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dim_STAT: Version 8.3 is ready!!! :-)

Dear friends/users!

I'm pleased to announce you the new release of dim_STAT - v.8.3 !

This is a mainly maintenance update release, just to fix all trailing issues before a big move to the v.9.0 :-))

Here is a list of some changes:

Fixes:

• security issue on STAT-service!! (special thanks to Marc Koderer @LHS to find it!)
• execution of dim_STAT-CLI from the web services
• fixed LANG=C and LC_ALL=C via the main STAT-service script

Improvements:

• Optional Admin password may be given on a database creation and then it'll be required for any admin action!
• Database error messages are now handled separately from LOG messages
• Java WebDRAW Applet updated
• add color LEDs near hostnames to signal running or stopped hosts
• add #Records column to have an idea about a number of database rows per collect
• Admin LOG management is working more friendly now with a long lists of messages :-)
• STAT-service daemon may listen exclusively on a given IP address now [IP:port]
• Whole database backup is added to the Admin menu
• etc..

Database schema:

• iostat disk names are extended to varchar(64)
• all float values are moved to float(25,5) to have an easy human reading :-)
• Add-On name limit is 14 characters now

Report Tool:

• wiki-like syntax is added to simplify writing!
• look & feel updated
• some minor fixes here & there :-)

New Add-Ons:

• HAR v2 (visit http://blogs.sun.com/openomics/entry/cpu_hardware_counter_stats for more details)
• Solaris CPU Set STAT (mpstat -a)
• Linux MPSTAT v2
• MySQL STAT
• InnoDB STAT
• InnoDB I/O STAT (adoption of Neel's DTrace script http://blogs.sun.com/realneel/entry/inniostat_innodb_io_statistics )
• PgSQL STAT (PostgreSQL)
• ZoneLOAD: zoneid => zonename

EasySTAT additional options:

• COMPRESS=gzip (compressing of output files)
• TIMER=yes (auto-timestamping within output files)

Also, since this 8.3 version dim_STAT is moving to GPLv2 license! Most of source code will be published in parallel with binaries - and with time you'll probably find it ported on any platform, even Mac :-)

As well several things are added to simplify a knowledge sharing between dim_STAT users:

• this blog is added now on my site: http://dimitrik.free.fr/blog  and it contains a special category "dim_STAT" - you may subscribe on it to stay updated about any news or features coming with dim_STAT
  
  
• there is a dim_STAT on Google Groups now: http://groups.google.com/group/dimstat - you may share here all your best practices, additional stuff you have, ideas about new features, etc. etc. etc. (For example, there is a STAT-service daemon rewritten in Perl by Marc KODERER (http://search.cpan.org/~mkoderer/ ), ZFS stats add-on added by Roman IVANOV (http://blogs.sun.com/pomah/entry/monitoring_zfs_statistic ) and many other you may google for, but now may all be referenced from the same place)..

And finally following users requests a "Donate" button is added for those who wants to support the development of this project and see new features coming faster! All credit cards are accepted! :-))

As usually you may download both versions (Solaris & Linux) from http://dimitrik.free.fr  

Have fun! :-))