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All,

The high performance poller for Cacti, Spine 0.8.7d has been released.  
Please read the ChangeLog below for details as to the scope of the 
changes from 0.8.7c to 0.8.7d.  The source and Windows binaries can be 
found at the Cacti Forums link below.  The source and binaries will be 
transferred to the main Cacti website in a few days.

There are a few feature introductions in this release that are designed 
specifically to support future releases of Cacti and for a few 
"enhanced" versions that are in use by some long time Cacti users that 
are very similar to what is being planned for Cacti 0.8.8. So, for them, 
it's an easier way to plan their migrations (you know who you are). 

Also, the default method for launching scripts has been reverted to 
using nifty popen, as it provides a better way to cleanup scripts that 
timeout.  You may still use the standard popen call if you choose, by 
using a configure option designed to enable it.  There have been many 
bug fixes especially when it comes to TCP, UDP and ICMP ping performance 
and certain re-index corner cases that caused Spine issues in the past.

Enjoy, and don't forget, donations are alway welcomed.  Your donations 
provide beer money for the whole team! (well, a certain Canadian member 
prefers cider, which is more expensive, so give generously)

Regards,

TheWitness

Spine ChangeLog:
0.8.7d
-bug#0001310: Feature request for poller.php- single host polling
-bug#0001313: Spine takes an excessive amount of time timing out failed 
tcp pings
-bug#0001358: (cacti + spine) svn. Using snmp v3 constantly get "value: 
U", whereas snmpget returns correct value
-bug#0001379: Ping.c might send more then retry_count icmp packages
-bug#0001381: configure script distributed with cacti-spine-0.8.7c is 
broken
-bug#0001420: PCOMMAND: Poller[0] Host[80] WARNING: Recache Event 
Detected for Host
-bug: A host that for some reason can not initialize snmp can cause a 
segfault
-bug: When using nifty popen, when the script times out, attempt to kill it
-bug: Under some platforms tcp and udp ping unresponsive
-bug: Availability messaging incorrect for snmpv3 hosts
-bug: TCP Pings that receive a connection refused are good pings
-bug: Avoid segmentation faults when Reindex table issues are found
-bug: When performing snmp_get's, dont assume no error means non-null 
response
-bug: Some snmp agents don't getnext on '.1' and need another oid '.1.3'
-bug: Net-snmp versioning breaks snmpV3
-bug: Use system level snmp_retries variable instead of 3
-feature: Add one additional debug message to the poller code to track 
data sources polled
-feature: Add more config paths for packagers
-feature: Allow specification of an optional hostlist instead of first 
and last hostid's
-feature: Integrate more tightly with boost by allowing writing directly 
to the boost output table
-feature: Complete implementation poller_id field for people using a 
poller_id for polling.

Cacti Forum Link:
http://forums.cacti.net/viewtopic.php?p=163303#163303