Release v1.20.1 - Minor bug fixes

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Version v1.20.1

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Released 2025-01-16 - Please report issues via github or the ITRS Community Forum

Version v1.20.1 Changes

• Update Go to 1.23.4 and update all dependencies

Version v1.20.1 Fixes

• tools/geneos

  • Fix handling of older package directories that have GA or RA prefixes and sort packages by the numeric part only using semantic versioning rules.
  • Don't stop if there is no private key in a TLS bundle, it may be supplied in a separate argument
  • Do not overwrite existing root and signing certs and keys if they exist when running geneos tls init
  • Report if public key is missing or changes in user's known_hosts file
  • Always try to create the user config directory when writing configurations

• gdna

  • Remove dependency on license token when listing unused plugins
  • Use timestamp of detailed report when updating summary report
  • Update include file with additional configuration

Release v1.20.0 - Codename "Leo"

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Version v1.20.0 - Codename "Leo"

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Released 2024-12-13 - Please report issues via github or the ITRS Community Forum

Tip

This release is dedicated to my best boy Leo, who left us in late November 2024. In his 14 years he wasn't just a wonderful companion but he also helped, with his also now departed brothers, to save the lives of many other cats by donating blood through the RVC Animal Care Trust. For those reading this (and are near to Potters Bar in the UK) who believe their cats or dogs could become blood donors, please see https://www.rvc.ac.uk/small-animal-vet/specialist-referrals/for-pet-owners/pet-blood-donations

Version v1.20.0 Changes

• gdna

  • Thanks to all the valuable feedback, we have a completely new Monitoring Coverage and Version dashboards. These new dashboards depends on the changes to some reports, so you must also upgrade the gdna binary before you can use it. The old dashboard will continue to work with the new binary but we may remove some of the data driving it from reports in future releases.
  • Add a new report multiple-os-versions-per-hostid which shows all servers that have more than one OS version for associated probes. This is an indication of invalid (duplicated) host IDs.

• pkg/host

  • Update <golang.org/x/crypto> dependency to mitigate potential issue with ServerConfig.PublicKeyCallback (CVE-2024-45337)

• tools/geneos

  • Added support for SSH private key files to the geneos host subsystem
  • Added a geneos host unset command to work with the changes require for private key files and more

• integrations/servicenow

  • Expose incident-query configuration to allow custom lookups
  • Some code clean-up and refactoring
  • Add example of using an encrypted API key between client and router

Version v1.20.0 Fixes

• gdna

  • Fix server-groups report performance by joining on gateways as well as servers in the SQL query
  • Trim spaces from Gateway names and also update any existing entries to remove leading/trailing spaces. This can happen because even though we trim each incoming CSV field the Gateway name is prefixed gateway: and can hide a leading space

• tools/geneos

  • Support Webserver > 7.1.1 byt removing unsupported Java command line option
  • More updates to support OS and ARCH in downloads
  • Always set HOSTNAME environment variable in Netprobe so that Collection Agent self-monitoring works without further updates (this was already the case for ca3 components)

Release v1.19.2 - Really fix downloads of RHEL9 and Geneos 7.1 (replaces v1.19.1)

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Version v1.19.2

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Released 2024-11-14

Please report issues via github or the ITRS Community Forum.

This patch release replaces v1.19.1 which did not fully address the issue of downloading releases of aarch64 architecture.

Version v1.19.2 Fixes

• tools/geneos

  • Fix (work around) downloading of RHEL9 releases for 7.1 and later that could download the newly added aarch64 files.

Release v1.19.0 - adding sso-agent and updating ca3

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Version v1.19.0

Version v1.19.0 Highlights

• Added sso-agent to tools/geneos so you can now deploy and manage those easier
• Updated ca3 unmanaged/standalone Collection Agent component to work with new releases

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Released 2024-11-11

Please report issues via github or the ITRS Community Forum.

Version v1.19.0 Changes

• tools/geneos

  • Added sso-agent as a component. You can now install and manage SSO Agent instances using geneos. When adding a new instance geneos also creates an ssokey in a keystore file based on the conf/sso-agent.conf settings. If the instance is created with a TLS certificate and key then these are also stored in the truststore/keystore alongside any certificate validation chain. At the moment the configuration file is treated as read-only, but in time we will add capabilities to make changes using the command line.
  • As part of the work to add ZIP file support for SSO Agent component releases, we've improved how all releases are unarchived and now files and directories have their modification times set based on the archive file data. Symbolic links only have their modification times set when unarchiving locally.
  • Support the import of truststore/keystore files as JCEKS if loading as a JKS fails. Note that all truststore/keystore files are still written as JKS.
  • Fixed ca3 starting environment
  • Changed output of versions in the geneos ps command to be easier to read

Version v1.19.0 Fixes

• tools/geneos

  • A recent change meant that the user's AES keyfile would not be created when running geneos login for the first time, this is fixed
  • Explicitly disable file descriptor inheritance in started processes
  • Show a version for Java bases components based on installed version
  • Fix deploy commands to create the correct Geneos home directory, instead of always a geneos/ directory in the working directory

• gdna

  • Include gateways that have no other components listed, fixing reports of unused gateway.

Release v1.18.2

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Version v1.18.2

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This patch release replaces v1.18.1 to add a fix for webserver start-up from the geneos command

Released 2024-10-29

Please report issues via github or the ITRS Community Forum.

Version v1.18.2 Fixes

• tools/geneos

  • Fix webserver starting command for releases after 7.0.4 to account for valid host header configuration, defaults to .*
  • Fix webserver command line option ordering

• tools/dv2email

  • Fix example command XML to revert overzealous edit of :: to .

• gdna

  • Restore the OTHER row to Gateway and server group reports
  • Add dynamicEntities column to gateway-groups report
  • Update Gateway include to publish a schema for the GDNA Process sampler
  • Allow for unauthenticated SMTP (when username is empty)

• pkg/email

  • Allow for unauthenticated SMTP (when username is empty)

Release v1.18.0 - New Features for GDNA, bug fixes

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Version v1.18.0

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Released 2024-10-17

Please report issues via github or the ITRS Community Forum.

Version v1.18.0 New Features

• gdna - This is the third public release of GDNA and we've added new features and made changes based on your feedback. The full details are in the documentation, but the highlights are:

  • Customise Level 1, Level 1 Optional and Level 2 plugin lists, including being able to require multiple instances of a plugin.
  • Added a new filtering feature to include, exclude and group by categories such as Gateways, Servers etc. See FILTERS.md for more.

• pkg/reporter

  • The reporting code from gdna has been pulled out into it's own package so that we can reuse this for other projects later. The API is not yet final and there are missing features (such as severity colouring for HTML tables, like dv2email can do) but it should settle in the next couple of releases.
  • The XLSX reporter can include headlines in each sheet, their inclusion and direction can be controlled by an option

Version v1.18.0 Changes

• Updated to use Go 1.23.2

• gdna

  • Lists of plugins, such as in missing columns and lists per server and probe, now show how many instances after the plugin name, if there is more than one
  • Command line sub-commands added to manage the filters and a growing set of right-click Commands added to the shipped include file
  • The original support for external files for more limited filtering has been deprecated, so if you use these you will have to import the data using the new command line sub-commands
  • When running "split" reports (the Gateway Overview and Details) the program now removes Dataviews that are no longer in the set of splits
  • New reports have been added to list more actionable information about your estate and some existing reports have been enhanced
  • Dataview Groups have been reworked from the ground up to offer a more logical view of gdna data
  • Every report now have a reportName headline to allow for better right-click command automation
  • Some YAML options have moved to allow for more logical grouping, so if you use enable-for-dataview or enable-for-xlsx to control which reports are autogenerated then you will have to change these to the new layout, see the docs for more
  • Split the growing README.md file into a number of parts
  • Added sub-commands to gdna list so now gdna list reports is needed to see what you can run. Also added the Dataview Group to the output
  • Other "under the hood" changes
    • In the docker image the gdna.yaml file is now located in the geneos user's home are and not root directory
    • Allow ~/ as a prefix for the db.file config parameter, which is in turn pulled into db.dsn
    • Update default db.dsn to include ?cache=shared to avoid common locking issues

• tools/geneos

  • geneos package install will now limit installed components to those already existing unless given either a specific type or the --all flag. This is intended to make downloads quicker as most users will only want to download component packages for instances that already exist.

Version v1.18.0 Fixes

• tools/geneos

  • Set the default local directory for downloaded packages when using geneos package install -L without a file or directory path
  • Restore installs from Nexus for internal users
  • Fix geneos package delete to stop it removing the latest of each component package. Other fixes to geneos package delete include not removing packages which are only used by instances as the pkgtype (e.g. minimal/netprobe) and the command now also ignores text prefixes on version directories like GA
  • Fix handling of wildcards that match nothing in ParseArgs()
  • Fix regexp pattern that extracts release information to allow for old releases that used a . instead of - between version and architecture

Release v1.17.1 - Fixes and new features for `gdna` and `tools/geneos`

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Version v1.17.1

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Released 2024-09-18

Please report issues via github or the ITRS Community Forum.

Version v1.17.1 Changes

• tools/geneos

  • Add an insecureport parameter in Gateway instance template to support explicit insecure port when secure port is enabled by certificates. To use this you must update the gateway-instance.setup.xml.gotmpl either manually or by using geneos init templates
  • Related to the above, swap the main and alias names for geneos init template(s) - both will work.

• gdna

  • Changed the text value in the l3missing column of various view from yes to missing to avoid ambiguity after user feedback.
  • Changed Dataview group name for optional gateway reports from Coverage by Gateway to simply Gateways
  • Add a new logic field to conditional-format tests to control how multiple column tests are handled; Default to the previous behaviour of "AND" but can be "OR" (or "all" / "any" respectively)
  • Add a geneos.dataview-create-delay duration to allow smoothing of dataview creation when creating many hundreds of dataviews like for split reports. Only applies when a dataview is created, not during updates to existing ones
  • Add a "Version Summary" dashboard using new Geneos 7 data
  • Revisit headline names and some column names for consistency and clarity
  • Add a dashboard slide show to the docker image web server configuration

• tools/san-config

  • Add support for number of gateway sets to push to each probe, default 1 to maintain existing behaviour
  • Treat gateway pairs as a single gateway in logging and counting
  • Connection files can be served without a standby gateway port
  • Use default ports when gateways in the configuration do not supply them

• integrations/servicenow

  • Add extra control over user name field with incident-user router parameters
  • Add a trace parameters to output all HTTP request and response data to stderr, for diagnostics
  • Clean-up some old code

Version v1.17.1 Fixes

• tools/geneos

  • Fix copy and move handling of source or destination in the form of @HOST by updating command annotation and related changes in instance.Match() and parseargs(). Before this fix, and after the parseargs() review, geneos copy gw\* @remote would not work correctly, making the creation of standby gateway sets much harder

• gdna

  • Fix filtering of plugins, samplers and dynamic entities for multi-gateway reports, now numbers add up.
  • Fix table used for building servers reporting tables
  • Fix spelling of latest columns in the sources report
  • Fixes to some edge cases in probe and sampler counting
  • When an OS or Version is an empty string, convert it to NULL for later reporting as Unknown

Release v1.17.0

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Version v1.17.0

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Released 2024-09-08

Please report issues via github or the ITRS Community Forum.

v1.17.0 Changes

• tools/geneos

  • Add a minimal Netprobe flavour that can be added either as it's own component type or, more commonly, as a flavour of a normal Netprobe, e.g. geneos add netprobe minimal:probeName - this extends the way you install a Fix Analyser probe as a SAN, e.g. geneos add san fa2:myFixSAN
  • Add a use-chain parameter for all instances which defaults to true. Set this to false using geneos set ... use-chain=false to disable certificate validation using a configure chain file.

• gdna

  • Add support for GA7.0.0 updates to licd reports and additional details from corresponding Gateways. This includes OS and component version information as well as enriched data for dynamic entities.
  • Add schema updates for the new table columns. Rollback should work - untested at time of writing - as no existing columns have changes, just new ones added.
  • Add extra reports using the above data to a Monitored Estate groups, moving Sources to the same group.
  • Add new headlines for Gateway summary and detail Dataview and reports to show host, port and version - when available.
  • Add new columns to Missing Coverage and Gateway summary and details to expose new data when available and rename existing columns (not used in dashboards) to better align with each other.
  • Update Sources Dataview and report to report a status of STALE when a file is invalid. A remote source is always either up-to-date or inaccessible, which is a different status.

• tools/san-config

  • Initial commit of a SAN remote configuration file server that allows dynamic building of SAN XML files using an YAML based inventory as well as autodetection of live Gateways from a preconfigured list.
  • This tool is not yet in the main build as further changes and documentation are required for it to be more useful.

v1.17.0 Fixes

• tools/geneos

  • geneos package subsystem gets a wide review and a number of changes and fixes:

    • uninstall - change -f to -F for short form --force for consistency
    • update no longer supports the --install flag
    • install - local files now ignore the --version flag for file (non-directory) paths. For systems with a platform type (el8/el9) only install that platform type of non-platform specific archives. This allows components like web dashboard servers, which have no platform specific releases, to be installed.
    • install - many other changes around the handling of local files to improve what gets installed
    • Fix instance iteration so that only affected instances are updated and so on.

  • Fix migrate and set and config set to actually work with changes to parseargs() function.

  • When adding components with key file support use the ${config:home} value to pin key-file to working directories. Also, when saving a component configuration, such as during move or copy update the key-file and previous key-file paths to use ${config:home} when source path matches the instance home directory.

• gdna

  • Fix misuse of source tables when building active gateway table (no actual data change as the servers table has the same data)

• pkg/config

  • Update Path() to better reflect the likely sources used by Load(). Pass config.MustExist() as an option to config.Path() to get a result based on actual files rather than the likely file to be used.

• integrations/servicenow

  • Fix loading of configuration file in use of config.Load() options (explicitly use YAML)

Patch Release v1.16.2 - Update GDNA Dashboard

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Version v1.16.2

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Released 2024-08-08

Please report issues via github or the ITRS Community Forum.

Important

Release v1.16.2 replaces v1.16.1 which still included an incorrect GDNA dashboard

v1.16.2 Fixes

• gdna

  • Update Monitoring Coverage dashboard to remove references to Demo Gateway and improve visibility of per-plugin vertical bars.

Release v1.16.0 - Improvements to `geneos` and `gdna`

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Version v1.16.0

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Released 2024-08-02

Please report issues via github or the ITRS Community Forum.

v1.16.0 Changes

• gdna

  • Updates to Dashboards to present more focused information to users
  • Improve documentation, add block diagrams and update screenshots
  • Added a gdna version command, when combined with --debug will report dependencies used during build
  • Move to using github.com/mattn/go-sqlite3 instead of pure Go modernc.org/sqlite

• Build

  • Use Go 1.22.5

v1.16.0 Fixes

• gdna

  • Fix some SQL queries used in temporary table construction to give more accurate numbers for servers with multiple probes
  • Fix dashboard XPaths to remove unnecessary Gateway and Managed Entity names

• tools/geneos

  • Fix geneos package install (and geneos init etc.) to have better support for local installation sources and to distinguish between el8/el9 platform specific archives over non-platform specific ones

• Build

  • Fix Makefile/Dockerfile interdependencies and speed up documentation builds by downloading Chrome outside of underlying puppeteer installation