to build so it works on NT 4.0 (SP6a) and W2K3
 * Fixed "broken password check" in NSClient listener

2006-11-18 MickeM
 + Added support for empty NRPE checking (i.e.. chec_nrpe without a -c argument)
 * Added error message when detected language is missing from counters.defs
 + Added Swedish locale to counters.defs (yes, I switched to Swedish XP on my computer :)
 * Fixed : (and possibly other problems) in counters when checking from check_nt (via NSCLient protocol)
 + Added CheckAllExcept to CheckDrive to check all except the specified drives.
 * Fixed a display error in the various size functions (1000-1024 byte was displayed incorrectly)

2006-10-05 MickeM
 * Yayyy!!! (first fix in a looong while :)
 * Fixed a W2k3 "bug" (actually just an incorrect error) but the:
   "e .\PDHCollector.cpp(130) Failed to query performance counters..." is no more...
 + Added option to NRPE/NSClient section to not-cache host names (for dyndns etc.)
   NOTICE this is "not safe" really in so far as someone might hi-jack your DNS and quickly gain 
   access to your nagios box (probably only a theoretical problem but hey! :)
   NOTICE this is "slow" since all hosts in the list are "looked up" each time you get a NRPE/NSClient 
   request it will be "slow" but I think it is not that much of a problem really.
   NOTICE I don't have the possibility to test this so feel free to report if it works and if it doesn't.
   Set cache_allowed_hosts=0 to disable host cache

2006-04-04 MickeM
 * Fixed a few more bugs to the INI/REG readers

2006-04-02 MickeM
 * Could all magicians stop trying to kill me? 
   *Please* i don't like to die!

2006-03-31 MickeM
 * Damn necromancers! stop 0wning my ass all the time!
 
2006-03-29 MickeM
 + Added API for saving/reading settings
 
2006-03-28 MickeM
 + Added REG/INI parsers
 * *NOTICE* You need to add an option (use_file=1) to your nsc.ini file or new builds wont work.

2006-03-25 MickeM
 * Oblivion f*cking roxx!

2006-03-02 MickeM
 * Fixed bug in INI-file reader (memory leak)

2006-03-01 MickeM
 * Fixed bug in CheckFile (now dates work correctly)

2006-02-26 MickeM
 + Added syntax option to CheckFile (%filename%, %creation%, %access%, %write%, %size%).

2006-02-25 MickeM
 * Fixed Sections problem (now sections can be any size)
 + Added bind_to_address option to both NRPE and NSClient section in the INI file.
   Allows you to bind the listener to a specific IP address (only dotted number not host name).
   This might break things as I had to do some internal rewrite of the Socket classes so be careful :)
 * Disabled default-debug logging (as things are fairly stable, you can still enable it by using debug=1 in the NSC:ini file)
 * "Fixed" socket backlog to use "max responsible value" as opposed to "10" if no value is specified.
 + Added option socket_back_log to both NRPE and NSClient section that allows you to tweak the "back-log" of incoming connections to keep.
   This is an advanced setting and should not be used. If you get "connection refused" when running many client this might be something you want to tweak though.
   And if you then start getting "Socket timeout" you might wanna tweak the timeout value as well because larger value here means it takes "longer" to process a socket.
 - I have looked into the event log problem and dates seem to work here so if anyone still have problems (use the syntax option to debug) let me know.
 * Moved listpdh and debugpdh into the CheckSystem module
 * Removed PDH dependencies from "core exe" means you can run NSClient++ without PDH (though you cant use the CheckSystem module)
 
2006-02-2? MickeM
 + Added new Interface for Modules (NSCommandLineExec that allows modules to execute things give from command line.
   Syntax is NSClient++ <module name> <command> [arguments] and if a module doesn't support this it is simply ignored.
 + Added new install/uninstall command to SystemTray module:
   NSClient++.exe SystemTray install 
   NSClient++.exe SystemTray uninstall 
   That will install/uninstall the system tray module this sets the "Allow Service to Interact with Desktop" flag for the service.
 * Removed the "Allow Service to Interact with Desktop" flag from the /install option so that it no longer defaults to on (see commands to set this above).
 * Fixed so checkProcess isn't case sensitive.
 * Added (not finished) syntax option to event log checker to format the outputted data

2006-02-12 MickeM
 + Added support for host name resolve to allowed_hosts

2006-02-08 MickeM
 ! Fixed filter-eventID in EventLog module (now works for all IDs regardless of severity state)
 + Added new filters to EventLog (filter-severity that can filter based on event severity success, error, warning, informational)

2006-02-07 MickeM
 + Added new filter option to eventlog filter-eventID
 + Added new operator to all numeric filters in:number,number,... etc. (for instance filter-eventID=in:123,456,789 to check for lists.

2006-02-05 MickeM
 + Added CheckFile check command
   This new command (in development) will allow various file checks such as age, size, date, etc on single or multiple files.
 + Added FILEAGE support to NSClient
 + Started to convert the web page to WIKI
 
2006-01-21 MickeM
 + Added WMI Check module (early alpha)
   This is an extremely early alpha more to see if there is an interest and how to progress with it.
   To use the WMI module enable the WMICheck.dll (nsc.ini) and then run the following check:
   CheckWMI MaxWarn=10 MaxCrit=15 "Query:load=Select LoadPercentage from win32_Processor"
   The Max* are as every other check and sets limits. 
   The Query works similarly to other check commands i.e.. Query:<name>=<WMI query>
   So any other WMI query should work (notice this is experimental and not stable and has virtually 
   no error handling so it is likely to crash nsclient if you ask anything "non working".)
   I would *really* *really* like to get feedback on how to expand this concept to work better so feel free to come with feedback.
  * Fixed NT4 /install (should work now!)

2006-01-02 MickeM
 * Fixed ChangeServiceConfig2 on NT4
 + Added support for more then 4GB memory (8GB?)
   Since I don't have this much memory this needs to be verified...
 * Fixed syntax of performance data

2005-09-24 MickeM
 * Fixed memory size bug (free and used were swapped)

2005-09-20 MickeM
 + Added option to debug all PDH counters /debugpdh

2005-09-17 MickeM
 + Added support for checking service by display name

2005-09-03 MickeM
 * First off, sorry for lack of updates, but was on vacation :)
 + Added ShowAll=long to CPULoad
 + Added several new types to checkMem (type=paged, type=physical, type=page, type=virtual)

2005-07-31 MickeM
 + /install now sets the service to autostart
 * Did some cleanup of minor code sections
 * (done before but not reported i think) /listpdh option added to list all PDH counters (nsclient++ /listpdh)
 + Added service description
 * Event log reworked (again) this time I hope it is better (and even useful, but syntax has changed)

2005-07-26 MickeM
 + Added support for ShowAll=long (to show long and short info, only applies to some areas, but available everywhere)
 + Extended Drive and memory check syntax to facilitate both Free and Used space checks: MaxWarnFree / MaxWarnUsed etc)

2005-07-19 MickeM
 * Changed thread API to use _creatthreadex as opposed to _creatthread (works better now!)
 * Fixed UNKNOWN return code (was 4 should have been 3)

2005-07-16 MickeM
 * Fixed drive checks from NSClient

2005-07-11 MickeM
 * *ALOT* of bug fixes and enhancements all checking code has been centralized and rewritten also my internal check scripts 
   have been extended to check a lot more things.
   *NOTICE* that EventLog has not been upgraded yet neither has the documentation.
 + Added MaxWarnCount / MinWarnCount to checkProcState to check number of processes running

2005-06-09 MickeM
 * Escapes " in NRPE commands in the NSC.ini

2005-06-05 MickeM
 * Created configuration interface (not released yet)

2005-06-03 MickeM
 * Created interactive installer (not released yet)

2005-06-02 MickeM
 * CheckEventLog reworked...

2005-06-01 MickeM
 * CheckSystem auto detects windows version and language.

2005-05-29 MickeM
 * Fixed PROCSTATE and SERVICESTATE return state.
 + Added support for individual size in CheckDriveSize and CheckFileSize (size has to be specified before a drive/path)
 * Fixed performance data for drives (and possibly other places)

2005-05-23 MickeM
 + Added obfuscated password support
 + Added some more debug info on commands (return code, and input args)
 + Added some more comments to the NSC.ini
 + Added central password "override"
 + Added central "host override"
 + Fixed bug with external commands always getting WARNING state

2005-05-22 MickeM
 + Added debug output for command
 + Added timestamps for log-to-file (date_mask to configure format)
 + Added support for "no password" with check_nt
 + Added log of bad password on NSClient requests.
 * Some threading issues fixed (I hate threading :)

2005-05-19 MickeM
 * Verified NT4 compatibility

2005-05-18 MickeM
 * Fixed bug in NSC.ini (section title for Check System was wrong)
 + Added multitasking for plug-ins (now two plug-ins can handle requests simultaneously)
 * Fixed some minor issues here and there

2005-05-15 MickeM
 + Added NRPE support for checkCounter
 + Updated documentation
 * Make check commands ignore case
 + Added CheckHelpers module to alter the result of various check and similar things 

2005-05-14 MickeM
 + Added support for Volumes (CheckDisk)
 + Added support for checking all drives of a certain kind
 + Added support for altering filter (makes it possible to check removable drives)
 + Created web page and better documentation

2005-04-20 MickeM
 + Added multitasking to socket listener (it can now handle multiple connections)
 * Fixed bug in NSClientListener now "seqv" in check_nt shouldn't happen.
 + Added COUNTER support to NSClient and CheckSystem

2005-04-19 MickeM
 + Added SSL support
 + Added a lot of new options
 + Added documentation
 * Renamed and restructured NSCLientCompat to CheckSystem
 * *ALOT* of fixes all over
 : We are now starting to get to something that is "stable"
 : This means that soon you might actually be able to use this.
 
2005-03-28 MickeM
 * Changed the Thread class a bit (mutex -> signal, and CreatThread does not return the instance)
 * Moved settings "keys" fro NRPE to config.h
 * Changed build options (added Distribution) which builds a zip file under ./dist (requires 7z installed)
 * Minor tweaks to error/debug logging and small fixes "here and there"

2005-03-26 MickeM
 + NRPE Support (very basic, no encryption, and nothing fancy)
 * Socket classes rewritten
 + Added NSCModuleHelper::getSettingsSection to the API

2005-03-22 MickeM
 * Fixed NSClientListener return codes for basic commands
 * Extracted arrayBuffer code into new files under /include
 * Minor tweaks in the API (fixed minor issues)
 + Added some basic "tests" to a few commands (getToken, and arrayBuffer related)

2005-03-21 MickeM
 * Fixed BUG in inject command (now things should "work" again, but far from stable)
 + Added NRPE return code
 * Fixed some return states to NSClientListener (not verified yet, but soon they will be back in order :)

2005-03-20 MickeM
 * Fundamental API changes (due to NRPE compatibility)
   - HandleCommand has changed
   - Inject has changed
   - Most API calls have new "return codes" (typedef:ed INT to allow for return code compiler checks)
   - A lot of the old return codes have changed
 + Preliminary NRPE support (can parse and execute incoming requests, cant return data yet, and no encryption)
 + New SimpleSocket in include/ will be used as base class for Listeners
 * A lot of rewrite to the NSC API

2005-03-19 MickeM
 * Re factored out NSCLient Listener as a separate module
 + Added initial NRPE listener module (not yet implemented only a shell)
 * Changed Module API (Inject function has new syntax)
 + Added some tokenizer function to charEx
 + Added new wrapper function to inject Command
 * Minor changes in relation to refactor work

2005-03-01 MickeM
 * Improved thread safety in Core
 + Added exception handling and logging in PDH code
 * Various fixes all over the place
 + New module for check size of files/directories
 * Changed build to Dynamic link
 * Added regular expression support for EventLog checker

2005-02-22 MickeM
 + Added documentation

2005-02-17 MickeM
 * NSClient issues fixed
 * System Tray issues fixed

2005-02-14 MickeM
 * Initial SourceForge release