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                                    HotSaNIC
             HTML overview to System and Network Information Center
 by Bernd Pissny ( hotsanic@bernisys.prima.de / http://www.bernisys.prima.de )

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HotSaNIC version history

 0.5.0 - (pre-released)    o completely new concept! The directory structure     
 new features:               has been changed a lot, all modules are kept in a   
 solaris support             subdirectory now. The modules now run as single     
 more *BSD support           daemons, the main script uses signalling            
 bugfixes                    techniques to control the modules. This saves a     
                             lot of compilation time on every SAMPLE call. To    
                             avoid too many modules running parallel, a random   
                             scheduler has been added.                           
                           o modules now have a ".description" file which will   
                             be printed when doing the main setup.               
                           o all perl scripts now end with ".pl"                 
                           o the SYSTEM module is now configurable to enable or  
                             disable some of its specific targets. New targets   
                             "interrupts" and "uptime" have been added. Basic    
                             OS X support (testing). MultiCPU systems fully      
                             supported. swap stats are now stored in mem.rrd,    
                             loadavg.rrd has been renamed to load.rrd. New       
                             method gathering mem and swap info on NetBSD.       
                             Comments have been added for later addition of      
                             kernel >2.4 support.                                
                           o the protocol used by the PING module is now         
                             configurable. You can also configure it to use the  
                             ping shellcommand instead of Net::Ping. The         
                             minimum number of pings to be sent is 5 now.        
                             Timing will be done by Time::HiRes (if available)   
                             and does a fallback to the previous sysdcall. If    
                             no HiRes timers are available, you will get an      
                             error message.                                      
                             For better comparison of diagrams, the initial      
                             upper border can be configured. The lower border    
                             has been adapted for logarithmic scale.             
                             Data will be stored in seconds now instead of       
                             milliseconds.                                       
                             The module should generate no more zombies now.     
                           o SENSORS now has FreeBSD support                     
                           o TRAFFIC module now with OS X support. Devices are   
                             no longer configured multiple times. Taken down     
                             BSD interfaces handled correctly. Don't use DNS     
                             lookups anymore when using netstat. BSD setup       
                             patched.                                            
                           o APPS now handles applications with "." in filename  
                             correctly                                           
                           o DISKIO now with basic kernel 2.4 device             
                             autodetection. Some excludes applied in devicelist  
                             (fd* md*). Module seems to worn on FreeBSD now.     
                             Some comments have been added for later             
                             implementation of new Kernel 2.4                    
                             "/proc/partitions" support.                         
                           o PART module device detection corrected. Automatic   
                             excludes list enhanced. Table sorted by             
                             devicename.                                         
                           o Within each module each Operating system will be    
                             handled by an own library in the                    
                             "./modules/<modname>/platform/" directory. There's  
                             also a lib "common.pm" that handles all common      
                             functions and a fallback library "default.pm"       
                           o HotSaNIC.pm is obsolete now, but is still there to  
                             support modules written on older versions. To       
                             adapt older modules to new concept, there's a       
                             wrapper script available under "./tools/"           
                           o all global libraries from HotSaNIC.pm were split    
                             into different files, these are kept in the         
                             "./lib/" directory                                  
                           o all global functions in the read-data.pl scripts    
                             have benn moved into the new HotSaNICmod.pm         
                             library. read-data.pl just initializes the module   
                             - the main loops, help texts etc are in the         
                             library.                                            
                           o all read-data.pl scripts support cmdline            
                             parameters similar to sysV-style                    
                             (start/stop/status ...)                             
                           o modules' configuration can be reloaded while        
                             running                                             
                           o SOLARIS is now supported by some Modules: apcusv,   
                             apps, ping, system (processes, CPU, load, users,    
                             swap, mem).                                         
                           o all diagram scripts are converted to PERL now       
                           o main index now has multi-row support (mainly used   
                             for MultiCPU machines and SNMP targets)             
                           o instead of using the shell-magic cookie (#! ...)    
                             directly, we use "#!/usr/bin/env ..." to avoid      
                             conflicts on some systems. This makes the Automake  
                             system obsolete (saves us work...).                 
                           o a lot more SNMP support had been addeed - all SNMP  
                             related core-functions are in the                   
                             "./lib/HotSaNICsnmp.pm" file. These should be       
                             quite compatible with quite many SNMP daemons. If   
                             Net::SNMP isn't found, the system does a fallback   
                             to the shell binaries. (snmpget, snmpwalk,          
                             snmpbulkget, snmpbulkwalk).                         
                           o fixed bug which produces GIFs instead of PNGs       
                             regardless of settings                              
                           o all logfiles moved to the new "./var/log/"          
                             directory, PID files went in "./var/run/", all      
                             settings are linked in "./var/settings/" by the     
                             main setup script. Modules store their temp. data   
                             in "./var/modules/<modname>/"                       
                           o main setup.pl script shows usage info when called   
                             with parameter "?"                                  
                           o setup will initially guess CONVERTMETHOD now        
                           o some diagram-titles look a bit nicer now            
                           o some files were moved and renamed, so when          
                             upgrading it may be necessary to re-run the main    
                             "setup.pl -g" to re-generate the rrdgraph script.   
                           o some vital paths will be created automatically now  
                           o all "use diagnostics" and "use warnings" were       
                             moved to the libraries, since once loaded they act  
                             globally in PERL.                                   
                           o for better readability in system tools like "ps"    
                             or "top", the module name will be passed as         
                             cmdline parameter.                                  
                           o new PID handling functions implemented              
                           o some shell-calls have been converted to PERL        
                             syntax to avoid backticks.                          
                           o the main diagrams script has been converted to      
                             PERL. It now generates some console-output when     
                             running( some people were confused by the previous  
                             behaviour of it running silently in the             
                             background). The logfile will now be handled by     
                             rrdtimer.                                           
                           o modules are automatically restarted every STIME if  
                             not running                                         
                           o rrdtimer.pl uses an anlternate daemonizing method   
                             to avoid shells hanging while logging out (mostly   
                             works!)                                             
                             sending a HUP to rrdtimer, the modules will also    
                             be terminated, sending USR2 only the modules will   
                             be terminated (and will be restarted after STIME)   
                           o main loop now sleeps more efficiently to use less   
                             CPU time                                            
                           o added more debugging verbosity to scheduler         
                           o added MAILQ module to show stats for the Postfix    
                             mailserver's queue items                            
                           o added a library to handle user interactions         
                           o started to convert setup scripts to perl            
                           o added NETSTAT module to show stats for open TCP     
                             sockets                                             
                         Version 0.5.0-pre3 available as .tgz package            
                         Other versions are only available via anonymous CVS.    
                                                                                 
                           --------------------------------------------------    
 0.4.1 - (unreleased)      o data-diskio generates more associative filenames    
 new features                (Thanx Michael Renner for the valuable hints!)      
 bugfixes                  o data-diskio now supports *BSD                       
                           o data-networks now has totals for input/output and   
                             a summary over the graph's time                     
                           o data-traffic now has a summary over the graph's     
                             time                                                
                           o HotSaNIC.pm fixed, the module name was not          
                             detected correctly if HotSaNIC resided in subdirs   
                             containing "-" chars!                               
                             There are also some comments added to (briefly)     
                             explain each function's usage.                      
                           o data-traffic trouble with alias interfaces like     
                             eth0:0 fixed                                        
                           o data-ping now has a configurable maximum of         
                             parallel processes (settings: PARALLEL="4")         
                           o data-shoutcast is a new module to monitor user      
                             activities on shoutcast servers                     
                           o data-diskio diagrams script converted to PERL       
                           o rrdtimer now logs errors to the main logfile        
                             (makes debugging a bit easier)                      
                           o data-part samples configured drives only (more      
                             convenient on systems using autofs)                 
                             It also checks if NFS partitions are configured     
                             and scans them on demand. This reduces deadlocks.   
                           o data-worms now skips .gz and .bz2 files while       
                             scanning logs                                       
                           o data-traffic has been adapted to fix the "ghost     
                             graphs" issue when graphing SNMP sources (hope it   
                             works now)                                          
                           o data-traffic graphs interfaces which are "down" as  
                             "unknown" instead of a zero line.                   
                         All modules now contain dupe-control to check if a      
                         process is already running or hangs. (processes         
                         running >1h will be killed)                             
                                                                                 
                         IMPORTANT NOTICE FOR UPGRADERS:                         
                         The database in the diskio module has changed! - You    
                         will need to run the update script in the module's      
                         subdir in order to adapt the databases and the          
                         webpage. Otherwhise you will get some missing images,   
                         dead links and strangely high I/O-values or maybe in    
                         some cases a zero-line.                                 
                         This version is only available via anonymous CVS.       
                                                                                 
                           --------------------------------------------------    
 0.4.0 - 20020108        All features of the work version 0.3.6 are included in  
 new features            0.4.0 plus:                                             
 extensions                o data-traffic has been speed-up a bit                
 bugfixes                  o dupe-control checks for PIDs now                    
                           o project's contact address has changed to:           
                             hotsanic@bernisys.prima.de                          
                         IMPORTANT NOTICE FOR UPGRADERS:                         
                         The database in the traffic module has changed! - You   
                         will need to run the update script in the module's      
                         subdir in order to adapt the databases. Otherwhise you  
                         will get strangely high traffic values or maybe in      
                         some cases a zero-line.                                 
                                                                                 
                           --------------------------------------------------    
 0.3.6 - 20011217          o The main settings now contain a switch to select    
 new features                the format of the generated images (.gif or .png).  
 extensions                  If you already have built own modules, please take  
 bugfixes                    care that they use the new feature ;)               
                           o All graphs now have create-timestamps in their      
                             titles                                              
                           o Bugfix in dnet module: OGR stats will no longer     
                             accident'ly be logged as DES.                       
                           o Bugfix in ping module: makeindex.pl does no longer  
                             generate dead links.                                
                           o The ping module now does a statistic analysis of    
                             its results to suppress annoying peaks.             
                           o New module: data-networks which uses                
                             iptables-accounting to let you know where your      
                             traffic goes to/comes from                          
                           o data-traffic now supports Open/Free BSD ( Thanks    
                             to Matt Burke! )                                    
                           o data-traffic now supports SNMP (both GetBulk and    
                             SNMPwalk method)                                    
                           o data-traffic's initial scales are set down to 1000  
                             bytes/s for any kind of device (better readable     
                             graph at low traffic)                               
                           o data-traffic's diagram script has been upgraded to  
                             evaluate settings instead of executimg the          
                             settings-file                                       
                           o data-traffic now can show a bits/s legend instead   
                             of bytes/s only                                     
                           o data-network now can show a bits/s legend instead   
                             of bytes/s only                                     
                           o data-part now supports Open/Free BSD ( Thanks to    
                             Matt Burke! ) - the resolution is now 1024 bytes.   
                           o data-dnet now supports configurable logfile names   
                             ;)                                                  
                           o HotSaNIC.pm (a perl library containing common       
                             functions) now exists to eliminate multiple         
                             definitions and redundant functions in different    
                             modules                                             
                           o all initializing stuff has been moved from          
                             "rrdgraph" to "rrdtimer"                            
                           o rrdtimer now has a signal-handler for the TERM      
                             signal to properly shut down the daemon             
                           o the whole tool now should be CVS-proof ;)           
                           o some "setup" scripts now exist to create initial    
                             configurations easier. They are called              
                             automatically by the main "setup.pl" script.        
                           o "compile" now supports option "r" for recompiling   
                             (might be necessary after upgrading)                
                           o a new module "data-diskio" exisits which reports    
                             I/O stats of the pyhsically installed harddrives    
                           o data-worms has been rewritten completely because    
                             it wasn't sampling correctly at all. Should be ok   
                             by now.                                             
                           o data-system now has BSD-support ( Thanks to Matt    
                             Burke! )                                            
                           o data-system now supports sampling CPU stats for     
                             multi-CPU machines (images are being generated,     
                             but the index.html will not yet be created - But    
                             i'm working on it...) - Thanks Aide Florent for     
                             the ideas and some support!                         
                           o data-system main CPU stats may be generated in      
                             percentage instead of absolute values               
                           o all modules can generate a browser auto-refresh     
                             tag now.                                            
                           o all thumbnail images are moved to the               
                             corrosponding subdirs on the webpage to re-gain     
                             more overview.                                      
                           o HotSaNIC.pm now contains a parser function for the  
                             settings. All modules have been adapted to use      
                             this function instead of parsing the lines on       
                             their own (read-data.pl and makeindex.pl are        
                             affected).                                          
                           o added a directory "tools" where a few helpers       
                             could be located.                                   
                           o tools: makeperlheaders (call if ping module         
                             complains about missing syscall.ph)                 
                           o stop function in "rrdgraph" script is now           
                             BSD-proof :) ( Thanx to Peter Reich! )              
                           o tools: warnings.pl generates warnings if a defined  
                             threshold matches (for example 20KB/s on eth0 over  
                             the last 5 minutes)                                 
                           o data-traffic: diagram script converted to perl now  
                           o data-system: shows user-stats now                   
                           o all modules: main options are being transfered to   
                             the read-data scripts by rrdtimer as                
                             commandline-arguments (saves parsing of mein        
                             settings over and over for some scripts)            
                           o setup.pl: option "y" tells the script that it       
                             shall use all available modules, settings are       
                             being backed-up instead of creating a settings.new  
                             file and leaving the original untouched             
                           o rrdtimer: debugging mode also available in          
                             daemon-mode (configured in main settings)           
                           o all modules: dupe control added. If a module is     
                             already running, don't start it again until the     
                             old instance exits (control-file: "running.dat").   
                           o data-system: now with NetBSD support                
                           o data-system: showing processes on FreeBSD           
                         plus: many many little bugfixes i forgot to mention     
                         here ;)                                                 
                                                                                 
                           --------------------------------------------------    
 0.3.5 - 20010923        Bugfixes:                                               
 bugfixes                  o Missing directories in the module-subdirs are now   
 new module                  being created as they should be. Sorry for the      
                             inconvenience!                                      
                           o I corrected some misbehavior with directories       
                             containing spaces. (correction may not affect       
                             every module yet - remember that the project is     
                             still in ALPHA state)                               
                         enhanced logging - timestamps are now present in some   
                         modules and logfiles get rotated when they reach the    
                         configured size. (at the moment only one backup is      
                         kept - cyclic backups will be implemented soon.)        
                         A new module "data-worms"exists which counts the        
                         accesses caused by worm-activities in your              
                         apache-logfile.                                         
                                                                                 
                           --------------------------------------------------    
 0.3.4 - 20010918        I have extended "rrdtimer" a lot!                       
 rrdtimer                  o The script now has many sub-routines which will     
                             make debugging much easier - well, at least i hope  
                             so ;).                                              
                           o The main "makeindex.pl" now has been integrated     
                             into "rrdtimer" to get the whole thing more         
                             compact. To generate the html index-files just      
                             type "rrdtimer i" - that's all. I left the          
                             "makeindex.pl" in this directory for                
                             compatibility, but this is just a shellscript that  
                             calls "rrdtimer i". ;)                              
                           o The way you call "rrdtimer" has changed a bit -     
                             just type "rrdtimer" on the console to get some     
                             help.                                               
                         Soon "rrdtimer" will be extended to replace "diagrams"  
                         and "convert.sh" as well.                               
                                                                                 
                           --------------------------------------------------    
 0.3.3 - 20010916        I found a proper name for my tool: From now on it       
 bugfixes:               shall be called "HotSaNIC" which stands for "HTML       
 rrdtimer                overview to System and Network Information Center".     
                         On execution "rrdtimer" checked for existing daemons    
                         using the wrong program-name (rrdgraph instead of       
                         rrdtimer).                                              
                         "rrdtimer" doesn't any longer just execute              
                         "read-data", but also checks for uncompiled             
                         "read-data.pl" scripts, too - while "read-data" has     
                         the highest priority.                                   
                                                                                 
                           --------------------------------------------------    
 0.3.2 - 20010915        I accidently left a debug-line "rrdtimer" script which  
 bugfixes:               produces unnecessary output to logfiles.                
 rrdtimer                The "makeindex.pl" in the sensors-module had to be      
 sensors:makeindex       fixed to generate html indexes for each sensor as       
                         well.                                                   
                         I checked every script for mix-ups of integer and       
                         string comparison. There shouldn't be any errors by     
                         now.                                                    
                                                                                 
                           --------------------------------------------------    
 0.3.1 - 20010911        ATTENTION!                                              
 bugfixes:               There is a rather serious BUG in versions < 0.3.1 !     
 rrdtimer                Please upgrade to version 0.3.1.                        
 ping:makeindex                                                                  
                          Symptom:  If you restart the daemon it may happen      
                                    that no modules are queried and thus your    
                                    databases will not be updated.               
                                                                                 
                          Cause:    This is because i mistakenly used "le" to    
                                    compare two integer values instead of        
                                    using "<=" under PERL. Sinc e i initially    
                                    compare "120" with a timer-value which       
                                    begins with "1000", PERL states that "120"   
                                    is GREATER than "1000.*" - which is          
                                    absolutely correct in a string context.      
                                    Thanks to Bodo, Peter and Robert for the     
                                    hint that made up my mind. :)                
                                                                                 
                          Cure:     You may prevent this "overflow" by editing   
                                    the "rrdtimer" script and simply             
                                    exchanging all occurences of " le " by       
                                    " <= ".                                      
                                                                                 
                          Fix:      I have fixed this in version 0.3.1 and to    
                                    be on the safe side i initialise "$last"     
                                    with "$now-100" and "$lastscan" with         
                                    "$now-1000" instead of zero. That should     
                                    do it for a really really long time now      
                                    ;).                                          
                                                                                 
                         The "makeindex.pl" in the ping-module had to be fixed   
                         a bit. Now it generates index-files properly again.     
                         Some bugs may occure since i will change the script's   
                         syntaxes and variables a bit to make it possible in     
                         future to create a library with global functions which  
                         are commonly used in the modules' scripts.              
                                                                                 
                           --------------------------------------------------    
 0.3.0 - 20010909        Added a module that pings a list of hosts, stores the   
 almost all ;)           results in databases and creates nice graphs out of it  
                         ;)                                                      
                         The sensors module has been (almost ...) completely     
                         rewritten to give you full support to all               
                         sensor-types. BUT! You have to know how these sensors   
                         are represented in the /proc filesystem and how they    
                         have to be treated properly. The module just helps to   
                         gather the data. WHICH it shall gather ... well,        
                         that's about up to you. But if you have some idea what  
                         /proc is and where sensors are located it should be no  
                         trouble at all to configure the module. Hint: some      
                         sensors need proper scaling! This is (poorly)           
                         described in the settings file. You should read the     
                         lm_sensors howto to get the idea of what's happening    
                         and put the correct scaling-values in the settigs.      
                         Remember: Just use plain floating point numbers, not    
                         fractions like in lm_sensors!                           
                         The partition-plugin has been altered to support NFS    
                         volumes (and other) as well. To achieve this the        
                         "settings" file had to be adapted and the names of the  
                         databases have changed. Simply rename the old           
                         databases to keep your old recordings.                  
                         I also changed the whole behaviour a bit:               
                         ALL CONFIGURATION OPTIONS for MODULES have been moved   
                         into the module-directories !!!                         
                         This makes it a bit easier to install or remove         
                         modules without fiddling with the main config, WHICH    
                         STILL RESIDES IN THE MAIN DIRECTORY!                    
                         The main "makeindex" script has been converted to perl  
                         to let it run faster (and it sure is MUCH faster now!)  
                         The "compile" script now can uncompile all scripts      
                         using the "u" option                                    
                         I began to convert some of the modules' "makeindex"     
                         scripts to perl to make them run faster                 
                                                                                 
                           --------------------------------------------------    
 0.2.6 - 20010805        Added a module that gives you very primitive            
 (obsolete!)             lm_sensors support (just the gl518sm sensors for now)   
 modules                 It will sure take some time to get these to work        
                         properly...                                             
                         The swap-space readings in the system-module are        
                         extended by a "max usage" line which plots over the     
                         whole thing to give you a hint about the "real" usage.  
                         This maybe helps a bit in structuring your system.      
                                                                                 
                           --------------------------------------------------    
 0.2.5 - 20010710        I changed the index-generation scripts so they          
 modules                 generate valid html 3.2 ...                             
                                                                                 
                           --------------------------------------------------    
 0.2.4 - 20010607        The "clearall" script has now an option to remove       
 diagrams                precompiled binaries created by "compile"               
 clearall                                                                        
                         "diagrams" now checks if it has been called before and  
                         if maybe it's stalled somehow and kills it's evil       
                         brother ;)                                              
                                                                                 
                           --------------------------------------------------    
 0.2.3 - 20010605        Previously "rrdtimer" called all existing modules       
 rrdtimer                parallel, but this behaviour may cause problems on      
 modules                 some systems, so i changed the default behaviour to     
                         call all modules in a sequence. The parallel mode is    
                         still available and can be activated by calling         
                         "rrdtimer p"                                            
                                                                                 
                         An additional module called "networks" has been         
                         created. It uses ipchains to measure the traffic to     
                         dedicated networks and evaluates these traffic samples  
                         pretty much like the "traffic" module - except min/max  
                         plots which would be quite a thing to implement         
                         properly. Maybe this will come some day as an option,   
                         but i don't think so right now.                         
                         A speedup has been added:                               
                                                                                 
                         Try to run the "compile" script to compile all modules  
                         via "perlcc". This may give you a major speedup (       
                         about 2-3x ) because the perl modules don't have to be  
                         compiled over and over again before they are executed   
                         ( this happens each 10 seconds ) - but be aware that    
                         errors may occur if some important perl-libraries are   
                         missing! In that case you have got to live with it and  
                         reconstruct the "read-data" scripts in each module      
                         directory.                                              
                                                                                 
                         I changed the global behaviour a bit. "rrdtimer" now    
                         calls the diagram scripts itself - so cron-entries      
                         aren't needed anymore.                                  
                                                                                 
                         The modules now generate timestamps in the              
                         "rrdtimer.err" logfile.                                 
                                                                                 
                         The name of the PID-file is now free configurable in    
                         the settings file.                                      
                                                                                 
                           --------------------------------------------------    
 0.2.2 - 20010514        Debugging mode in "rrdtimer" now only shows 4 digits    
 rrdtimer                after decimal point for better readability.             
 databases                                                                       
 system                  All databases have been moved to a subdirectory "rrd/"  
                         in each module-subdirectory. So please move the .rrd    
                         files into each module's subdir to the corrosponding    
                         <module-dir>/rrd/ subdir.                               
                                                                                 
                         Additional logging-functionality for system-module.     
                         Now the loadavg values for the 5min and 15min average   
                         are logged as well. The process-stats show an           
                         additional value "disc" representing processes being    
                         swapped to disc at this time.                           
                                                                                 
                         IMPORTANT NOTICE FOR UPGRADERS:                         
                         Be sure to run "update.pl" after you installed the new  
                         data-system module! The system.rrd database has to be   
                         split to add the new logging-channels! Another          
                         possibility is to just let the new scripts run and      
                         remove system.rrd, but all previously sampled data      
                         will be lost by doing so!                               
                                                                                 
                           --------------------------------------------------    
 0.2.1 - 20010510        Some bugs were fixed in the traffic, dnet and part      
 traffic, dnet, part     modules:                                                
 convert                   o the "diagrams" script in the traffic-module         
 settings                    produced some errors due to a wrong                 
                             variable-assignment.                                
                           o the "diagrams" script in the part module produced   
                             errors because "rrdtool" was called with some       
                             parameters mixed up.                                
                           o the convert.sh script only converted the graphics   
                             from system and dnet. Now it handles all graphics.  
                         I played a bit with the settings-file and some of the   
                         scripts. Now there is a configuration-entry to set      
                         where logfiles will be stored.                          
                         Then i altered the behaviour of the DNET-module. Now    
                         you can configure networks and their names to receive   
                         better readable statistics for dynamic IPs. This is     
                         done in the "data-dnet" subdir using a file called      
                         "networks.cf"                                           
                         Some speed-ups were achieved by using hashes to store   
                         multiline values and by changing file-access            
                         behaviours a bit. Saved about 10% execution-time :)     
                                                                                 
                           --------------------------------------------------    
 0.2.0 - 20010509        Well, this is something revolutionary ;)                
 rrdtimer                I had the time to read the PERL-FAQs and found some     
 dnet                    interesting aspects like daemonizing (i.e. fork into    
                         background) and other stuff. So I decided to            
                         completely rewrite the main script. This is no longer   
                         bash, but plain PERL! Included are some features like   
                         a debug-mode with different debug-levels to get your    
                         modules straight. Just experiment with it if you like.  
                         :)                                                      
                         Some changes were made to the dnet module as well.      
                         I've rewritten the routines into PERL now and i hope    
                         they will do what they are supposed to. I don't quite   
                         know, so please inform me if anything goes wrong        
                         there.                                                  
                                                                                 
                           --------------------------------------------------    
 0.1.9 - 20010506        I had some spare-time to spend, so while I was          
 dnet                    chatting on ICQ, I decided to give myself a little      
                         push and have almost completely re-written the core of  
                         the DNET module in PERL. Speed-up seems to be a factor  
                         of about 10, though this was not really needed since    
                         the module gets called only once a day anyway. But      
                         major speed-up has been achieved in building the        
                         initial databases which will reach back a couple of     
                         months ... these are about 400 (for each host !)        
                         database updates sequentially and this took quite a     
                         while back in BASH ;)                                   
                         I also discovered and removed a little bug in this      
                         module. When a host has not sent any block the last     
                         day, then the database would have taken the values of   
                         the day before. This looks rather impressive in the     
                         statistics, but is of course dramatically wrong :)      
                         Ok, these stats are just looking fine right now.        
                                                                                 
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 0.1.8 - 20010421        some changes were made in the "diagrams" scripts. Now   
 diagrams                the diagrams are created in "interlace" gif mode,       
 traffic                 which will improve the load-behaviour of the webpage.   
                         I also tuned in some additional "rrdtool"-features -    
                         now the byte-oriented graphs have a legend on the       
                         Y-axis and 1K is calculated by 1024 and not 1000 as     
                         before.                                                 
                         The traffic module now can cope with asymmetric         
                         interfaces as well, the MAX option in the               
                         settings-file has a new syntax to set in and out speed  
                         independant (of course as before in bits/s)             
                                                                                 
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 0.1.7 - 20010408        further little speed-up was archieved by not using so   
 traffic                 many temp-files in the traffic-plugin.                  
                                                                                 
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 0.1.6 - 20010405        A little speed-up was archieved by doing some changes   
 read-data               in the "read-data" scripts for the system and the       
 settings                partition plug-in. Some awful shell-calls were          
                         replaced by PERL calls which do not write in            
                         sample-files any more, but directly into the            
                         PERL-array :).                                          
                         Also some new setting-file entries exist now to tell    
                         the program which interfaces/devices are to sample and  
                         which stat-graphs are to be bulit.                      
                         However, this applies only for the sample-part of the   
                         traffic and the partition section for now... but i'm    
                         working on it ... ;)                                    
                                                                                 
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 0.1.5 - 20001219        Corrected a little bug in the "makeindex" files.        
 makeindex               Weekly stats indexpage will now be built correctly.     
                         The "makeindex" script now removes all temporary files  
                         it creates. It also doesn't nag about existing          
                         directories, it just silently creates them if needed.   
                                                                                 
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 0.1.4 - 20001215        Corrected a missing settings-call in the "makerrd"      
 makerrd                 scripts which caused the tool to create no databases    
                         at all.                                                 
                         Thanks to Markus Bajohr!                                
                                                                                 
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 0.1.3 - 20001209        I just corrected a bug in the part-plugin which caused  
 part                    the script to create numerous databases with no         
                         further use, but a lot of load while building the       
                         graphs ...                                              
                         Thanks to Michael Neumann!                              
                                                                                 
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 pre 0.1.3               I report changes and bugs since version 0.1.2 - all     
                         earlier versions were just like the beginning of all    
                         life ;)                                                 
                                                                                 
                         o.K. let's see. What can "rrdgraph" do right now ?      
                                                                                 
                         The system-plugin ( This was my first plugin. Actually  
                         it hasn't been a plugin up to 0.0.1 ) will collect      
                         data about:                                             
                           o processes (sleeping, running, stopped, zombie)      
                           o CPU time (idle, nice, user, system)                 
                           o loadaverage                                         
                           o memory (free, buffered, shared, cached)             
                           o swapfile (free, used)                               
                         The traffic-plugin will collect data about all your     
                         local network interfaces except loopback.               
                                                                                 
                         The partitions-plugin collects data about your          
                         partition-usage.                                        
                         Some bugs have to be fixed here!                        
                         For example network-mounted directories will be saved   
                         under just a part of their name. This may cause         
                         serious problems if there are two similar paths... I    
                         haven't checked yet, but I guess it will.               
                         For now I will override this bug by filtering out all   
                         network-mounted filesystems. Later i'll try to convert  
                         the "/" in the device-pathnames to "_" and hopefully    
                         all will be fine in future...                           
                                                                                 
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