Checkmk Announce February 2018

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[Check_mk Announce] New Check_MK innovation release 1.5.0i3

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Dear friends of Check_MK, the new innovation release 1.5.0i3 of Check_MK is ready for download. This test release ships with 90 changes affecing all editions of Check_MK, 36 Enterprise Edition specific changes and 1 Managed Services Edition specific changes. This release will be in active maintaintenance until 2018-04-05. The passive maintenance will be until 2018-05-20. For details take a look at the Check_MK versions chapter of the Check_MKhandbook. Changes in all Check_MK Editions: WATO: * 5734 LDAP: It's now possible to create user accounts only on first login * 5607 HW/SW Inventory: Access of certain inventory tree sections is configurable in contact groups * 5780 FIX: fileinfo.groups: Fixed check parameters display bug in service discovery page * 5719 FIX: The Start URL is now configured optionally for new users * 5721 FIX: Saving backup jobs: Fixed AttributeError() occuring while handling an exception * 5650 FIX: Fixed service discovery page for SNMP cluster hosts * 5733 FIX: Fixed bulk deletion of users with special characters in their ID * 5257 FIX: Fixed broken creation of new tag groups and auxilary tags * 5657 FIX: Custom user attributes that are not editable by the user can now edited by the admin User interface: * 5662 Tactical overview: Can now be configured to not show stale hosts/services * 5720 Standard tables now tell their number of rows in page title area * 5661 Publish views (and dashboard): Only own contact groups are selectable for users * 5633 It is now possible to sort by the perfometer column * 5630 Host/Service detail views: Display notification related painters together at end of runtime data painters * 5632 SEC: Fixed XSS when rendering values of dropdown choices * 5654 SEC: Fixed XSS on the site management page * 5731 Custom icons and actions: Add new macro $USER_ID$ * 5613 Auxiliary tags: New column 'Tags using this auxiliary tag' shows related tag group * 5486 Add permission for admins to see custom views, dashboards and reports * 5722 FIX: View/dashboard list: Show link to view only for not hidden and published views * 5724 FIX: View/Dashboard list: Link titles only for views/dashboards visible to the user * 5736 FIX: Show even empty custom graphs in sidebar view snapin * 5659 FIX: Master control snapin: Improved handling of half configured sites * 5665 FIX: Improved timeout error handling when trying to download agent output of a host * 5729 FIX: Fixed loosing configured icons when editing bookmark lists * 5723 FIX: Fixed broken sorting of services * 5667 FIX: Fixed broken newline rendring in sidebar user messages * 5666 FIX: Availability: Fixed broken editing of annotations (regression in 1.5) Site management: * 5718 FIX: omd: Improved error handling when deleting site users * 5648 FIX: omd stop/start: Add new option to execute site actions simultaneously Other components: * 5726 Updated NRPE to 3.2.1 * 5492 FIX: Prefer local/lib over lib in the PYTHONPATH Notifications: * 5491 FIX: Show failed host notifications in tactival overview Livestatus: * 5671 Use RE2 regular expression engine for Livestatus queries. * 5828 FIX: Handle case-insensitive equality correctly in Livestatus. * 5668 FIX: Fixed potential segfault when talking to the event console * 5669 FIX: Always fetch host/authorization-related info from EC when needed HW/SW inventory: * 5626 win_wmi_updates: Inventory of Windows Update KBs * 5605 HW/SW Inventory: Status data can be integrated into HW/SW Inventory tree * 5623 FIX: lnx_if: Do not ignore interface any more if no speed information is available * 5758 FIX: lnx_distro: Fixed 'Inventory failed' while parsing os-release output of RHEL 7.4 distros Event console: * 5740 FIX: mkeventd: reload configuration on SIGHUP used e.g. by omd reload * 5670 FIX: Handle history files from older EC versions, which have fewer columns. * 5735 FIX: Fixed PDF export of "Event Detail" page * 5595 FIX: Fixed "Events of monitored host" view showing events not related to the wanted host Core & setup: * 5737 FIX: cmk -M now handles missing man pages in a more user friendly way * 5649 FIX: Fixed performance issue caused by too many parse function calls * 5651 FIX: Fixed agent TCP connect timeout being used for whole communication (1.5.0i2 regression) * 5655 FIX: Discovery: Display parse function errors on console instead of suppressing Checks & agents: * 5497 statgrab_net: collect net stats for local zones if dlstat exists * 5294 mk_sap_hana: New plugin which monitors SAP HANA instances * 5606 job: This check is now cluster-aware and worst or best state is configurable * 5601 hp_psu, hp_psu.temp: New checks to monitor the status and temperature of power supplies for HP switches * 5600 hp_fan: New check to monitor the fans of HP switches * 5603 fireeye: Some new checks for Fireeye appliances * 5495 fileinfo: Make out of relevant time of day more present and remove state markers * 5493 check_mk_agent.solaris: deliver informations about tmpfs filesystems * 5604 check_by_ssh: This active check is now configurable via WATO * 5556 check_bi_aggr: Active Check for BI is now able to use the password store * 5616 ceph_status.pgs: Added new states 'backfilling' and 'backfill_wait' which are treated as WARNING * 5612 Monitoring SNMP hosts with SNMP management boards is possible. New services for SNMP management boards are available. * 5622 Hosts can have multiple IP addresses which may be checked by ICMP service * 4865 Citrix Netscaler: added new check to monitor age validity of ssl certificates * 5702 Allow spaces in Windows eventlog name * 5488 FIX: veeam_jobs: Add support for new veeam API * 5602 FIX: ups_modulys_alarms: Make check handle devices outputting NULL instead of integer type flags on some values * 5608 FIX: temperature.include: Fixed device levels handling * 5618 FIX: skype.sip_stack: Fixed "missing key" error which caused a check crash * 5614 FIX: raritan_pdu_ocprot: Fixed wrong scaling of current value * 5489 FIX: pvecm_status: Fix parsing of agent output that could lead to a crash * 5554 FIX: ps: Fixed missing Total RAM if AIX is the source and percentual thresholds are configured * 5598 FIX: postfix_mailq_status: Fix Linux agent to handle newer SuSE systems * 5494 FIX: nfsmounts, cifsmounts: increase timeout of nfsmounts and deliver correct status details * 5779 FIX: mk_logwatch.exe: fixed broken python frozen binary * 5619 FIX: memory.include: Ignoring levels led to a crash because the handling of the paramters was not correct * 5484 FIX: logwatch.ec: Fix exception when reclassify patterns are specified * 5496 FIX: lnx_if: fix an issue that could lead to a crash of the agent if no interface address is returned * 5487 FIX: isc_dhcpd: Resolve performance issues * 5708 FIX: df: Fix incorrect values being reported on devices with btrfs * 5764 FIX: df.include: Fixed dynamic levels in ruleset 'Filesystem (used space and growth)' * 5557 FIX: check_mk_agent.aix: Fixed bug in uptime because AIX is not able to interpret ? and + in regexes * 5615 FIX: ceph_status: Fixed status handling if HEALTH_ERR occurs * 5709 FIX: apc_netbotz_sensors, apc_netbotz_other_sensors: Fix discovery for newer models * 5485 FIX: alcatel_power: improved detection of power supplies on newer devices * 5698 FIX: Windows agent: space in MRPE plugin path resulted in wrong plugin name NOTE: Please refer to the migration notes! * 5688 FIX: Windows agent: numerous fixes to only_from * 5699 FIX: Windows agent crashed at non-existent Skype perf counter * 5689 FIX: Newline in mrpe include file crashed Windows agent BI: * 5611 BI rule: Icons can be added below 'Aggregation functions' within any rule configuration which can be used for visual recognition * 5617 BI rule: Documentation-URL is configurable within 'Rule Properties' Changes in the Check_MK Enterprise Edition: User interface: * 5631 New host/service painter to display the notification postponement reason of the Microcore * 5658 FIX: Fixed possible "TypeError" on "Agent update status" view * 5594 FIX: Custom graphs: Fixed rendering titles of "sidebar hidden" custom graphs on graph list page The Check_MK Micro Core: * 5474 FIX: Revocery notifications have at least notification number 1 * 5476 FIX: Fixed notification numbering of periodic notifications NOTE: Please refer to the migration notes! * 5475 FIX: Do not suppress recovery notifications via throttling. Reporting & availability: * 5653 New report element: Add host report for multiple hosts * 5552 FIX: reporting: Fixed unreasonable high timeout for availability elements * 5656 FIX: Report edit: Add validation that reports can not use layouts from itself Metrics system: * 5629 Vertical axis width can now be set to a custom width * 5591 Only load graphs that are currently visible * 5730 Graph export can now use custom consolidation function * 5628 FIX: Reduced default vertical axis width to previous width * 5728 FIX: Fixed larger graph legends being cut off in graph dashlets * 5597 FIX: Fixed incorrect handling of configurable graph font sizes (since 1.5.0i2) * 5596 FIX: Fixed exception when editing "Metrics graph of a single service" reportlets * 5592 FIX: Fixed broken graph panning (at least in Firefox) * 5663 FIX: Fixed adding graphs to graph collections * 5273 FIX: Fix display of CustomGraphs for metrics without current performance data Livestatus proxy: * 5590 FIX: Fixed possible deadlock in shutdown/restart procedure Event console: * 5256 FIX: mkeventd: fixed two bugs regarding rule matching, introduced with WK5254 Core & setup: * 5477 Rule-based recurring downtimes can have and end now. * 5272 Make Real-Timer-Helper Pool configurable * 5634 FIX: Fixed slowing of CMC stop operation when SNMP checks are running Checks & agents: * 5555 mk_inventory: Added Bakery configuration for AIX inventory plugin * 5700 FIX: Windows agent crashed while unpacking plugins Agent bakery: * 5269 cmk-update-agent: New show-config mode * 5270 Improved Agent Updater Check behaviour for Linux Hosts * 5588 Agent bakery: Added search form to filter the table of baked agents * 5589 Agent bakery: ... (X hosts) text can now be clicked to show all hosts of a backed agent * 5593 Added AC test to warn about unencrypted agent updater communication * 5763 FIX: mk_jolokia: relative URI was not written into configuration file * 5762 FIX: mk_jolokia, mk_logwatch, win_eventlog, win_logwatch, winperf: Fixed UnicodeEncodeError while baking agents * 5268 FIX: cmk-update-agent: Improve exception handling * 5781 FIX: Check_MK Update Agent: Now automatically repairs missing agent plugins after a failed windows agent update * 5271 FIX: Better handling of erroneous deployment information in Agent Bakery Changes in the Check_MK Managed Services Edition: WATO: * 5732 BI aggregations are now customer aware You can download Check_MK from our download page: * http://mathias-kettner.de/check_mk_download.html Please mail bug reports and qualified feedback to feedback(a)check-mk.org. We greatly thank you for using Check_MK and wish you a successful monitoring, Your Check_MK Team -- Mathias Kettner GmbH Kellerstraße 29, 81667 München, Germany Registergericht: Amtsgericht München, HRB 165902 Geschäftsführer: Mathias Kettner http://mathias-kettner.de Tel. +49 89 1890 435-0 Fax. +49 89 1890 435-29

6 years, 2 months

[Check_mk Announce] New Check_MK stable release 1.4.0p25

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Dear friends of Check_MK, the new stable release 1.4.0p25 of Check_MK is ready for download. This maintenance release ships with 23 changes affecing all editions of Check_MK, 6 Enterprise Edition specific changes and 0 Managed Services Edition specific changes. The most important change is a fix for the Check_MK Agent Updater. It now detects and repairs missing agent plugins after a failed windows agent update. Changes in all Check_MK Editions: WATO: * 5780 FIX: fileinfo.groups: Fixed check parameters display bug in service discovery page * 5721 FIX: Saving backup jobs: Fixed AttributeError() occuring while handling an exception * 5733 FIX: Fixed bulk deletion of users with special characters in their ID User interface: * 5665 FIX: Improved timeout error handling when trying to download agent output of a host * 5729 FIX: Fixed loosing configured icons when editing bookmark lists * 5725 FIX: Fixed changing view filter default values not being effective right after editing * 5723 FIX: Fixed broken sorting of services * 5667 FIX: Fixed broken newline rendring in sidebar user messages Livestatus: * 5460 FIX: Waiting without a wait condition immediately returns now NOTE: Please refer to the migration notes! * 5668 FIX: Fixed potential segfault when talking to the event console * 5461 FIX: Fixed WaitTimeout handling Event console: * 5740 FIX: mkeventd: reload configuration on SIGHUP used e.g. by omd reload * 5670 FIX: Handle history files from older EC versions, which have fewer columns. * 5735 FIX: Fixed PDF export of "Event Detail" page Checks & agents: * 5701 Windows agent: renew logging * 5778 FIX: mk_logwatch.exe: fixed broken python frozen binary * 5760 FIX: infoblox_node_services: Unknown service IDs led to a check crash * 5764 FIX: df.include: Fixed dynamic levels in ruleset 'Filesystem (used space and growth)' * 5557 FIX: check_mk_agent.aix: Fixed bug in uptime because AIX is not able to interpret ? and + in regexes * 5709 FIX: apc_netbotz_sensors, apc_netbotz_other_sensors: Fix discovery for newer models * 5703 FIX: Windows agent: section logwatch output was cut abruptly with 'vista_api=yes' * 5738 FIX: Make custom attributes of a host available for the core Other components: * 5727 FIX: nrpe: Fixed missing check_nrpe on stretch Changes in the Check_MK Enterprise Edition: Metrics system: * 5728 FIX: Fixed larger graph legends being cut off in graph dashlets * 5273 FIX: Fix display of CustomGraphs for metrics without current performance data Agent bakery: * 5763 FIX: mk_jolokia: relative URI was not written into configuration file * 5762 FIX: mk_jolokia, mk_logwatch, win_eventlog, win_logwatch, winperf: Fixed UnicodeEncodeError while baking agents * 5781 FIX: Check_MK Update Agent: Now automatically repairs missing agent plugins after a failed windows agent update * 5271 FIX: Better handling of erroneous deployment information in Agent Bakery Changes in the Check_MK Managed Services Edition: NO CHANGES You can download Check_MK from our download page: * http://mathias-kettner.de/check_mk_download.html Please mail bug reports and qualified feedback to feedback(a)check-mk.org. We greatly thank you for using Check_MK and wish you a successful monitoring, Your Check_MK Team -- Mathias Kettner GmbH Kellerstraße 29, 81667 München, Germany Registergericht: Amtsgericht München, HRB 165902 Geschäftsführer: Mathias Kettner http://mathias-kettner.de Tel. +49 89 1890 435-0 Fax. +49 89 1890 435-29

6 years, 3 months

[Check_mk Announce] New Check_MK stable release 1.2.8p27

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Dear friends of Check_MK, the new stable release 1.2.8p27 of Check_MK is ready for download. This maintenance release of the current "old stable" version ships with 19 changes affecing all editions of Check_MK, 1 Enterprise Edition specific change and 0 Managed Services Edition specific changes. Changes in all Check_MK Editions: Checks & Agents: * 5302 FIX: oracle_instance: Fixed crash if output contains more than 12 columns * 5316 FIX: cmciii.access: Fixed error state handling... * 5518 FIX: win.mem: Fix incorrect representation of absolute memory levels in graphs... * 5548 FIX: zpool_status: Fixed crash if pool has been deleted or vanished... * 5549 FIX: mk_oracle.ps1: Fixed scattered information for configuration... * 5550 FIX: mk_oracle.ps1: Fixed exceptions because of useless backslashes... * 5451 FIX: logwatch: Fixed reclassifying mechanism: Patterns did not apply correctly if they have changed * 5417 FIX: Windows: allow whitespace in eventlog event source... * 5608 FIX: temperature.include: Fixed device levels handling * 5557 FIX: check_mk_agent.aix: Fixed bug in uptime because AIX is not able to interpret ? and + in regexes Multisite: * 4757 SEC: Fixed possible reflected XSS in webapi.py... WATO: * 4222 FIX: Services of host page: Fixed encoding issue for hosts with umlauts in alias Changes in the Check_MK Enterprise Edition: You can download Check_MK from our download page: * http://mathias-kettner.de/check_mk_download.html Please mail bug reports and qualified feedback to feedback(a)check-mk.org. We greatly thank you for using Check_MK and wish you a successful monitoring, Your Check_MK Team -- Mathias Kettner GmbH Kellerstraße 29, 81667 München, Germany Registergericht: Amtsgericht München, HRB 165902 Geschäftsführer: Mathias Kettner http://mathias-kettner.de Tel. +49 89 1890 435-0 Fax. +49 89 1890 435-29

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