v0.13.0

Overview

• Plugin improvements
• Bug fixes
• built using Go 1.15.8
• shelve building Windows binaries until feedback is provided

Breaking

Precompiled Windows binaries have been discontinued. If this affects you,
please provide feedback to
GH-160.

See the build instructions in the project README file for other options.

Added

• New monitoring mode for check_vmware_vhw plugin
  • Default is minimum required version
  • Asserts that all evaluated Virtual Machines meet or exceed the default
    version specified by either a specified host or a specified cluster

Changed

• Makefile

  • add clean recipe for single OS builds (linux, windows) to match what
    is already done for the all recipe

• README

  • Update coverage of installation steps
  • Note shelving of Windows builds until feedback is received indicating
    that others find them useful
  • Add "other OSes" section inviting requests for precompiled binaries for
    other supported OSes

Fixed

• Missing plugin "type" in log messages due to missing constant/check in
  logging setup
• Invalid preallocaction of vhw slices used by Oldest and Newest
HardwareVersionsIndex methods
• Add Deprecated section to v0.12.0 release entry of this CHANGELOG
  • this matches the current Release entry for this project's GH repo (which
    was previously labeled as Breaking)

References

• See the v0.13.0 milestone for the issues associated with this release.
• See our CHANGELOG for more information.

v0.12.0

Overview

• Plugin improvements
• built using Go 1.15.8

Deprecated

• Windows binaries are likely not going to be included in the next release
  • if there is interest, they will continue to be provided
  • see GH-160 for details (and to leave feedback)

Changed

• check_vmware_vm_power_uptime plugin
  • list 10 most recently booted VMs in extended output
• check_vmware_rps_memory plugin
  • list 10 most recently booted VMs in extended output
  • list 10 most memory consuming VMs in extended output

Fixed

• Typo in plugin name in prior CHANGELOG version entry

References

• See the v0.12.0 milestone for the issues associated with this release.
• See our CHANGELOG for more information.

v0.11.0

Overview

• Bug fixes
• Misc tweaks
• built using Go 1.15.8

Changed

• check_vmware_vhw plugin
  • two new additional monitoring modes added
    • minimum required version check
    • outdated-by or threshold range check
• CI build timeout adjusted from 20 to 40 minutes
• check_vmware_vm_power_update plugin
  • Extend check_vmware_vm_power_uptime to list 5-10 highest uptime VMs when
    state is OK

Fixed

• CI-driven Makefile builds timing out after v0.10.0 release
• "shorthand" suffix missing for plugin-specific help output for short flag
  options
• Validation checks for CRITICAL/WARNING threshold checks does not (negative)
  assert CRITICAL <= WARNING

References

• See the v0.11.0 milestone for the issues associated with this release.
• See our CHANGELOG for more information.

v0.10.0

Overview

• New plugin
• Misc tweaks
• built using Go 1.15.8

Added

• New plugin: check_vmware_vm_power_uptime

Changed

• minor refactor of summary and report functions

References

• See the v0.10.0 milestone for the issues associated with this release.
• See our CHANGELOG for more information.

v0.9.0

Overview

• New plugin
• built using Go 1.15.8

Added

• New plugin: check_vmware_host_cpu

Changed

• Dependencies
  • built using Go 1.15.8
    • Statically linked
    • Windows (x86, x64)
    • Linux (x86, x64)

References

• See the v0.9.0 milestone for the issues associated with this release.
• See our CHANGELOG for more information.

v0.8.0

Overview

• New plugin
• Bug fixes
• Minor tweaks
• built using Go 1.15.7

Added

• New plugin: check_vmware_host_memory

Changed

• Remove doc comments regarding hidden resource pool from vc1.example.com.cfg Nagios host configuration file
  • this topic is already covered by the main README file
  • some details have changed slightly since the remarks were written

References

• See the v0.8.0 milestone for the issues associated with this release.
• See our CHANGELOG for more information.

v0.7.0

Overview

• New plugin
• Bug fixes
• Misc adjustments to output
• built using Go 1.15.7

Added

• New plugin: check_vmware_snapshots_count

Changed

• check_vmware_rp_memory plugin
  • one-line summary tweaks
    • list usage percentage of total capacity as aggregate value for all
      specified resource pools
    • attempt to make message more concise
    • drop explicit "overage" detail, rely on implied overage in total memory
      usage percentage
  • extended output
    • list usage percentage of total capacity per-Resource Pool
• Review and update threshold listings in extended output

Fixed

• Fix invalid ExceedsAge logic
• check_vmware_snapshots_age: Misreported VMs, snapshots count

References

• See the v0.7.0 milestone for the issues associated with this release.
• See our CHANGELOG for more information.

v0.6.1

Overview

• Bug fix
• built using Go 1.15.7

Fixed

• Snapshots age evaluation counts misreported (swapped VMs, snapshots)

References

• See the v0.6.1 milestone for the issues associated with this release.
• See our CHANGELOG for more information.

v0.6.0

Overview

• New plugin
• Bug fixes
• built using Go 1.15.7

Added

• New plugin: check_vmware_rps_memory

Changed

• check_vmware_vcpus
  • Adjust errors listing to use fixed error for crossing vCPUs allocation
    thresholds vs dynamically generated details (GH-104, GH-108)
    • the dynamic version mostly duplicated what the one-line summary was
      already conveying

Fixed

• Fix variable name with stutter
• check_vmware_datastore command definition template uses wrong plugin name

References

• See the v0.6.0 milestone for the issues associated with this release.
• See our CHANGELOG for more information.

v0.5.1

Overview

• Bug fixes
• built using Go 1.15.7

Changed

• internal/vsphere package logging output disabled by default, exposed via
  debug logging level (user configurable)

Fixed

• snapshots size plugin properly detects WARNING cumulative size state, but
  unhelpfully notes 0 (individual) snapshots exceeding size

References

• See the v0.5.1 milestone for the issues associated with this release.
• See our CHANGELOG for more information.