CHANGELOG.md

nagios Cookbook CHANGELOG

This file is used to list changes made in each version of the nagios cookbook.

v5.1.0

Bug

• COOK-3210 Contacts are now only written out if the contact has Nagios keys defined, which prevents e-mail-less contacts from being written out
• COOK-4098 Fixed an incorrect example for using templates in the readme
• Fixed a typo in the servicedependencies.cfg.erb template that resulted in hostgroup_name always being blank

Improvement

• The Yum cookbook dependency has been pinned to < 3.0 to prevent breakage when the 3.0 cookbook is released
• COOK-2389 The logic used to determine what IP to identify the monitored host by has been moved into the default library to simplify the hosts.cfg.erb template
• A Vagrantfile has been added to allow for testing on Ubuntu 10.04/12.04 and CentOS 5.9/6.4 in multi-node setups
• Chef spec tests have been added for the server
• Gemfile updated to use Rubocop 0.15 and TestKitchen 1.0
• COOK-3913 / COOK-3914 Source based installations now use Nagios 3.5.1 and the Nagios Plugins 1.5.0

New Feature

• The names of the various data bags used in the cookbook can now be controlled with new attributes found in the server.rb attribute file
• All configuration options in the cgi.cfg and nrpe.cfg files can now be controlled via attributes
• COOK-3690 An intermediate SSL certificate can now be used on the web server as defined in the new attribute node['nagios']['ssl_cert_chain_file']
• COOK-2732 A service can now be applied to multiple hostgroups via the data bag definition
• COOK-3781 Service escalations can now be written using wildcards. See the readme for an example of this feature.
• COOK-3702 Multiple PagerDuty keys for different contacts can be defined via a new nagios_pagerduty data bag. See the readme for more information on the new data bag and attributes for this feature.
• **COOK-3774**Services can be limited to run on nagios servers in specific chef environments by adding a new "activate_check_in_environment" key to the services data bag. See the Services section of the readme for an example.
• CHEF-4702 Chef solo users can now user solo-search for data bag searchd (https://github.com/edelight/chef-solo-search)

v5.0.2

Improvement

• COOK-3777 - Update NRPE in nagios cookbook to 2.15
• COOK-3021 - NRPE LWRP updates files every run
• Fixing up to pass rubocop

v5.0.0

Bug

• COOK-3778 - Fix missing customization points for Icinga
• COOK-3731 - Remove range searches in Nagios cookbook that break chef-zero
• COOK-3729 - Update Nagios Plugin download URL
• COOK-3579 - Stop shipping icons files that arent used
• COOK-3332 - Fix nagios::client failures on Chef Solo

Improvement

• COOK-3730 - Change the default authentication method
• COOK-3696 - Sort hostgroups so they don't get updated on each run
• COOK-3670 - Add Travis support
• COOK-3583 - Update Nagios source to 3.5.1
• COOK-3577 - Cleanup code style
• COOK-3287 - Provide more customization points to make it possible to use Icinga
• COOK-1725 - Add configurable notification options for nagios::pagerduty

New Feature

• COOK-3723 - Support regexp_matching in Nagios
• COOK-3695 - Add more tunables for default host template

v4.2.0

New Feature

• COOK-3445 - Allow setting service dependencies from data dags
• COOK-3429 - Allow setting timezone from attribute
• COOK-3422 - Enable large installation tweaks by attribute

Improvement

• COOK-3440 - Permit additional pagerduty-like integrations
• COOK-3136 - Fix nagios::client_source under Gentoo
• COOK-3111 - Add support for alternate users databag to Nagios cookbook
• COOK-2891 - Improve RHEL 5 detection in Nagios cookbook to catch all versions
• COOK-2721 - Add Chef Solo support

Bug

• COOK-3405 - Fix NRPE source install on Ubuntu
• COOK-3404 - Fix htpasswd file references (Chef 11 fix)
• COOK-3282 - Use host_name attribute when used in conjunction with a search-defined hostgroup
• COOK-3162 - Allow setting port
• COOK-3140 - No longer import databag users even if they don't have an htpasswd value set
• COOK-3068 - Use nagios_conf definition in nagios::pagerduty

v4.1.4

Bug

• [COOK-3014]: Nagios cookbook imports data bag users even if they have action :remove

Improvement

• [COOK-2826]: Allow Nagios cookbook to configure location of SSL files

v4.1.2

Bug

• [COOK-2967]: nagios cookbook has foodcritic failure

Improvement

• [COOK-2630]: Improvements to Readme and Services.cfg.erb template

New Feature

• [COOK-2460]: create attribute for allowed_hosts

v4.1.0

• [COOK-2257] - Nagios incorrectly tries to use cloud IPs due to a OHAI bug
• [COOK-2474] - hosts.cfg.erb assumes if nagios server node has the cloud attributes all nodes have the cloud attributes
• [COOK-1068] - Nagios::client should support CentOS/RHEL NRPE installs via package
• [COOK-2565] - nginx don't send AUTH_USER & REMOTE_USER to nagios
• [COOK-2546] - nrpe config files should not be world readable
• [COOK-2558] - Services that are attached to hostgroups created from the nagios_hostgroups databag are not created
• [COOK-2612] - Nagios can't start if search can't find hosts defined in nagios_hostgroups
• [COOK-2473] - Install Nagios 3.4.4 for source installs
• [COOK-2541] - Nagios cookbook should use node.roles instead of node.run_list.roles when calculating hostgroups
• [COOK-2543] - Adds the ability to normalize hostnames to lowercase
• [COOK-2450] - Add ability to define service groups through data bags.
• [COOK-2642] - With multiple nagios servers, they can't use NRPE to check each other
• [COOK-2613] - Install Nagios 3.5.0 when installing from source

v4.0.0

This is a major release that refactors a significant amount of the service configuration to use data bags rather than hardcoding specific checks in the templates. The README describes how to create services via data bags.

The main incompatibility and breaking change is that the default services that are monitored by Nagios is reduced to only the "check-nagios" service. This means that existing installations will need to start converting checks over to the new data bag entries.

• [COOK-1553] - Nagios: check_nagios command does not work if Nagios is installed from source
• [COOK-1554] - Nagios: The nagios server should be added to all relevant host groups
• [COOK-1746] - nagios should provide more flexibility for server aliases
• [COOK-2006] - Extract default checks out of nagios
• [COOK-2129] - If a host is in the _default environment it should go into the _default hostgroup
• [COOK-2130] - Chef needs to use the correct nagios plugin path on 64bit CentOS systems
• [COOK-2131] - gd development packages are not necessary for NRPE installs from source
• [COOK-2132] - Update NRPE installs to 2.14 from 2.13
• [COOK-2134] - Handle nagios-nrpe-server and nrpe names for NRPE in the init scripts and cookbook
• [COOK-2135] - Use with-nagios-user and group options source NRPE installs
• [COOK-2136] - Nagios will not pass config check when multiple machines in different domains have the same hostname
• [COOK-2150] - hostgroups data bag search doesn't respect the multi_environment_monitoring attribute
• [COOK-2186] - add service escalation to nagios
• [COOK-2188] - A notification interval of zero is valid but prohibited by the cookbook
• [COOK-2200] - Templates and Services from data bags don't specify intervals in the same way as the rest of the cookbook
• [COOK-2216] - Nagios cookbook readme needs improvement
• [COOK-2240] - Nagios server setup needs to gracefully fail when users data bag is not present
• [COOK-2241] - Stylesheets fail to load on a fresh Nagios install
• [COOK-2242] - Remove unused checks in the NRPE config file
• [COOK-2245] - nagios::server writes openid apache configs before including apache2::mod_auth_openid
• [COOK-2246] - Most of the commands in the Nagios cookbook don't work
• [COOK-2247] - nagios::client_source sets pkgs to a string, then tries to pkgs.each do {|pkg| package pkg }
• [COOK-2257] - Nagios incorrectly tries to use cloud IPs due to a OHAI bug
• [COOK-2275] - The Nagios3 download URL attribute is unused
• [COOK-2285] - Refactor data bag searches into library
• [COOK-2294] - Add cas authentication to nagios cookbook
• [COOK-2295] - nagios: chef tries to start nagios-nrpe-server on every run
• [COOK-2300] - You should be able to define a nagios_service into the "all" host group
• [COOK-2341] - pagerduty_nagios.pl URL changed
• [COOK-2350] - Nagios server fails to start when installed via source on Ubuntu/Debian
• [COOK-2369] - Add LDAP support in the nagios cookbook.
• [COOK-2374] - Setting an unmanaged host to a string returns 'no method error'
• [COOK-2375] - Allows adding a service that utilizes a pre-existing command
• [COOK-2433] - Nagios: ldap authentication needs to handle anonymous binding ldap servers

v3.1.0

• [COOK-2032] - Use public IP address for inter-cloud checks and private for intra-cloud checks
• [COOK-2081] - add support for notes_url to nagios_services data bags

v3.0.0

This is a major release due to some dramatic refactoring to the service check configuration which may not be compatible with existing implementations of this cookbook.

• [COOK-1544] - Nagios cookbook needs to support event handlers
• [COOK-1785] - Template causes service restart every time
• [COOK-1879] - Nagios: add configuration to automatically redirect http://myserver/ to http://myserver/nagios3/
• [COOK-1880] - Extra attribute was left over after the multi_environment_monitoring update
• [COOK-1881] - Oracle should be added to the metadata for Nagios
• [COOK-1891] - README says to modify the nrpe.cfg template, but the cookbook exports a resource for nrpe checks.
• [COOK-1947] - Nagios: Pager duty portions of Nagios cookbook not using nagios user/group attributes
• [COOK-1949] - Nagios: A bad role on a node shouldn't cause the cookbook to fail
• [COOK-1950] - Nagios: Simplify hostgroup building and cookbook code
• [COOK-1995] - Nagios: Update source install to use Nagios 3.4.3 not 3.4.1
• [COOK-2005] - Remove unusable check commands from nagios
• [COOK-2031] - Adding templates as a data bag, extending service data bag to take arbitrary config items
• [COOK-2032] - Use public IP address for intra-cloud checks
• [COOK-2034] - Nagios cookbook calls search more often than necessary
• [COOK-2054] - Use service description in the nagios_services databag items
• [COOK-2061] - template.erb refers to a service variable when it should reference template.

v2.0.0

• [COOK-1543] - Nagios cookbook needs to be able to monitor environments
• [COOK-1556] - Nagios: Add ability to define service template to be used in the nagios_services data bag
• [COOK-1618] - Users data bag group allowed to log into Nagios should be configurable
• [COOK-1696] - Nagios: Support defining non-Chef managed hosts via data bag items
• [COOK-1697] - nagios: Source installs should install the latest NRPE and Nagios plugins
• [COOK-1717] - Nagios: nagios server web page under Apache2 fails to load out of the box
• [COOK-1723] - Amazon missing as a supported OS in the Nagios metadata
• [COOK-1732] - nagios::client_source includes duplicate resources
• [COOK-1815] - Switch Nagios to use platform_family not platform
• [COOK-1816] - Nagios: mod ssl shouldn't get installed if SSL isn't being used
• [COOK-1887] - value_for_platform_family use in Nagios cookbook is broken

v1.3.0

• [COOK-715] - don't source /etc/sysconfig/network on non-RHEL platforms
• [COOK-769] - don't use nagios specific values in users data bag items if they don't exist
• [COOK-1206] - add nginx support
• [COOK-1225] - corrected inconsistencies (mode, user/group, template headers)
• [COOK-1281] - add support for amazon linux
• [COOK-1365] - nagios_conf does not use nagios user/group attributes
• [COOK-1410] - remvoe deprecated package resource
• [COOK-1411] - Nagios server source installs should not necessarily install the NRPE client from source
• [COOK-1412] - Nagios installs from source do not install a mail client so notifications fail
• [COOK-1413] - install nagios 3.4.1 instead of 3.2.3
• [COOK-1518] - missing sysadmins variable in apache recipe
• [COOK-1541] - support environments that have windows systems
• [COOK-1542] - allow setting flap detection via attribute
• [COOK-1545] - add support for defining host groups using search in data bags
• [COOK-1553] - check_nagios command doesn't work from source install
• [COOK-1555] - include service template for monitoring logs
• [COOK-1557] - check-nagios command only works in environments with single nagios server
• [COOK-1587] - use default attributes instead of normal in cookbook attributes files

V1.2.6

• [COOK-860] - set mail command with an attribute by platform

v1.2.4

• [COOK-1119] - attributes for command_timeout / dont_blame_nrpe options
• [COOK-1120] - allow monitoring from servers in multiple chef_environments

v1.2.2

• [COOK-991] - NRPE LWRP No Longer Requires a Template
• [COOK-955] - Nagios Service Checks Defined by Data Bags

v1.2.0

• [COOK-837] - Adding a Recipe for PagerDuty integration
• [COOK-868] - use node, not @node in template
• [COOK-869] - corrected NRPE PID path
• [COOK-907] - LWRP for defining NRPE checks
• [COOK-917] - changes to mod_auth_openid module

v1.0.4

• [COOK-838] - Add HTTPS Option to Nagios Cookbook

v1.0.2

• [COOK-636] - Nagios server recipe attempts to start too soon
• [COOK-815] - Nagios Config Changes Kill Nagios If Config Goes Bad

v1.0.0

• Use Chef 0.10's node.chef_environment instead of node['app_environment'].
• source installation support on both client and server sides
• initial RHEL/CentOS/Fedora support