[Announce] m/monit beta 3

[Martin Pala]

... macosx-ppc added as well ;)

Good night :)


On Aug 2, 2008, at 1:27 AM, Jan-Henrik Haukeland wrote:

> 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.
>
>
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