v0.5.1

• 49065d4 Provide an example how to retrieve the network, IP and MAC address of a virtual machine
• bcfdc63 Add more examples to the documentation
• 131f18b Create vPoller exceptions.py module
• d776f4d Update copyright years
• 5197477 Add a placeholder for documenting how to use performance counters with vPoller
• a3038d2 Reorganize the src/ directory of vPoller
• aff122a Update documentation
• 24a015d Commit a sample supervisord config file
• 257b546 Update the table of supported vPoller methods
• 6fc8835 perf.counter.info -> perf.metric.info
• 2de8920 Log the version of vPoller when starting Proxy & Worker
• 44544ad Commit an example result of perf.metric.info showing all performance metrics on a vSphere host
• 9ae0ef9 Update log messages for perf.metric.info
• 7e22640 Document the perf.interval.info vPoller method
• fe6a567 Commit an example file showing the result of vm.perf.metric.info method
• 1b905f1 Be able to retrieve performance metrics with provided counter ID only
• f618285 Initial cut of the performance metrics documentation
• eb62545 Commit an example screenshot of perf.interval.info method
• a74c4a8 Refactor a bit entity_perf_metric_get() method
• 044cc2d Implement datastore.perf.metric.get vPoller method
• e2afed2 vpoller-client: Add options for providing performance metrics parameters
• 86319b1 Initial commit of the vpoller.registry module
• 3ca7c39 Implement contains() special method for TaskRegistry class
• 0917309 Initial commit of the vpoller.decorators module
• 2fbe665 A task may or may not require any information as part of the message
• b2de631 vPoller tasks are now created using the @vpoller.decorators.task decorator
• 48ec723 Convert more methods to tasks
• 0c8e462 There nothing to init now in VSphereAgent
• 90a45d7 Initial commit of vpoller.log module
• 3b38d09 vpoller.registry uses the logger from vpoller.log module
• 0a70eae vPoller modules use vpoller.log.logger for logging
• 5624c14 Python 3.x compatibilities
• c5af27e Just return the exception message when a vPoller Helper fails
• 43e0295 vPoller now runs on Python 2.7.x and 3.x, yay! :)
• 81769f6 Wrapped functions are going into the vPoller Registry
• 9e32e9e Nuke VSphereAgent class and turn it's methods into functions decorated as tasks
• 362444c Encode resulting messages in UTF-8 before printing them
• ddcc279 Implement a Task class to be used for creating new vPoller tasks
• cc6dfef Initial commit of vpoller.task.core module
• d2d7c92 Clean up vpoller.task.registry module
• 4a18f37 Commit vpoller/task/init.py
• 92a4617 Registered vPoller tasks are instances of Task
• 4a0aecd Initial commit of vsphere/init.py
• e4c64fc @task decorator is now at vpoller.task.decorators
• c8e81e7 agent.py -> vsphere/tasks.py
• 7b06f05 Cleanup of vpoller.task.registry module
• b84fdb2 From now on the VPollerWorker uses VConnector instances instead of VSphereAgent ones
• 39595eb vpoller.client uses the vpoller.log.logger instance
• 91f243a Remove validate_client_message() from vpoller.vsphere.tasks module
• 4efc135 validate_message is part of the vpoller.client module
• ef2668e Load task modules when instantiating a VPollerWorker instance
• 4565716 Correctly register the task module that once loaded
• 9b77845 Remove some logging.info's
• fdf155c A VPollerWorker instance now can take advantage of using an expiring cache for managed objects
• e44c3e6 vPoller release 0.3.9-dev now requires vConnector >= 0.3.3
• a16ba86 Take into account cache settings when starting the vPoller Worker
• d0c926c Update vpoller.conf.sample with the new caching settings
• bb0c198 Update documentation with new cache settings
• 83a134d vPoller now requires vConnector >= 0.3.5
• c43c544 Fix doc table
• 3ddf0c2 Document the 'helpers' and 'tasks' options of vpoller-worker
• 2c1bb23 Return a more useful traceback when a task fails
• 7878ffb If a task fails provide the traceback as part of the message
• 3f1dad0 vpoller-client now supports --max-sample and --perf-interval command-line options
• 30f4f2c Log the traceback if a task fails
• a648667 Refactoring of the vPoller performance metrics methods
• f19d750 _entity_perf_metric_info reports whether an entity supports real-time and historical statistics
• 594fab1 Finish the documentation on performance counters
• 6f11ee7 Docs fixes
• f5b6b1d Add a version tag to the Zabbix vPoller module
• 48502d6 Document how to use the *.alarm.get vPoller methods
• d6ae906 The vPoller Zabbix helper now supports all vPoller *.alarm.get methods
• d0471cf Update Zabbix templates for vPoller
• 3ee2f3c Commit vPoller templates for Zabbix 2.4.x releases
• bff984d Add a note that users are encouraged to enable/disable items from the Zabbix templates for their environment
• 75a0a76 Be more verbose when calling and returning result from tasks if using DEBUG log level
• 345601b Remove some redundant code
• d772a54 Zabbix vPoller module: The 'vpoller.echo' method echoes the second parameter only
• 4d9a659 vpoller.c module: typo fixes
• c85b755 Revert "vpoller.c module: typo fixes"
• f61e12a Revert "Zabbix vPoller module: The 'vpoller.echo' method echoes the second"
• ccdd83f The Zabbix 'vpoller.echo' key requires at least 1 parameter
• c7f8f23 Add a vSphere Datacenter template for Zabbix with discovery of triggered alarms
• e20ec89 Add an example screenshot showing discovered Datacenter alarms in Zabbix
• 31bfd18 zabbix-vsphere-import: Import vim.Datacenter objects as Zabbix hosts as well
• 937ffe5 Add vim.Datacenter objects example to the zabbix-vsphere-import sample config file
• 219fc5f zabbix-vsphere-import: Fix import of Datacenter objects
• 825a7c4 Update copyright years
• f0aa79d Fix for issue #124
• 6087765 The vPoller Zabbix helper now supports all performance metric methods
• 2936084 The vPoller C client now supports all methods methods as the Python client does
• d6bcbe6 The vPoller module for Zabbix supports performance metrics methods now
• b0c105b vpoller-client: Historical performance interval is specified using the -T command-line option
• 903ff76 Update vPoller Zabbix documentation with the update vpoller[*] Zabbix item specs
• 189e7b3 vpoller-client: Be consistent with the C client and Zabbix module
• 002d4b1 vPoller release 0.5.1
• cc01cf2 vPoller now requires vConnector >= 0.3.7
• 41389dd Update Zabbix templates for vPoller with some performance metrics
• 83953ce More example screenshots of vPoller and Zabbix

v0.3.7

• 60252c2 vPoller does not require tabulate dependency
• d4642ed The vPoller Zabbix helper now supports 'datacenter.alarm.get' method
• 84bbc7e Issue #94: Update zabbix-vsphere-import to work with Zabbix version 2.4.x as well
• 6ceb9fc Add a vpoller badge
• da91d3e Add PyPI badges
• a3bbe1c VPollerClient instances return a json.dumps() result like the Worker does in case of failures
• 7b7e2ae We should print an error message when a vPoller task fails
• 15d9469 Issue #108: Remove extra hosts from Zabbix which are no longer found in the vSphere host from which import objects
• 0c85d4e Issue #109: Fix getting Zabbix Proxy host ID
• 31fd12a Issue #108: Fix removal of extra datastores found in Zabbix, but not present in vSphere
• 7cbe88a zabbix-vsphere-import: Set the discovered vSphere data as attributes of the Zabbix instance
• 2489bcc Implement a new vPoller method - perf.counter.info
• 6ef7eb6 Implement host.perf.counter.info vPoller method
• 167215e Implement vm.perf.counter.info vPoller method
• 0bb7c42 Implement datastore.perf.counter.info vPoller method
• 7866367 Typo fixes
• ecb3b7e Implement datacenter.perf.counter.info vPoller method
• 3f08622 Implement cluster.perf.counter.info vPoller method
• 62a33fb Document the new *.perf.counter.info vPoller methods
• d09506c Refactor the *.perf.counter.info methods
• 3b03815 No need to make perf_counter_supported a @Property for now
• 29bc0f6 Fix perf.counter.info method
• 342196e Fix _entity_perf_counter_info() method
• 660bd07 Check that the object exists before we try to get it's performance countersX
• da2e4b8 Correct the name for vm.perf.counter.info method
• 7d86560 Querying for datastore performance counters is done using info.url property
• 80c8482 Commit a helper method for retrieving real-time performance metrics
• 0d35860 Initial commit of perf.interval.info vPoller method
• 1b24fc3 If real-time stats are not available for an entity fall back to historical statistics
• f030ebb Implement datacenter.perf.counter.get method
• e344040 Implement cluster.perf.counter.get vPoller method
• 8bbfac9 Implement host.perf.counter.get vPoller method
• 16d5ced Be able to provide a historical interval for objects which support real-time performance stats as well
• bd52954 _entity_perf_counter_info returns info for real-time or historical counters
• 71f3b2c s/_entity_perf_counter_info/_entity_perf_metric_info
• ac4f876 Refactor perf.counter.info vPoller method
• 5d45460 Docstring updates
• 5243fee *_perf_counter_info and *_perf_counter_get methods become *_perf_metric_info and *_perf_metric_get
• 1380b1c Implement vm.perf.metric.get method
• 8457e2c Ignore venv/* if you have a virtualenv in vPoller
• a36659b Log information about the vSphere Agents created by the Worker
• 5a17dca Merge branch 'performance-counters'
• 9cb5f9c Refactor init.py files
• a59d4db PEP-396
• ae5f9fc vPoller version 0.3.7-dev

v0.3.5

• 7832b4c Update version to 0.3.3
• c72ee7f Fix for issue #78
• a064719 vpoller.conf -> vpoller.conf.sample
• 3df2a96 Move init.d scripts to 'legacy' as we use Supervisord for managing vPoller services now
• d0a5afa Move logrotate config to 'legacy' as we use Supervisord now
• 0d09a6e Update requirements to the latest versions available
• 88d37cf Ignore whitespaces when defining the helpers to be loaded
• 3628fff Update vPoller templates
• 5b10c60 Update Zabbix vPoller template for VMs
• 00d04e5 Update Zabbix vPoller template for Datastores
• ca03ea7 vPoller templates update
• b2b8741 vPoller Zabbix template for Datastores update
• f9795a8 Implement 'session.get' vPoller method for getting the established sessions
• e531782 Add support for 'session.get' for the vPoller Zabbix helper
• 4dcc83d Add a note when configuring vSphere Agents
• 7374c77 Document the 'session.get' vPoller method
• 99bb1cf View established vSphere sessions from Zabbix
• e46dfbd Commit a helper method for retrieving alarms for managed objects
• 049e5f6 Implement 'host.alarm.get' vPoller method for retrieving alarms for ESXi hosts
• 7047596 Document 'host.alarm.get' method
• 59ce881 Add 'acknowledgedByUser' property for each alarm
• 3583968 Implement a 'datacenter.alarm.get' vPoller method
• 1e6aa83 Implement a 'cluster.alarm.get' vPoller method
• 36ea9fa Implement a 'vm.alarm.get' vPoller method
• 7d72a4f Implement a 'datastore.alarm.get' vPoller method
• 5b47351 vpoller-worker: Specify the configuration file being used in the error message
• 1a60c7a docs: typo fix
• 6cd6b36 Issue #88: Escape backslashes in the 'key' vPoller parameter
• 19c6f22 docs: Provide an example of using the 'vm.process.get' vPoller method
• 7375036 The 'vm.process.get' method data in the same format as other methods do
• 90c43b2 The Zabbix vPoller helper now supports vm.process.get method
• 53c8e21 The Zabbix vPoller helper for vm.process.get supports matching of processes
• 0fa070c Zabbix vPoller documentation updates
• 3536e6a The vpoller.so Zabbix module now supports passing for username & password
• a5b4c77 vpoller.c: Fix compiler warning
• d32d4d6 Document how to perform agent-less process monitoring with vPoller and Zabbix
• 42470df zabbix-vsphere-import: Fix for issue #100
• 741d20c Commit an example Zabbix template for agent-less process monitoring in VMs
• 10fe731 Disable discovery of vSphere sessions by default
• 625da75 vPoller release 0.3.5
• 43bf792 vPoller now depends on vConnector v0.3.1

v0.3.3

• 6c890cc Gentoo init script: Fix issue with status is crashed
• 093ad56 Fixed an issue with the gentoo init scripts: Process always in crashed status
• 6371871 Updated wrapper scripts with extra tests to fix issue: #39
• 5619f68 Merge branch 'master' into develop
• 759d87f Moved all Gentoo related files to contrib.
• dfa8cd4 Merge branch 'master' into develop
• e2a1b4c Adding build related directories to .gitignore
• a587ec4 Fixed the space issue in a variable as we had before with c-client
• 406cb86 Fix syntax error issue
• 3223a90 Fix timeout issue
• df1ab06 Renamed file names to be more consitend with template naming
• e99cf90 Renamed directory name
• 2700012 Updated template files
• dbb3f4b Fixes on the Gentoo init scripts
• d724139 Updated logrotate config file
• d21181a Initial new debian startup script
• 996fff7 Fix to vpoller worker to find the daemon file from the path
• 17a15d7 Cleanup in worker
• dd1b9d5 Initial version for new debian script vpoller-proxy
• e3976d8 Small fixes
• 1a8a2f7 Modified vpoller-proxy script
• ec65de1 Modified vpoller-proxy script
• 04f1593 Fixes to startup script vpoller-proxy
• 9bd1205 Update both debian init scripts
• c2718ec Small fixes
• 000f5e5 Fix cluster/datacenter discovery
• b71ad79 Replaced sh with bash because it can give issues when there are no spaces found
• 79f57cb Replaced sh with bash because it can give issues when there are no spaces found
• 1365028 Merge branch 'master' into develop
• 58a9e29 zabbix-vsphere-import: handle the case when an ESXi host is not a member of a cluster
• c732005 vpoller-cclient: Return a JSON object in case we don't hear from the Proxy/Worker
• 673a9a1 Merge pull request #50 from blackcobra1973/develop
• 181dc3b vpoller-cclient: Return EX_UNAVAILABLE if don't get a reply back
• 10b0d9b vPoller now requires vConnector version 0.2.9
• 21425dd Nuke keep_agents_alive() method
• c73b720 Nuke start_vsphere_agents() method
• f0be46e Remove leftovers
• a5c8417 Merge pull request #53 from blackcobra1973/develop
• 5f028ac Merge pull request #63 from blackcobra1973/develop
• 1fcab98 Merge pull request #64 from blackcobra1973/develop
• aa54ced First cut of the multiprocessing support for vPoller
• f1b418b Process management messages in the vPoller Worker Manager
• 4da1c01 Fix vpoller-worker management methods
• b1a5076 Add 'db' and 'proxy' options to the config defaults of vPoller Worker
• 937e32b VPollerWorker class now extends multiprocessing.Process
• f06262f Rename shutdown() method to signal_stop() as this is what it really does
• b61facf VPollerWorker class refactoring after the 'multiprocessing' changes
• f191c76 Update vpoller-worker cli script to make use of the new 'multiprocessing' features
• 28c8f2c vpoller-worker: management endpoint is defined in the 'worker' section
• b6fc6ef vpoller-worker: join() processes after 3 timeout
• dbeb156 Cosmetics
• 16f850a Initial commit of the VPollerProxyManager class
• 1b6846d Refactor VPollerProxy class for use with 'multiprocessing' support
• e2e763e multiprocessing logging changes
• d50731f Cosmetics
• 2cc441d Get rid of the custom daemonization code
• 5e445ba Remove leftovers
• e59443b More leftovers
• 2ea64dc Instantiate attributes in init()
• 7adb8c7 Argument 'concurrency' is an int object
• 3a8873b Revert "Instantiate attributes in init()"
• 51fad99 Refactor 'agent' module
• 6b4d411 Fix vpoller-worker cli script
• 5da38bd 'logging' updates...
• 81b9468 Remove unused imports
• 345b033 flake8 fixes
• b319460 Cosmetic changes
• d779bf7 docstring updates
• 2b0b5b2 more logging ...
• c0a0694 Catch KeyboardInterrupt exceptions and stop processes gracefully when catched
• 440ddbb Document that master branch contains development code
• 77095eb Ignore documentation _build directory
• 6ec553c Initial commit of index.rst
• 970d625 Initial commit of installation.rst
• 3a4d6f5 Add 'terminology.rst' to the index
• e268d1e Initial commit of terminology.rst
• d62245c Initial commit of configuration.rst
• 87ab9ed Add a 'Getting started' section
• b1717b5 Initial commit of services.rst
• c78f25f Initial commit of helpers.rst
• 39e9da6 Initial commit of examples.rst
• 74b7df9 Initial commit of methods.rst
• d7b6492 Commit Sphinx configs and Makefile
• 06aaca6 Documentation updates
• 316b2e6 Add a link to the online documentation of vPoller
• 7c99c8d Commit the vPoller Zabbix documentation
• 3e8cadc Re-organize the Zabbix related bits
• 6bffce4 Fix location to the zabbix-vsphere-import tool and config
• 18d00df Return error message to client when invalid message is sent to vPoller
• 11a710d Return error message to the client when an invalid management message was received
• 0c32a03 Initial commit of the 'vPoller API documentation'
• ca6b0d4 Move vPoller Helpers from client applications to the vPoller Worker
• 0acafc2 Update the vPoller Helpers documentation
• 3abac2a Cosmetics
• 2664477 Initial commit of the "vPoller loadable module for Zabbix"
• a178f9f Document how to build, install and configure the vPoller loadable module for Zabbix
• 19c8f28 Mention to disable any Zabbix LLD rules if using zabbix-vsphere-import tool
• 745a342 Update usage information for vpoller-client and vpoller-cclient
• d6934b3 Add support for vPoller helpers in the C client
• b241f31 When we cannot get a property for a vSphere object return '(null)' as a string as other languages do not understand Python's None type
• bea8104 Typo fix
• e5f0eac vpoller-cclient: Free any allocated memory by the ZeroMQ message and context
• 136a01f Fix a memory leak in vpoller-cclient
• 36ecf1d Change buffer size of the vPoller module for Zabbix to MAX_BUFFER_LEN bytes
• f77b169 Plug a memory leak in the vPoller loadable module for Zabbix
• c150563 Add logging to the vPoller Zabbix helper
• 3d3ac6b Zabbix helper module fixes
• 12966f3 The message we get from zmq_msg_data() is not null-terminated, so make sure we terminate it before trying to release any memory or print it
• 655dcfb If "result is None" then that means we got no response
• ac6602e zbx-helper: Discovery methods make use of the 'method' name, so set it as attribute
• 16f2e8f Do not NULL-terminate the data we receive on the ZeroMQ socket
• 4220677 Add a NULL terminator to the data we send out to clients
• 5bc44e9 Send vPoller results using send_unicode() method
• df10a33 Remove obsolete code from vpoller-client
• 6cff378 Fix Zabbix vPoller helper discovery methods
• f9ae086 Dump result from vSphere Agents to JSON only if no helper was used
• 1894b2d vPoller Zabbix Helper: Dump any result to JSON before returning to client
• 26243bc Initial commit of the vpoller.helpers.czabbix helper module for C clients
• ba6d4d4 Initial commit of the vpoller.helpers.cclient helper module for C clients
• 515b315 vpoller-cclient: By default we use the vpoller.helpers.cclient helper
• 38630bb vPoller loadable module for Zabbix uses the vpoller.helpers.czabbix helper
• 4ee9244 Typo fix
• 95d04a3 Fix vpoller-client after the recent changes
• d13057a vpoller.helpers.cclient needs to import json
• 2123800 zabbix-vsphere-import: Load the JSON object before returning data
• 6b526f7 Document the new vPoller Helpers for C clients
• dc03ea2 Load vpoller.so module configuration file during initialization
• 430bdbe Set default settings for vPoller in the vpoller.so module
• cc011ab Make the vpoller.so module config parameters optional as we have defaults
• 019c0a6 Commit a sample vpoller_module.conf for the loadable module of vPoller
• 7481624 vPoller Zabbix docs update
• 2f48431 Close ZeroMQ message and socket if we've got no response from vPoller at all
• 3d7b4a5 Document that the vPoller integration with Zabbix requires helpers to be enabled
• 5ef10d2 Document how to load multiple vPoller helpers
• 3bc7d6c Commit the legacy vPoller templates with externalchecks for Zabbix
• 11ef12b Remove the old templates with externalchecks
• 2bb0e68 Initial commit of the Zabbix templates with native vPoller support
• 018ae6a Update 'host.vm.get' method so that it returns result as a list like all other methods do
• 9526251 Zabbix vPoller Helper: Use the full method name when constructing the macros, without including the last part of the name (like '.get' and '.discover')
• 0d4c2f8 Support 'host.vm.get' method in the vPoller Zabbix Helper
• f2cacd3 Implement a 'vpoller.echo' key in the vPoller loadable module for Zabbix
• 65efabe Forgot to include the zbx_module_vpoller_echo() prototype
• 7841473 Encourage the use of native vPoller support for Zabbix instead of externalscripts
• 0c17b18 Docs update
• 3beb950 vPoller methods '*.datastore.get' return result as a list like the other methods
• 5205480 Support 'host.datastore.get' method in the Zabbix Helper
• a2828a7 The 'vm.datastore.get' method is now supported by the vPoller Zabbix helper
• 2baa2ed The 'datastore.host.get' method returns a list as the result like all other methods do
• 2418902 Zabbix helper now supports the 'datastore.host.get' method
• ab1d68b The 'datastore.vm.get' method returns a list as the result as all other methods do
• ea1f865 The Zabbix helper now supports 'datastore.vm.get' method
• 4fed493 Cosmetics
• 01cdf19 vPoller Zabbix documentation update
• 78fbbeb Update vPoller templates for Zabbix
• c76ec16 README.md -> README.rst
• abf3ed8 Initial commit of MANIFEST.in
• ac73992 setup.py updates
• d0da68e vPoller release 0.3.3 is now available
• 74ee2e6 Fix link to license
• cdf71e3 Document how to install vPoller using pip
• 5421b39 Fix vpoller-worker and vpoller-proxy scripts
• 298b5a9 Update vPoller Datastore template for Zabbix

v0.2.9

• db7295d Added Gentoo related installation document. * Added Gentoo init scripts for vpoller-proxy and vpoller-worker.
• bdc22dd There are 2 sollutions to make sure that VM Objects with spaces can be validated, instead of returning null
• 78ebb3e Removed echo statements for debugging
• 09b6a33 fixed the processing part of the script
• 0ee4bb5 Removed second method from script to keep the method which only put variables with a space in between quotes
• fa53f06 Fixes in the Gentoo start scripts
• 6b56b05 Added template file for logrotate
• f9c9cb6 Updated documentation for Gentoo: added logrotate part
• 18d44a7 Add a 'datastore.host.get' vPoller method for retrieving all HostSystems attached to a specific datastore
• 6cc76d1 Add a 'datastore.vm.get' vPoller method for getting all VirtualMachine objects using a specific datastore
• 1a2c79d vConnector module now exists as a separate Python module
• fc9e0d3 Remove leftovers
• 1c10016 Create /var/log/vconnector while bootstrapping vPoller
• 888bf5c Implement 'vm.cpu.usage.percent' vPoller method
• 1450ae4 Update the Zabbix template with vm.cpu.usage.percent item
• f2ca184 Document the vm.cpu.usage.percent vPoller method
• 1877d0c Add a 'vm.cpu.usage.percent' alias to the vcli-* aliases
• a4429de Commit init.d script for managing multiple vPoller Workers on the same machine
• 106bc23 Change path to the vPoller Proxy and Worker to the one installed by the Debian packages
• b434f4e Add -W flag to vpoller-worker for logging only warning and error messages
• 3e1be0e Fix for issue #33
• 9607258 Issue #33
• c4d816a zabbix-vsphere-import: Fix host group creation
• a9a7f24 zabbix-vsphere-import: Logging
• de83926 zabbix-vsphere-import: Import vSphere Clusters as Zabbix hostgroups
• a8df318 zabbix-vsphere-import: Add the hosts to their respective cluster hostgroups
• 2fb7f19 zabbix-vsphere-import: Add the VMs to their respective cluster/hostgroup in Zabbix
• 59d9542 zabbix-vsphere-import: Fix example config file
• 5e5c7cd zabbix-vsphere-import: Cosmetics
• 89f5b9c Create /var/run/vpoller directory if it doesn't exist before starting the daemons
• 9ee42c4 Merge pull request #38 from blackcobra1973/develop
• 2a2b7fa Add AUTHORS.txt file
• fc65a23 Version 0.2.9

v0.2.5

• 9b42e0a Commit 'vcli-*' aliases
• 4870ee5 Add 'net.discover' method for discovering all vim.Network managed objects
• aa6a394 Add 'net.get' vPoller method for getting properties for a single vim.Network managed object
• 54e3fd6 Add 'net.host.get' vPoller method
• f7ce089 Add 'net.vm.get' vPoller method
• 2a65e2c Rename 'vm.net.discover' method to 'vm.guest.net.get' to make it clean this is a 'guest' related property
• c4eb938 Add 'host.net.get' vPoller method
• bcd8ada Add 'vm.net.get' vPoller method
• ca74e32 Document new vPoller methods
• 3990ed6 Bring the Zabbix Helper up-to-date with the latest vPoller methods
• 860f953 Append the vSphere host in the result while preparing the Zabbix LLD data
• ffc5ad3 Commit a simple wrapper script for use with Zabbix
• 2ee4cff s/msg/msg_attr for the required attributes of the message
• ef821c2 Return result only for the first item to Zabbix (which is what we would expect as we process a single item at a time)
• 6e10bd2 Revert "Append the vSphere host in the result while preparing the Zabbix LLD data"
• 692352e Return result as a list so we are consistent with the other vPoller methods
• cfdbac6 Add 'vm.process.get' vPoller method for getting processes in a guest system
• 536c1eb Refactor usage info for 'vpoller-client' and add some examples
• e8fd333 Return result as a list for consistency with the other vPoller methods
• 13c4ad6 Fix 'vm.host.get' method
• 7a6b1df Return result as a list in 'vm.disk.discover'
• bf1dad6 Add a Zabbix 'zabbix_vm_disk_get' helper method
• 3ad7d9c Update vpoller-cclient C client comments
• 16188aa 'success' attribute in result message should return 1 on failure so we can use that as an exit code in the client applications
• da0c835 Return exit code in the vpoller-client on success/failure
• 5755e0b Check if a message attribute we don't know about is defined in the vPoller Worker first
• d931f77 Get the vPoller C Client up-to-date with the recent changes in vPoller
• 159fd91 Destroy Views when no longer needed
• c5e46bd Add a Zabbix helper method for translating VM disk discovery requests
• ab5314c Apparently there is a memory leak in ZeroMQ while terminating a context, so leave that for now until we figure out how to deal with this and have it fixed (either in vPoller or ZeroMQ upstream)
• 25e9fce Zabbix helper should return None if we don't have the requested property in the result
• c0e4ef9 Add 'host.cluster.get' vPoller method for getting the cluster name for a HostSystem
• 3dcba5e Typo fix
• 066e791 Check if we got a valid client message first before processing it
• 3a8a5db Commit a wrapper script for use with Zabbix and the C client of vPoller
• ca87aad Return result from 'jq' in raw output (no quotes) in result
• 36c436d cvpoller-zabbix: Just parse the stdout with 'jq', ignore stderr
• b228725 Recommended ZeroMQ library version is 4.x
• 87a9651 Add instructions how to build ZeroMQ 4.x library to the documentation
• c4dfb3b Use pyzmq version 14.1.1
• 8eaf412 Return exit codes from vPoller Worker and Proxy
• d69b708 Commit a Zabbix wrapper script for using vm.disk.get method with C client
• 25615ae First cut of the Zabbix vSphere import script which would import vSphere objects as regular Zabbix hosts
• 233739a Add more methods to the zabbix-vsphere-import tool
• b8e561a zabbix-vsphere-import: Add method for getting Zabbix host groups
• 17b07dc zabbix-vsphere-import: Be able to search for a host in Zabbix by it's name
• 480bf80 zabbix-vsphere-import: Find a template by it's name
• 0c3a195 zabbix-vsphere-import: Find a Zabbix hostgroup by name
• 40d273d zabbix-vsphere-import: More logging
• 0ad2fee zabbix-vsphere-import: Add method for creating a hostgroup in Zabbix
• 978ac1b zabbix-vsphere-import: vSphere hosts import is working
• c39ac21 zabbix-vsphere-import: The Python Zabbix API module spits a lot of useless INFO messages via 'logging', so remove the logging from our tool to make reporting look better
• 70a5955 zabbix-vsphere-import: Import VMs to Zabbix
• 35512d2 zabbix-vsphere-import: Add support for importing datastores to Zabbix
• ea3d718 Commit example config file for zabbix-vsphere-import
• 5979727 Move zabbix related stuff to a separate directory
• 8d7d50a Commit the Zabbix templates for vPoller
• 53804b7 Process 'host.cluster.get' method from the Zabbix vPoller helper
• 8178589 Remove unused option
• fb62ecb Fix the vPoller csvhelper module
• 33e1834 Sort keys used for the CSV headers
• 5bb7001 Commit a shell script for quick installation and configuration of vPoller
• a07e99d Do not prompt when bootstrapping vPoller so we can do this in unattended way
• 2a86740 Document how to use the bootstrap-vpoller.sh script for quick setup of vPoller
• b1a9e12 Fix status messages for vPoller Worker
• 7cc4470 Mention to initialize the vConnector database before trying to add a vSphere host
• 2bc4d52 Package name should be just vpoller instead of py-vpoller
• 9f0160f Document from where to get packages of vPoller for Debian GNU/Linux systems
• 7377ee1 Document some example use cases of vPoller
• e4a41cf vPoller version 0.2.5

v0.2.0

• 1641437 Use the new method names in the Zabbix helper
• 658de64 Zabbix helper is now aware of the new datacenter and cluster objects as well
• 4761ed8 vpoller-client accepts multiple properties, so fix usage info
• 6b441c8 Process only the first property in the Zabbix helper
• 6197b5a Zabbix macros should be in upper-case
• 185c7da Add support for polling performance counters of VirtualMachine objects
• 3fc4804 Add methods for polling performance counters for HostSystem objects
• b990763 Document the new vm.counter.* and host.counter.* methods
• d3b0148 vpoller-client accepts polling with or without providing any properties
• 1e2dd23 Add -D|--debug command-line option to the Proxy/Client/Worker
• 378e79d Be more verbose when in DEBUG mode
• ad2d89a Merge pull request #21 from dav3860/add_instance_value
• 60cb5bc Merge pull request #22 from dav3860/zabbix_counter.get
• 9e58887 Style fix
• 68931e9 Return result ready to by json.dump'ed
• 1e70d6f Revert "Return result ready to by json.dump'ed"
• bc8a163 First cut of the 'connector' module with pyVmomi integration
• 5e1756f Doscstring updates
• c7353cf Add 'connector.*' methods for retrieving content from the vSphere host
• 67da45a Add a method for retrieving all managed objects
• b9b58b3 Add methods for getting all datacenters, clusters, hosts, vms, datastores and resource pools
• 33f53ff Remove 'connector' methods we don't use
• 6b2083c Be more verbose when in debug mode
• 1130a5a Refactoring of vPoller Proxy module
• fd0704d Refactoring of vPoller Worker
• e851aba Style fixes
• 1c4362e Fix connector module
• bad349f The 'connect.get_*' methods return a vSphere View ref
• 3a8c47b Add method for collecting object properties from views
• dc7ef87 Rename 'connector.get_*' methods and include the vSphere hostname while logging
• 2e8e9e9 Some typo fixes
• d399856 More refactoring of the 'proxy' module
• 6ceb649 More refactoring of the 'worker' module
• c736474 Check client message before passing it to the vSphere Agents for processing
• 2a791df Start the refactoring of VSphereAgent class and getting rid of all pysphere bits
• c39b9cb Include 'connector' module in init.py
• 90d360e Update setup.py with correct dependencies
• a6aad2c Handle exceptions while collecting vSphere object properties
• 58663d3 Use an SQLite backend for storing configuration about our vSphere Agents
• ae4cd74 Whitespace fixes
• c936369 More logging in 'worker' module
• 3ba8504 Add command-line switches for managing the vPoller Worker SQLite db backend
• 5dd3a10 List 'tabulate' module as dependency
• e29fad2 Put imports where they are supposed to be
• 909ea5d Default config file for vPoller Proxy is now /etc/vpoller/vpoller.conf
• 2d7bfdf Fix a typo
• be3af8e Add 'host.discover' method for discovering HostSystem managed objects
• 7d6e36c Remove redundant code from the 'agent' module
• 21626bb Remove leftover method
• 4bafd34 Add 'cluster.discover' method for discovery of ClusterComputeResource managed objectsx
• bca0e46 Add 'resource.pool.discover' method for discovering ResourcePool managed objects
• fdd5bff Add 'vm.discover' method for discovering VirtualMachine managed objects
• 326eec4 Add 'datastore.discover' method for discovering Datastore managed objects
• 41ad9c1 Move the SQLite backend into 'connector' module
• ad8610d Use the 'connector' database backend while spawning the vSphere Agents
• f5432c6 Add methods for enabling/disabling vSphere Agents in 'connector' module
• 50197d4 Managing vSphere Agent connection details is now done through the 'vconnector-cli' tool
• 20faabd Add missing parentheses
• 87f898b Default path for the vConnector database is /var/lib/vconnector/vconnector.db
• f28da33 By default when we add a new vSphere Agent it is disabled
• a5e028e Fix 'vconnector-cli' tool
• 947a0e5 Mark vconnector-cli as executable
• 84098b8 Fix vconnector-cli docopt usage
• fe493c8 Do not set SQLite cursor during VConnectorDatabase init, so we can set a factory first if needed
• 34a5bee Mention that we are connecting/disconnecting a vSphere Agent while logging
• 803c5eb We should pass a list to _get_object_view method
• 36e4534 Fix logging in 'agent' module
• 69f6006 Add a mechanism for keeping our vSphere Agents alive
• 4901bb8 Rename method _get_object_view to get_container_view
• a47829e Add 'get_list_view' method for getting a vSphere ListView ref
• 79918f7 Add 'get_object_by_property' method for searching for an object by a property
• 454d7f6 Add 'vm_get' method for retrieving object properties of a single VirtualMachine managed object
• db456a7 Fix a typo
• cb15ed1 Add 'host.get' method for retrieving properties of a single HostSystem managed object
• 8ebd1ea Add 'datacenter.get' method for retrieving properties for a single Datacenter managed object
• 5e06694 Add 'cluster.get' method for retrieving properties of a single ClusterComputeResource managed object
• ca13bbd Add 'resource.pool.get' method for retrieving properties of a single ResourcePool managed object
• aac6b38 Add 'datastore.get' method for retrieving properties of a single Datastore managed object
• 916daab Mention that either there are no registered or enabled agents during vPoller Worker startup
• 17005e8 By default the vpoller-client sends requests to tcp://localhost:10123 endpoint
• edb7fcd The client should be receiving result in JSON format
• 19d715e Add 'vm.datastore.discover' method for discovering all datastores used by all Virtual Machines
• 0092581 Add 'vm.datastore.get' method for getting all datastores used by a specific VirtualMachine managed object
• 533409f Add 'vm.guest.disk.discover' method for discovering disks on all VirtualMachine managed objects
• e053dbd Remove 'vm.datastore.discover' method as we already provide methods for getting the datastores used by a VM and discovery of datastores + polling
• db08f62 New method for discovering VM guest disks is 'vm.disk.discover'
• d1e34f1 Add 'vm.disk.get' method for collecting properties for a single disk path in a Virtual Machine
• 63a7515 Add 'vm.running.on.host' method for determining on which host a VM is running on
• e319aa6 Add 'event.latest' method for retrieving the latest event from a vSphere hostx
• 42669a4 Add 'host.datastore.get' method for retrieving all datastores available/used by a HostSystem managed object
• 28ed464 Fix 'datastore.get' method as we search by the datastore url, not the name
• 6a27c25 Add 'about' method for getting 'about' information for the vSphere hosts
• fd0ace6 Add method for getting all VMs running on a specified HostSystem
• 42cce39 Rename method for finding the hostname this VM runs to 'vm.host.get'
• 6025e31 Fix method ref for vm.host.get'
• a5feb8c Sanity check client message before trying to process any request
• b1377a6 Add more debug info in the 'agent' module
• 271dfd4 Typo fix
• de0429f s/key/msg['key']
• 98202ec Add 'vm.net.discover' method for discovering all network adapters on a VirtualMachine managed object
• 51c4ea6 Get the documentation up-to-date
• 6cb0259 Fix table
• 6a7b939 Mention 'tabulate' module in the requirements list
• f9e019c vPoller reaches version 0.2.0
• 4595235 Add instance value in *.counter.get replies
• bdc731d Add Zabbix helper for the *.counter.get method

v0.1.1

• 430185b Initial commit of the VMPoller for Zabbix
• 9b0dc41 Add switches for specifying what info we want to poll
• 6f82fe8 Calculate the used space for a datastore in percentage
• 8a2fe74 Simplify the poller and make it more general to work as a discoverer
• 179012d Rename the script to vm-discoverer as it will be used only for discovering of hosts and datastores
• 41932c5 Remove locking and rename the methods to more appropriate names for discovery
• 5f1b99b Initial commit of vm-poller for getting host and datastore properties
• 97dac09 Make sure to cast bool values to integeres, so that Zabbix can understand the output
• 0b36444 Add helper functions for converting data to Zabbix-friendly format
• 30a397a summary.rebootRequired should be passed as integer to Zabbix
• 3f3fbd8 Check whether we have the requested property first
• 7577ecd Add support for implementing custom host and datastore properties
• 73f1971 Style changes
• 2cc4daa Add a function for calculating a custom datastore property
• ccf55d2 Add BSD license to the vm-discoverer
• 453fc14 Add docstrings to the vm-discoverer
• d395083 Add BSD license and some docstrings
• 8630702 Refactor the code to use 'vmconnector' module
• efbba49 Rename the variables to 'discoverer' to make it clear what it's being used for
• 2965519 Refactor the vm-poller
• 18730bf Ignore locks is set during object creation
• d3cd8cc Ignore locks should be set during object creation
• e5fe393 Align arguments
• 905c1d3 Commit the very first draft of the Zabbix VMPollers using ZeroMQ messaging
• 29e0134 Initial commit of the vm-pollerd-proxy
• 5e3532e Remove the .agents() method, send more in the resulting message
• 763eff4 Remove the old external.py module
• c0fb079 Import 'daemon' module
• 00643c9 s/external/daemon module
• 9855a3e Rename the vm-pollerd* scripts
• 69c42d3 Add a VMPollerProxy class for creating ZeroMQ proxies
• b1dd49a vm-pollerd-proxy now uses the VMPollerProxy class for setting up the proxy
• a4c1b13 Print to syslog before starting the proxy
• 3b7083d Refactor VMPollerDaemon class to extend Daemon
• 8cf2c95 Remove some of the TODOs and refactor a bit the messages passed to the VMPoller Agents
• 124ed8e Fix the endpoint urls for workers and mgmt interface and also fix datastore polling
• a57c633 Catch exceptions during properties polling
• 126d7cf Add a VMPollerClient class for use by clients for sending out messages
• eb89226 The VMPoller daemon reads it's endpoints from the a config file
• ce2c423 Fix a few issues with the VMPollerClient class
• f2e1927 Add methods for discovering of datastores and ESX hosts
• 683b37d Rename the worker program
• bbbd819 Fix the VMPoller worker after some of the refactoring
• cd990bd Add Zabbix convertors for passing a Zabbix-friendly value to the client
• 1898ad2 No need for 'return' in lambdas
• c9639e8 A bit of cleanup
• bc69c35 Client now accepts command-line arguments
• 565f23b When discovering objects return the whole message
• e03af6f Add a simple shell script for simulating requests
• 45a9f93 Return a valid JSON object even if we don't have a reply from the server
• 6168da7 Make the simulator executable
• 5e0deea Increment the request number
• 4f079f1 Make our VMPoller worker threaded
• 60453af Activate the management interface and have proper shutdown sequence
• f952097 Remove old and no longer used files
• 77dbb17 Call setsockopt() after a connect()
• fead509 Call setsockopt() after a connect() in the retry mechanism as well
• cbf4769 Initial commit of the C-based VMPoller Client
• 8690904 Add a simple Makefile for building the C-based VMPoller Client
• 49d343f Rename the VMPollerWorker config option names
• ca766b1 Start the vSphere Agents only if requested to do so
• 5889596 Rename the vSphere Agents class to avoid confusion with the thread workers
• 03a6d2c Return the reply message as a string + a few fixes
• 1d9c93d Update the Python client to reflect the changes after the refactoring
• 8e8650e Add a newline after printing the result
• 0364a49 Convert the ZeroMQ reply to string before passing it on the wire
• c2bcd13 Remove the trailing d's from the vmpoller module and script names
• e0c2272 Set the config file for the ZeroMQ proxy
• a90c7ff Check if we have a value to return first
• 4aa91db NULL-terminate the received ZeroMQ message in the C client
• ade7729 Check whether we have a result to return
• 123772e Start the vSphere Agents by default for now
• ce8da44 Search for HostSystem objects only by traversing the properties and don't call get_hosts() method
• 88ea7e1 Remove the no longer needed zbx_helpers.py module
• 132ca21 Add setup.py file to the repo
• 043685f Add BSD license to the C client
• dc23c06 Move the C client sources to a new directory
• 587c798 Revert "Move the C client sources to a new directory"
• 518c21d Do not add the C client to the Python setup.py
• f7a9943 Catch any exceptions during properties retrieving
• c580c4f Provide more details about the unknown commands received
• 37b1741 Add a management interface for the VMPoller Proxy
• eec9cb4 Refactor the VMPollerClient a bit
• 2f93333 Non-default arguments should come first
• 62bbd9c Add support for command-line arguments of the vmpoller-proxy script
• 30feade Add a 'status' command for the VMPollerProxy and VMPollerWorkers
• 255b3fc Add support for command-line arguments of the vmpoller-worker script
• 23b449a docopt'ify the vmpoller-client as well
• a258651 Unregister ZeroMQ sockets from the poll set upon shutdown
• 225f810 Remove the pidfile of the daemon before attempting to kill it
• 5d45513 Add init.d script for the vmpoller-proxy daemon
• 46f11fb Add init.d script for the vmpoller-worker daemon
• f791931 The -t flag should be setting the timeout, not the retries
• 1b97951 Emit a message to syslog before raising an exception
• c68152d Change the location where pidfiles are stored in /var/run/vmpoller directory
• c5f5372 Catch exceptions during configuration file parsing
• b64eb20 Use 'endpoint' instead of 'socket' in the status message
• 6d0bcff Switch to 'logging' module instead of 'syslog'
• 2d6d423 Note the time we start up our proxy & worker daemons
• 7d7df1a Convert 'retries' and 'timeout' to integers
• 148375b Be able to use "-" to specify stdout be used for logging
• 40abe30 Make Ubuntu happy when building the C client
• cec8562 Update some docstrings
• aeb8ebf Docstring updates
• 550b423 Give some time for the threads to synchronize before starting them
• 43cdfe0 Rename the 'broker' Worker option to 'proxy' as it makes more sense to what it really does
• 9e98f48 Refactor the VMPoller Worker
• 0a19763 Refactor the way we retrieve host and datastore properties
• 8a7d067 Update the usage info for the C client
• f6999ab Disable logging to syslog from the C client
• 396f173 Add a default endpoint for the Python client
• f2c5e54 Replace the -l flag with -o for specifying the output file
• 57b357c Add install_requires to setup.py
• fc720cb Initial commit of the READMEx
• 6cf6a58 Output to sys.stdout, not stdout..
• 76e4a12 Let's call it "vPoller" with a "v" as in "vSphere"
• 1d50444 Import the correct module after rename and also set the version to 0.1.0
• f15363d Use the correct message attributes ('hostname' instead of 'vcenter')
• 09a3b00 Documentation time..
• ccfd32e Copyright update
• cc32a73 The version of vPoller tools is 0.1.0
• 627809c Fix vPoller Clients
• 21c2721 Be able to specify the result between Zabbix Low-Level discovery format and JSON
• 4cdb7e2 Be able to specify what format of the result to send during hosts discovery
• 5662b71 Be able to specify what format of the result to send during datastores discovery
• 8972cba The message we return to the client is a JSON object
• 383c49b Let's be more modular
• ce8dfba Import the correct client module after the refactoring
• b257eb0 Update modules list after refactoring
• 9977944 'core' should also be included in the list
• a57fe9e The worker methods are already return result as string, so no need to convert it
• 8b1701c Document how to send messages to the mgmt interface of the Worker
• b471080 Use a mapping object to define the methods we support for clients and management
• 4bba282 Return vPoller Worker status information to the clients
• a1534e7 Add the worker.shutdown method
• 3c8aece Use new method names for stop/status commands of vpoller worker
• e8afb85 Refactor the vPoller Proxy module
• 8515306 Better way to define the management methods we support
• 25bb393 Add 'shutdown' and 'status' methods for vPoller Proxy
• ab3137b Add a missing comma
• 8261d35 Use a reference to the object method, and do not call the method
• 8edbe2a The vSphereAgents always return result in JSON
• 19803e2 A new command-line switch -m available for specifying the method we want
• 1903b68 Docstring updates
• 70f5e6d No need to quote the result in the JSON output
• 5988b78 Do not handle any Zabbix related stuff in the core modules
• 73d3cff s/status/success in the result message
• dca39a6 Send result message as Unicode
• 87d47f2 Get rid of these ugly back-slashes and send result message using send_json method of ZeroMQ
• ead75ef Pretty-print result from status/shutdown commands
• 1056939 vPoller proxy sends result messages in JSON as well
• 9f3a8d0 s/status/success in the vPoller Proxy result message
• cd461be Refactor the vPoller C client
• 4e40546 Mention with what version of vSphere the vPoller has been tested and add a bugs sectionx
• 360e3d2 First cut of the vPoller Helpers implementation
• 5105512 Initial commit of the Zabbix vPoller Helper module
• 703df38 Zabbix Helper Module is now able to process item values and return Zabbix LLD data
• 0529310 Document the vPoller Helpers
• 2defa68 README updates
• 42d5a3c Use 'misc-tools' directory for keeping any other vPoller tools
• 4a6399c Add a few more example requests
• aeaca89 Do not traverse the whole inventory tree with host properties during hosts polling
• 6f550d7 Find the Datastore MOR first and then get it's properti...