Various fixes

• Defaults for boolean config options not handled well by Go parser
• Add script to build images using buildah + Red Hat UBI base
• Temporarily override vendored mq-golang/mqmetric code to deliver fixes
  • Deal with buffer expansion when there are lots of queues to query AND remote system is different CCSID (#75)
  • Ensure labels - in particular object DESCR values - are valid UTF8
  • This code is newer than the upstream version which will inherit the fixes later

Update for latest MQ and mq-golang levels. New metric support.

• Update to use v5.2.2 of the mq-golang repository
• Update to use MQ 9.2.3
• Allow prometheus collector to continue running even when qmgr down (#67)
  • Report qmgr_status metric in such a situation
  • Updated "QMgr Status" sample dashboard to report both that metric and the new cluster status metric
• Update influxdb collector to use V2 APIs (#76)
  • Note changes to configuration attributes - in particular support for an APIToken
  • New sample dashboard using some very basic Flux queries

Update for latest MQ and mq-golang levels

• Update to use v5.2.0 of the mq-golang repository
• Update to use MQ 9.2.2
• Start to use enhanced mqmetric API that supports multiple connections (though still only having a single connection in the collectors for now)
• Permit https connection from the Prometheus engine
• Redesign collectors to permit configuration via environment variables

Update for latest MQ and mq-golang levels

• Update to use v5.1.3 of the mq-golang repository
• Update to use MQ 9.2.1
• Update YAML processing to better handle missing values as defaults (#50)
• Add 'host' to Prometheus listener config (#51)
• URLs pointing at MQ KnowledgeCenter updated

Update to latest mq-golang

Update to use latest mq-golang for function tracing enablement

Update for MQ 9.2

• Update to use v5.1.0 of the mq-golang repository
• Update to use MQ 9.2.0
• Added pseudo-metric qmgr_exporter_publications for how many consumed on each scrape
• Added showInactiveChannels option (#38)
• Added explicit client configuration options (#40)

Support for modules

• Exporters can have configuration provided in YAML file (-f <file>) instead of command line options
• Use modules (go.mod) to define prereqs (ibm-messaging/mq-golang#138)
• Update to use v5.0.0 of the mq-golang repository as the new module format
• Update to use more recent versions of other dependencies
• Exporters now have some specific exit codes (in particular 30 for trying to connect to a standby qmgr) (#35)
  • Default exit code for error situation is 1
• New option -ibmmq.QueueSubscriptionFilter to restrict subscriptions made for each queue
  • Set it to PUT,GET for most useful metrics (#34)
  • Default is to collect everything including OPENCLOSE and INQSET resources
• Turn off echo when asking for passwords
• All exporters now have comparable function on which objects to monitor
  • Some metric names on some exporters will have changed though not on Prometheus

Update for MQ V9.1.4

Update for MQ V9.1.4
Update for mq-golang v9.1.4
Add max channel information where possible

Update for MQ V9.1.3

Update for latest levels of MQ, mq-golang

v4.0.4

Add STATUS for other object types
Make version match latest mq-golang tag