News

15-Nov-2007

This new release comes with a couple of important changes, two new ports to GNU/Linux distributions and a few enhancements and bug fixes.

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.