NSClient++ 0.3.8 released!

[Michael Medin]

Hello,

Actually this was released last week but I did not have time to get it 
up on sourceforge and what not but here we go...
New version of NSClient++ (Agent for monitoring amongst other things) 
Windows from (amongst other systems) Nagios.

You can download it from either the project page: http://nsclient.org or 
sourceforge: https://sourceforge.net/projects/nscplus/files/ I shall see 
what happen to nagiosforge seems it is not there any more.

Whats new:
A lot of new features and, I am especially, proud of the new event log 
filters.
For those who has not seen the eventlog filter I recommend reading up on 
the quick guide i wrote on the
http://nsclient.org/nscp/wiki/CheckEventLog/CheckEventLog page on the wiki.
It has a fairly good getting started guide I hope. But a quick note is 
that the new default filter is:
   generated > -2d AND severity NOT IN ('success', 'informational')
Which I believe is a lot more readable the before.

Other news are many minor changes and fixes in the file7disk related 
checks as well as index in CheckCounter to allow handling multiple 
languages and locales.

The changelog grouped by module can be found here:
New commands
  - CheckSingleFile - to check spects of a single file use like so:
     CheckSingleFile file=d:\nrpe_512.pem warn=>100 check=line-count 
warn=>100 crit=>170 check=size
  - CheckSingleRegEntry
     CheckSingleRegEntry 
path=HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\services\eventlog\Application\MaxSize 
"syntax=%path%: %int%"  warn==20971520 crit==20971520 check=int ShowAll=long

Scripts
  - Cleaned up scripts folder
  - Added new "NagiosPlugin library" from op5
  - Added check_no_rdp.vbs (Checks that no RDP connection is online)
  - Added check_battery.vbs which checks batterys via WMI
  - Added check_printer.vbs to check printers via WMI

CheckExternalScript
  - Added new "script templating" thing to simplify adding scripts:
     [Wrapped Scripts]
     test=check_test.ps1 ; (will use correct template for running ps1 
commands)
  - Fixed erroneous error message "Failed to peek buffer"

NSCA
  - Added obfuscated_password to NSCA section
  - Added so "global" ([Settings] password=...) passwords are read from 
the NSCA module

CheckEventLog
  - Brand new filter syntax based on SQL where clauses
     Avalible operators are: =, !=, >, <, >=, <=, eq, ne, gt, lt, ge, 
le, OR, AND, like, IN, NOT IN

CheckCounter
  - Added new index option to CheckCounter to allow looking up index and 
thus you can use the same checks on multiple locales and also use 
characters not present in "NRPE charset)
     CheckCounter index "Counter=\1450(_Total)\1458" ShowAll MaxWarn=500 
MaxCrit=1000
     nsclient++ -noboot CheckSystem pdhlookup Utskrifter
  - Optional new "safe" PDH subsystem (slower, but possibly safer)
     pdh_subsystem=thread-safe
  - Added checks for missing counters to CheckCounter

CheckDriveSize
  - Added volume support for CheckDriveSize (CHeckAll) like so:
     CheckDriveSize MinWarn=50% MinCrit=25% CheckAll=volumes 
FilterType=FIXED FilterType=REMOTE
  - Changed "missing" disks are now a critical error and not unknown
  - Improved CheckDriveSize bad FilterType error message
  - Added option to return error messages to the client [CheckDisk] 
show_errors=1 (defauilt is off 0)

CheckFile2
  - Dates are signed (means you can use neagitve dates to check the future)
     CheckFile2 debug path=D:\tmp\dates filter+creation=<-30m MaxWarn=1 
MaxCrit=1 "syntax=%filename%: %creation%"
     CRITICAL:future.txt: C: Thursday, December 31, 2009 12:47:11, found 
files: 1 > critical|'found files'=1;1;1;
  - Added checks for missing path and missing filter on CheckFile2 thus
  - Fixed so files locked for reading can be checked (basic checks)
  - Improved speed of file chyecking (does not check file data twice)
  - Changed so missing files and such generate an error
  - Fixed major issue with date matching in CheckFile* which was not 
working at all.

- Exe file version checks:
     CheckFile2 path=D:\tmp pattern=*.exe filter+version=!=6.0.2900.5512 
"syntax=%filename%: %version%" MaxWarn=1
  - Line count check:
     CheckFile2 path=D:\tmp pattern=*.txt filter+line-count=ne:3 
"syntax=%filename%: %line-count%" MaxWarn=1
  - Added ignore-errors to "ignore" any filesystem related errors 
(NOTICE this is probably not what you want)
  - Added master-syntax to CheckFile2 to change the overall message like 
so: %list%, %files%, %matches%
     CheckFile2 MinWarn=10 MinCrit=10 path=D:\WINDOWS\system32 
filter+size=gt:0 truncate=10 ignore-errors "master-syntax=%matches%/%files%"
  - Added %user% to syntax to print user who generated message
     CheckEventLog file=application file=system filter=new filter=out 
MaxWarn=1 MaxCrit=1 filter-generated=>2w filter-severity==success 
filter-severity==informational truncate=1023 unique descriptions 
"syntax=%user% (%count%)"
     CRITICAL: (1),  (2), NT INSTANS\SYSTEM (3), NT INSTANS\SYSTEM (3), 
NT INSTANS\SYSTEM (3), missing (3), missing (5),  (4), missing (2), 
missing (2), missing (2), missing (2),  (1), eventlog: 33 > 
critical|'eventlog'=33;1;1;

Generic:
  - Added != to all string comparisons
  - Changes syntax of performance counters: Alias is '<alias> %' and it 
also has the "full" non % data as '<alias>'
     CheckDriveSize CheckAll MaxWarnUsed=80% MaxCritUsed=90%
     CRITICAL:CRITICAL: C:\: Total: 146G - Used: 140G (95%) - Free: 
6.31G (5%) > critical, D:\: Total: 152G - Used: 148G (97%) - Free: 3.59G 
(3%) > critical|'C:\ %'=95%;80;90; 'C:\'=140.17G;117.18;131.83;0;146.48; 
'D:\ %'=97%;80;90; 'D:\'=147.93G;121.21;136.3;0;151.52;
  - Added warning message ewhen numerical filters evaluate to zero (and 
are not 0)
  -  added a new "option" in conjunction with -c you can now do -m to 
specify the module to load.
     nsclient++ -m CheckDisk.dll -c CheckDriveSize MaxWarn=100 CheckAll

// Michael Medin

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