The version 29 of the Nagios Plugins for Linux (“High Temperatures”) is available for download!

The Nagios Plugins for Linux is a free and open source set of Nagios and Icinga plugins for monitoring the major system parameters of a Linux server. The source code is available at GitHub. You can find the documentation in the project main page or the associated wiki site.

What’s new in this release

FIXES

Plugin check_temperature

• Do not display thermal ranges if -t|--thermal_zone in not set at command-line.

ENHANCEMENTS

Plugin check_temperature

• Improve the output message by adding the thermal device when available;
• List also the devices that display a temperature of 0°C to be more consistent with the tool ‘sensors’;
• Improve the help message;
• New command-line option -l|--list for displyaing the all the thermal sensors reported by the kernel.

Package creation

• Update the list of supported platforms by adding Alpine 3.13 and 3.14 and Fedora 34;
• Several improvements to the Debian packaging (thanks to Vincent Olivert-Riera for the PR);
• Build Debian multi-packages instead of a single package providing all binary plugins. This will permit these plugins to cohexist with the Nagios native ones.

Test framework

• Switch to the latest stable OSes in GitHub workflow.

Documentation

• Update the documentation for linking against procps-ng newlib;
• Thanks to Christian Bryn (epleterte) for reporting and fixing a typo in the git clone command.