Product Updates

A new update for Centreon web 21.10 is available. Click the version button in Product Updates to access detailed release notes:centreon-web-21.10.8

A new update for Centreon web 21.04 is available. Click the version button in Product Updates to access detailed release notes:centreon-web-21.04.16

A new update for Centreon web 22.04 is available. Click the version button in Product Updates to access detailed release notes:centreon-web-22.04.1

A new update for Centreon gorgone 20.10 is available. Click the version button in Product Updates to access detailed release notes:centreon-gorgone-20.10.7

A new update for Centreon mbi 21.04 is available. Click the version button in Product Updates to access detailed release notes:centreon-mbi-21.04.4

A new update for Centreon open tickets 21.10 is available. Click the version button in Product Updates to access detailed release notes:centreon-open-tickets-21.10.1

Hello fellow watchers, Here is the content of the July connector release, hope you’ll enjoy it. Feel free to drop your feedback in the comments!  New Packs  Azure Classic Storage & Storage Accounts: this month, we’re adding new modes and discovery capabilities for each type of Azure Storage account mode (legacy or v2). Host Discovery now offers the right template that includes the supported metrics only.  Linux Node Exporter: This new pack is close to a turning point. At the very least it highlights the gap we want to bridge between dev, ops, and monitoring teams. By supporting the monitoring through Node Exporter for Linux servers, we allow these teams to speak the same language when it comes to metrics collection. Enhancements Amazon SNS & SQS: Discovery rules are now at the host level rather than at the service level. It makes these Packs easier to use and your monitoring well organized.   AWS Billing: To align how we discover from AWS today, and to prepare for something bigger, we’re refocusing the discovery feature from the service  to the host level. It allows leveraging the power of this pack in a few clicks!  AWS Lambda: You’re building serverless deployments and your application heavily relies on AWS on-demand functions? You can now discover each of these functions and make it a dedicated host. Dynatrace Rest API: Codebase upgrade to use the v2 API, and bring new monitoring capabilities: Apdex, Availability, Events… You can now reflect your Dynatrace logical organization by filtering problems by management zone for better alert management.  Linux NRPE3: Add objects (commands, templates, etc.) to monitor your Linux server’s NTP synchronization using the NRPE3 Protocol.  Nmap CLI: Add WSMan port to the scanning range so you can leverage this new way to monitor Windows environments and combine it with Nmap discovery capabilities.  Nortel Standard: Check your Nortel devices’ stack status.  Enhancements impacting current configurations   PostgreSQL: We added new services: Bloat and Collection. As the code base was quite old, we reworked it to fit with the new metrics naming system. It will break some configurations and change the way graphs are displayed.  Bugfixes  Active Directory WSMAN: Fix typos in Active Directory WSMan commands. AWS ELB: Add missing classic and applications ELB Discovery rules in the latest Centreon releases. Azure Database for MySQL: Fix typo in ‘serverlog-usage’ option label. Please check that thresholds are correctly set after the upgrade as macros’ names are changing!  Ruckus ICX SNMP: Fixing macro name in Ruckus ICX Memory service template to fix thresholds.

A new update to Centreon MAP 22.04 is available. Click the version button in Product Updates to access detailed release notes:centreon-map-22.04.1

A new widget is now available. Click the version button in Product Updates to access detailed release notes:centreon-widget-ntopng-22.04.0

A new update to Centreon MBI 22.04 is available. Click the version button in Product Updates to access detailed release notes:centreon-mbi-22.04.1

Centreon 22.04 is now fully packaged for Debian 11. This is applicable to both the open source and commercial editions of Centreon. Read this chapter in the online documentation to understand how to use the Debian 11 packages. The Centreon Debian User Group on this platform is where the community of users hosting their Centreon Platform on a Debian distribution can help each others and share their experience.

A new update to Centreon Web 20.10 is available. Click the version button in Product Updates to access detailed release notes:centreon-web-20.10.18

New updates to Centreon 21.10 are available. Click the version button in Product Updates to access detailed release notes:centreon-broker-21.10.2  centreon-engine-21.10.2  centreon-connector-21.10.2 

Hello fellow watchers. Here is the content of the June connector release, hope you’ll enjoy it. Feel free to drop your feedback in the comments!  New Packs   Microsoft Active Directory WSMAN & IIS Server WSMAN: In an effort to make the WSMan an alternative to using the NSClient++ Agent, we are extending Microsoft applications monitoring support using this protocol. Azure Traffic Manager: Powered by a community contribution, anyone using this Azure service to load balance the DNS Traffic can now monitor it!  Cambium ePMP SNMP: Monitor the antenna gain, license usage, and hardware indicators on Cambium networks ePMP devices. Ceph RestAPI: Check OSD (Object Storage Daemons) and ensure everyone’s participating! Also, discover pool storage utilization and I/O operations volume.  HP StoreOnce 4.x RestAPI: A new Pack to support the latest firmware for StoreOnce as it comes with a different API.  Libraesva SNMP: Monitoring email security gateway hardware is crucial. This new Pack now makes your life easier.  Protocol WHOIS: Tracking domain response time and status over time and be alerted when it expires! So simple, thanks to the WHOIS protocol! Enhancements   Centreon * Packs: Minor macro updates to make these Pack compliant with the upcoming Debian support. Also, better management of some edge cases about centengine and broker queues monitoring. Amazon EFS: New host discovery rule.  Azure Discover: Many Azure subscriptions? Tired of running a Discovery job for each one of them? Good news: We added a provider discovering all assets within all the subscriptions for a given tenant. HP StoreOnce *: Because of the new Pack supporting StoreOnce 4.x branch, we deprecate the original one and create a new one explicitly specifying the 3.x branch support. Update your hosts with this new template. Linux NRPE3: Add a new check to monitor your services’ systemd status. Proxmox VE: New host discovery rule. Raisecom: Add support for all Raisecom xPON series within the existing Pack. Stormshield SNMP: Update the VPN checks to work with firmware > 4.0.2 and new thresholds options.  Important! Some improvements bring significant updates on some Centreon Plugin Pack and introduce breaking changes.   Dell N-Series SNMP: Thanks to our community, we identified that the legacy Dell N4000 Pack was compatible with all the Dell N-Series suites. To remove any doubts, we reworked the code and renamed the Pack. The original one will not benefit from any bug fixes or new checks. Protocol TCP: When Ping is unavailable (firewall rule, ...), issuing a TCP check is an excellent alternative to know if a machine is Up. We had to rename modes and checks to have a Response-Time service that returns metrics similar to the check_icmp plugin.  Bugfixes    Amazon Backup Vault: Fix Job-Status command and add missing macros. Amazon RDS: Support new attributes (db_name, id, name) in the host discovery provider. Amazon EBS: Fix wrong mapper name and host template macros. Azure App Service: Fix extra newlines in commands definition, causing failures during CLAPI import. Azure Functions: Fix extra newlines in the definition of commands causing failures during CLAPI import. Citrix Netscaler: vServer discovery rule wasn’t exported because of wrong Pack definition. NtopNG RestAPI: Wrong *EXTRAOPTIONS macro name.  OneAccess SNMP: Fix command options for interfaces check. Ruckus Smartzone: Extra space in the access point check command might cause various problems.  The technical release note is available here.

A new update to Centreon Web 21.10 is available. Click the version button in Product Updates to access detailed release notes:centreon-web-21.10.7

New updates to Centreon 21.04 are available. Click the version button in Product Updates to access detailed release notes:centreon-web-21.04.15 centreon-engine-21.04.5 centreon-broker-21.04.8 centreon-connector-21.04.4 

Spring has arrived, and with spring comes the spring software version of the Centreon Platform, a.k.a Centreon 22.04. We have been working hard over the last few months to develop new features that will help you go even further in monitoring.  Discover here all the new features to come in this new version of Centreon.  This is 22.04 in a nutshell:Debian 11 and AlmaLinux 8 for self-hosted deployment, or Centreon Cloud for SaaS service Automatic Plugin installation and updates Auto-Discovery enhancements Windows agentless monitoring with WSMAN Dark Theme and other UX improvements New Analytics capabilities with Grafana data source New NPMD capabilities with ntopng integration OpenID Connect user authorization, user auto-import and other Security improvements   Read more 

The open-source centreon-plugins library constantly grows and evolves! Since the last Plugin Pack release, we merged not less than 45 new pull requests and got closer to one hundred unique code contributors!  If you want to be sure you didn't miss anything, click on this link to see what's behind all these contributions!  I picked some of these and will try to highlight them by getting more into the details in this article.  (Agent-less) Windows Monitoring Last month, we released a new way to check Windows servers and desktops, and it's agent-less! It relies on WSMan, more precisely, the WinRM implementation Microsoft made of this standard.  Using HTTPS to check those servers make your life easier at firewall and network policy levels. You can check all already supported checks and metrics here. It's still a work in progress, and we need to hear your feedback to improve and extend it! We built a tutorial to help you go through the main configuration steps.  In the meantime, you can still use the latest centreon_plugins.exe binary and the venerable NSClient++ agent to monitor your Windows apps!  AWS Monitoring Something that will soon reflect in AWS Monitoring Packs, you can choose to assume the role of your Poller. That means you don't have to work with access and secret keys anymore and care about their rotation. The only prerequisite is that your Poller runs on AWS and has the required privileges.  HTTP Backends The new way to expose metrics is APIs. It implies that we have a robust and user-friendly way to perform HTTP requests within plugins. Last year, we introduced a new backend 'curl' to make troubleshooting and testing easier for our users. We now go one step further by making it the default for all new HTTP-based plugins!  Indeed we need you! If you have experienced difficulties using some HTTP plugins using the LWP library, just let us know, and we'll make curl the default one!  Security You can now encrypt the content of the cache file using a key. It reduces the risk of someone playing man-in-the-middle by stealing tokens the plugins may cache on disk to improve check performances and reduce their footprint on remote APIs.  Of course, it implies access to the server, and somebody competent could try to find this encrypted key with a ps command. Bad news for them, we make the password-manager options available in all our plugins as requested here. Whatever the sensitive credentials you use in your monitoring checks or for cache file encryption, you can now choose to protect them by using hard to access environment variable or any other supported password manager like KeePass or HashiCorp vault.  Centreon Plugins needs you!  Let us know what you think about these highlights!  If you've missed it, you have a dedicated section in your favourite community platform to ask for new development and see if it makes the community buzz. If your request obtains more than ten votes, we will automatically add your plugin request to our next sprint. Cheers,

Fellow watchers, I'm very excited to announce this new release! It's particular because it happens next to another one: our next major release, Centreon 22.04! Without spoiling anything, we adopt a new release numbering which comes with something more significant. You will have all your Packs to update because the version is now sticking to this format: YY.MM.BUGFIXI want to welcome the latest 22.05.0 Plugin Packs release!  Newcomers    Azure Database for MariaDB: the monitoring of Azure PaaS deployments for MariaDB and their specific metrics is now available. Discovery is included as for all our cloud-dedicated packs.  NtopNG RestAPI: use this pack to combine two leading open source players. Thus, you centralize alert visualization and metrology relating to network flows in the Centreon interface. You can also ensure that NtopNG probes are operational and working optimally. Protocol CIFS & SFTP: highly awaited and requested, these two protocols offer the possibility to perform multiple actions through the CIFS/Samba and SFTP protocols. Advanced needs? You can build complex scenarios to be sure to reflect the actions of your users or applications. Kadiska Rest API: As our working methods are evolving towards more mobility and home working, monitoring the performance of SaaS applications is becoming a real challenge. Use Kadiska and Centreon to have an exhaustive understanding of the users experience and combine the two tools to respond faster to issues.   Enhancements  Generic SNMP: you can now discover Cisco ASA firewalls via the associated discovery provider.  IP Fabric: technology alignment is now supported. No more need for manual action , IP Fabric detects device models and families, and Centreon auto-discovery recommends the best available templates.  VMWare ESX & VM: support of custom attributes as criteria in discovery mappers is available. This is a first step,‘Tags’ will come soon, stay tuned!  Important! Some improvements bring significant updates on some Centreon Plugin Pack and introduce breaking changes.   AWS ELB: because the same network load balancer may be available in multiple AWS regions, we have revised the uniqueness criteria for identifying a Network Load Balancer. The Pack update will require you to re-create your discovery rules with the new Pack version. Good news, to make up for it, we've added a host and service discovery rule that will make your life easier!  Bugfixes   Amazon RDS: mapping error in Host discovery rule.  Amazon FSx: reversal in the exclusion criteria of the host discovery rule.  Dell Me4 Rest API: controller statistics control command.  Linux SSH: added a missing template for server memory monitoring. Protocol SSH: minor translation problem. Windows WSMan: errors in control commands and added Event Logs mode.  Along with this post comes one more specific focusing on centreon-plugins core library updates. Check it out! 

Monthly Plugin Packs Releases - April 2022   Every month, Centreon extends its catalog of Plugin Packs and implements new connectors to allow you to connect your monitoring with ITOps tools. The result: more visibility and business observability capabilities. We also offer enhancements and fixes on existing Plugin Packs.   Here is an update on your best allies: the Plugin Packs!    To learn more, you can also read the related documentation, contact our sales team or post a message on The Watch.   Sorry, this content should have been available last month!   Stay tuned, a new one is coming soon!    New Plugin Packs available      IP Fabric API: With this new package, use IP Fabric-generated snapshots to quickly add devices to your monitoring via the dedicated discovery rule. Centralize information on network route status and send an alert when a route does not display an expected status. Amazon Backup Vault: Monitor the status of your AWS backup jobs within your vaults. Hyper-V NSCP API: This new pack enables self-discovery of different elements within Hyper-V deployments, similar to what is currently available for VMWare.  Windows WSMAN: As the deployment and use of NSClient++ in cloud deployments can be complex at times, we have developed a new way to monitor Windows systems: WINRM/WSMAN. Please send us some feedback!   Enhancements     Arista Switch: Added new thresholds to generate alerts for different types of memories (cached, buffer, etc.) or use percentage thresholds.  Huawei: Support the monitoring of optical interfaces. Microsoft SQL Server: Improvement of the Backup-Age control with the possibility to control the duration and the status of the last execution only.  Nutanix SNMP: Complete refactoring of Nutanix monitoring. Added discovery rules for hypervisors, virtual machines and containers. Monitor all envelopes in minutes.  Ruckus ICX SNMP: Added new thresholds for memory consumption with the ability to use percentage. Veeam NRPE: Added modes to monitor licenses and backup repositories. Veeam API: Added monitoring of synthetic backups (Veeam Synthetic Backup).     Enhancements impacting current configurations    Take notice: Some of our enhancement produced significant changes on some Centreon Plugin Packs.     NetApp Ontap OnCommand API: For more relevant discovery and monitoring, the Volumes service has been replaced by one which monitors the same metrics but presented through SVMs (Storage Virtual Machines).  OneAccess SNMP: The monitoring interface is now aligned with the current standard through the addition of signal quality and carrier monitoring, as well as the monitoring of SIM cards used by radio modules.    Bugfixes      Amazon EC2: Better handling of discovery and metrics available on AutoScaling Groups. Aruba Standard: Fixed a typo in the host discovery command. Azure Virtual Machines Scale Sets: Correction in the host discovery provider description. Centreon MBI: Monitoring of the MySQL and MariaDB-compatible database process. Cisco Meraki Rest API: Correction of the host discovery rule in v3.  Digi PortServers TS: Renamed and replaced the now deprecated pack.  Docker: Added missing thresholds for triggering node status alerts. IBM Softlayer: Corrected control commands in accordance with the new monitoring mode. Microsoft IIS: Deprecated NRPE and NSClient++ packages in favor of the one based on the IIS API.  Symbol WiNG SNMP: Correction of the options used in the system health check.       Want to help us or suggest improvements? Join us on The Watch or GitHub 💥 and add a star ⭐ Also, feel free to come and discuss about Plugins and Packs on The Watch.  See you next month for more new features! 

New updates to Centreon Web are available. Click the version button in Product Updates to access detailed release notes:centreon-web-21.10.6 centreon-web-21.04.14

New updates to Centreon MAP are available. Click the version button in Product Updates to access detailed release notes:centreon-map-21.10.4 centreon-map-21.04.6 

A new update to Centreon Web is available. Click the version button in Product Updates to access detailed release notes:centreon-web-20.10.17

A new update to Centreon MAP is available. Click the version button in Product Updates to access detailed release notes:centreon-map-20.10.10

New security updates to Centreon Web and Centreon Auto-discovery are available. Click the version button in Product Updates to access detailed release notes:centreon-autodiscovery-20.10.5 centreon-autodiscovery-21.04.4 centreon-web-20.10.16 centreon-web-21.04.13