5. Appendix¶
5.1. Glossary¶
- Exporter
- A server application for exposing metrics to Prometheus
- IBM Z
- IBM’s mainframe product line
- Prometheus
- A server application for monitoring and alerting
- Z HMC
- Hardware Management Console for IBM Z
5.2. Change log¶
5.2.1. Version 0.4.0¶
Released: 2019-08-21
Bug fixes: - Avoid exception in case of a connection drop error handling. - Replace yaml.load() by yaml.safe_load(). In PyYAML before 5.1,
the yaml.load() API could execute arbitrary code if used with untrusted data (CVE-2017-18342).
Known issues: See the `list of open issues`_.
5.2.2. Version 0.3.0¶
Released: 2019-08-11
Bug fixes: - Reconnect in case of a connection drop.
Known issues: See the `list of open issues`_.
5.2.3. Version 0.2.0¶
Released: 2018-08-24
Incompatible changes: All metrics now have a zhmc_ prefix.
Bug fixes: Uses Grafana 5.2.2.
Known issues: See the `list of open issues`_.
5.2.4. Version 0.1.2¶
Released: 2018-08-23
Enhancements: The description now instructs the user to pip3 install zhmc-prometheus-exporter instead of running a local install from the cloned repository. It also links to the stable version of the documentation rather than to the latest build.