PasTmon - Passive Response Time Monitor News

This release adds support for pastmon to be able to auto-discover new NICs being added or deleted and start / stop sensors accordingly.

Docker containers are also available for this release:

• pastmonweb
• pastmonsensor

• Allow split sensor vs sensor+web ui builds.
• pastmonphp uses dejavu truetype fonts instead of corefonts.
• Fixed signal handling to improve failure cleanup handling.
• Dojo upgraded to 1.10.4.
• Fixed CIDR netmasking for ipv4 and ipv6.
• various bug fixes.
• Support running sensor and ui under docker. Monitoring CoreOS:
  • pastmonweb
  • pastmonsensor... read more

• Updated install guide/readme with sysstat requirement for active agents.
• Fixed compilation issue with older versions of libdbi (< 0.9).
• Fixed active agents cmd respawn bug.

• Minor bug fix in packaging of the released tar balls.

• Fixed string handling in syslog calls for logging.
• Fixed cpu loop in aa threads due to incorrect process termination handling.

• Fixed cpu loop when a nic is removed from system, e.g. when a docker container is stopped while pastmon has a pcap sensor monitoring it.

After a long hiatus...

• Added support for active agent data collection (e.g.
  sensor cpu usage etc from sar stats).

• Added automatic discovery and sensor placement in container
  namespaces (e.g. to support OpenStack software defined
  networking node monitoring).

• Ipv6 support.

• Experimental p0f OS fingerprinting support.

• Added initial support for MSSQL.

Updated ICMP plugin support, fixed minor mem leaks.
Added -S option to log to syslog.
Deprecated std.reports.
Fixed bug in pastmon_summarise_level_2.pl.
Added login page to php web interface.
Fixed Generic plugin window scaling values.

Fixed pastmon-php passing of filters in drill-down.
Fixed some memory leaks.
Fixed E_NOTICE breaking plots in pastmonphp.
Added internal memory stats collection for DBI output plugin.
Recommend libdbi and libdbi-drivers 0.8.3 or above.
Fixed segfaults in DBI output plugin.

Just a minor bug fix release:

Fixed Internal metrics plots timezone skew issue.
Use truetype fonts in graphic plots.

glbevan

The PasTmon project has been quiet over the last year or so.

Anyway, I've rolled up some minor improvements and bug fixes in this release.

glbevan

Fixed rule match ambiguity in tcpsynack plugin.
Removed bug caused by debug code in tcpsynack plugin.
Fixed timezone issues with plots.

Have migrated pastmonphp to use jpgraph library to charts/plots.

Also deprecated standard reports in favour of pastmonphp favorites feature.

The R package is nolonger a prerequisite.

Various bug fixes.

Bug fix for rogue time values on 64 bit operating systems.

Improved support for http POST transactions.

Massive improvements to PHP database queries leveraging PostgreSQL aggregate functions for summarisation (applied to pastmon-php, std.reports will follow later).

Removed need for *_detail database tables, pastmon now summarises directly into the level 1 summary tables.

numerous bug and memory leak fixes.

Bug fix for level 2 data summarisation.

Minor bug fixes in debugging code and SQL error checking.

glbevan

Created new DBI output plugin to replace the old PostgreSQL plugin. This should allow use of other database servers other than PostgreSQL, like MySQL. However, the current schema uses views, so the database server used must support them, e.g., MySQL-5.* or above.

Added support for tracking transactions across multiple NICs.

Added a new thread to capture pastmon internal statistics for memory usage, NIC packet capture, and plugin capture. Extended the PHP interface to view these.... read more

Minor bug fix for race condition causing duplicate database insert errors.

glbevan

Migrated from perl Pg library to DBI/DBD::Pg.

Added new, user contributed, cross summary level database views.

Added new, more efficient, hashing of summary data in plugin reduce threads.

Removed need for php register_globals=On.

Added 802.1Q VLAN packet decode support.

glbevan

This new patch release brings some fairly minor bug fixes.

glbevan

Computer Sciences Corporation's (NYSE: CSC) Leading Edge Forum (LEF) have released a study report titled "Open Source: Open for Business", in which the PasTmon project gets a mention (Pg 46).

Article here:
http://www.csc.com/features/2004/48.shtml

The full report can be downloaded from:
http://www.csc.com/features/2004/uploads/LEF_OPENSOURCE.pdf

glbevan

Bug fix for Fedora Core 2 binary RPM - missing plugin shared libraries, and faulty %postun scriptlet.

Updated PostgreSQL signature rules.
Added signatures for MySQL monitoring.
Gentoo and Fedora now supported.
Plus some bug fixes.

This is a minor bug fix release:

- RPM build fixes for RedHat 9.

- Always build and use packaged PCRE library.

- Fixes for regex field insertion and shutdown seg faults.