Product Updates

Updates to Centreon 20.04 are available. Click the version button in Product Updates to access detailed release notes:centreon-awie-20.04.1 centreon-license-manager-20.04.6 centreon-bam-20.04.9 centreon-anomaly-detection-20.04.5

 Every month, Centreon extends its catalog of Plugin Packs and implements new connectors to allow you to connect your IT monitoring with ITOps tools. The result: more visibility and business observability capabilities. We also offer enhancements and fixes on existing Plugin Packs.Here is our latest news on your best allies: the Plugin Packs!To learn more, you can also read the related documentation, contact our sales team or post a comment below on The Watch. New Plugin Packs available  Happy new year everyone. May 2022 bring you much happiness and excellent IT monitoring results. To start on a good footing, let’s review January’s new Plugin Packs.  Amazon FSx Monitor read, write or metadata operations volume on filesystems as well as remaining space. A dedicated discovery rule is included!  Azure Monitor your Azure clusters and high availability deployments with dedicated packs for Azure Kubernetes Service and VM Scale sets. Both Packs come with discovery rules.  Barracuda Message Archiver Track archiver usage: number of inbound and outbound emails, space usage, and system load are among the key metrics covered by this new pack.  Dell OME-Modular Check OMEM (OpenManage Enterprise Modular) uptime and hardware components included in your Dell MX7000 PowerEdge modular chassis. Fortinet FortiSwitch Check bandwidth going through FortiSwitch ports and ensure CPU and RAM are operating in optimal conditions.  HPE Simplivity Get extensive HPE Hyper Converged Infrastructure monitoring. Discover Host and VMs to track space usage. Add to this the ability to track efficiency and deduplication ratios to measure omnistack clusters performance.  Hikvision NVR If Network Video Recorders are an important part of site security, then new pack. Connecting to their Intelligent Security API, it gathers all the data you need to stay on the safe side.  Lenovo RackSwitch Check your Lenovo datacenter switch health at any time with a dedicated pack. Microsoft Dynamics Still using Dynamics on prem or hybrid? Check out these new packs and share your feedback, we would love to hear what indicators might help you beyond service health, batch or EDI Orders processing.  Microsens G6 It is the smallest gigabit switch available on the market, but that doesn’t mean you should neglect monitoring it.  Symbol WiNG Symbol WiNG Firmware is used in Extreme Network NX7500 devices, for example. This pack will monitor system-level metrics and traffic.  Enhancements  Make your life easier and deploy your monitoring as fast as possible: Amazon EBS now has a discovery rule. Check the health of the SDWan link configured on your Fortinet Fortigate device. Discover many VMWare enhancements: check cluster CPU usage, total datastore IOPS, licenses, and more. Give it a try!  Enhancements impacting current configurations  Be aware: Recently introduced enhancements and additions are resulting in significant changes that may disrupt current setups.   To make the discovery of assets easier, SQL Server et SQL Database Azure services packs have been reworked. But good news, twenty more metrics are now available to observe database performance and operations. Some thresholds and options change in the MSSQL Pack … But this is to let you monitor new kinds of backup jobs those that are incremental.  Microsoft365 is reworking its public APIs, so we are modifying this pack to ensure you can still trigger an alert for any incident impacting your favorite Microsoft hosted services. More information on the outage is now available in the standard output. Bugfixes   Azure Virtual Networ: fix for a regression introduced in the last release which was generating false positives.  AWA JMX: fixed a typo in a macro name. Dell CMC: wrong host template association. Ruckus SCG: wrong warning and critical CPU threshold options.  Want to help or suggest improvements? Join us on The Watch and on GitHub and add a star ⭐ See you next month for more new features!

An update to Business Activity Mapping (BAM) are available. Click the version button in Product Updates to access detailed release notes:centreon-bam-20.10.5

Updates to License Manager are available. Click the version button in Product Updates to access detailed release notes:centreon-license-manager-20.04.6 centreon-license-manager-20.10.4 centreon-license-manager-21.04.1

Updates to import/export interface (AWIE) are available. Click the version button in Product Updates to access detailed release notes:centreon-awie-20.04.1 centreon-awie-20.10.1 centreon-awie-21.04.1

Updates to Anomaly Detection and open Tickets are available. Click the version button in Product Updates to access detailed release notes:centreon-anomaly-detection-20.10.1 centreon-anomaly-detection-21.10.1 centreon-open-tickets-20.10.3 centreon-open-tickets-21.04.2

Updates to Centreon Web are available. Click the version button in Product Updates to access detailed release notes:centreon-web-20.10.15 centreon-web-21.04.10 centreon-web-21.10.2 

Updates to MAP are available that have an updated log4j (v2.17) library that fixes the log4shell vulnerability (and the newly found DoS issue). Click the version button in Product Updates to access detailed release notescentreon-map-20.10.8 centreon-map-21.04.4 centreon-map-21.10.2 

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 our latest news on your best allies: the Plugin Packs! To learn more, you can also read the related documentation, contact our sales team or post comment below. New Plugin Packs available  Many exciting things are coming your way for the holidays, to extend, enhance, and make your monitoring easier. Unwrap these new Plugin Packs.   WALLIX: If privileged access management is a day-to-day concern, and you picked a  Wallix solution to help,you’ll be pleased to see that a pack lets you track usage, including licences, requests, and sessions, in a very detailed way.  REDIS: If you use Redis, we now have two new packs. One enables specific metrics recovery for enterprise versions of Redis (Redis Labs Enterprise Cluster), the other optimizes the observability for the solution’s open source base metrics.  NETBACKUP: Suppose you’re running Netbackup on a Linux instance. You can now monitor it without the NRPE protocol or NSClient++ agent. The SSH pack is your best friend.  GPU Nvidia: Whether you are a gamer, a blockchain miner, or a researcher requiring massive computing power (the latter being the reason we built the pack), you’ll probably be thrilled to enjoy advanced monitoring to track the performance and statistics for your Nvidia GPUs.  IBM: Many new features and deep work in the IBM technologies and solutions area. It is possible to monitor DB2 relational databases and clusters supported by the Tivoli SA MP component:  DB2 databases Tivoli SA MP Clusters  A brand new connector for AS400/iSeries bringing discovery capabilities (disks, subsystems) Ericsson Network Manager: Telecom operators and service providers, we have something for you! With a software-defined network and 5G, your network is constantly evolving. A new Ericsson Network Manager pack gives you the ability to discover nodes and their critical component statuses! GUDE: Still in the hardware field, Gude is now a supported manufacturer for monitoring power distribution units, power channels, and their interfaces. Centreon can now monitor Gude devices, providing detailed metrics about power consumption, intensity, and more!  AZURE: Last but not least, use the latest Azure pack to monitor the space your container images take by observing metrics with Azure Monitor on top of the Container Registry cloud service. Enhancements   New PBX-Role monitoring mode with Alcatel OXE New discovery rule for Oracle Tablespaces New discovery rules to discover and monitor disks and storage of your Linux and Windows boxes using NRPE  Enhancements impacting current configurations  Be aware: Recently introduced enhancements and additions are resulting in significant changes that may disrupt current setups.    The recent Moxa plugin code refactoring will force you to synchronize the Pack and Plugin RPM updates.  To fit better in NetApp functional concepts, we had to replace the Qtree service with a new one: Quotas. If you used the Qtree mode, please replace the template or start with a brand new Quotas service.  To help you choose which Redis Packs you should use, we have deprecated the original ones and will not maintain these anymore.   Bugfixes    Refactoring and optimization of Azure Virtual Network pack and plugin  Fixed an error in the Namespaces check command for Azure Service Bus  Typo correction in the ClamAV monitoring pack  Fix macros naming for FreeBSD hosts Fix Kubernetes API discovery types Fix exclusion filters in VMWare ESX network internal cards discovery Add configuration macros and missing thresholds for Absyss VTOM  Want to help us or suggest improvements? Join us on The Watch GitHub 💥 and add a star ⭐ See you next month for more new features! In the meantime, enjoy the holidays.

Updates were released to 20.10. click the version button above to access detailed release notes:centreon-ppm-20.10.2

Updates were released to 21.04. click the version button above to access detailed release notes:centreon-ppm-21.04.1 centreon-gorgone-21.04.4

Updates were released to 21.10. click the version button above to access detailed release notes:centreon-bam-21.10.1 centreon-gorgone-21.10.1

Updates were released to centreon-widget-global-health. Click the version button above to access detailed release notes. 

Updates were released to 20.04. click the version button above to access detailed release notes:centreon-clib-20.04.3centreon-engine-20.04.14 centreon-connector-20.04.2 centreon-broker-20.04.17

Updates to Centreon Web have been released. You will find the release notes on our official documentation:centreon-web-21.10.1  centreon-web-21.04.9  centreon-web-20.10.14 centreon-web-20.04.20

New minor updates to some components (release notes on our official documentation)Centreon Web 21.04.8  centreon-map-21.04.2  centreon-autodiscovery-21.04.3 centreon-widget-tactical-overview-21.04.1 centreon-widget-live-top10-memory-usage-21.04.1 centreon-widget-live-top10-cpu-usage-21.04.1  centreon-widget-service-monitoring-21.04.1  centreon-widget-grid-map-21.04.1  centreon-widget-host-monitoring-21.04.2 

Centreon Web 20.10.13 release note on our official documentation centreon-map-20.10.6 release note on our official documentation centreon-widget-grid-map-20.10.1 release note on our official documentation centreon-widget-service-monitoring-20.10.1 release note on our official documentation centreon-widget-hostgroup-monitoring-20.10.1 release note on our official documentation centreon-widget-host-monitoring-20.10.1 release note on our official documentation centreon-widget-tactical-overview-20.10.1 release note on our official documentation centreon-widget-live-top10-memory-usage-20.10.1 release note on our official documentation centreon-widget-live-top10-cpu-usage-20.10.1 release note on our official documentation centreon-widget-servicegroup-monitoring-20.10.1 release note on our official documentation

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 observability capabilities. We also offer enhancements and fixes on existing Plugin Packs. Here is our latest news on your best allies: the Plugin Packs! To learn more, you can also read the related documentation, contact our sales team or post a comment below. New Plugin Packs of the Month  Newcomers Oracle is evolving the metrics exposure for its ZFS/ZS storage appliances. A new pack allows access to information through the API and thus provides more extensive and complementary monitoring to existing controls.  If you use Cisco ESA (now Secure Email Gateway) to secure your email, then it's important to use this new pack to keep an eye on the state of the system in terms of load but also on indicators like the number of quarantined messages, for example.  Have you upgraded your storage infrastructure with Dell PowerStore appliances? If so, deploy new metrics dedicated to monitoring each piece of hardware and ongoing alerts.  Are you a Grafana user? Then it's important to monitor its health at all times. If you would like to have access to more indicators, don't hesitate to let us know!  Do your applications, servers or processes use IBM MQ to communicate and exchange information? This month, we're changing the way we monitor your applications by using APIs instead of the command line we've been using until now. Regardless of the version you use, you can more easily monitor your queues and their managers. 🧪 Experimental In order to access some feedback like the utilization rate of Azure cloud machine partitions, we are giving access in test to a pack allowing the monitoring of VM insights metrics retrieved through Log Analytics APIs. If you have enabled this feature on your VMs, please test it and share your impressions with us. New discovery dimension Host discovery takes on a new dimension with the introduction of Nmap as your network scanning tool. Support your monitoring with a discovery performed by an open-source tool known for its ability to identify elements of your IT system (listening ports, services, etc.). More information to come in a dedicated blog post.  Nmap discovery also benefits from the introduction of new capabilities in the management of new types of data returned by the plugins that were released with 21.10. This is also the case for all Cloud monitoring packs (AWS, Azure & GCP).   Enhancement Azure Log Analytics: Rename Host Macro to combine both Azure Monitor and Log Analytics monitoring data on the same resource Azure Monitor Metric: Configure namespace from the host template Azure Compute Virtual Machine: Azure monitor now displays (preview) available memory metric on VMs Polycom Trio: New paired and registration modes available  Fixes Ansible Tower: Host Discovery command has been corrected Cisco ASA: Removal of a SNMP optimization which was conflicting with firmware latest versions    Cisco WAP: Command checking the number of connected clients has been fixed Commvault: Added support for thresholds for the number of offline agents Elastic: Remove protocol (--proto) option duplication Mulesoft: status thresholds were fixed, new logo, better template associations Salesforce: Force instance's alias use rather than instance’s name, as it's now the only supported method Ubiquiti: Fixed typo in virtual access point check command  Check it out Fritz!box: complete pack and plugin rewriting to add indicators and use recommended monitoring protocol (UPnP)  Want to help us or suggest improvements? Join us on GitHub 💥 and add a star ⭐See you next month for more new features!

Centreon 21.10 is available to Centreon Open Source, Centreon IT Edition, Centreon Business Edition and Centreon MSP Edition offerings. It brings many user interface improvements to help productivity, it enhances the Auto Discovery Engine to better monitor cloud infrastructure, and it gives more flexibility when using OpenID Connect for Single Sign-On, among other things. Read through this post to discover what’s new in Centreon 21.10 IT operations productivity is all about a seamless user experienceSometimes, delivering a wide range of improvements to the user experience provides more benefits than adding new functionalities. Centreon 21.10 adds multiple improvements to the Centreon user interface to foster greater productivity for IT operations teams in charge of monitoring complex, hybrid IT infrastructure.Over 20 improvements to the Resource Status user interfaceFormally introduced with the previous release, Resource Status is our newer user interface for efficient event and alert management, and in the future, it will fully replace legacy Status Detail pages. Resource Status is designed to cope with the most demanding production environments, a productivity tool for whoever is involved in first-level support. It is designed to filter alerts and only show those that matter, to only display relevant information, to give quick access to detailed information when required, and to act with a single mouse click. 21.10 adds over 20 improvements to create the most efficient user experience. All of these originated from user feedback: A complete revamp of the search experience, at the top of the page, with a more compact footprint, suggestions and autocompletions that accommodates both power users (command-line type filters) and casual users (dropdown selects). A better Resource Listing with multi-select options, additional tooltips, and new sticky and persistent options to acknowledge alerts. A new event timeline with date picker, relative dates, new tiles design, a more responsive design, auto refresh and more. An improved Details panel where users may choose how tiles are ordered to suit their habits, a new “Last OK” tile, and a direct link to the Configuration page. A dedicated panel to display the graphs of all services for a host, that can be accessed directly from the resource listing and with a direct link to the Performance page.  Resource Status is part of our Open Source framework. All Centreon users running 21.10 can benefit from this modern, efficient User Experience, whether they use Centreon Open Source or any Centreon commercial editions. Easier Centreon Poller ManagementPollers are the pillars of Centreon’s unique distributed architecture, allowing for seamless scalability and remote monitoring, adapting your monitoring infrastructure to the most complex and secured network topologies. With more and more options and capabilities added over the years, the user interface for managing Pollers can sometimes be seen as a slightly too complex, or dare we say confusing? We’ve changed and reorganized the buttons at the top of the page to make it easier to directly access the configuration wizard or to easily duplicate a Poller, while deleting a Poller “by mistake” (oops!) should not happen anymore. We’ve also taken the opportunity to try something new: users with the Administrator rights may toggle a new button in the Pollers top-counter menu that allows them to export and reload the configuration of all pollers at once! Being in the top-counter part of the user interface, this can be done from any page in the user interface. This feature will stay in beta even after 21.10 is generally available, giving us enough time to hear about your feedback and to double-check its robustness in all situations. Plugin Pack Manager: a new “Update All” buttonLast but not least… Plugin Packs are what makes Centreon commercial editions so easy to use, with a one-click (or API call) monitoring configuration of over 500 types of equipment. Plugin Packs include a complete set of host and service templates, as well as Auto Discovery Rules when applicable. Easy to download right from the Centreon user interface, we constantly update Plugin Packs, working closely with our user community to benefit from their expert knowledge of all IT technologies intricacies. These updates are becoming more and more frequent and by popular request, we’ve added a new button in the Plugin Pack Manager page to update them all at once, in just one click.CEIP: Improving the Improvement ProgramCEIP stands for Customer Experience Improvement Program and is our program to understand how Centreon platforms across the globe are actually being used. Anonymous information we’re collecting with CEIP is of the utmost importance for our Product Management and R&D teams to define priorities and plan for new features and product improvement. 21.10 enhances CEIP by collecting more precise information about which pages of the user interface are being used, or how users navigate the user interface. One of the four pillars of our product roadmap is about implementing a modern and efficient user experience that fosters IT operations team productivity. This additional CEIP information will help us do that exactly, by better understanding how users interact with Centreon. These new data are anonymous and anonymized, like all CEIP data. This addition to the CEIP program is also a first step towards a broader initiative that will facilitate what we call product adoption: the ease with which a new Centreon user can get all the benefits from the platform. For example, this will allow us in the future to propose contextual online help to first-time users. At the heart of the Centreon IT Monitoring platform: Auto Discovery EngineThe Centreon Auto Discovery Engine is a key asset to ensure 100% of the IT landscape is being monitored: you don’t want to miss a critical failure because your monitoring configuration is not up to date! This is especially true with modern, hybrid cloud infrastructure where new assets are automatically and dynamically created every day, with little time for IT operations teams to adapt. Auto Discovery leverages the Plugin Pack library for ready-to-use configuration templates and built-in discovery rules. While each monthly Plugin Packs update brings a set of new infrastructure discovery capabilities, each new Centreon software release adds its share of improvements to the Auto Discovery Engine itself to make it ever more powerful. Cloud tags mappingA key Auto Discovery feature is the capability to map discovered information to Centreon configuration attributes. This is done with what we call mappers, which in effect are very flexible rules defining how to translate information from the infrastructure being discovered to Centreon attributes such as Host Names, Host Group Names, Categories, Severities, etc. With Centreon 21.10, discovery results interpreted by mappers now include arrays of objects. We call this capability “advanced attributes”. A typical example when discovering Azure or AWS Cloud infrastructure is to retrieve the list of tags associated with each asset. These tags are very useful to keep information in complex infrastructure well organized. These tags can now be mapped to Host Groups or Host Categories ensuring naming, grouping and categorizing conventions can be automatically extended from the hybrid cloud infrastructure to the monitoring platform. The usage of this feature is not limited to cloud tags and we’re sure you will find many other applications, from mapping a list of IP addresses in a VmWare cluster to network services discovered with Nmap. Nmap discoveryCentreon 21.10 now supports Nmap to automatically discover host and network services on a subnet. Previous Centreon software versions only supported a limited network discovery based on SNMP. Actually, this Nmap support is not a 21.10 feature per se: it is brought by a new Centreon Plugin and its associated Plugin Pack. The plugin launches the Nmap utility to scan subnets for hosts and to discover their operating system and network services. The Plugin Pack includes discovery rules to feed the Centreon Auto Discovery Engine with the scan results. The reason we mention it here is that Nmap discovery also makes use of the “advanced attributes” capabilities discussed in the previous paragraph. The attributes that are scanned by Nmap can be, err… mapped to the operating system host template, or network service templates for example. Sounds cryptic? Don’t worry, we plan dedicated webinars to explain all of these capabilities, make sure you’re registered to our monthly newsletter to be notified. Security: the constant quest for a stronger Centreon platformSecurity by design is top-of-mind throughout the Centreon development process which ensures that products and services are designed from inception to meet data security needs, including access controls, monitoring, and encryption.To that avail, 21.10 adds the support of PHP 8 and an extended OpenID Connect compatibility. PHP 8 supportThe Centreon user interface runs on the PHP open source middleware. PHP version 7 is approaching its end of life, meaning that in the near future security breaches found on this version won’t be fixed anymore by the PHP development team. Centreon 21.10 now supports the newer PHP version 8. When updating your Centreon Central Server or Remote Server from an older version to 21.10, you will be prompted to switch from PHP 7 to PHP 8. Extended OpenID Connect compatibility, with OKTA and Microsoft ADFSOpenID Connect, or OIDC, is an identity layer on top of the OAuth 2.0 protocol. It allows the Centreon platform to verify the identity of the user logging in, based on the authentication performed by an external Authorization Server, as well as to obtain the user profile information. OIDC was already supported by previous versions of Centreon and is often used by IT organizations to implement Single Sign-On (SSO) policies, possibly with multi-factor authentication. Centreon 21.10 adds the support of the OKTA Identity and Access Management platform as well as the Microsoft Active Directory Federation Service (ADFS) environment which is now very popular due to the constantly increasing number of Azure and Office365 deployments. Multiple small improvements have also been made and you can find details in the Release Notes. Stay tuned for webinars about specific changes in this release.

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 observability capabilities. We also offer enhancements and fixes on existing Plugin Packs.Here is our latest news 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 #centreon-plugin channel on Slack.New Plugin Packs of the MonthHoliday workbooksAs you may have noticed, summer’s been quiet and for a good reason: we decided to use that time to introduce some structural changes to the overall packs ecosystem: Migration of the documentation to the new format Harmonization of logos  Addition of tagsWe are aware that there is still work to be done on the documentation. We are open to all contributions! The logos and tags will make it easy to search for a Plugin Pack from the new page of our website, which then includes a link to the documentation.NewcomersConnect to online status APIs to see the status of your collaborative tools and services in real time. This is helpful to let users know where the problem lies (internal or service provider): Slack Google Workspace (replaces GSuite) Reorganize your JVM monitoring to match your application architecture and your needs. Whether you retrieve your metrics through the JMX and Jolokia API or through a Springboot Actuator module, a Plugin Pack is available for each use:JMX & Jolokia Actuator (we use it to monitor Centreon-Map!)New in the networking area:Security side, you can monitor the number of connections and the status of your Fortinet Fortiweb application firewall services.  Access side, the Ubiquiti range now has its own monitoring Plugin Packs, one for Wifi (UniFi) and one for routing (EdgeRouter). Hardware side, our community has allowed us to develop Plugins and Packs for the Barco CS range (Clickshare) so that your equipment which allows wireless, fluid presentations is always monitored.Industrial equipment is also present in this batch, with the addition of indicators for the Supermicro BMC (Board Management Controller).Finally, on the cloud and application front, there are new Azure possibilities with the support of a new StorageSync service. Also, the first milestones for monitoring the operation of the secrets management solution (passwords, tokens, etc.) HashiCorp. Soon, our plugins will cover the use of a safe. Stay tuned 😉 This past summer's improvements and fixesWarning: special care requiredTo improve some plugins and repackage more simply some packs, some Plugin Packs updates need extra care (to synchronize the update of plugins and packs optimally): Netapp Ontap SNMP: aggregate service threshold names are modified, make sure you validate that your alert thresholds are still active after the update. Google Workspace: it replaces the Google G Suite following the change of API and data format operated by Google. We recommend creating a new host and to discover the services through it. Tomcat JMX: some options names are changing due to code modernization, be careful to synchronize pack and plugin update.FixesIf you use one of these packages, update to get the latest fixes: Azure SQL Managed Instance Azure AppService Cassandra Palo Alto Radeon Redis VMWare ESX 3CXImprovements Controls and monitoring points: Netapp Ontap SNMP, added monitoring of plexes and cluster nodes Stormshield, updated logos and added advanced memory monitoring Management of mysqld and mariadb processes for the monitoring of Centreon servers Added Capacity mode for Azure Management API Added virtual stacks monitoring on Aruba AOS-CX  Management of the chronyd process in addition to ntpd for monitoring time synchronization processes on Centreon serversDevice and indicator discovery:SNMP discovery based on SNMPv3 authentication options is now available Amazon EC2 discovery now only returns instances started at scan time Added Services discovery rules for AIX, Juniper SSG, Lenovo Iomega, Dell ME4Want to help us or suggest improvements? Join us on GitHub 💥 and add a star ⭐See you next month for more new features! In the meantime, find our entire Plugin Packs catalog to better connect your monitoring to the rest of the ITOps world.