Zenoss Quarterly Zenpack Update for 2016-Q4

Thirty two individual ZenPacks were launched, enhanced/maintained, or certified for the 5.x platform during the 4th quarter of 2016. Zenpacks can be downloaded from the
Zenoss Zenpack site: https://www.zenoss.com/product/zenpacks/glossary

ZenPackLib 2.0 (12.25.16)

zenpacklib is now an installable ZenPack
Added Event Class definitions (ZEN-24903)
Support multiple YAML file loading
Support directory loading for YAML
Support log verbosity per ZenPack
Centralized, per-derived ZenPack logging
Improved template change detection during install
Improved type handling of yaml loaded/dumped data
Support centralized use of older monolithic zenpacklib.py
Added –optimize parameter to zenpacklib
Dramatically enhanced unit testing
Support for using enum property with datapoint properties (string/int mapping)
Ability to call /opt/zenoss/bin/zenpacklib
Added ZPLCommand to handle running zenpacklib with arguments
Separated zenpacklib.py classes into module files
Ability to use ZenPack-provided zenpacklib module
Added support for Process Class definitions
Deprecated support for python-based “yaml” specifications
Support for threshold graph-point legend and color (ZEN-24904)
Ability to specify an initial sort column on a component grid
Performance enhancements for grid display of metrics (ZEN-23870)
Support for Device Link Providers
Added troubleshooting aid for easily saving function data(writeDataToFile)
Avoid setting zProperties on existing device class (ZPS-137)

Microsoft Exchange 1.0.6 (12.21.16)

Fix Exchange 2013 Missing Counter Events

LinuxMonitor 2.1.1 (12.21.16)

Fix "ifconfig" is checked before "ip" Linux Monitor (ZEN-25425)

OpenStackInfrastructure ZP 2.3.2 (12.20.16)

Single bug fix - Wrap brain.getObject() into try/except block (ZPS-442)

Docker 2.0.1 (12.16.16)

Disable container status monitoring by default. (ZEN-24043)

Layer2 1.3.0 (12.13.16)

Add "Show MAC addresses" and "Show dangling connectors" to network map.
VLAN and VXLAN layers no longer selected by default on network map.
Support for multiple gateways per device or device class. (ZEN-24767)
Add zL2Gateways property. (ZEN-24767)
Deprecate zZenossGateway property. (ZEN-24767)
Add zL2PotentialRootCause to allow automatic gateways discovery.
Add zL2SuppressIfPathsDown to toggle ping event suppression.
Add zL2SuppressIfDeviceDown to toggle non-ping event suppression.
Add rootCauses event field for suppressed events.
Improve event suppression performance and reliability.
Add zLocalMacAddresses to remove unwanted interfaces in maps. (ZEN-23182)
Add client discovery support using Q-BRIDGE MIB. (ZEN-25336)
Fix "NeighborSwitch" errors after removing the ZenPack. (ZEN-26189)

Cisco UCS Central 1.3.0 (12.8.16)

Improved session handling with the UCS Central XML API. (ZEN-26322)

Microsoft.Windows 2.6.9 (12.5.16)

Added Auth event clears, getPingStatus includes /Status/Ping event class (ZEN-25700)
Fix Windows Shell Datasources are sending datamaps and bogging down ZenHub (ZEN-26226)

NetApp 3.4.2 (11.28.16)

Add support 9.0(C-Mode) ONTAP API version.
Add Port component
Add status monitoring for "vServer" and "Disk Shelf" components
Fix ZEN-21557 (attribute error during modeling and monitoring)
Fix ZEN-22440 (UTF8 monitoring issue)
Fix ZEN-18846 (recursion error on a large number of records)
Fix issue with negative scale for graphs
Fix ZEN-21145 (fails to upgrade earlier version)
Fix performance issue during modeling NFS Client components
Fix modeling operational status and speed properties for virtual Interface components

VMware vSphere 3.5.3 (11.22.16)

Fix TypeError while adding vSphere hypervisor (ZEN-26197)

Linux Monitor 2.1.0 (11.15.16)

Add cpu_ssCpuUsedPerCpu and mem_MemUsedPercent datapoints. (ZEN-22978)
Add common datapoint aliases. (ZEN-24619)
Improve ability to model network interface speeds.
Improve support for NFS filesystem impact. (ZEN-24478)
Improve NFS filesystem linking to NFS server. (ZEN-24478)
Disable monitor of NFS mounted filesystems by default. (ZEN-24650)
Prevent threshold violations on interfaces with unknown speed.
Fix IndexError when modeling older LVM versions. (ZEN-25792)
Fix setIdForRelationship error when modeling some LVM versions. (ZEN-22409)

Oracle Database Monitor 3.0.8 (11.16.16)

Fix TypeError while adding vSphere hypervisor (ZEN-26197)

Cisco UCS 2.5.2 (11.12.16)

Clarify and reduce chassis and server events (ZEN-25740)
Fix zCredentialsZProperties override warning on Zenoss 5.2 (ZEN-26164)

Microsoft.Windows ZenPack 2.6.7 (11.11.16)

Fix TypeError during zenpython collection of a ShellDataSource (ZEN-25978)

Cisco Devices 5.7.3 (11.11.16)

Add support for more telepresence peripherals (ZEN-25993)

CheckPointMonitor (11.7.16)

ZenPacks.zenoss.CheckPointMonitor looking for 'active' state on device, but device returns 'Active', resulting in "unknown HA state" event (ZEN-24438)

Azure 1.2.0 (11.4.16)

Added support for resources deployed in Azure Resource Manager (ARM) deployment model
Added bidirectional associating of Azure Instances (Classic Instances) with guest operating systems

OpenStackInfrastructure 2.3.1 Hotfix (11.3.16)

Upgrade txsshclient to fix critical change in twisted.conch (ZEN-25870)

Ceph 2.0.1 (11.3.16)

Upgrade txsshclient to fix critical change in twisted.conch (ZEN-25737)
Reduce INFO logs in modeler to reduce noise (ZEN-25738)

HP Proliant 3.2.1 (11.1.16)

Updated ILO Protocol handler to address SSL certificate validation issue while preserving HTTP/1.1 compliance
Updated XML parser to better handle invalid XML output
Fix bad threshold datasource reference in HPArrayController template
Corrected type of cycletime parameter
Ensure all SNMP templates available to /Devices/Server/HP/ILO/SMNP

IBM Power Release 1.1.2(10.28.16)

ZEN-25867: Updated to txsshclient 1.0.0 for Twisted 15 compatibility
Guard against empty fields used for component IDs
Less ambiguous event summary for incremental model update failures

Installed Templates 1.1.1 (10.28.16)

Fix performance issue with Zenoss Analytics (ZEN-24573)

Solaris 2.5.0 (10.28.16)

Fix performance issue with Zenoss Analytics (ZEN-24573)

vSphere 3.5.0 (10.27.16)

Converted zenpack to use zenpacklib. Small UI differences and improved functionality throughout.
Hide password in the 'Add Multiple Endpoint' dialog. (ZEN-25387)
Improve performance of "Resource Pool" and "Hosts and VMs" reports (ZEN-21039)
Documented analytics behavior and workaround for deleted definitions (ZEN-24333)
Add HostSystem->Datastore DV/impact relation, only in the case where a datastore is stored on local disk on that host. (ZEN-23166)
Add labels and descriptions to vSphere zProperties
Change severity of incorrect username or password in model log from WARNING to ERROR and update message (ZEN-21003)
Add additional filtering options to all reports (ZEN-23157)
Allow addition of vSphere devices under sub classes of /Devices/vSphere (ZEN-22015)
Improvements to performance of component grid with large numbers of components. (componentCatalogs and linkable optimizations)
Disable ping monitoring based on the 'monitored' setting for host components. (ZEN-22206)
Fix CPU/Mem Reservation fields display. (ZEN-21112)
Add labels and descriptions to vSphere zProperties. (ZEN-21278)
Add advanced tuning of modeling transactions via zVSphereModelMpLevel, zVSphereModelMpObjs, zVSphereModelMpIndexObjs.
Reduce likelihood ConflictError during during modeling of large vSphere devices. (ZEN-25488)
Add support for java 8 JVM (ZEN-25482)
Fix units for memEntitlement graph (ZEN-25460)
Extend 'Model Time' field to show also 'Waiting For Modeling' (ZEN-21012)
Ensure that repeat count increases on open alarms until they are closed, so that events do not clear in zenoss prematurely. (ZEN-25342)
Auto clear internal heartbeat events on restore (ZEN-24144)
Fix bug where events may be timestamped in UTC time (ZEN-22724)
Fix misleading ping down message on vSphere hosts. (ZEN-22203)
Changed recovery behavior- recover non-timeout errors more frequently. (20 minutes, rather than 4 hours). Place a limit on how much time will be spent on recovery per task, leaving remaining entries for a future polling cycle. This allows more frequent recovery to occur without risking serious impact on the
overall polling cycle time.
Lowered default query timeout (zVSpherePerfQueryTimeout) from 200 seconds to 25. Failures due to timeout are retried as smaller queries anyway, and a faster failure is good for overall collection time.
Change default value of zVSpherePerfParallelQueries from 6 to 8, to improve overall query performance, especially on large targets.
Group all metrics being polled through the raw data feed by the host and cluster to which they relate, when possible. Hash the hosts over a set of 6 sub-tasks, and collect each one separately. This keeps a bad host from slowing down all the collection tasks randomly. (Any such slowdown is restricted to 1/6 of the data being collected)
Add extensive details to the health report, with an emphasis to grouping errors by host/cluster as described above. Raise events when a particular host or cluster is showing large numbers of errors. Calculate average response times, and distinguish between transient and permanent errors in these reports where appropriate.
Graph high-level performance collection metrics at the device level (# of counters polled, retries vs normal queries, total elapsed time by task type, etc)
When a ping failure event is found for a host, consider the host to be DOWN, rather than ATRISK, regardless of powerState/connnectionState values (ZEN-24612)

Oracle Database Monitor 3.0.7 (10.25.16)

Fix bug in GNUMakefile

Windows 2.6.5 (10.21.16)

Fix missing Process Set process title. (ZEN-25311)

ZenSQLtx 2.6.5 (10.19.16)

Fixed tracebacks associated with errerLog(). (ZEN-24736)

Oracle Database Monitor 3.0.6 (10.18.16)

Guard modeler against modeler errors (ZEN-24515)
Correct Analytics Bundle: (ZEN-24317)
Security fixes: Include full regex for mask_pass (ZEN-24634)

CiscoUCS 2.5.0 (10.13.16)

Added support for UCS Manager 3.1.
Added support for C3260 chassis managed by UCS Manager.
Added support for multiple chassis UCS Mini domains.
Added UCSM Domain Type (Classic or Mini) to device overview.
Added DynamicView and Impact support for CIMC devices.
Added icons for UCS CIMC components.
Added support for alternative port/SSL for CIMC device connections.
Separated "UCS Manager" and "UCS CIMC" Analytics bundles.
Improved CIMC session handling to reduce session exhaustion.
Associated blade server slot events with blade server.
Streamlined modeling updates.
Many other bugfixes and enhancements

Layer2 1.2.2 (10.7.16)

Fix potential 2 minute modeling delay in Zenoss 4.
Fix "Connection refused" when Redis not available. (ZEN-24364)

HP Proliant Release 3.2.0 (10.7.16)

Update Impact documentation (ZEN-25324)
Added "zILOCollectSamples" zProperty (raw modeler output storage)
Updated zProperties (removed zProperty zILOSSLPort, replace with zILOUsesSSL and zILOPort)
Adjust component labels and titles for DynamicView (ZEN-25248)
Add ResetClassRelations migrate script (ZEN-25281)
Sensible thresholds for Temperature graphs (ZEN-25260)
More informative event logging (ZEN-24270)
Ensure that ILODatasource, HPStatusThreshold, and GUI use shared reference data
Updated graph datapoints and templates (ZEN-24886)
Improved datasource/datapoint access methdos for status string retrieval (ZEN-24277)
Fix traceback during WBEM modeling (ZEN-24786)
updated and new unit testing to handle ILO datasource/modeler testing (ZEN-24810)
Revised and simplified all string-to-integer status mapping code
Added new ILOProtocolHandler ILO client (ZEN-25277)
Added new ILOXMLParser for shared access to ILO output
Added cross-reference functions to HPDevice and HPChassis (get_ilo, get_cpus, get_mem)
Revised shared component attributes for consistency
Remove/migrate code from utils.py and ErrorHandler.py
Added ManagedObject base to contine shared component code
deprecate ILO2 support (ZEN-22388)
Rewrite of all modeler plugins
Added HPPluginBase, HPSnmpPlugin to contain shared plugin code
Prevent premature data collection termination (ZEN-24277)
Add support for RAID controller monitoring via SNMP and ILO (ZEN-24211, ZEN-23388)
Fix HPStatusThreshold issue causing data collection to stop (ZEN-23040)
Improved handling of components with blank id (ZEN-22872, ZEN-22851, ZEN-21680)

ZenSQLTx 2.6.4 (10.5.16)

Fix broken "timeout" field in SQL datasource edit dialog (ZEN-22955)
Make SQL libraries importable by other ZenPacks (ZEN-23722)