Varnish-mib NEWS -- history of user-visible changes. 2019-02-14
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Version 4.0, 2019-02-14

Rewrite as a stand-alone snmpd agent.


Version 3.1, 2018-12-10

Supports Varnish 6.0.2.


Version 3.0, 2018-02-05

Supports Varnish 5.2.1 only.


Version 2.0, 2018-02-05

This version is written for Varnish 5.2.0. It will definitely not
compile with Varnish 5.2.1 and later. You'll have to use version 3.0
for that.

Most important changes: 

New OIDs:

** VarnishMIB::objects branch

  objectsCount
    
    Approximate number of HTTP objects (headers + body,
    if present) in the cache.
    [Varnish variable MAIN.n_object]
    
  objectsVampire
    Number of unresurrected objects.
    [MAIN.n_vampireobject]

  objectsCore
    Approximate number of object metadata elements in the cache. Each
    object needs an objectcore, extra objectcores are for
    hit-for-miss, hit-for-pass and busy objects.
    [MAIN.n_objectcore]

  objectsHead
    Approximate number of different hash entries in the cache.
    [MAIN.n_objecthead]
    
  objectsExpired
    Number of objects that expired from cache because of old age.
    [MAIN.n_expired]
    
  objectsLRUNuked
    How many objects have been forcefully evicted from
    storage to make room for a new object.
    [MAIN.n_lru_nuked]
    
  objectsLRUMoved
    Number of move operations done on the LRU list.
    [MAIN.n_lru_moved]
    
  objectsPurges
    Number of purge operations executed.
    [MAIN.n_purges]
    
  objectsObjPurged
    Number of purged objects.
    [MAIN.n_obj_purged]

  objectsGzip
    Number of gzip operations.
    [MAIN.n_gzip]
    
  objectsGunzip
    Number of gunzip operations.
    [MAIN.n_gunzip]

** VarnishMIB::vcl branch

  vclTotal
    Number of loaded VCLs in total.
    [MAIN.n_vcl]
    
  vclAvail
    Number of VCLs available.
    [MAIN.n_vcl_avail]
    
  vclDiscard
    Number of discarded VCLs.
    [MAIN.n_vcl_discard]
    
  vclFail
    Number of VCL failures.
    [MAIN.vcl_fail]

* Removed OIDs

Several OIDs have been withdrawn due to changes in the Varnish API.
These are: clientRequests411, clientRequests413, and backendConnUnused.


Version 1.1.90 (Git)

* Support for Varnish 4.1


Version 1.1, 2015-02-25

* Don't exit if unable to open Varnish memory file 


Version 1.0, 2014-11-28

Initial release.


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