ITRS OP5 Monitor 9.x Release Notes
Overview
ITRS OP5 Monitor release notes contain the list of enhancements of features, and a set of issues fixed in the 9.x release version of OP5 Monitor.
For more information on versioning, including standard and rolling release, see Release tracks in OP5 Monitor 9.x Compatibility Matrix.
Known issues
To view the list of known issues for all OP5 Monitor 9.x releases, see OP5 Monitor 9.x Known Issues. The known issues that are resolved will be added on this page.
Compatibility and lifecycle
To view all the changes to OP5 Monitor compatibility and lifecycle, see OP5 Monitor 9.x Compatibility Matrix.
OP5 Monitor 9.0
Released: 5 April 2022
To download ITRS OP5 Monitor, including all components, see ITRS Downloads.
Highlights
These are the highlights of this release:
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Support for EL8 to provide a modern operating system as a base, including Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8, CentOS 8 Stream, and Rocky Linux 8.x distributions. To view the upgrade notes for OP5 Monitor 9, see Upgrade to OP5 Monitor 9.
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Security improvements through upgrades to PHP 7.4 and MariaDB 10.5 as well as dependency removal of RabbitMQ.
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Updated plugins to provide a more relevant set of plugins.
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Email templates have been updated with a newer and fresher look.
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The OP5 Monitor UI has been refreshed with new logos and colours.
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You can now set the root password of MySQL without impacting OP5 Monitor functionality.
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Session IDs are now regenerated on login.
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Cronjobs have been replaced with systemd timers.
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PNP4Nagios and NagVis have been updated to the latest versions.
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Logger has been removed from the OP5 Monitor since its functionality is obsolete.
New features and enhancements
These are the new features and enhancements of this release:
| Issue key | Component | Release description |
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| MON-10355 | Plugins | Updated monitoring-plugins suite to version 2.3.1. |
| MON-11847 | Nacoma | The maximum size of configuration fields in the Nacoma database has been increased. |
| MON-12319 | Nachos | The character set used in the Nacoma database has been updated to UTF-8. This change does not have any functional impact on the product. |
| MON-12535 | Mayi | The Test this host and Test this service group rights have been removed from the limited_edit role. |
| MON-12574 | Nachos | Enabled change of root password for MySQL. |
| MON-12621 | Notify | Email templates have been updated with a newer and fresher look. |
| MON-12622 | Portal | OP5 Monitor Portal has been removed. |
| MON-12697 | Plugins | The default behavior of the check_aws shipped check_command has been changed to not include the unit argument. |
| MON-12700 | Ninja | Removed cookie usage banner from OP5 Monitor. |
| MON-12877 | Ninja, Nacoma, Merlin | Cron jobs have been replaced with systemd timers. |
| MON-12889 | Nacoma, Ninja, Reports | Multiple OP5 Monitor components have been updated to use the upgraded version of jQuery 3.6.x and jQuery-UI 1.13.x. |
| MON-12908 | Nacoma | The Help link in the configuration UI now points to the ITRS OP5 Monitor documentation instead of an internal help page. |
| MON-12935 | Ninja | Removed option to change themes in the UI. |
| MON-12946 | Plugins | Updated the check_wmi_plus plugin to work with DCOM hardening. |
| MON-12965 | Generic | PHP version has been upgraded from 7.2 to 7.4. |
| MON-12999 | Plugins |
All default NRPE checks, except for specific to , now use |
| MON-13024 | NagVis | NagVis has been updated to 1.9.30 to address the security vulnerability: CVE-2021-33178. |
| MON-13035 | Autodiscovery | Removed RabbitMQ dependency and switched worker model for Magellan Autodiscovery service. |
| MON-13045 | Plugins | The check_mssql plugin has been removed, and the recommended check_mssql_health plugin has been updated to 2.7.2.2. |
| MON-13061 | Ninja | Updated the About menu to include the OP5 Monitor version, and removed the Naemon version. |
| MON-13062 | API | Removed the deprecated Status API endpoints (/api/status and /api/help/status). Use the Filter API instead. |
| MON-13064 |
Plugins |
Updated the check_wmi_plus plugin to 1.66. |
| MON-13077 | Ninja | Successful login attempts are now logged on level notice. |
Issues fixed
These are the issues we have fixed in this release:
| Issue key | Component | Release description |
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| MON-13020 | Ninja, pnp | Clicking the Make default graph button on a PNP graphs page now works correctly. The default graph is displayed when hovering over the graph image in the list views. |
| MON-13039 | Nacoma, Ninja | Forced a complete reimport of the configuration files when restoring a backup to ensure the configuration database is in sync. |
| MON-13101 | Plugins | Added the missing -a option in the check_oracle_query and check_oracle_query_regex check commands.
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Other releases
Click the links below to view other versions of OP5 Monitor release notes.
| ITRS OP5 Monitor 9.x Release Notes | Released: April 2022 |
| ITRS OP5 Monitor 8.x Release Notes |
Released: January 2019 Last updated: April 2022 |
| ITRS OP5 Monitor 7.x Release Notes |
Released: March 2019 Last updated: October 2020 |
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