Change log

Since v1.0.0 this project follows the semantic versioning specification.

v2.2.1

• open source SSH Monitor (see issue 38)

v2.2.0

• add EPICS Archiver Appliance monitoring (see issue 21)

• improve processors supervision support (see issue 41)

• improve .substitutions management (see issue 84)

• improve SSH commands specification (see issue 85)

• improve tests readability (see issue 86)

• finish writing the references section of the README (see issue 88)

• support more fields in generic_monitor.template with macro specifiaction from .substitutions files (see issue 90)

• write a new tutorial based on Nix (see issue 91)

• improve documentation about how the .templates are intended for common GNU/Linux, not busybox linux, freebsd, windows, mac, etc (see issue 93)

• improve existing HMIs (see issue 94)

• fix debug logs that are not always printed correctly (see issue 95)

• improve the documentation (see isuue 96)

• convert the whole documentation to Sphinx (see issue 97)

• fix SSH Monitor exports problems due to last EPNix update (24.05) (see issue 105)

v2.1.2

• add troubleshooting documentation about the Connection closed by UNKNOWN port 65535 error (see issue 79)

• improve TCP ports limitation explanations (see issue 80)

• improve firewall configuration documentation (see issue 81)

• improve prerequisites list prior to sshmonitor installation (see issue 82)

• improve comment explaining why USR_CPPFLAGS += -DUSE_TYPED_RSET in Makefile (see issue 83)

v2.1.1

• add troubleshooting content for the Host key verification failed error (see issue 76)

• fix installation procedure (see issue 77)

• fix cache handling (see issue 78)

v2.1.0

• fix security design (see issue 40)

• improve tests in order to check SSH Monitor both with EPICS v3.15 and with EPICS v7+ (see issue 65)

  • note that those tests have shown that only EPICS v7+ is supported at the moment

• create a step-by-step tutorial showing how to setup and use sshmonitor (see issue 68)

• improve documentation according to the diátaxis framework (see issue 69)

• fix/increase the maximum size of a macro up to 65535 characters (see issue 72)

• improve security design (see issue 73)

v2.0.0

• add support for multiple scanning intervals (see issue 28)

• add support for custom shell instructions (see issue 32)

• add support for local SSH commands (see issue 35

• avoid closing and reopening multiple SSH connections continuously (see issue 37)

• add support for remote SSH command execution through an intermediate machine (see issue 44)

• explain, in a documentation file, the role of each record (per .db) (see issue 48)

• add the ability to customize alarms thresholds (see issue 49)

• add compatibility for BusyBox Coreutils (see issue 53)

• add support for other types than double/analog at asub records output (see issue 54)

• add support for custom SSH connection options (see issue 55)

• improve genericity (see issue 59)

• fix error propagation (see issue 60)

• avoid records overwriting (see issue 61)

• avoid sharing cache files (see issue 62)

• remove characters number specification for shell instructions length (see issue 63)

• improve tests with memory checking via valgrind (see issue 64)

• convert the SSH Monitor project into a Top (not an App) (see issue 66)

• fine-tune/finalize project for v2 (see issue 67)

v1.0.0

• improve email sending script example (see issue 33)

• SSH Monitor is now peer reviewed and production ready (see issue 34)

v0.9

• fix dbScan over-runs (see issue 27)

v0.8

• fix too many open files errors (see issue 24)

• improve error handling of the readDoubleFromFile(…) function (see issue 25)

v0.7

• add current ssh connection monitoring support (see issue 9)

• make sure an alarm could be triggered if a target is disconnected (see issue 20)

• fix SSH Monitor IOC that might be blocked if ssh credentials are asked (see issue 22)

v0.6

• fix irrelevant alarm if lack of free RAM (monitor lack of available RAM instead) (see issue 19)

v0.5

• fix wrong processor load measurement (see issue 18)

v0.4

• fix process snapshots being taken from host and not from target (see issue 16)

• fix alarm threshold due to CPU overload being too low (see issue 17)

v0.3

• fix some PVs being initialized with “SEVR: INVALID” & “STAT: UDF” instead of “NO_ALARM” (see issue 15)

v0.2

• add processors supervision support (see issue 4)

• add memory supervision support (see issue 12)

v0.1

• add LSI RAID monitoring support (wip issue 2)

• add documentation about how to setup the alarm server (see issue 13)

• fix IOC Shell being sometimes cluttered with ssh logs about X11 forwarding (see issue 14)

beta

• add project documentation (see issue 1)

• add disks/partitions space supervision support (wip issue 3)

• fix sub records not handling strings inputs at process time (see issue 10)

alpha

• add remote SSH commands support (see issue 8)

• add RAM monitoring support (wip issue 12)