Upgrading Icinga PowerShell Plugins is usually quite straightforward.
Specific version upgrades are described below. Please note that version updates are incremental.
For upgrading plugins, please have a look on the installation docs.
We have renamed the plugin from Invoke-IcingaCheckUsedPartitionSpace to Invoke-IcingaCheckPartitionSpace. For monitoring, there is no restriction as an alias was added, allowing both commands being used at the same time.
In addition, we changed the default behaviour of the plugin which now defaults to monitor the free space available for a partition instead of the used space. With the new flag -CheckUsedSpace, you can switch back to the old behaviour for monitoring for used space.
Before upgrading, you can import the latest configuration basket or use the latest Icinga 2 configuration files and set CheckUsedSpace to true, to not break current monitoring configuration.
Please note that in general plugins should no longer ship % values performance data and only the actually values including thresholds and min/max input. With the new Icinga for Windows Framework, you can use your graphing solution to properly calculate % values there on your own for display context. Monitoring is for most plugins possible, by simply adding a % sign behind your threshold.
In case the plugin does not support this input for this specify argument, you will receive a UNKNOWN output.
The following arguments have been removed from the plugin and are no longer usable:
- IncomingAvgBandUsageWarn
- IncomingAvgBandUsageCrit
- OutboundAvgBandUsageWarn
- OutboundAvgBandUsageCrit
These arguments were a % value based on the link speed and the current traffic of the interface. With the new argument handling for % values with Icinga for Windows v1.5.0, you can achieve the same result with the following, already present arguments:
- DeviceTotalBytesSecWarn
- DeviceTotalBytesSecCrit
- DeviceSentBytesSecWarn
- DeviceSentBytesSecCrit
- DeviceReceivedBytesSecWarn
- DeviceReceivedBytesSecCrit
We entirely reworked the plugin and added the same % value shipping with Icinga for Windows v1.5.0, which means we removed the following arguments:
- PercentWarning
- PercentCritical
In addition we added page file monitoring capabilities to the plugin with additional arguments
As for both previous plugins, we reworked used partition space with changes for % values with Icinga for Windows 1.5.0 and fixed minor issues from the ground up.
We fixed a spelling issue on the command itself, which was Invoke-IcingaCheckPerfcounter before and now properly displays Invoke-IcingaCheckPerfCounter. For that reason your current plugin configuration will change.
To resolve this beforehand, rename the custom variable within your Icinga Director to match the new uppercase C for Counter, before importing new configuration baskets.
The new package of the Icinga PowerShell Plugins is shipping with pre-compiled configuration for the Icinga Director and Icinga 2, which only work with Icinga PowerShell Framework v1.4.0 or later. Please update your entire infrastructure to Icinga for Windows v1.4.0 before using the pre-compiled configuration or configuration files created by the new Icinga for Windows v1.4.0 config generator.
We made some slight adjustments to Invoke-IcingaCheckEventLog for the -After and -Before argument, which will now not only allow a fixed time stamp, like 2021/01/30, but also threshold inputs like 5h (to go back 5 hours), 1d (to go back 1 day), and so on. There should be no impact on current implementations but you might wanna have a look on your checks and results after uprading.
The following plugins received modifications to their existing arguments. Please keep in mind that updating to this version of the Icinga PowerShell Plugins, you must update your configuration to ensure everything is running properly and update all plugins on all systems. As for the Icinga Director, you have to import the new basket for these plugins to apply the configuration. How ever, current values assigned to these arguments will no longer apply and have to be reconfigured!
The State argument for Invoke-IcingaCheckScheduledTask has been changed from String to Array, which will now support providing multiple states a task can be into. In addition we modified the Icinga PowerShell Framework to properly support ValidateSet for array arguments, fixed in #152. Please ensure to upgrade to v1.3.0 before generating the new configuration and importing it, as the fix ensures that array arguments still can only contain fixed values.
The arguments used before were too long for importing into the Icinga Director. For that reason many arguments have been shorted with their name. Please ensure to import the latest version of the configuration file for this plugin and update your Icinga and check configuration to use the new arguments instead. Only applies if you used this plugin from previous snapshots.
No special steps required
To use the Icinga PowerShell Plugins v1.1.0 you will require to upgrade the Icinga PowerShell Framework to v1.1.0 first. This new plugin release will not work with older Framework versions.
We have added two new plugins you can add into your Icinga 2 configuration by creating a basket configuration for the Icinga Director. The new plugins are