[Announce] m/monit beta 3

[Jan-Henrik Haukeland]

Hello all,

The third beta of M/Monit 2.0 is now available.

M/Monit can be downloaded from http://mmonit.com/

NOTE: This version of M/Monit requires Monit version 5.0 beta 2 which  
was released yesterday (31. july). Monit 5 beta 2 can be downloaded  
from http://www.tildeslash.com/monit/dist/beta/monit-5.0_beta2.tar.gz

This is a minor feature release which has been tested on
the following platforms:

       Darwin 9.4.0        [ppc/x86]
       Linux FC/U          [x86/x64]
       FreeBSD             [x86]


This release does not include a lot of new functionality, but instead  
add stability and better performance to M/Monit. Database lock  
problems reported on the previous version of M/Monit should now be  
fixed and M/Monit should be able to handle many more Monit instances.

In addition we have added automatic page refresh to relevant pages in  
M/Monit. That is, each table and chart in M/Monit can now  
automatically refresh itself. The refresh rate is set per user and  
defaults to one minute, but can be set as low as 5 seconds. To change  
the refresh rate go to the user page under admin.

Page refresh is done via ajax for status and events table and works  
really well. For pages with charts, a full page refresh is used  
because of a bug in the YUI javascript library which does not handle  
chart refresh well over ajax. This should be fixed soon and we hope to  
have this included in the next beta release planned for medio august.  
The next beta will also include more functionality, such as hosts  
groups.

As usual, don't hesitate to ask if you have any questions or comments.


Changes in this release:
------------------------

NEW FEATURES:

* Host admin.
   Host admin now allows to override the hostname, ip-address
   and port for monit so it's not overwritten by monit
   reported values if it doesn't match. This can be used for
   example when monit is not available via the ipaddress:port
   which is defined in monit configuration, but via some proxy
   or translated address or port. To override the settings, use
   the host admin form as usual and save the new values (there
   are no additional form fields required) - the grey value
   reported by monit for the same property will be shown under
   the overriden value.

* Collector authentication.
   Each message posted by Monit to M/Monit is now authenticated
   against a valid user role in M/Monit.

* Automatic page refresh.
   The dashboard page, host status table and events log will now
   automatically refresh each minute. That is, these pages will
   automatically update its data without user interaction. Automatic
   refresh and the refresh rate is specified per user and in the user
   page under admin.

* Includes latest version of support libraries

* Performance improvements.

BUG FIXES:

* Fixed database lock problems

* Only use values from active hosts when computing CPU/MEM
   topography charts.

* Changed colors of the CPU/MEM topography charts to the same colors
   used in the detailed status page CPU and MEM charts.

NOTE: This version requires Monit 5.0-beta2

FYI:

There has been some minor changes to the database schema and a update- 
script is included in the package so you can keep your old data from  
the previous beta release, should you want that.