Version 0.6.0 is missing a library for compiling on OpenBSD. I am sorry about that. To fix
exit Makefile after running ./configure and add -li386 to the LIBS line. I keep saying that I am going to install OpenBSD onto my system. I found the disk space, now I need the time.
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LATEST VERSION
Version 0.6.0 is the latest version. This include the capability to execute scripts on both the warn and fail conditions. This version should run on OpenBSD, ISA mode only. It is also reported to compile on DEC Alpha versions of FreeBSD.
TO-DO
Request for Help
Anyone the is good with gd or some other program for creating line graphs on the web or
can point me at one please let me know.
What I would like to do is create a sample app
using healthdc that will plot the values over time.
The following list is roughly in order of my priorities, but not necessarily in the order they will get completed. If you would like to see other features please let me know at jim@thehousleys.net.
MRTG
Here are some examples of using MRTG to record healthd values.
October 10, 2000: Thanks to Archie Cobbs <archie@whistle.com>
For submitting a patch for the Winbond W83627HF
October 3, 2000: IANA has assigned me an official port of 1281.
That is different for 9669 that was used origionally.
-P 9669 can be used to specify the old port number.
September 29, 2000: Thanks to Claus Assmann <ca+healthd@esmtp.org>
for another patch to allow ISA mode to work on OpenBSD.
September 14, 2000:
Change the printing of daemon error from stderr to using
syslog.
Only enable the reading of the doWarn and doFail settings
and the contents of the *_warn and *_fail scripts if
compiled with -DFULL_CONFIG or ./configure --enable-full-config.
This is because I beleive that the information might provide
information that might be useful in exploiting the machine.
September 13, 2000:
Protocol 2.0. Enables obtaining version and configuration
information from the running daemon.
September 11, 2000:
IPv6 support added to healthd and healthdc. IPv6
support also works for libwrap.
August 20, 2000: Thanks to Claus Assmann <ca+healthd@esmtp.org>
for a patch to allow ISA mode to work on OpenBSD.
Thanks to Stefan Moeding <s.moeding@ndh.net> for the
origional version of the code to allow external programs
to be run on warnings and failures. It has since then
been greatly extended.
Thanks to Andre Albsmeier <andre.albsmeier@mchp.siemens.de>
For a sample implementation of SIGHUP to re-read the config file.
This version expands upon the networking code. The -L option was added for local-mode, ie no listen-socket is created. A -V option was added to return a version string. Both healthd and healthdc man pages are updated and more complete.
Thanks to Andre Albsmeier <andre.albsmeier@mchp.siemens.de>
For visually identifing the unknown ASUS "health" chip.
This version is the first to add network monitoring capability. A new program has been added, healthdc. This can be used to read the current values from the healthd running on any networked machine. healthd uses libwrap, if available, to authenticate access. The following could be added to /etc/hosts.access:
April 26, 2000: Changed ReadConfigFile() & ParseOption() to not display
unknown options, instead display the line number. This prevents
the user from using healthd to display files the user doesn't have
permission to read. (thanks: Volker Stolz
<stolz@Pool.Informatik.RWTH-Aachen.DE>)