Icinga/icingaweb2-module-vspheredb v1.5.0

Icinga vSphere® Integration v1.5.0

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Our Monitoring Rules, which have been introduced with v1.4.0, got a lot of
interest and feedback. Apart from little fixes, this release brings many related
improvements. Thank your for all the good input, and also for some sponsored
development days, which made this release possible.

The UI now reflects our Check Command details. They can be configured divided
by section or rule, and available options and used thresholds can be inspected.
A global overview shows all current problems triggered by your configured rules
and thresholds.

InfluxDB-related issues have been fixed, and some more counters are now being
shipped. More details about background daemon internals are visible in the UI,
and you can now restart the daemon with just two clicks.

The Icinga Director Import Source got new fields and filtering features. With
this release, you can restrict your users to specific vCenters only. Last but
not least, this is the first version providing a (full) German translation.

Upgrading

Please check our Upgrade Script.

UI

• FEATURE: connection health icons now show more details (#400)

• FEATURE: the daemon can now be restarted from the web UI (#406)
• FEATURE: use alpha channel images for HPE servers, where available (#425)

• FEATURE: CPU usage look has been improved (#427)
• FEATURE: overall and power state look better now (#433)

• FEATURE: Virtual Machines table distinguishes Templates (#437)
• FEATURE: German translation for 100% of all translatable strings (#438)

• FEATURE: mobile version UI has been improved (#440)

• FEATURE: vendor images can now be cropped (#441)
• FIX: links pointing to the VMware HTML5 UI have now work on v6.7 and v7.x (#209)
• FIX: issues with dark/light mode in Icinga Web have been addressed (#355)
• FIX: Monitoring Rules documentation link was missing (#360)
• FIX: a debugging output leftover has been removed (#364)
• FIX: Monitoring Rules menu entry is now shown to admins only (#366)
• FIX: fixed formatting for values between 1000 and 1024, 1.02E+3 GiB vs 1.00 TiB (#367)
• FIX: guest disk usage percentage value visualisation (#411)
• FIX: image URLs for ProLiant Gen9 servers have been fixed (#426)
• FIX: image URLS for some DELL server have been fixed/improved (#432)

• FIX: search and sorting has been fixed for the vCenter overview (#419)
• FIX: no transparency for dropdown menus (#429)
• FIX: number of recent vMotion attempts has been fixed (#439)
• FIX: Alarm calendar has been using an outdated visualization (#303)
• FIX: arrow and pagination keys no longer trigger the search field (#442)

Permissions and Restrictions

• FEATURE: it's now possible to restrict access to specific vCenters only (#410)

Monitoring Rules

• FEATURE: the configuration tree now highlights nodes with rules (#369)
• FEATURE: now also Host Systems and Datastores have a Monitoring tab (#395)
• FEATURE: the UI now reflects all Check Command details (#398)

• FEATURE: improved Rule set naming (#402)
• FEATURE: it's now possible to define memory usage rules (#405)
• FEATURE: current state now links to the related configuration page (#420)
• FEATURE: CPU usage based rules have been implemented (#409)

• FEATURE: thresholds for Datastore usage are now available (#423)
• FEATURE: there is now a problem overview for Monitoring Rules (#413)

• FIX: Monitoring Rule inheritance had some bugs (#363)
• FIX: Rules for different types on the same folder (DC only) conflicted (#365)

Check Plugins

• FEATURE: a new vSphereDB daemon health check has been introduced (#245, #400)

• FEATURE: check for single vCenter connections has been reintroduced (#300, #401)
• FEATURE: Monitoring Rule checks now support Rule Set and Rule filters (#396)
• FEATURE: provide an --inspect parameter for Monitoring Rule checks (#397)

• FEATURE: health check now checks whether the schema is up-to-date (#403)
• FEATURE: daemon keep-alive in the database is being checked (#404)

• FEATURE: single object check commands now support --uuid (#415)

Background Daemon

• FEATURE: errors on shutdown are now logged (#407)
• FEATURE: object UUIDs are now logged in a human-readable way (#421)
• FEATURE: new caching and preloading mechanisms have been implemented (#422)
• FEATURE: fatal errors are caught when persisting Task results to DB (#435)
• FIX: API connections did not recover from some error states (#399)
• FIX: schema migration should be logged before it takes place (#418)
• FIX: Host Sensor readings now support 64bit values (#428)

vSphere API

• FEATURE: Host Bus Adapters are now synchronized (#380)

• FIX: fixed compatibility with vSphere 5.5, caused by Custom Fields in v1.4 (#377)

InfluxDB

• FEATURE: line protocol body is now being sent in compressed mode (#388)
• FEATURE: a special header for debugging purposes is being sent (#431)
• FEATURE: Host Network performance counters are now shipped (#436)
• FIX: connections configured as "autodetect" used to fail silently (#386)
• FIX: v2 API support has been fixed, no more need to configure a v1 user (#387)

Integrations

• FEATURE: Director Import Source now ships ManagedObject-references (#383, #384)
• FEATURE: Director Import provides SysInfo/BIOS-UUIDs (#385)
• FEATURE: Director Import ships object UUIDs (#414)
• FEATURE: Director Import allows to ignore powered off VMs and ships power state (#393)
• FEATURE: Director Import ignores templates per default, can be configured (#443)

• FIX: Monitoring module integration, when configured with Custom Vars (#381)

Internals

• FEATURE: SOAP-mapped classes support dynamic properties for PHP 8.2 (#430)
• FEATURE: Guest Disk information is being kept for powered off VMs (#434)
• FEATURE: tags are now fetched (but not used) for Uplink hints (#218)

Fixed issues

• You can find issues and feature requests related to this release on our
  roadmap