Icinga PowerShell Plugins v1.13.0-beta1

1.13.0 Beta-1 (2024-08-30)

Issue and PRs

Enhancements

• #397 Adds support to Invoke-IcingaCheckEventLog to provide occurring problem event id's for the Eventlog and corresponding acknowledgement id's, providing an indicator if certain issues are resolved or still present
• #409 Adds support to Invoke-IcingaCheckProcess for reporting properly if a defined process was not found on the system and using -OverrideNotFound argument to define the plugin output in this case
• #413 Adds argument Limit100Percent to Invoke-IcingaCheckCPU for limiting each threads CPU usage to 100%
• #419 Removes process list feature for Invoke-IcingaCheckCPU, which causes too much CPU overhead and increase execution time by a lot without substantial gain of information

Bugfixes

• #398 Fixes an issue with service names not interpreted correctly by Invoke-IcingaCheckService in case it contains []
• #401 Fixes Invoke-IcingaCheckDirectory which could not resolve -Path arguments in case closing [ or open brackets ] were part of the path
• #412 Fixes Invoke-IcingaCheckService to not add summary performance metrics in case the user filtered for specific services

Icinga PowerShell Plugins v1.12.0

1.12.0 (2024-03-26)

Bugfixes

• #375 Fixes a memory leak on the Icinga EventLog provider for fetching Windows EventLog information
• #384 Adds new data provider for Invoke-IcingaCheckProcess and extends functionality by adding a new 'ExcludeProcess' argument
• #386 Adds new provider for Invoke-IcingaCheckEventLog, to improve performance and fix memory leaks

Enhancements

• #288 Adds support to Invoke-IcingaCheckPartitionSpace to define mandatory partitions which should always be present
• #366 Adds support to Invoke-IcingaCheckCPU to report top CPU consuming process information as well as a switch to change the overall load from average to sum
• #378 Adds support for Invoke-IcingaCheckService to change the output for not found services from UNKNOWN to OK, WARNING or CRITICAL instead

Icinga PowerShell Plugins v1.11.1

1.11.1 (2023-11-07)

Bugfixes

• #358 Fixes broken Icinga plain configuration
• #360 Fixes Invoke-IcingaCheckMemory which uses the wrong unit for the pagefile plugin, wrong values, exceptions and %-Values not working

Icinga PowerShell Plugins v1.11.0

1.11.0 (2023-08-01)

Bugfixes

• #342 Fixes an issue for disk health plugin, which can fail in some cases due to an invalid conversion from the MSFT output from int to string
• #346 Fixes the pagefile provider at Get-IcingaMemoryPerformanceCounter which returned the pagefile size in MB instead of Bytes

Enhancements

• #332 Adds support to provide different credentials for the Invoke-IcingaCheckUNCPath plugin, to run the check for a different user account
• #348 Adds feature to Invoke-IcingaCheckPerfCounter to summarize an entire performance counter category, in case all instances of the check fail to prevent large outputs being written into the database
• #355 Updates Invoke-IcingaCheckCPU to use new data providers directly from the Icinga PowerShell Framework.

Breaking changes

Invoke-IcingaCheckCPU

• The new CPU metrics will now be separated between the actual sockets of the system, allowing an overview on multi socket systems, which CPU is assigned more loads
• Metrics will now be separated by 0_1 for the index, which in this example is socket 0 and core 1.

Icinga PowerShell Plugins v1.10.1

1.10.1 (2022-12-20)

Bugfixes

• #323 Fixes Invoke-IcingaCheckService to write invalid performance data in case one service is actively checked and returning UNKNOWN because it does not exist

Enhancements

• #322 Adds flag -IgnoreService for plugin Invoke-IcingaCheckTimeSync to ignore the time service being evaluated during check runtime

Icinga PowerShell Plugins v1.10.0

1.10.0 (2022-08-30)

Issue and PRs

Bugfixes

• #199 Fixes Invoke-IcingaCheckDiskHealth to add disk metadata like serial number and friendly name for any disk type processed
• #308 Fixes function Get-IcingaServiceCheckName which was not public anymore since v1.9.0, causing MSSQL plugins to not work properly
• #319 Removes performance data for Invoke-IcingaCheckCheckSum, as there are no real performance metrics to write which are allowed by icinga

Enhancements

• #276 Extends Invoke-IcingaCheckUpdates for allowing to check if there is a pending reboot on the system remaining to finalize Windows updates
• #284 Adds support to exclude certain exit codes from throwing critical for Invoke-IcingaCheckScheduledTask [Paul-Weisser]
• #300 Adds a new flag -ConnectionErrAsCrit to Invoke-IcingaCheckHTTPStatus, allowing to change the UNKNOWN result in case a connection to the website is not possible to CRITICAL
• #301 Adds support to use Include and Exclude filters for Invoke-IcingaCheckPerfCounter
• #312 Adds support to exclude certificates by thumbprints for Invoke-IcingaCheckCertificate by adding thumbprints to the -ExcludePattern argument
• #316 Adds support to include and exclude network devices for Invoke-IcingaCheckNetworkInterface by their device and interface name, besides the internal id

Grafana Dashboards

New Dashboards

• Windows Base
• Windows-Plugins-Web

New Plugin Integrations

• Invoke-IcingaCheckPartitionSpace
• Invoke-IcingaCheckNetworkInterface
• Invoke-IcingaCheckUpdates
• Invoke-IcingaCheckUptime
• Invoke-IcingaCheckCPU
• Invoke-IcingaCheckService
• Invoke-IcingaCheckMemory
• hostalive

Icinga PowerShell Plugins v1.9.0

1.9.0 (2022-05-03)

Issue and PRs

Bugfixes

• #283 Fixes random Add-Type exceptions during runtime compilation by replacing it with Add-IcingaAddTypeLib
• #286 Fixes Invoke-IcingaCheckHTTPStatus which is not returning the request time, in case the target website is not providing content
• #299 Fixes integration with Inventory module

Enhancements

• #298 Adds support for Icinga for Windows v1.9.0 module isolation

Icinga PowerShell Plugins v1.8.0

1.8.0 (2022-02-08)

Issue and PRs

Bugfixes

• #250 Fixes alias Invoke-IcingaCheckUsedPartitionSpace which is not working on Windows 2012R2 or older and being replaced with a native function
• #246 Fixes wrong UNKNOWN on Invoke-IcingaCheckService while using service display name with the -Service argument instead of the service name
• #261 Fixes Invoke-IcingaCheckCertificate which always included the CertStore because no option to not check the certificate store was available
• #262 Fixes method NULL exception on empty EventLog entries for Invoke-IcingaCheckEventLog
• #271 Fixes JEA error which detected ScriptBlocks in the plugin collection
• #272 Fixes file encoding for Invoke-IcingaCheckTimeSync which was not UTF8 before, causing the JEA profile writer to ignore the file
• #274 Fixes Invoke-IcingaCheckScheduledTask for wildcard task names, which added the unknown package in case wildcards were used for task names

Enhancements

• #143, #220, #256 Improves Invoke-IcingaCheckUpdates, splitting updates into different categories, allowing the check for the update count based on these categories Microsoft Defender, Security Updates, Rollup Updates and all Other Updates. The -UpdateFilter will only apply to the total update count, allowing additional customisation. By running the plugin with -Verbosity 1, it will now also print the list of the update names if the the thresholds are printing Warning, Critical or Unknown
• #204 Extends functionality of Invoke-IcingaCheckDirectory by allowing to monitor file counts, adding folder count to monitoring, different files sizes (total size, average, smallest file and largest file) and allows to print the entire file list fetched by the plugin
• #205 Adds new plugin Invoke-IcingaCheckProcess for detailed monitoring of running services for CPU, Memory, PageFile and ThreadCount usage and total running processes

Icinga PowerShell Plugins v1.7.0

1.7.0 (2021-11-09)

Issue and PRs

Bugfixes

• #187 Fixes Invoke-IcingaCheckUsedPartitionSpace and Invoke-IcingaCheckDiskHealth in case mirrored disks are used within the system, causing an exception on duplicate partition id's
• #200 Fixes UNKNOWN for Invoke-IcingaCheckUsedPartitionSpace, in case the main partition has no space left which should return CRITICAL instead
• #233 Fixes used partition space plugin performance by fetching only partition space data instead of entire disk information collection and renamed it to represent the new method of being able to toggle between free and used space for partitions
• #235 Fixes operational status monitoring output for Invoke-IcingaCheckDiskHealth

Enhancements

• #199 Adds additional metadata to Invoke-IcingaCheckDiskHealth for disk serial number, assigned partitions, boot device, device id, system device and device name
• #211 Adds feature to Invoke-IcingaCheckService, allowing to filter for specific service startup types in case the plugin is used to check for specific services with -Service
• #237 Adds support for Invoke-IcingaCheckHTTPStatus to add the content of the website output by using the flag -AddOutputContent
• #241 Adds possibility to switch between free and used monitoring for Invoke-IcingaCheckUNCPath and consolidates monitoring like other plugins, with dynamic % monitoring.
• #243 Removes function Publish-IcingaPluginDocumentation, as this function will move directly into the Icinga PowerShell Framework

Icinga PowerShell Plugins v1.6.0

1.6.0 (2021-09-07)

Issue and PRs

Bugfixes

• #224 Fixes Invoke-IcingaCheckUsedPartitionSpace label names, which might have caused conflicts with Graphite/InfluxDB, because of changed metric unit
• #226 Fixes class names of Add-Type for Get-IcingaDiskAttributes and Get-IcingaUNCPathSize and adds checks if the class was already added inside the session

Enhancements

• #208 Adds additional features to Invoke-IcingaCheckScheduledTask, allowing to monitor exit codes, missed runs and last/next run time of a task
• #217 Adds feature for Invoke-IcingaCheckPerfCounter with new switch -IgnoreEmptyChecks to change the output from UNKNOWN to OK, in case no performance counters were found
• #222 Replaces Get-FileHash with own implementation as Get-IcingaFileHash, to work with new JEA integration
• #223 Removes the function Get-IcingaServices, as this function has been moved to the Icinga PowerShell Framework
• #225 Adds support for plugins to work in JEA context