6. Change log
6.1. Version 1.7.0.dev1
This version contains all fixes up to version 1.6.x.
Released: not yet
Incompatible changes:
Deprecations:
Bug fixes:
Enhancements:
Cleanup:
Known issues:
See list of open issues.
6.2. Version 1.6.0
This version contains all fixes up to version 1.5.2.
Released: 2024-04-03
Important: The standard metric definitions file examples/metrics.yaml has been updated. Please use the new file in your setup. This new exporter version will also work with the prior version of the file (but not vice versa).
Bug fixes:
Addressed safety issues up to 2024-02-18.
Docs: Increased minimum Sphinx versions to 7.1.0 on Python 3.8 and to 7.2.0 on Python >=3.9 and adjusted dependent package versions in order to fix a version incompatibility between sphinxcontrib-applehelp and Sphinx. Disabled Sphinx runs on Python <=3.7 in order to no longer having to deal with older Sphinx versions. (issue #444)
Docs: Added missing ‘se_version’ variable to description of ‘export-condition’ and ‘fetch-condition’ in the Usage section. (part of issue #459)
Fixed warning about ignoring label ‘adapter/port’ on metric group ‘partition-attached-network-interface’ due to error in rendering the Jinja2 expression for a label value. (issue #450)
Added missing fetch-conditions to all remaining properties of resource metric groups that were added at some point in the HMC/SE, but so far were assumed to always be present.
Docs: Added missing metrics to the metrics table in the Usage section: zhmc_partition_storage_group_uris
Dev: Fixed the call to pipdeptree in the test workflow to use ‘python -m’ because otherwise it does not show the correct packages of the virtual env.
Fixed traceback when HMC credentials file does not exist.
Fixed the name of the ‘power-consumption-watts’ metric in the ‘logical-partition-usage’ HMC metric group. (issue #475)
Fixed that the ‘number-{cpu}-processors’ and ‘number-reserved-{cpu}-processors’ properties of LPARs were retrieved for all HMC/SE versions, but they were introduced only with SE/CPC version 2.15.0. (issue #474)
Docs: Fixed link in description how to verify release in development.rst.
Enhancements:
Increased zhmcclient version to 1.14.0 to pick up fixes and improvements.
Split safety runs into one against all requirements that may fail and one against the install requirements that must succeed. (issue #441)
Changed safety run for install dependencies to use the exact minimum versions of the dependent packages, by moving them into a separate minimum-constraints-install.txt file that is included by the existing minimum-constraints.txt file. (issue #489)
Added support for the following new variables for use in ‘fetch-condition’ in the metric definition file (issue #459):
‘hmc_api_version’ - HMC API version as a tuple of integers (M, N)
‘hmc_features’ - List of names of HMC API features
Added support for the following new variables for use in ‘export-condition’ in the metric definition file (issue #459):
‘hmc_api_version’ - HMC API version as a tuple of integers (M, N)
‘hmc_features’ - List of names of HMC API features
‘se_features’ - List of names of SE/CPC API features
‘resource_obj’ - zhmcclient resource object for the metric
Used these new variables to improve the conditions in the metric definition file in order to eliminate the following warnings about properties not returned by the HMC (issue #459):
‘cylinders’ in resource metric group ‘storagevolume-resource’ (only returned for FC-type storage groups)
‘max-partitions’ in resource metric group ‘storagegroup-resource’ (only returned for FCP-type storage groups)
Various cbp related properties in resource metric groups ‘cpc-resource’ and ‘logical-partition-resource’ (only returned for SE versions between 2.14.0+MCLs and 2.15.0)
Added support for environment variables ‘TESTCASES’ for specifying testcases for the unit test, and ‘TESTOPTS’ for specifying pytest options. (issue #461)
Added support for the new partition power consumption metrics in z16 (issue #448):
In metric group ‘zcpc-environmentals-and-power’:
‘zhmc_cpc_total_partition_power_watt’ - Total power consumption of all partitions of the CPC
‘zhmc_cpc_total_infrastructure_power_watt’ - Total power consumption of all infrastructure components of the CPC
‘zhmc_cpc_total_unassigned_power_watt’ - Total power consumption of all unassigned components of the CPC
In metric group ‘logical-partition-usage’:
‘zhmc_partition_power_watt’ - Power consumption of the partition
Added support for regularly fetching properties in the background, for which object change notifications are not supported. These properties are defined in the metric definition file along with an ‘if’ condition to express in which environment they need to be fetched. The properties are fetched in the background in a property fetch thread. The cycle time for fetching is initially 30 seconds and will be adjusted to the cycle time in which Prometheus fetches the exported metrics. (issue #358)
Added support for a new make target ‘authors’ that generates an AUTHORS.md file from the git commit history. (issue #442)
The safety run for all dependencies now must succeed when the test workflow is run for a release (i.e. branch name ‘release_…’).
When the HMC userid cannot log on to the HMC because the password is invalid or expired, or because the maximum number of sessions has been reached, the exporter no longer retries the logon but abandons. The previous retrying has lead to disabling the userid after some unsuccessful retries. (issue #493)
Warning messages are now always printed to the output, and not just in verbose mode (related to issue #488).
Added more detailed messages in the output and log for understanding the Jinja2 rendering issue reported in issue #488.
Cleanup:
Increased versions of GitHub Actions plugins to increase node.js runtime to version 20.
Disabled the use of Python builtins in the evaluation of ‘fetch-condition’ and ‘export-condition’ in the metric definition file. (issue #463)
Improved the lengthy warning details messages when resources have not been found to a more condensed and useful format. (issue #473)
6.3. Version 1.5.0
This version contains all fixes up to version 1.4.3.
Released: 2023-11-28
Incompatible changes:
Installation of this package using “setup.py” is no longer supported. Use “pip” instead.
Bug fixes:
Addressed safety issues up to 2023-11-26.
Improved and fixed Dockerfile. (issue #297)
Docs: Fixed incorrect label value syntax in the documentation. (issue #310)
Fixed incorrect label ‘phase’ on the line cord metrics (‘zhmc_cpc_power_cord*’). It was incorrectly shown as “None”, and now has the correct values “A”, “B”, or “C”.
Fixed RTD docs build ssue with OpenSSL version by providing a .readthedocs.yaml file that specifies Ubuntu 22.04 as the build OS.
Increased minimum zhmcclient version to 1.9.1 to pick up fixes and improvements for HMC session handling, including the handling of HTTP 403.4. (related to issue #336) and the version change for PyYAML in zhmcclient.
Occurrences of most HTTP 403.x failures are now handled by logging on again and retrying, instead of abandoning. (related to issue #336)
Improved robustness of evaluating Jinja2 label expressions by ignoring labels with expressions that fail, instead of stopping the exporter. A warning message is shown and a log record is written when that happens.
Addressed safety issues from 6+7/2023, by increasing ‘requests’ to 2.31.0 on Python >=3.7, and by increasing other packages only needed for development.
Fixed issue with PyYAML 5.4 installation on Python>=3.10 that fails since the recent release of Cython 3.
Test: Circumvented a pip-check-reqs issue by excluding its version 2.5.0.
Added handling of exceptions raised by the built-in HTTP server during its startup, for the HTTP case. (related to issue #397)
Docs: Added the missing requirement for having the HMC userid enabled for web services access. (issue #419)
Fixed LPAR resource metrics ‘…_processor_count_is_capped’ and ‘…_processor_cap’ for absolute cappping.
Fixed ruamel.yaml issue on Python 3.6 by pinning to <0.17.22
Dev: Resolved dependency conflict with importlib-metadata on Python 3.7
Enhancements:
Added support for Python 3.12. Had to increase the minimum versions of setuptools to 66.1.0 and pip to 23.1.2 in order to address removal of the long deprecated pkgutils.ImpImporter in Python 3.12, as well as several packages used only for development. (issue #388)
Added a ‘–version’ option for showing the versions of the exporter and the zhmcclient library. (issue #298)
Enabled the ‘partition-attached-network-interface’ metric group in the standard/example metric definition file. It had been disabled for performance reasons, but with the auto-update support for resources, there is no visible performance impact anymore when Prometheus fetches the metrics.
Test: Added a test script ‘validate_adapter_metrics.py’ for validating the adapter/NIC resources for which metrics are returned by the HMC.
Added a troubleshooting section to the docs.
Added zhmc_partition_description metric with partition / LPAR description in the ‘value’ label, for cases where the partition description contains further information that can be parsed. (issue #345)
Added resource-based metrics for storage groups and storage volumes. Added a new metric zhmc_partition_storage_groups that lists the storage groups attached to a partition. (issue #346)
Added support for HTTPS and mutual TLS (mTLS) by adding a new optional section ‘prometheus’ to the HMC credentials file and using prometheus-client 0.19.0. (issue #347)
Tolerated when unknown ‘resource’ types are specified in the metrics.yaml file, because one possible reason for that is that a newer metrics.yaml file is being used. (issue #379)
Added adapter name and port index as two new labels ‘adapter’ and ‘port’ to metric group ‘partition-attached-network-interface’. (issue #347)
Added handling of evaluation errors for ‘if’ conditions in metric definition files.
Cleanup:
Resource-based metrics defined in the metric definition file but not returned by the HMC as a resource property (e.g. because the HMC manages older SE versions) now cause a Python warning to be printed. Added the respective ‘if’ conditionals to the default metric definition file for such HMC or SE version dependent resource metrics.
6.4. Version 1.4.0
This version contains all fixes up to version 1.3.2.
Released: 2023-03-27
Incompatible changes:
The label value definitions in the metric definition file are now interpreted as Jinja2 expressions and no longer with the special syntax used before.
This is an incompatible change and requires updating the metric definition file accordingly. The example metric definition file provided with the package has been updated accordingly. If you have used the example file unchanged, you only need to use the new version of the file. If you have used your own version of the metric definition file, you need to update it. For understanding the changes and what to update, compare the old and new version of the example metric definition file.
The extra label value definitions in the HMC credentials file are now interpreted as Jinja2 expressions and no longer as literals.
This is an incompatible change and requires updating your HMC credentials file in case you used the ‘extra_labels’ property in there. The change to make is to put the literal label values into nested double and single quotes.
Example old definition in the file:
extra_labels: - name: hmc value: MYHMC1
Corresponding new definition in the file:
extra_labels: - name: hmc value: "'MYHMC1'"
Changed the names of exported metrics with unit Watt from ‘*_watts’ to ‘*_watt’:
zhmc_cpc_power_watts -> zhmc_cpc_power_watt
zhmc_cpc_power_cord{C}_phase_{P}_watts -> zhmc_cpc_power_cord{C}_phase_{P}_watt
Bug fixes:
Fixed that not using the –log option resulted in an error message about invalid use of the –log-comp option. (issue #234)
Fixed an erroneous timezone offset in log timestamps. (issue #241)
Fixed the log entry for version 1.3.0 that showed an incorrect new timestamp format.
Fixed a flake8 AttributeError when using importlib-metadata 5.0.0 on Python >=3.7, by pinning importlib-metadata to <5.0.0 on these Python versions.
Test: Fixed install error of Python 2.7, 3,5, 3,6 on Ubuntu in GitHub Actions.
Fixed new issues of Pylint 2.16. Fixed versions of Pylint dependents and their Python versions.
Added missing packages (pip_check_reqs, pipdeptree) to be checked for their dependencies in minimum-constraints.txt.
Fixed CBP related metrics in classic mode CPCs in HMC 2.16. These metrics were removed in z16 but the metric definition file tried to export them, leading to a failure with z16 CPCs in classic mode. This was fixed by exporting these metrics only if the CPC has the SE version that supports them.
Fixed the ‘*_central_memory_mib’ and ‘*_expanded_memory_mib’ metrics of LPARs of classic mode CPCs that caused the exporter to fail.
Updated the minimum version of zhmcclient to 1.7.0 to pick up a fix for cases where a CPC resource is not found (may happen on older HMCs such as 2.14). Changed error handling to tolerate that case.
Enhancements:
Added support for labels on single metric definitions, for defining how the Prometheus metric value should be interpreted. A value lebel can define a string-typed property value that should be used instead. This has been used to show the original staus values, e.g. as value=”operating”. A valuetype label can define that the floating point value of the Prometheus metric should be interpreted as a boolean or integer value. This has been used for any boolean metrics. (issue #224)
Simplified release process by adding a new GitHub Actions workflow publish.yml to build and publish to PyPI
Added exporter and zhmcclient version and verbosity level to log.
When enabling auto-update for a resource fails, the exporter will now record an error log message that the resource is ignored, but will otherwise continue with its operation. Previously, it terminated in such a case.
Docs: Added sections on HMC setup and setup of firewalls and proxies that may be between you and the HMC. (issues #260 and #261)
Added missing environments to weekly full tests (Python 3.5,3.6 on Windows and MacOS).
Added some critical environments to normal PR tests (Python 3.10/min on Windows).
Changed to using the ‘build’ package for building the distribution archives instead of ‘setup.py’ commands, following the recommendation of the Python packaging community (see https://blog.ganssle.io/articles/2021/10/setup-py-deprecated.html).
The label value definitions in the metric definition file are now interpreted as Jinja2 expressions and no longer with the special keyword syntax used before. This is an incompatible change for the metric definition file, see the corresponding item in the incompatible changes section of this change log. The example metric definition file provided with the package has been updated accordingly.
The extra label value definitions in the HMC credentials file are now interpreted as Jinja2 expressions and no longer as just literals. This is an incompatible change for the HMC credentials file, see the corresponding item in the incompatible changes section of this change log. The example HMC credentials file provided with the package has been updated accordingly.
Added support for conditional exporting of single metrics based on the HMC and SE/CPC version, by adding an ‘if’ property to the metric definition in the metric definition file that can specify a Python expression using the ‘hmc_version’ and ‘se_version’ variables. Used that capability on CBP related metrics that were added in z14 and removed in z16 to specify the supported SE version range.
Made handling of runtime errors more tolerant for properties that are not present in certain cases.
Docs: Added a link to the description of Jinja2 expressions.
Added labels to all ‘zhmc_cpc_power_cord*’ metrics:
‘cord’ - line cord name (as reported in metric ‘linecord-eight-name’)
‘cordid’ - line cord ID (1, 2, …, 8)
‘phase’ - line cord phase (A, B, C)
Added support for Python 3.11.
Improved and shortened the error message for validation errors in the metric definition file and HMC credentials file. As part of that, increased the minimum version of the jsonschema package to 3.2.0 and of the pyrsistent package to 0.17.3 on Python<=3.6 and 0.18.1 on Python>=3.7.
Added a check for consistency of items in metrics and metric_groups in the metric definition file.
Cleanup:
Addressed issues in test workflow reported by Github Actions. (issue #264)
Increased minimum versions of pip, setuptools, wheel to more recent versions.
Changed the names of exported metrics with unit Watt from ‘*_watts’ to ‘*_watt’, for consistency:
zhmc_cpc_power_watts -> zhmc_cpc_power_watt
zhmc_cpc_power_cord{C}_phase_{P}_watts -> zhmc_cpc_power_cord{C}_phase_{P}_watt
6.5. Version 1.3.0
Released: 2022-09-05
Incompatible changes:
The log format has changed from: “2022-08-17 09:24:41,037 logger: message” to: “2022-08-17 07:24:41+0000 LEVEL logger: message”
Bug fixes:
Fixed that HMC exceptions were not caught during cleaning when exiting.
Docs: Fixed that the “Logging” section in the documentation described the ‘–log’ option as ‘–log-dest’.
Enhancements:
HMC resources that no longer exist are automatically removed from the exported metrics. (Issue #203)
Increased minimum version of zhmcclient to 1.4.0 to pick up fixes and required new functions. (issue #220)
Extended the existing –log-comp option to allow specifying a log level for each component with COMP=LEVEL, and to add support for a component ‘all’ that affects all components.
Optimized the log levels of many log messages and the verbosity level of some output messages.
Added cleanup log and output messages when exiting.
Added support for logging to the System Log (syslog). (issue #219)
6.6. Version 1.2.0
Released: 2022-06-26
Incompatible changes:
For classic mode CPCs, changed the name of the LPAR status metric from zhmc_partition_status_int to zhmc_partition_lpar_status_int in order to disambiguate it from the same-named metric for partitions on CPCs in DPM mode. (issue #207)
Bug fixes:
Fixed Pylint config file because pylint 2.14 rejects older options (issue #202)
The read timeout for HMC interactions was increased from 120 sec to 300 sec. The retry count remains at 2. (issue #210)
Enhancements:
Increased the minimum version of zhmcclient to 1.3.1, in order to have the exported JMS logger name symbol. (part of issue #209)
Added support for logging HMC notifications with new “jms” log component. (issue #209)
6.7. Version 1.1.0
This version contains all fixes up to version 1.0.0.
Released: 2022-04-07
Bug fixes:
Fixed new issues reported by Pylint 2.10.
Disabled new Pylint issue ‘consider-using-f-string’, since f-strings were introduced only in Python 3.6.
The hmccreds_schema.yml schema incorrectly specified the items of an array as a list. That was tolerated by JSON schema draft 07. When jsonschema 4.0 added support for newer JSON schema versions, that broke. Fixed that by changing the array items from a list to its list item object. Also, in order to not fall into future JSON schema incompatibilities again, added $schema: http://json-schema.org/draft-07/schema (issue #180)
Increased minimum zhmcclient version to 1.2.0 to pick up the automatic presence of metric group definitions in its mock support, and adjusted testcases accordingly. This accomodates the removal of certain metrics related mock functions in zhmcclient 1.2.0 (issue #194)
Made the cleanup when stopping the exporter program more tolerant against meanwhile closed HMC sessions or removed metrics contexts, eliminating exceptions that were previously shown when interrupting the exporter program. (related to issue #193)
Fixed an AttributeError exception when retrying the metrics collection after the HMC was rebooted. (related to issue #193)
Enhancements:
Changed the “Exporter is up and running” message to be shown also in non-verbose mode to give first-time users a better feedback on when it is ready.
Support for Python 3.10: Added Python 3.10 in GitHub Actions tests, and in package metadata.
Docs: Documented the authorization requirements for the HMC userid. (issue #179)
Improved the information in authentication related error messages to better distinguish between client (=setup) errors and HMC authentication errors, and to include the HTTP reason code in the latter case. (related to issue #193)
Showed some more messages in verbose mode for re-creating the HMS session and re-creating the metrics context in case the HMC has rebooted. (related to issue #193)
Cleanup:
Removed an unnecessary recreation of the HMC session when re-creating the metrics context on the HMC. (related to issue #193)
Changed debug messages when metric value resource was not found on HMC, to messages that are output and logged.
6.8. Version 1.0.0
Released: 2021-08-08
Incompatible changes:
Dropped support for Python 3.4. (issue #155)
Changed some network metrics to be represented using Prometheus counter metric types. Specifically, the following metrics at the NIC and port level have been changed to counters: (issue #160)
bytes_sent_count
bytes_received_count
packets_sent_count
packets_received_count
packets_sent_dropped_count
packets_received_dropped_count
packets_sent_discarded_count
packets_received_discarded_count
multicast_packets_sent_count
multicast_packets_received_count
broadcast_packets_sent_count
broadcast_packets_received_count
Bug fixes:
Fixed new isues reported by Pylint 2.9.
Enhancements:
Added support for metrics based on resource properties of CPCs, partitions (DPM mode) and LPARs (classic mode). (issue #112)
Added support for metrics representing CPC and partition status. (issue #131)
Increased minimum version of zhmcclient to 1.0.0 to pick up support for auto-updated resources. (issue #156)
Added support for testing with minimum package levels. (issue #59)
Added a new make target ‘check_reqs’ for checking dependencies declared in the requirements files.
Increased minimum versions of dependent packages to address install issues on Windows and with minimum package levels: - prometheus-client from 0.3.1 to 0.9.0 - jinja2 from 2.0.0 to 2.8
6.9. Version 0.7.0
Released: 2021-06-15
This version contains all fixes up to version 0.6.1.
Incompatible changes:
The zhmc_prometheus_exporter command now verifies HMC server certificates by default, using the CA certificates in the ‘certifi’ Python package. This verification will reject the self-signed certificates the HMC is set up with initially. To deal with this, install a CA-verifiable certificate in the HMC and specify the correct CA certificates with the new ‘verify_cert’ attribute in the HMC credentials file. As a temporary quick fix or in non-production environments, you can also disable the verification with that new attribute.
Bug fixes:
Mitigated the coveralls HTTP status 422 by pinning coveralls-python to <3.0.0.
Enhancements:
Increased minimum version of zhmcclient to 0.31.0, mainly driven by its support for verifying HMC certificates.
Added support for logging the HMC interactions with new options –log-dest and –log-comp. (issue #121)
Added the processor type as a label on the metrics of the ‘zcpc-processor-usage’ metrics group. (issue #102)
Docs: Added sample Prometheus output from the exporter.
Improved error handling and recovery. Once the exporter is up and running, any connectivity loss is now recovered by retrying eternally.
Added exporter level activities to the log, as a new log component “exporter”. All messages that would be displayed at the highest verbosity level are now also logged, regardless of the actual verbosity level. Changed the log format by removing the level name and adding the timestamp.
Changed the retry/timeout configuration used for the zhmcclient session, lowering the retry and timeout parameters for connection and reads. This only affects how quickly the exporter reacts to connectivity issues, it does not lower the allowable response time of the HMC.
The zhmc_prometheus_exporter command now supports verification of the HMC server certificate. There is a new configuration attributes in the HMC credentials file (‘verify_cert’) that controls the verification behavior.
6.10. Version 0.6.0
Released: 2020-12-07
Bug fixes:
Docs: Fixed the names of the Prometheus metrics of the line cord power metrics. (see issue #89)
Added missing dependency to ‘urllib3’ Python package.
README: Fixed the links to the metric definition and HMC credentials files (see issue #88).
Dockerfile: Fixed that all files from the package are included in the Docker image (see issue #91).
Enhancements:
Added support for specifying a new optional property if in the definition of metric groups in the metric definition file, which specifies a Python expression representing a condition under which the metric group is fetched. The HMC version can be specified in the expression as a hmc_version variable. (see issue #77)
Cleanup:
The metric definition and HMC credentials YAML files are now validated using a schema definition (using JSON schema). This improved the ability to enhance these files, and allowed to get rid of error-prone manual validation code. The schema validation files are part of the installed Python package. This adds a dependency to the ‘jsonschema’ package. (see issue #81)
6.11. Version 0.5.0
Released: 2020-12-03
Incompatible changes:
The sample metric definition file has changed the metric names that are exported, and also the labels. This is only a change if you choose to use the new sample metric definition file; if you continue using your current metric definition file, the exported metrics will be as before.
Enhancements:
The packages needed for installation are now properly reflected in the package metadata (part of issue #55).
Improved the metric labels published along with metric values in multiple ways. The sample metric definition file has been updated to exploit all these new capabilities:
The type of resource to which a metric value belongs is now identified in the label name e.g. by showing a label ‘cpc’ or ‘adapter’ instead of the generic label ‘resource’.
Resources that are inside a CPC (e.g. adapters, partitions) now can show their parent resource (the CPC) as an additional label, if the metric definition file specifies that.
Metrics that identify the resource (e.g. ‘channel-id’ in the ‘channel-usage’ metric group now can used as additional labels on the actual metric value, if the metric definition file specifies that.
Note that these changes will only become active if you pick them up in your metric definition file, e.g. by using the updated sample metric definition file. If you continue to use your current metric definition file, nothing will change regarding the labels.
The published metrics no longer contain empty HELP/TYPE comments.
Metrics with the special value -1 that are returned by the HMC for some metrics in case the resource does not exist, are now suppressed.
Disabled the Platform and Python specific additional metrics so that they are not collected or published (see issue #66).
Overhauled the complete documentation (triggered by issue #57).
Added a cache for looking up HMC resources from their resource URIs to avoid repeated lookup on the HMC. This speeds up large metric retrievals from over a minute to sub-seconds (see issue #73).
Added a command line option -v / –verbose to show additional verbose messages (see issue #54).
Showing the HMC API version as a verbose message.
Removed ensemble/zBX related metrics from the sample metric definition file.
Added all missing metrics up to z15 to the sample metric definition file.
Added support for additional labels to be shown in every metric that is exported, by specifying them in a new extra_labels section of the HMC credentials file. This allows providing some identification of the HMC environment, if needed. (see issue #80)
Cleanup:
Removed the use of ‘pbr’ to simplify installation and development (see issue #55).
6.12. Version 0.4.1
Released: 2020-11-29
Bug fixes:
Fixed the error that only a subset of the possible exceptions were handled that can be raised by the zhmcclient package (i.e. only ConnectionTimeout and ServerAuthError). This lead to lengthy and confusing tracebacks being shown when they occurred. Now, they are all handled and result in a proper error message.
Added metadata to the Pypi package declaring a development status of 4 - Beta, and requiring the supported Python versions (3.4 and higher).
Enhancements:
Migrated from Travis and Appveyor to GitHub Actions. This required several changes in package dependencies for development.
Added options –help-creds and –help-metrics that show brief help for the HMC credentials file and for the metric definition file, respectively.
Improved all exception and warning messages to be better understandable and to provide the context for any issues with content in the HMC credentials or metric definition files.
Expanded the supported Python versions to 3.4 and higher.
Expanded the supported operating systems to Linux, macOS, Windows.
Added the sample HMC credentials file and the sample metric definition file to the appendix of the documentation.
The sample metric definition file ‘examples/metrics.yaml’ has been completed so that it now defines all metrics of all metric groups supported by HMC 2.15 (z15). Note that some metric values have been renamed for clarity and consistency.
6.13. 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).
6.14. Version 0.3.0
Released: 2019-08-11
Bug fixes:
Reconnect in case of a connection drop.
6.15. Version 0.2.0
Released: 2018-08-24
Incompatible changes:
All metrics now have a
zhmc_prefix.
Bug fixes:
Uses Grafana 5.2.2.
6.16. Version 0.1.2
Released: 2018-08-23
Enhancements:
The description now instructs the user to
pip3 install zhmc-prometheus-exporterinstead 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.
6.17. Version 0.1.1
Released: 2018-08-23
Initial PyPI release (0.1.0 was for testing purposes)
6.18. Version 0.1.0
Released: Only on GitHub, never on PyPI
Initial release