Dear friends of Checkmk,
the new stable release 1.6.0p6 of Checkmk is ready for download.
This maintenance release ships with 71 changes affecing all editions of Checkmk,
9 Enterprise Edition specific changes and 2 Managed Services Edition specific changes.
Changes in all Checkmk Editions:
Checks & agents:
* 10194 Windows Agent: logwatch section size is limited now
* 10157 FIX: Now using /dev/null instead of closing stdin in all POSIX agents
* 10196 FIX: All text file of the Windows Agent now have Windows style line endings
* 10405 FIX: Allow filesystems in /var/lib/docker/ to be monitored
* 10156 FIX: Crash upon unexpected resource ID
* 10406 FIX: Fix Domino task check pluging to use newer PS check functions
* 10446 FIX: Output bits/s with the appropriate SI magnitude
* 10308 FIX: Recover performance data output for averaged bandwidth use in IF checks
* 10310 FIX: Remove duplicated check-output in IF checks on average data
* 10487 FIX: Warn if host has tag "Always use and expect piggback data" and no piggyback data is available
* 10192 FIX: Windows Agent User Config file is no more reset after service restart
* 10193 FIX: Windows Agent: Invalid entries have been removed from logwatch
* 10360 FIX: agent_aws: Fetch live data from AWS if special agent configuration has changed
* 8799 FIX: agent_kubernetes: accept millibytes as unit
* 8798 FIX: agent_kubernetes: allow the option 'No IP' for the Kubernetes master
* 10329 FIX: agent_splunk: Prevent InsecureRequestWarning
* 10358 FIX: check_mail_loop: Fixed exception: Failed to fetch mail NR ('NoneType' object has no attribute '__getitem__')
* 10448 FIX: emc_datadomain_mtree: add missing metric definition
* 10155 FIX: emcvnx_storage_pools: Crash upon missing auto-tiering info
* 10494 FIX: lnx_if: Fixed confusion of interface state UNKNOWN, DOWN if ethtool output is missing
* 10507 FIX: mk_oracle: Fixed missing option to set the TNS_ADMIN in the bakery
* 10508 FIX: mk_oracle: Fixed missing sysdg as role choice
* 10348 FIX: mssql_databases: Do not alert if instance is not running
* 10509 FIX: oracle_rman: Fixed wrong incremental Level 1 Backup
* 10449 FIX: ps: cleanup counters of processes which do not exist anymore
* 10300 FIX: sym_brightmail_queues: bug fix where WATO configuration did not alter behaviour
* 10408 FIX: Don't discover lparstat service on host without util info
NOTE: Please refer to the migration notes!
* 10447 FIX: agent_kubernetes: use new API versions
NOTE: Please refer to the migration notes!
* 10356 FIX: bluenet2_powerrail.{temp,humidity}: Fixed discovery of ALL temperature and humidity sensors
NOTE: Please refer to the migration notes!
* 8806 FIX: mk_oracle: Fixed discovery of XE instances on Oracle 18c
NOTE: Please refer to the migration notes!
* 8805 FIX: mk_oracle: Fixed jobs with auto_drop
NOTE: Please refer to the migration notes!
* 10359 FIX: mk_oracle: better support for mounted databases
NOTE: Please refer to the migration notes!
Core & setup:
* 10377 FIX: Fix terminating "cmk --update-dns-cache" with CTRL+C
* 10378 FIX: Improve "Update DNS cache" / cmk --update-dns-cache performance
* 7281 FIX: legacy local plugins: added missing register_hook call
Event console:
* 8797 FIX: Show the Contact Person in the Event Details view
HW/SW inventory:
* 10342 FIX: HW/SW Inventory: Do not overwrite inventory tree if ALL data sources of a host fail
* 10351 FIX: HW/SW Inventory: Do not pollute inventory archive if two numerations have different order but same entries
* 10347 FIX: if: Moved last change field to status data tree; otherwise the inventory history may be polluted
* 10346 FIX: lnx_if winperf_if if solaris_addresses: Fixed sorting interfaces; otherwise the inventory history may be polluted
* 10344 FIX: lnx_if: Do not inventorize dynamic IPv6 addresses which may pollute inventory history
* 10493 FIX: lnx_if: Use MAC address from command 'ip' if the command 'ethtool' is not available
* 10270 FIX: solaris_mem: Fix value and unit
NOTE: Please refer to the migration notes!
Other components:
* 10374 NagVis: Updated to 1.9.16
* 10372 FIX: stunnel: Improve logging of the daemon
Site management:
* 10371 FIX: omd restore: Fix possible version issues when default version is not the site version
* 10376 FIX: omd: Fix possible stopped system apache after removing a site
User interface:
* 10510 Added more link views for Host Groups (Summary)
* 10382 FIX: Dashboard: Add missing link for creating a new view as dashlet
* 10455 FIX: Don't display classical checkboxes in mobile GUI
* 10454 FIX: Don't show an error in Commands of mobile GUI
* 10373 FIX: Fix distributed update issue related to missing theme directory
* 10381 FIX: Fix editing dashlet views
* 10456 FIX: Fix redirection from login page in mobile GUI
* 10380 FIX: Fix view action menu in dashlets
* 10350 FIX: Fixed #rows on rulesets pages
* 10384 FIX: IE11 incompatibility: Fix reordering view painters
* 10489 FIX: Move ruleset "Piggybacked Host Files" to group "Access to Agents"
* 7285 FIX: Network Topology: fixed exception in exception when the maximal allowed node limit has been reached
* 10265 FIX: Password policy: Do not apply expiration time for LDAP users
* 10490 FIX: Rename ruleset "Piggybacked Host Files" to "Processing of Piggybacked Host Data"
* 10228 FIX: Several minor GUI fixes
* 10453 FIX: Show graphs in the mobile GUI
* 10452 FIX: Use mobile GUI for mobile devices
WATO:
* 10407 FIX: Consistent naming for levels in Check SQL Database active check
* 10264 FIX: Discovery page: Fix missing "toggle all" checkboxes (1.6.0p2 regression)
* 10379 FIX: Hostname search: Host bulk actions affected all hosts (1.6.0p4 regression)
* 10383 FIX: Make more background job results deletable
* 10375 FIX: NagVis backends now work with encrypted Livestatus
* 10287 FIX: Service Discovery: fix re-enabling services which were disabled in 1.4.0
* 10546 FIX: WATO changes: Improve table rendering with many affected sites
Changes in the Checkmk Enterprise Edition:
Agent bakery:
* 7173 FIX: cmk-update-agent.exe: Fix stdout/stderr redirects
* 10426 FIX: cmk-update-agent: Make insecure HTTPS warnings less verbose
Core & setup:
* 10404 FIX: Performace update for RRD on high resolution
* 10309 FIX: Predictive Levels is robust against receiving no data at all
Metrics system:
* 10402 FIX: Deal with RRD sources which are not updated anymore in multiline graphs
Reporting & availability:
* 10401 FIX: Instant reports are deactivated under the correct permission
NOTE: Please refer to the migration notes!
User interface:
* 10229 FIX: Graph tuning: Graphs do not exceed the time axis and forecast graph icons were fixed
* 7282 FIX: liveproxyd: Reduced CPU usage
WATO:
* 10271 FIX: Selecting the files header could crash the mkp manager
Changes in the Checkmk Managed Services Edition:
User interface:
* 8809 Added more builtin views for customer related hosts/services
WATO:
* 10288 FIX: Customer GUI: remove superfluous tt tags
You can download Checkmk from our download page:
* https://checkmk.com/download.php
Please mail bug reports and qualified feedback to feedback(a)check-mk.org.
We greatly thank you for using Checkmk and wish you a successful monitoring,
Your Checkmk Team
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