Octopussy Changelog

What's new in Octopussy 1.0.14

Apr 15, 2014
  • Bugfix #583: Fixing octo_parser bugs introduced in Octopussy 1.0.12.

New in Octopussy 1.0.13 (Mar 27, 2014)

  • Bugfix #583: Fixing octo_parser bugs introduced in Octopussy 1.0.12

New in Octopussy 1.0.12 (Mar 27, 2014)

  • Major performance improvement when a lot of octo_parser start at the same time (Issue #576)
  • Small security fix on login page
  • Huge code cleaning & rebuilding to prepare CPAN integration
  • Service 'Nagios' updated to handle Nagios3 logs

New in Octopussy 1.0.11 (Feb 18, 2014)

  • Bugfix #554: Problem with the 'mysql --exec' in postinstall scripts
  • Bugfix #557: Fixing the Report Editing issues with columns & columns_name
  • Bugfix #565: Add Zulu Time Zone in ISO8601 Datetime regex
  • Feature Request #558: Ability to configure a delay between octo_parser starts
  • Feature Request #134: Possibility to set only City in Device Location
  • Feature Request #576: Big work on reducing IO usage when octo_parser starts
  • Turkish translation added
  • Work to migrate from Date::Manip to Time::Piece reducing memory usage of octo_logrotate, octo_reporter & octo_scheduler of 3.5 MBytes
  • Code cleaning
  • Services 'Ansible', 'DragonFly_Mail_Agent' added
  • Services 'Cisco_Switch' & 'Keepalived updated

New in Octopussy 1.0.10 (Jul 24, 2013)

  • Bugfix #358: no NSCA alerts and octo_parser crash (Can't store REGEXP bug)
  • Bugfix #359: Report Edition is not working with 'ofc type' report
  • Feature Request #128: One message only for every Jabber alert
  • Support Request #77: Fixing Device::Valid_Name function to handle hostname starting with digit(s) (RFC 1123)
  • Minor improvement in octo_sender
  • octo_tool backup before installation also for INSTALL.sh now
  • Start using Devel::Cover reporting to improve test suite

New in Octopussy 1.0.6 (Sep 6, 2012)

  • octo_tool program updated to handle backups
  • References to 8pussy.org have been replaced by octopussy.pm
  • Services & Tables updates
  • Feature Request #3538049: Ability to change banner image
  • Feature Request #3560370: Move and copy of patterns between Services
  • Feature Request #3510112: Now LDAP Users have the same preferences/roles than local users
  • Bugfixes on Debian packaging update
  • Bugfixes for LDAP Contacts & Users
  • Bugfix Loglevel/Taxonomy unknown parameter for octo_extractor
  • Bugfix #3541753: Removes RRD error messages
  • Bugfix #3519341: msgid & taxo stats not in cache anymore when stats are disabled
  • Bugfix #3555337: Allow dots in devicename and devicegroupname

New in Octopussy 1.0.5 (Jun 25, 2012)

  • Bugfix #3537131: Problem with Device with only ip address after Octopussy 1.0.4 update
  • Updates on 'Valid_Name' functions and Test Suite

New in Octopussy 1.0.4 (Jun 22, 2012)

  • Fixing minor WebUI bugs for ReadOnly users
  • Cache clearing feature added to octo_tool program
  • Filtering Web pages entries to avoid XSS attacks
  • Feature Request #3528557: Bigger Device & Service selector in Alert Creation/Edition Web pages

New in Octopussy 1.0.3 (Apr 9, 2012)

  • New program octo_tool added to do simple tasks
  • Feature Request #3477812: Ability to create an alert when Octopussy receives new unknown logs
  • Feature Request #3477752: You can now be redirected to Wizard page or Service page after Message pattern creation
  • Feature Request #3428757: You can now enable/disable logs compression in 'Device Services' web page
  • Feature Request #3416032 (1/2): Fixing the ordering of the status in 'Alerts Viewer' page
  • Feature Request #3416032 (2/2): 'Delete from Database' button added to 'Alerts Viewer' page
  • Feature Request #3488473: Virtual Hosts added for Device Types/Models
  • Feature Request #3416018: Now, you can set mimimum delay between 2 alerts
  • Feature Request #3492003: Edit option for contacts
  • Bugfix #3485331: Handling invalid Octopussy plugin
  • Bugfix #3506010: Manual pages for Octopussy Perl modules were generated with incorrect filename by 'packaging_from_svn.pl' script
  • Bugfixing the unrefreshed date in 'Selector_date'
  • Bugfixing the missing 'use AAT::Syslog;' in Octopussy/Plugin.pm

New in Octopussy 1.0.2 (Dec 19, 2011)

  • Translation updates to fix 'Internal Server Error'
  • Bugfix #3439106: Many bugs in Restricted Logs Viewer
  • Bugfix #3455262: Fixing octo_logrotate issues
  • Bugfix #3452230: Services are now correctly selected in 'user_restrictions.asp' page

New in Octopussy 0.9.9.9.9 (Dec 17, 2010)

  • Bugfix in octo_scheduler
  • Bugfix on Octopussy::FS::Flie_Ext
  • Bugfix 3014851 & 3036766: Octopussy::Create_Directory -> Octopussy::FS::Create_Directory
  • Bugfix 3015810: Problem in 'System Configuration' & 'Updater' page
  • Bugfix 3018897: chown cannot access '2' problem
  • Bugfix 3057572: problem with devicename with '_' in octo_rrd
  • Timeout added in AAT::Download::File
  • You can now modify user configuration and a user can now be enabled/disabled
  • Test suite hugely updated
  • Installation of Octopussy on other linux systems has been greatly improved.
  • Installation Documentation has been updated (Debian/Ubuntu/CentOS/Fedora).

New in Octopussy 0.9.9.9.8 (Jun 8, 2010)

  • A lot of work has been done to reduce memory usage (-40% for parsers)
  • A huge Services & Tables update
  • Faster Reports for Reports with Plugins
  • Better octo_extractor (with Device, Service, Loglevel & Taxonomy validation)
  • ProgressBar added for octo_reporter in command line
  • Alerts are now sent by octo_sender instead of octo_parser
  • Some little changes in Web Interface to improve speed
  • Translation files are now in .po format
  • Huge Test Suite (280+ tests) has been created to reduce 'stupid bugs'
  • Code cleaning
  • Bugfix 2960273: Parses stops due some perl subs missing
  • Bugfix SR 2967444: Device Models/Types problem
  • Bugfix: Wizard title with '[]' problem
  • Bugfix 2976415: Cisco_Pix Service problem
  • Bugfix 2991712: Device hasn't send any logs every 2 seconds

New in Octopussy 0.9.9.7 (Dec 9, 2009)

  • Better Logs Wizard (unmatched part of log is now in red) (FR ID: 2901173)
  • Minor bugfixes
  • Code cleaning (Perl Best Practices)

New in Octopussy 0.9.9.4 (May 19, 2009)

  • Many major bugs have been fixed in octo_dispatcher.
  • Apache and Rsyslog installation have been improved.

New in Octopussy 0.9.9.3 (Apr 28, 2009)

  • syslog-ng replaced by rsyslog
  • /etc/init.d/octopussy is now LSB compliant (http://wiki.debian.org/LSBInitScripts)
  • Better Debian installation
  • Minor Bugfixes/Improvements

New in Octopussy 0.9.9.2 (Apr 22, 2009)

  • Better reports with Open Flash Chart !
  • RRD taxonomy bug fixed (ID: 2659959)
  • Minor Bugfixes/Improvements

New in Octopussy 0.9.9.1 (Feb 25, 2009)

  • Major Bug discovered and fixed in octo_dispatcher.

New in Octopussy 0.9.9 (Feb 24, 2009)

  • New feature: Logs Availability Viewer
  • Now, you can 'replay' logs with octo_replay !
  • Before, you can only set log retention duration by Device, now, you can set it by Device/Service
  • Logs Viewer now with Loglevel, Taxonomy & MsgID filtering
  • Bugfix (ID:2509315) now /usr/sbin/octo_require to be launched by Octopussy user
  • So Many Bugfixes...

New in Octopussy 0.9.8.8 (Dec 4, 2008)

  • Major bugfix on octo_dispatcher ! (Bug ID: 2343806)
  • Bugfix the apache2 restart bug (Bug ID: 2304276)
  • You can now limit the number of minutes to search for restricted users
  • Minor WebUI improvements

New in Octopussy 0.9.8.4 (Oct 30, 2008)

  • Octopussy World Stats
  • New type 'PID' (NUMBER type with no MIN,MAX,AVG,SUM functions)
  • Bugfix on Report Edition(ID 1835898)
  • Lot of major & minor bugfixes
  • Code cleaning