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Nagios Core 4.1.0rc1 Released

Posted: Thu Feb 19, 2015 11:04 am
by banderson
The first release candidate for Nagios Core 4.1.0 has been released and is now available for download.
The biggest changes included in this release are complete updates to the 3 graphical displays in the CGIs - Status Map, Histogram, and Trends.
You are invited to download this release and test it on your non-production systems. Please report any issues here within the Nagios Core development forum or on GitHub.

All three displays (status map, histogram, trends) have the following updates:
  • • Use JavaScript libraries so most work is done on the client, reducing load on the server
    • Up-to-date look using D3 visualization library
    • Takes advantage of JSON CGIs
    • All graphs are embeddable using AngularJS custom directives
    • Now supports UTF-8 encoded character set
    • Menu button to display form that can be used to modify options
The status map has the largest number of additional features:
  • • Stretchable map container
    • Faster refresh rate (10s)
    • Zoom and pan of the map
    • Collapsable sub-tree by clicking a node
    • Ability to make any node root of the tree by shift-clicking the node
    • New force map display
    • Vertical and horizontal versions of all tree maps
    • User supplied coordinates map now provides 3 modes
    • • default: map coordinates equal map container coordinates
      • user: user supplies coordinates of upper left and lower right corners, negative values allowed
      • auto: map calculates coordinates based on minimum and maximum x and y coordinate values
In addition, the trends display now allows for panning and zooming of the graph using the mouse and mouse wheel or track pad gestures.

A list of all enhancements and fixes included in this release is available in the changelog.