Here are Improvements / Corrections in this release:

 

Visualization UI

List ALLImprovement

  • In the left panel containing the Advanced filtering: when adding filter, in the drop-down list "tag" is replaced by "host template" and "son of" is replaced by "link to"

 

 Improvement
  • The properties Description and Address are now available in the list.
     
 
Detail panelNew feature


  • Each host and check can be linked to an external URL (like a wiki page), which is defined in the Configuration UI.
     
  • A button has been added to open these externals URL
    • If the URL is defined the button is active
    • if not defined, the button is automatically inactive.
       
  • For Host, the button is located in the Manage tab.

  • For Checks, the button it located in the action column (checks tab)
  

 Bug
  • In the Checks Tab, an output with a word too long (without space) was not well displayed.
     
 Bug

  • In Firefox, when the zoom is set to 100%, tabs were too big and a useless scroll was displayed.
    Tabs size is now adapting itself to the detail panel height.

Wall: Reporting When choosing the element, the label "Host by tag" is replaced by "Hosts by host template"
 
   

Configuration UI

Auto Detection ModulesImprovementIf an Auto Detection Module can't be loaded, the state of the module is now in error in the home page (misspelling in the configuration file for example). It was previously displayed in pending.
 
Auto detection Modules
[cfg-file-shinken
or cfg-file-nagios]		ImprovementFor a host, if the property Alias (Nagios usage) is defined but not the DisplayName (Shinken usage) , Display Name will automatically contain the Alias value.
Auto detection Modules [Active Directory]BugThe first host answered by the ldap command was not present in the proposed hosts' list .

 
 Improvement

Data management has been improved, in the data tab:

  • The column "From Templates" shows the inherited values for each data
  • Inherited data from a template which are overloaded by the user are highlighted. Overloaded properties will be in black.
  • The tab label contains the number of inherited data (in purple) and the number of overloaded (in black)

 

Element edit pageImprovement

For Host, Host template, check, check template, contact, contact template:

  • All properties of any levels of inheritance are displayed on an element (Only 2 levels were shown, until now)
  • All Data of any levels of inheritance are displayed in data page of an element (Only 2 levels were shown, until now)

 Improvement

In difference tab, current value is now in black, and the new value is in blue.
The red color previously used might lead the user to think there was an error.

 Bug
 

When the user did accept differences on an element with the "Apply differences" button, the Menu "Apply changes" counter was not visually updated.
 

 Improvement

Boolean selector behavior has been changed to make it clearer:

  • If no inheritance on the property, the default value will be applied:

  • if inheritance is set and the value is set in the template, the value will be the inherited one.



Host edit page
 		Improvement
 		All checks of any levels of inheritance are displayed in the tab Checks for a host (Only 2 levels were shown until now)

Checks edit page
 		Bug
 		Checks with $KEY$ (related to feature "duplicate for each") can't be saved and were refused due to the $ character. 
 
   

Monitoring Packs

Pack printersBugPrinter Host Template was using the "workhours" time period which was not present in the Shinken Enterprise Configuration provided during installation or update. It's now referring to "24x7" time period.
Pack linuxBugLinux SSH plugins were not compatible with the default Debian8 OpenSSH encrypting configuration.
Pack DNSImprovementThe DNS sample check was looking at host DNS entry in system configured DNS servers instead of checking DNS server real availability.
Pack OracleImprovementThe pack was updated to allow "user" and "password" values to be set at the data host level.
There is also a new parameter to allow easy table-space selection/exclusion for disk space checks.