Recent News

1.2.0 version released (02-Apr-2008)

Among of this new feature this version includes several fixes that will help to receive less error messages from crond and a silly bug introduced in the last version that prevented seeing the interrupt names on systems with 2.4 Linux kernels.

All users still using older versions are encouraged to upgrade to this one.

1.1.2 version released (25-Feb-2008)

The Changelog has all the details.

1.1.1 version released (16-Nov-2007)

Sorry for the inconvenience.

1.1.0 version released (15-Nov-2007)

Let's start with the important changes. The first one affects how will be displayed from now on all the Kernel Usage graphs. Most of you remember that those graphs currently represented the kernel usage with a poor activity reflected. That's because the values were taken directly from the system since its boot time, so if it's up and running for several weeks the recent kernel usages changes won't influence the graph very much. From now on, and thanks to the patch of Christian Meusel, the Kernel Usage graphs are much more expressive and the recent changes in the kernel usage will be better reflected at every minute.

The second important change is that it has been changed the way how is generated the form in the Monitorix main page. Historically when the user clicked on the Ok button, the form calls to /cgi-bin/monitorix.cgi using POST method and this one calls automatically to /cgi-bin/monitorix/localhost.cgi using GET method. From now on, it has been changed the Monitorix main page form to use directly the GET method calling directly the localhost.cgi Perl script. Finally and in order to make things easier it has been decided to change the location and name of localhost.cgi to /cgi-bin/monitorix.cgi. So everybody can remove the /cgi-bin/monitorix as it will be void. Please note that this change may affect some scripts still depending of the old method and they won't aware of this change.

With this new version the install.sh script supports the installation of Monitorix in the Gentoo and Slackware Linux distributions. Please, check the Contact section to find the contributor for each distribution in order to ask some questions or to report some problems.

1.0.1 version released (03-Oct-2007)

1.0.0 version released (04-Sep-2007)

Because of the different ways how the motherboards show its sensors names, the new graph is disabled by default. The steps to activate it are:

• Execute the sensors-detect command in order to let the LM-Sensors know more about your motherboard sensors.
• Once finished and if your motherboard is well supported you should get something like this:

  # sensors
  k8temp-pci-00c3
  Adapter: PCI adapter
  it8712-i2c-9191-d00
  VCore 1:   +1.36 V  (min =  +0.00 V, max =  +4.08 V)   
  VCore 2:   +4.08 V  (min =  +0.00 V, max =  +4.08 V)   ALARM
  +3.3V:     +3.31 V  (min =  +0.00 V, max =  +4.08 V)   
  +5V:       +4.95 V  (min =  +0.00 V, max =  +6.85 V)   
  +12V:     +12.03 V  (min =  +0.00 V, max = +16.32 V)   
  -12V:      +3.93 V  (min = -27.36 V, max =  +3.93 V)   ALARM
  -5V:       +4.03 V  (min = -13.64 V, max =  +4.03 V)   ALARM
  Stdby:     +6.85 V  (min =  +0.00 V, max =  +6.85 V)   ALARM
  VBat:      +3.28 V
  fan1:     3054 RPM  (min =    0 RPM, div = 2)          
  fan2:        0 RPM  (min =    0 RPM, div = 2)          
  fan3:     3010 RPM  (min =    0 RPM, div = 2)          
  M/B Temp:    +43°C  (low  =    -1°C, high =  +127°C)   sensor = thermistor   
  CPU Temp:    +45°C  (low  =    -1°C, high =  +127°C)   sensor = thermistor   
  Temp3:      +128°C  (low  =    -1°C, high =  +127°C)   sensor = disabled   
  	   

• Locate the right temperatures of your motherboard, CPU and the fan speeds.
• Configure your /etc/monitorix.conf file according the output you had received previously with something like this:

  our %SENSORS_LIST = ("MB" => "M/B Temp",
                       "CPU1" => "CPU Temp",
  		     "FAN1" => "fan1",
  		     "FAN3" => "fan3");
  	   

  This configuration would mean that you plan to monitorize the motherboard temperature, the temperature of one CPU and the 2 fan speeds that seems working in this example.


• Once finished the LM-Sensors the next step is configure the hard disk drives you want monitorize. Remember that to extract the temperatures of the hard disk drives you must have installed the hddtemp tool.
• Before selecting the hard disk drives you must make sure that such drive has the SMART feature support. To check that you can simply execute hddtemp with the hard disk device name. The following is an example of its output:

  # hddtemp /dev/hda
  /dev/hda: ST3200820A: 40°C
             

  Here you can see that this Seagate hard disk it's fully supported by hddtemp.
• Execute the same on all of your hard disk drives you want to monitorize and then configure your /etc/monitorix.conf file according the results you had received previously with something like this:

  our @HDDTEMP_LIST = ("/dev/sda",
  		     "/dev/sdb",
  		     "/dev/hda",
  		     "/dev/hdb");       # max 9 hard drives
  	   



• The last step is enable the LM-Sensors graph just changing its value from N to Y and restart Monitorix.

our $ENABLE_LMTEMP = "Y";
	  

Among some bug fixes there have been some good improvements. Please refer to the Changes file to see a more detailed information.

All current 0.9.x users are encouraged to upgrade to this version.

IMPORTANT NOTICE: The configuration file (/etc/monitorix.conf) has been extended with important changes.

0.9.2 version released (12-Jun-2007)

Since now the legend lines of each graph appears with a better formatting even with RRDtool versions above 1.2.13. So anybody can start using the most uptodate version of RRDtool (around 1.2.23).

There is a new option called $ENABLE_ZOOM = [Y|N] that, as its name indicates, it enables the ability to have a more detailed image of each graph. That's extremely useful in cases when you are searching for a more accurate activity in some special moment. It was a nice suggestion by one of our users.

Finally there have been some fixes and a little code cleanup.

0.9.1 version released (09-Jan-2007)

The second one is just to fix the color of the lines and areas of the kernel-related new graph.

All current 0.9.0 users with 2.4 Linux kernel versions are encouraged to upgrade to this version

0.9.0 version released (03-Jan-2007)

Among some minor fixes and improvements there are new options in the configuration file to activate or deactivate each graph individually. These new options are specially important in embedded systems where the disk space and the processor performance are lower.

All current 0.8.x users are encouraged to upgrade to this version.

IMPORTANT NOTICE: The configuration file (/etc/monitorix.conf) has been extended with important changes.

0.8.3 version released (16-Oct-2006)

The rest of changes include some little color and font modifications and cosmetic issues.

All current 0.8.2 users are encouraged to upgrade to this version.

0.8.2 version released (04-Jul-2006)

In the other hand and by people demand I'm preparing a new system temperature monitorization that I'll try to incorporate in the next Monitorix versions.

Please read the Changelog file to have all the details.

0.8.1 version released (17-May-2006)

Another important enhancement is better support for Linux Software RAID devices (/dev/md0, /dev/md1, etc.). Some bugs has been fixed, mainly when someone decided to remove the $PORTnn variables from the configuration file.

As always the Changelog file has all the details.

0.8.0 version released (29-Mar-2006)

This version comes with a lot of fixes and improvements. One of most noticeable is the preparation of the code in order to be easier to port to any Linux distribution or even in any UNIX system. The Monitorix 0.8 comes ready to be used on FreeBSD systems as a first important port. My special thanks to twenty4help Knowledge Service (http://www.twenty4help.com) and to Roger "Rocky" Vetterberg.

Another important change is that the configuration file has changed its location, and now you'll find it on the root of /etc directory (/etc/monitorix.conf).

Please read the Changelog file to have all the details.

0.7.14 version released (17-Jan-2006)

I recommend to install this fixed version.

0.7.13 version released (16-Jan-2006)

Another new inclusion is that Monitorix has now a good initial support for LVM (Logical Volume Manager) based systems.

As always, some bugs were fixed and some code cleaned.

0.7.12 version released (07-Nov-2005)

Other news are that Marcos Andre promises to port Monitorix to the most recent Slackware versions.

And as always, see the ChangeLog to get all the details.

0.7.11 version released (07-Oct-2005)

Another important inclusion is the missing English language support for the montlhy reports.

As always, Changelog has all the details.

0.7.10 version released (26-Sep-2005)

Other important news is the support of the newest rrdtool branch 1.2.

The rest of changes can be viewed in the ChangeLog menu option.

0.7.9 version released (13-Sep-2005)

Monitorix project has been released! (11-Sep-2005)

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