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Zenoss Core 2.1.71 (zenoss-2.2-sprint2) Available for Download

By admin on Feb 6, 2008 in News Items

The latest packaged version of Zenoss Core, 2.1.71 (zenoss-2.2-sprint2) is available for download. This release continues the 2.2 development cycle.

This sprint release focuses on two main areas of Zenoss Core, ZenPacks and ZenHub consolidation.

With ZenPacks, we have moved to the python egg format which is the standard distribution mechanism for python packages. The move to eggs gives us dependency management of ZenPacks. For ZenPack authors, this is a good time to try porting your ZenPacks from their current zip form to the new egg form. Jason has written this document on how to perform the conversion process. It also details all of the 2.1.71 changes. Please give us feedback on any issues you discover while converting to the new format.

We have also migrated all collector daemons so that they talk though ZenHub. In the current release, some daemons talked directly to databases and others though the hub. The architecture will be easier to maintain now that everyone speaks though the hub.

When upgrading to 2.1.71, you can expect to get some hearbeat errors from zenmodeler, zensyslog and zentrap due to some programmatic changes. You can clear these heartbeats using the Clear heartbeats menu item in the event manager. You should only get these heartbeat errors once.

Zenoss Core 2.1.71 is available from the Zenoss Sprint page.

Here are all of the tickets fixed for this release (Also available in this report):All

1549- Consistently report manager and agent in all events.
1676- Sending events at shutdown causes traceback
2630- Speed up the WMI rebuild process
2640- A fresh install does not create the PerformanceConf Template

DataCollector

2683- Fix getResults for PortscanClient, PythonClient and SshClient
2095- Convert zendisc to a PBDaemon

User Interface

2696- Update copyright on login page to 2008
2618- Device list and event console grid component doesn’t calculate the offset of the next batch properly

ZenEvents

2096- Convert zensyslog to a PBDaemon
2097- Convert zentrap to a PBDaemon

ZenModel

2562- Rest Bindings does not work on device classes
2635- IpInterface.getRRDTemplates() is ill behaved at times
2682- GraphReportElements ill behaved when a component is missing

ZenPack

2664- New edit page for zenpacks
2555- Investigate installation of zenpacks as egg files versus development mode.
2693- ZenPack edit page formatted better
2661- Change sitecustomize to add ZenPacks directory
2670- New zenpack egg format needs to coexist with previous form zenpacks
2672- Make sure auto-install of dependencies works

ZenRRD