[Announce] M/Monit 2.1

[Jan-Henrik Haukeland]

Hello, everyone!

We have been busy improving M/Monit and today we have a new release  
for you. This is a free upgrade for all M/Monit users.

The new release can be downloaded from http://mmonit.com/download/


Release information:
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  NEW FEATURES:

  * M/Monit will now send an alert if a Monit agent does not
    report in on time.

  * Various caching strategies have been added internally. This
    should help M/Monit scale to hundreds of hosts and beyond.

  * Replaced the Host drop down menu with a host search field in
    the events page.

  * Host groups can now be used, in addition to hosts, when
    specifying an alert rule.

  * Service groups can now be used, in addition to services, when
    specifying an alert rule. A service group is defined in your
    monitrc control file

  * M/Monit can now send Jabber/GTalk alert messages in addition
    to Mail messages.

  * The M/Monit server now support SSL. Please consult the manual
    to learn how to configure M/Monit to use SSL.

  * The web user interface has got a modest face lift.

  * Updated and improved manual
	
  BUG FIXES:

  * Evaluate all rules when processing events for sending alerts.
    Previous versions only evaluated and acted on the first
    matching rule. Thanks to Andrew Stott for report.

  * Services and service groups are now pre-fetched from Monit
    when Monit starts up and report to M/Monit. In earlier
    versions of M/Monit, an event had to occur on a service before
    the service was made available when specifying alert rules.
    Note: this feature requires Monit-5.1, Monit-5.0.3 will also
    work, but service names won't be synced.

  * Added timezone in date header for mails sent by M/Monit.
    Thanks to Thorsten Kampe for requesting this feature.

  * Fixed a possible crash in Dashboard when an event from Monit
    was received with a system time ahead of M/Monit's system
    time. Thanks to Aleksander Kamenik for report.

  * Improved the AJAX host search field to allow for a more
    interactive search

  * Improved message queue handling

  * FreeBSD releases of M/Monit are now built using FreeBSD
    version 6.0 and 7.0 instead of version 6.4 and 7.2. This
    allows M/Monit to support a wider range of 6.x and 7.x FreeBSD
    OS versions.
	
  UPGRADING:

  If you are upgrading from M/Monit 2.0.3 please perform the
  following to upgrade the database:

  If you use SQLite:

    ./upgrade/upgrade-2.0.3-2.1.sqlite

  If you use MySQL:

    cat ./upgrade/upgrade-2.0.3-2.1.mysql | \
         mysql -u mmonit -p -D mmonit

  If you use Postgresql:

    cat ./upgrade/upgrade-2.0.3-2.1.postgresql | \
        psql -U mmonit mmonit

  Browser cache:

  Please clear your Browser cache before login in to M/Monit 2.1.
  Most pages have been changed in the web user interface and cached
  pages from the previous version may create problems.


Contact:
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  We hope that you will enjoy this new release and find it useful.
  If you have questions, comments or any other feedback about this
  release, please contact us at mmonit at tildeslash.com


With the best regards from the M/Monit team.