Release announcements

cwRsync - Rsync client and server for Windows

Version 4.2.0 - September 2011

CHANGES FROM VERSION 4.1.0

1. UPDATED - Rsync 3.0.9

See http://rsync.samba.org/ftp/rsync/src/rsync-3.0.9-NEWS for more info.

Rsync on Cygwin does not use socketpairs anymore (better stability).

2. UPDATED - Cygwin 1.7.9

See http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-announce/2011-03/msg00043.html for more info.

3. NEW - ssh-agent and ssh-add

SIGNATURES

MD5 Signature:

0755585aeaf9b582a493be17e37924bd *cwRsync_4.2.0_Installer.zip c787dfa854775793d1a1b5c3502b57b5 *cwRsyncServer_4.2.0_Installer.zip

SHA256 Signature: 5abeec588e937bd749456ddb347e4116b0f8407e15f412281fc64c763d1de62d *cwRsync_4.2.0_Installer.zip

21e608caed9e5e7e1f1f9881729eab0a8fce6e1ff31d85dcb7759d502478160c *cwRsyncServer_4.2.0_Installer.zip

Download: http://itefix.no/i2/download

** IT IS RECOMMENDED TO UNINSTALL PREVIOUS VERSIONS OF NAGWIN **

CHANGES FROM VERSION 1.1.0

1. NEW - Pnp4Nagios 0.6.13

   PNP is an addon to Nagios which analyzes performance data provided
   by plugins and stores them automatically into RRD-databases (Round
   Robin Databases, see RRD Tool). Nagwin uses Pnp4Nagios in standard
   mode.

  
   Website: http://docs.pnp4nagios.org

2. NEW - RRDTool 1.4.5

   RRDtool is the OpenSource industry standard, high performance data
   logging and graphing system for time series data. RRDtool can be
   easily integrated in shell scripts, perl, python, ruby, lua or tcl
   applications.
  
   Website: http://www.rrdtool.org

3. NEW - exfoliation theme/skin 0.7

   Exfoliation is a simple makeover for the Nagios Core web interface.
  
   Website: http://lancet.mit.edu/mwall/projects/nagios/
  
4. NEW - Plugins

   check_winevent - plugin for Windows event log checks
     Website: http://www.itefix.no/i2/check_winevent
     
   check_winservice - plugin for Windows service checks
     Website: http://www.itefix.no/i2/check_winservice
     
5. UPDATES

   - PHP 5.3.6 with GD, Zlib and Iconv
   - Cygwin 1.7.9
   - Many basic Cygwin tools
   - Many Nagios plugins with performance data output
   - Uninstaller asks if you want to remove the service account
  
6. BUGFIXES

   - Service account has no password expiration
   - Account nagiosadmin is removed during uninstallation

Signatures:  
MD5:
2e9af89a7c02f0156ecf3ba37e5d2f12 *Nagwin_1.2.0_Installer.zip

SHA256:
fa67217604b5c3ae0703909f147562e266388db2fbb533a74dd3aab5f16efb02 *Nagwin_1.2.0_Installer.zip

Download: http://itefix.no/i2/download

CHANGES FROM VERSION 3.0.3

1. NEW - Firewall is configured for Nrpe port 5666

2. NEW - Installer prompts to remove service account & group during uninstallation

3. UPDATE - Plugins check_winevent and check_winservice They replace eventlog_nrpe_nt and service_nrpe_nt. See documentation for more information about the new plugins.

4. UPDATE - Plugins with performance data

5. BUG FIX - Service account is created with password expiration

6. BUG FIX - Create service account group The installer creates a service account group (group-<service accont>) and make corresponding updates in the nrpe configuration file. That change avoids nrpe deamon to create some harmless error messages in the event log.

Check_ad version 1.5 introduces a configuration file to configure localized output from dcdiag and netdiag tools. A new option --dfsr can be used to specify that Sysvol replications are done via DFS instead of FRS. Check_ad gives now a more proper explanation when member checks fails on Windows 2008 systems due to non-availability of the netdiag tool.

Adolsign 2.1 is now available with a new lookup directive for conditional fields. This capability allows you to replace values in Active Directory by values in lookup tables defined in the configuration file. A flexible way to support multi-language initials, titles and many more. Example:

field_title( --lookup Norwegian_titles )field_title

in the configuration file:

[Norwegian_titles]
Manager=Sjef
Consultant=Konsulent

 Produces Sjef or Konsulent if title values in AD are manager and consultant respectively (case insensitive). Otherwise, the value itself is used.

cwRsync - Rsync client and server for Windows
Version 4.1.0 - April 2011

CHANGES FROM VERSION 4.0.6

 1. UPDATED - Rsync 3.0.8
   
    See http://rsync.samba.org/ftp/rsync/src/rsync-3.0.8-NEWS for more detailed info.

 2. UPDATED - OpenSSH 5.8
 
    Security advisory - http://www.openssh.com/txt/legacy-cert.adv
     See http://www.openssh.org/txt/release-5.8 for more detailed info.
   
 3. UPDATED - OpenSSL 0.9.8r
 
    Security advisory - http://www.openssl.org/news/secadv_20110208.txt
    See http://www.openssl.org/news/changelog.html for more info.

SIGNATURES

MD5 Signature:
0cbf28987f7fc34b7b4a687f1880faba *cwRsync_4.1.0_Installer.zip
4ad4c7451e392d285e8129e56179ebb5 *cwRsyncServer_4.1.0_Installer.zip

SHA256 Signature:
63332ceba8b5145442b76e6c5cda5835b63b3d583b950adf29446887b433e9bf *cwRsync_4.1.0_Installer.zip
4d9ff47701c48c9378f391dbabfd98aaf47ac7440e43420ee72c11c2f6e6b5a7 *cwRsyncServer_4.1.0_Installer.zip

Download: http://itefix.no/i2/download
  

WINRPE - A yet another Nagios NRPE Agent for Windows
Version 3.0.3 - April 2011

CHANGES FROM VERSION 3.0.2

 1. BUG FIX - Service doesn't start due to account/group information

    Version 3.0.2 was supposed to solve that problem. However, a glitch
    caused this not to happen. The installer creates and runs the batch
    file "bin/winrpe_make_pwdgrp.cmd" for proper population of etc/passwd
    and etc/group files. That batch file can be reused for repopulation
    of related files in the case service account change.

 2. UPDATE - Default service account is deleted during uninstallation

    User defined service account will not deleted in the case the account
    is in use for other purposes.
   
 3. UPDATE - check_pdm for processor/disk and memory checks.
 
    Winrpe has the same check_pdm as Nagwin uses for its local checks.
    It should now work properly for NRPE checks.
   
 4. UPDATE - Reduction in the installer size

    Perl-based plugins use now a common perl dll.

CHANGES FROM VERSION 1.0.1

Perl: There are many Nagios addons and plugins dependent on Perl availability. Nagwin contains now a  standard distribution of Perl 5.10 enhanced with the following modules:

• Libwin32 bundle including

Win32::ChangeNotify, Win32::Clipboard, Win32::Console, Win32::Event, Win32::EventLog,  Win32::File, Win32::FileSecurity, Win32::IPC, Win32::Internet, Win32::Job, Win32::Mutex,  Win32::NetAdmin, Win32::NetResource, Win32::ODBC, Win32::OLE, Win32::PerfLib, Win32::Pipe,  Win32::Process, Win32::Registry, Win32::Semaphore, Win32::Service, Win32::Shortcut,  Win32::Sound, Win32::TieRegistry, Win32::WinError, Win32API::File, Win32API::Net, Win32API::Registry

• XML::Simple

• ExtUtils::Depends

• ExtUtils::PkgConfig
     

Net-SNMP:  A network monitoring solution without SNMP ? Not a very good idea. There are almost countless Nagios plugins using SNMP. Net-SNMP 5.5 is now included in Nagwin and all snmp applications including the trap daemon are available. SNMP agent and perl module Net::SNMP are not included due to compilation problems on Cygwin. I hope that they will be a part of the Nagwin in near future.

New plugins:

• check_oracle
• check_snmp_printers
• check_snmp_cisco

Bug fixes:

• command check_nrpe is now defined as standard in commands.cfg
• cgi2fcgi_wrapper - don't produce debug files in tmp directory

MD5 Signature:
7df48066948bac872eb41530b95433f0 *Nagwin_1.1.0_Installer.zip

SHA256 Signature: e6afbe93756e6196b10444d879c453ffbfb7f9113b01af1128166091b68fdf42 *Nagwin_1.1.0_Installer.zip

Download: http://itefix.no/i2/download

It's been observed that firewall software on the clients may block
initial connections, causing Copssh access client to bail out. Access
client template contains now a retry mechanism for not giving up before
trying 5 times with 3-seconds intervals.

WinSCP version 4.3.2 is now a part of the template.
 

MD5 Signature:
d976816e3f41698b5360e8a4c62e005d *PortForMe-2.1.1100.0-installer.zip

SHA256 Signature:
43d314522acb720ff45ce08ca966ed440a41685c0b928934a1e8e2c6ab99e5f1 *PortForMe-2.1.1100.0-installer.zip

Download: http://itefix.no/i2/download

Version 2.1.100.0 - March 2011

CHANGES FROM VERSION 2.0

1. NEW - A management framework for PKA (Public Key Authentication)

PortForMe is now updated with a management framework for PKA:

* A wizard for creation of key pairs: Select OpenSSH or Putty private
key formats, select key types rsa, dsa or ecdsa (only openssh) with
supported key lengths, save private keys with an optional passphrase
and add the public key to the list of authorized keys.

* Remove a public key from the list of authorized keys.

* Update comment and/or options fields of a public key

2. UPDATED - Client Access Wizard (CAW)

You can now select authentication type during the generation
of an access client. Possible alternatives are password and PKA.

Client with password authentication is same as the previous version
with some GUI changes. This type of client is not recommended for use
from public computers as it stores the password in the memory and sends
it over the network, even if the password is encrypted in both
situations.

Client with PKA uses a private key and SSH agent for full automation.
No password information is sent over the network. It is highly
recommended that the private key is protected by a strong passphrase
and is available on a removable media like a USB-memory stick.

3. UPDATED - User Activation Wizard

It's been observed that auto-populating the user list from domains
with many users is very time consuming and leads to hangs and problems.
User Activation Wizard in the Control Panel uses now a text entry
field for domain users or if the local host is a domain controller.
Auto-populated user list is still the preferred way to select local
users on hosts which are not domain controllers.

3. BUGFIX - ID string is not displayed

Client Access Wizard allows user to enter an ID string which can be
used to identify/track client access packages. Version 2.1 displays
ID string via user login dialog box.

4. BUGFIX - Delete button in Services tab doesn't work

MD5 Signature:
f02076a845e8725e46651cb997474d29 *PortForMe-2.1.1000.0-installer.zip

SHA256 Signature:
5451a635b5dc2f1e2b5666fbdceac03c6fcb210ee1cd1fb005946e86bcc6e726 *PortForMe-2.1.1000.0-installer.zip

Download: http://itefix.no/i2/download