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