RRFW Release 0.1.8

Stanislav Sinyagin — Mon, 22 Nov 2004 20:54:20 -0000

22-NOV-2004: Release 0.1.8

This is planned to be the last release of RRFW. The software will continue
under the new name: Torrus. This transition will involve significant changes
in directory layout. See more details at
http://torrus.org/devdoc/torrus_roadmap.pod.html

In this release:

1. IF-MIB leaf names are changed to the more user-friendly ones.

2. devdiscover: the option --snmpdebug may be used for SNMP event debugging

3. Some shortcuts moved from the bottom to the top of the page, with
slightly different colouring.

4. New parameter: help-text. Contains the description text for a subtree
or a leaf. The text is opened in a new window by the new [Help] shortcut.
Basic markup is supported for bold and italics.

5. Leaf graphs page contains a new shortcut: [Explain graph], with a
generic descripton of the graph content.

6. New navigation shortcut: [Up] for climbing up the tree.

7. Apache::ParseFormData is no longer used with Apache2 handler.
A beta version of libapreq2 should be used instead.

8. examples/rrdup_notify.sh: this script checks if there are any RRD files
older than specified amount of time, and sends an e-mail notification with
the list of such files. This is the most effective way to make sure your
collectors are up and running.

9. Collector and monitor set their process names to reflect their options
and status.

10. New user privilege: DisplayAdmInfo. It may be assigned to the group of
site administrators. It allows to watch the parameter values from the
web interface.

11. The monitor now runs under the same scheduler as Collector.
Two new mandatory parameters for the monitored leaf:
'monitor-period' and 'monitor-timeoffset'. Schedulerinfo utility
now shows statistics for collectors and monitors.

RRFW cbQoS plugin Release 0.2

Stanislav Sinyagin — Tue, 10 Aug 2004 18:29:09 -0000

The new release is out. It fixes the problem with illegal characters in policy map names.

RRFW Release 0.1.7

Stanislav Sinyagin — Wed, 04 Aug 2004 15:06:51 -0000

04-AUG-2004: Release 0.1.7

In this release:
1. mkroutercfg is removed from the distribution

2. rrd_hwreapply is moved to a separate package:
http://rrfw.sourceforge.net/rrdman/

3. New RRFW configuration parameters: snmp-check-sysuptime, transform-value

4. New discovery parameters: custom-host-templates, host-copy-params,
CiscoCatOS::suppress-noname-ports, RFC2863_IF_MIB::tokenset-members,
RFC2863_IF_MIB::exclude-interfaces, RFC2863_IF_MIB::errors-monitor,
RFC2863_IF_MIB::copy-params

5. Implemented GPRINT: now the minimum, maximum, average and last values
are printed at the graph bottom.

6. Optionally the small graphs may show 24 hours instead of 6.
See the User guide for details.

7. Better logging levels organisation.

8. ACLs may contain the wildcard (*) object that applies the permissions
to all existing objects.

9. URL parameters are preserved over the login phase.

10. Cisco IPSec statistics added

11. New vendors supported by devdiscover: NetApp and Atmel

12. Now the site-global parameters may be specified in a special XML
file: xmlconfig/site-global.xml. It will not be overwritten by
"make install". In existing installations, you need to change the
line in rrfw-siteconfig.pl:
@RRFW::Global::xmlAlwaysIncludeFirst =
( 'defaults.xml', 'site-global.xml' );

13. New documentation: RRFW Scalability Guide. It describes the details
of planning and installation of RRFW in large setups.

14. Collector and monitor logs have a more secure mask now.

15. New option in acledit: --force. It allows you to change permissions
for non-existing objects.

16. Holt-Winters prediction is now disabled for system performance and
interface error counters.

RRDman release 1.0.1

Stanislav Sinyagin — Sun, 16 May 2004 18:27:03 -0000

First release of RRDman is available for downloading. This will be a set of utilities for RRD files manipulation.
See http://rrfw.sourceforge.net/rrdman/ for details.

RRFW Release 0.1.6

Stanislav Sinyagin — Mon, 03 May 2004 18:57:03 -0000

1. New option in devdiscover: --limit=regexp. It sets the limits of
discovery by output file name.

2. Perl 5.6.1 is no longer supported. Version 5.8.0 or higher is the
requirement.

3. New option in compilexml: --noval. It disables datasource parameters
validation. This speeds up the compilation up to 2 times, but it adds
the risk of getting unusable configuration. In addition, the first
initialisation cycle of collector and monitor would be much longer.

4. New multigraph parameter: ignore-views-X. It allows you to hide certain
lines in some views. For example, you might not want to show
too many details in a short 6-hours graph.

5. New @-functions in RPN references: AVERAGE MIN MAX LAST. They allow you
to draw maximums and minimums in multigraphs.

6. New SNMP discovery modules: RFC1697_RDBMS, OracleDatabase.

7. The daemon startup script (init.rrfw) now waits for the daemons
to finish. This allows a nicer host reboot process.

8. Apache 2.0 compatiblity. See webintf.pod for more details.

9. On the top of the HTML page, two new elements may be displayed:
site info and tree info. This improves the visibility and usability in
large-scale installations.

10. New XML configuration elements: setvar, iftrue, iffalse. They allow
conditional compilation of some parts of templates.

11. First official release of Cisco Class-based QoS monitoring plugin.

RRFW Bugfix release 0.1.5bf2

Stanislav Sinyagin — Mon, 05 Apr 2004 22:38:22 -0000

Fixed the bug in database cusror operation. It might cause Apache server
hangup and database corruption.

RRFW Bugfix Release 0.1.5bf1

Stanislav Sinyagin — Thu, 25 Mar 2004 19:28:58 -0000

Bugfix in BerkeleyDB environment cleanup, and few other minor bugs fixed.

RRFW Release 0.1.5

Stanislav Sinyagin — Wed, 17 Mar 2004 20:15:03 -0000

17-MAR-2004: Release 0.1.5

Lots of changes. See ChangeLog for a complete list. Most important changes
and features are:
1. RRD file structure has changed for IF-MIB counters. For the sake of
performance optimization in large installations, the number of files
has been minimized. If keeping the old RRD data files is critical,
"configsnapshot" is the right utility for you. See 0.1.4bf2 release
notes for compatibility information. In short, you would need first
to upgrade to 0.1.4bf3, use configsnapshot, and then upgrade to 0.1.5.
Some old versions of important XML template files are stored in
xmlconfig/old.

2. In devdiscover, output file, as well as most other activities, are
controlled only from the input XML file. The number of commandline
options is very minimalistic. See snmpdiscovery.pod for details.
The most important new parameters are: 'output-file', 'output-bundle'.
The devdiscover input file is now referred to as "DDX", or
device-discovery XML.

3. New discovery modules: AscendMax, CiscoFirewall, CompaqCIM, F5BigIp,
NetScreen, MicrosoftWindows, RFC2737_ENTITY_MIB, Xylan; other modules
improved.

4. RRFW is now compatible with BerkeleyDB 4.2. It is highly recommended
to upgrade your installations of BerkeleyDB, because of some bugs
confirmed.

5. For site management purposes, a new utility "genlist" might be useful.

6. Dual configuration database. Now there are two instances of configuration
database: active and passive. Collector and other programs always work
with the active instance. XML compiler first operates with passive
instance, and then makes it active. Thus collector interruption due to
compilation and errors is minimized.

7. Collectors record runtime statistics which are available at any moment.
Those include running time and late start stats. The "schedulerinfo"
utility is used to generate the statistics reports.

8. Aliases are expanded recursively. This gives you extra means of
organizing your data structures.

9. userguide.pod has a description how to set up several instances
of RRFW on one host.

10. For large installations, dispersed collector offset might be a useful
feature.

11. Collector and monitor logfiles are reopened at SIGHUP. This helps
you to set up log rotation if needed.

RRFW Releases note

Stanislav Sinyagin — Sat, 17 Jan 2004 13:39:21 -0000

Hello all,

A short note on RRFW releases:

The bugfix releases 0.1.4bfN are designed for those who have
a large production installation of releases 0.1.3 and 0.1.4.

Those who install RRFW from scratch, would save a lot of time
by starting with the latest 0.1.5 development snapshot.

In the upcoming 0.1.5 release, the structure of RRD files has changed
again, due to performance challenges in large installations.
The snapshot is stable and mature, and is planned to be released within
one or two weeks.

With regards,
Stanislav

RRFW Bugfix Release 0.1.4bf3

Stanislav Sinyagin — Wed, 14 Jan 2004 23:11:36 -0000

Bugfix release.
Better device-specific support for devdiscover. Cisco ATM virtual interfaces
are now correctly discovered.

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