Dear friends of Checkmk,
the new stable release 1.5.0p21 of Checkmk is ready for download.
This is a quick fix release to fix a regression that was introduced by the 1.5.0p20
release which lead to repeated bulk notifications when using ASCII mail notifications
in bulk mode. See werk #8784 for more information.
This maintenance release ships with 6 changes affecing all editions of Checkmk,
0 Enterprise Edition specific changes and 0 Managed Services Edition specific changes.
Changes in all Checkmk Editions:
Notifications:
* 8784 FIX: bulk notifications were sent multiple times
HW/SW inventory:
* 8820 FIX: lnx_packages: Do not crash if agent sends incomplete output
Checks & agents:
* 8823 FIX: stormshield_cluster, stormshield_cluster_node: Do not discover services if cluster info is missing
* 7957 FIX: msexchange: ignore invalid data in agent output
* 8821 FIX: emc_datadomain_temps: Do not discover missing temperature sensors
* 7270 FIX: Timespecific parameters: Some checks no longer loose discovered check parameters
Changes in the Checkmk Enterprise Edition:
NO CHANGES
Changes in the Checkmk Managed Services Edition:
NO CHANGES
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
---
tribe29 GmbH - The Checkmk Company
Kellerstraße 29, 81667 München, Germany
Amtsgericht München, HRB 165902
Geschäftsführer: Jan Justus, Mathias Kettner
https://tribe29.com
Phone: +49 89 9982 097 00
Dear friends of Checkmk,
the new stable release 1.5.0p20 of Checkmk is ready for download.
This maintenance release ships with 31 changes affecing all editions of Checkmk,
0 Enterprise Edition specific changes and 0 Managed Services Edition specific changes.
Changes in all Checkmk Editions:
WATO:
* 7979 FIX: Setting host tags correctly after editing hosts
* 8781 FIX: Fix traceback for builtin icon visibility
* 7900 FIX: BI: Fix "Request-URI Too Long" after creating BI rule
User interface:
* 7261 FIX: Quicksearch: Fixed exception shown with queries "sg: mysg s: .*"
* 7267 FIX: Multisite commands: Fixed empty followup page when pressing "Back to view"
* 7269 FIX: Increased LDAP user profile synchronisation timeout to remote sites
* 7985 FIX: IE: Some context buttons were not toggled correctly in some views
Other components:
* 6971 Bump shipped Python from 2.7.15 to 2.7.16.
Notifications:
* 7429 FIX: pushover: fix broken error handling
* 7433 FIX: mail: make the long output of HTML mails more readable
* 7428 FIX: email: don't escape email subject and addresses
* 8783 FIX: bulk notifications did not produce failed notifications
Linux distributions:
* 7989 Add build support for Debian Buster
HW/SW inventory:
* 8817 FIX: HW/SW inventory: Sort interfaces in order to avoid additional archive entries
DEB packaging:
* 7936 FIX: Fixed libevent dependency for Ubuntu Disco Dingo.
Checks & agents:
* 6762 FIX: zfsget: Fixed different behaviour of the plugin in Solaris and Linux
* 7923 FIX: websphere_mq_queues: Do not crash if timestamp of a queue could not be parsed
* 7945 FIX: veeam_tapejobs: treat idle background jobs like working ones
* 7493 FIX: veeam_tapejobs: fix mixed up running time for running jobs
* 7947 FIX: ps: Missing services for non-matching subexpressions
NOTE: Please refer to the migration notes!
* 8801 FIX: oracle_crs_res, oracle_crs_version, oracle_crs_voting: Fixed error in parameters view
* 7844 FIX: netapp-api-volumes: Fixed scaling of latency values
* 7431 FIX: mk_postgres: version detection may fail
NOTE: Please refer to the migration notes!
* 7753 FIX: esx_vsphere_counters: Fixed crash on missing values
* 7863 FIX: chrony: Fixed detection of unreachable NTP servers
* 7915 FIX: check_mk_agent.{aix,linux,openwrt}: Fixed accessing $SPOOLDIR
* 8815 FIX: ceph_df: Fixed wrong calculation of size and available space
* 7469 FIX: brocade_sfp: Fixed discovery crash if any value is -inf
* 7917 FIX: aws_costs_and_usage: Fixed missing service condition in related parameter set
NOTE: Please refer to the migration notes!
* 7862 FIX: Fix parsing of MongDB server status in cluster
NOTE: Please refer to the migration notes!
* 7446 FIX: EMKA checks did not recognize devices with recent sysObjectID
Changes in the Checkmk Enterprise Edition:
NO CHANGES
Changes in the Checkmk Managed Services Edition:
NO CHANGES
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
---
tribe29 GmbH - The Checkmk Company
Kellerstraße 29, 81667 München, Germany
Amtsgericht München, HRB 165902
Geschäftsführer: Jan Justus, Mathias Kettner
https://tribe29.com
Phone: +49 89 9982 097 00
Dear friends of Checkmk,
the new beta release 1.6.0b4 of Checkmk is ready for download.
Checkmk 1.6 is on a good way becoming more stable. Thanks to your feedback we
were able to find and fix several problems.
Please test 1.6.0b4 and send us feedback about possible problems. Especially
components that have undergone major changes, such as the Windows agent and tag
and rule configuration, would be important to test.
To focus on the 1.6 beta feedback we have created a dedicated mail address:
feedback-1.6-beta at check-mk.org
All mails to this address will be used to improve the 1.6 and are completely
free of charge.
This test release ships with 57 changes affecing all editions of Checkmk,
5 Enterprise Edition specific changes and 0 Managed Services Edition specific changes.
This release will be in active maintenance until 2019-08-23. The passive
maintenance will be until 2019-09-22. For details take a look at the Checkmk
versions chapter of the Checkmk handbook.
Changes in all Checkmk Editions:
Checks & agents:
* 8810 systemd_services: Extension of services classification functionality
* 7950 docker_container_status: Improved discovery and health check
* 7952 mk_docker.py: Add base_url to bakery rule config options
* 7948 mk_logwatch: process new files from the beginning
* 7924 ucd: Add support for Bomgar Appliances
* 7953 mk_docker.py: Bakery now allows to skip individual sections
NOTE: Please refer to the migration notes!
* 7893 FIX: systemd_units: filter out disabled services from summary monitoring
* 7446 FIX: EMKA checks did not recognize devices with recent sysObjectID
* 7920 FIX: agent_ucs_bladecenter:Handles lowercased first letter of attribute names (UCS-B series)
* 7469 FIX: brocade_sfp: Fixed discovery crash if any value is -inf
* 7951 FIX: check_mk: Don't crash upon missing hostname
* 7863 FIX: chrony: Fixed detection of unreachable NTP servers
* 7753 FIX: esx_vsphere_counters: Fixed crash on missing values
* 7949 FIX: kernel.util, lparstat_aix.cpu_util: Remove duplicate CPU utilization graph
* 7919 FIX: mk_sap_hana: Do not write empty loglines which let the logwatch check crash
* 7844 FIX: netapp-api-volumes: Fixed scaling of latency values
* 8801 FIX: oracle_crs_res, oracle_crs_version, oracle_crs_voting: Fixed error in parameters view
* 7921 FIX: ucs_bladecenter_if: Use port ID if port name is missing
* 7923 FIX: websphere_mq_queues: Do not crash if timestamp of a queue could not be parsed
* 7928 FIX: zfsget: whitespace in name discovery bugfix
* 7862 FIX: Fix parsing of MongDB server status in cluster
NOTE: Please refer to the migration notes!
* 7917 FIX: aws_costs_and_usage: Fixed missing service condition in related parameter set
NOTE: Please refer to the migration notes!
* 7852 FIX: df: Filesystems of type devtmpfs are now ignored completely
NOTE: Please refer to the migration notes!
* 7947 FIX: ps: Missing services for non-matching subexpressions
NOTE: Please refer to the migration notes!
Core & setup:
* 7978 Service labels can now be discovered
* 7444 FIX: Rename metric name in Filesystem checks from mount point to fs_used
NOTE: Please refer to the migration notes!
* 7972 FIX: Fix possible error when checking on command line with missing piggyback_sources directory
* 7984 FIX: Service labels assigned with ruleset matched on all services of a host
Event console:
* 7937 FIX: Fixed handling of old event console configurations
HW/SW inventory:
* 7971 FIX: Fixed wrong check interval for "Check_MK HW/SW Inventory" service
* 8817 FIX: HW/SW inventory: Sort interfaces in order to avoid additional archive entries
Livestatus:
* 7938 Unify status table columns in NEB and CMC.
Livestatus proxy:
* 7967 FIX: Fix blocked liveproxy after executing livestatus commands
Notifications:
* 8780 FIX: mknotifyd: fix race condition in distributed setups
Other components:
* 7977 NagVis: Updated to 1.9.13
* 7975 Update Dokuwiki to 2018-04-22b
Reporting & availability:
* 7909 FIX: Fix broken "stored reports" page
User interface:
* 7264 Added new metric painter: Displays the value of a single configurable metric
* 7982 FIX: Fix "N/A" being displayed in some host tag columns
* 7913 FIX: Fix adding views to dashboard
* 7981 FIX: Fix ambiguous labels filter title
* 7974 FIX: Fix broken view grouping by HW/SW inventory columns
* 7973 FIX: Fix empty service views in mobile GUI
* 7983 FIX: Fix registering GUI commands with old multisite_commands
* 7914 FIX: Fixed moving "user notification" dashlet on dashboard
* 7267 FIX: Multisite commands: Fixed empty followup page when pressing "Back to view"
WATO:
* 8782 DCD Connections, Password store entries and Predefined conditions can now be cloned
* 7976 FIX: Backup/Restore: Fix broken restore when backup is not accessible
* 7447 FIX: Duplicated livestatus query limit exceeded
* 7910 FIX: EC pages are now disabled and hidden when EC is disable
* 7912 FIX: Fix host tag update problem
* 8781 FIX: Fix traceback for builtin icon visibility
* 7965 FIX: Fix updating hosts after editing tags
* 7968 FIX: Fixed moving and deleting Event Console rules
* 7980 FIX: Prevent deletion of contact groups while referenced in hosts or folders
* 7911 FIX: Tags: Fix "Element "" does not exist anymore in tag input preview
* 7966 FIX: Web API: Fix broken set_hosttags API call
Changes in the Checkmk Enterprise Edition:
Agent bakery:
* 7969 FIX: Fix broken agent baking when Linux remote alert handlers are enabled
Core & setup:
* 7970 FIX: Fix possible AttributeError "function" has no attribute "get" exception during checking
Reporting & availability:
* 7445 Historic data views and painters for capacity management
* 7266 Reporting: Now able to create subreports based on service reports
* 7265 FIX: Fixed exception during subreport generation, fixed missing macros in subreports
Changes in the Checkmk Managed Services Edition:
NO CHANGES
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
---
tribe29 GmbH - The Checkmk Company
Kellerstraße 29, 81667 München, Germany
Amtsgericht München, HRB 165902
Geschäftsführer: Jan Justus, Mathias Kettner
https://tribe29.com
Phone: +49 89 9982 097 00
Dear friends of Checkmk,
the new beta release 1.6.0b3 of Checkmk is ready for download.
We are making good progress in stabilising Checkmk 1.6. Thanks to your feedback
we were able to find and fix several problems.
Please test 1.6.0b3 and send us feedback about possible problems. Especially
components that have undergone major changes, such as the Windows agent and tag
and rule configuration, would be important to test.
To focus on the 1.6 beta feedback we have created a dedicated mail address:
feedback-1.6-beta at check-mk.org
All mails to this address will be used to improve the 1.6 and are completely
free of charge.
This test release ships with 64 changes affecing all editions of Checkmk, 9
Enterprise Edition specific changes and 0 Managed Services Edition specific
changes.
This release will be in active maintenance until 2019-08-04.
The passive maintenance will be until 2019-09-03. For details take
a look at the Checkmk versions chapter of the Checkmk handbook.
Changes in all Checkmk Editions:
BI:
* 7262 Initial version of new Business Intelligence visualization
Checks & agents:
* 7714 Windows Agent provides MSI Installation Log for update routine
* 7890 check_by_ssh: Option to automatically accept new host keys
* 7492 mk_jolokia: Now Python 2.6 compatible
* 7489 mk_logwatch: optimize regex search
* 7853 oracle_longactivesessions: Added Perf-O-Meter for session counter
* 7823 FIX: Check hosts with PING: Fix broken custom service descriptions
* 7715 FIX: Correct upgrade of Legacy Windows Agent
* 7846 FIX: apache_status: Add missing SLES12 process 'httpd-prefork'
* 7835 FIX: apc_symmetra: Treat unknown battery status as UNKNOWN instead of crashing
* 7915 FIX: check_mk_agent.{aix,linux,openwrt}: Fixed accessing $SPOOLDIR
* 7837 FIX: citrix_controller: Fixed several problems if some values are missing
* 7834 FIX: liebert*: Do not crash if value could not be converted to float
* 7841 FIX: lnx_if: Fixed parsing interface address of tunnels on OpenBSD
* 7833 FIX: mongodb_flushing: Fixed scaling and missing titles for performance values 'Flush time', '#Flushes' and 'Average flush time'
* 7836 FIX: msexch_autodiscovery: Fixed configuration error: Found '%s' in service description
* 7830 FIX: nimble_latency, nimble_latency.write: Fixed interpretation of read values as write values
* 7843 FIX: pfsense_if: Return 'Item not found in SNMP data' instead of crashing
* 7432 FIX: postgres_instances: fix crash of the parse function
* 7430 FIX: ps: fix empty output on older distros with cgroups
* 7420 FIX: ps: only show processes which do not belong to a docker container
* 7751 FIX: storeonce_servicesets: Do not crash on capacity checking
* 7892 FIX: systemd_units: fix broken discovery rule
* 7493 FIX: veeam_tapejobs: fix mixed up running time for running jobs
* 7945 FIX: veeam_tapejobs: treat idle background jobs like working ones
* 7847 FIX: win_printers: Fixed discovery of printers which include spaces in the printer name; This also fixes 'Printer not found' while checking
* 7839 FIX: winperf_if: Do not crash if agent does not send any data about interfaces
* 7842 FIX: winperf_processor.util: Fixed 'ValueError' while gathering statistics about processor util
* 7490 FIX: mk_logwatch: enforce utf-8 encoding of config files
NOTE: Please refer to the migration notes!
* 7425 FIX: mk_postgres, postgres_instances: fix plugin output for older operating systems
NOTE: Please refer to the migration notes!
* 7424 FIX: mk_postgres: add missing database parameter
NOTE: Please refer to the migration notes!
* 7423 FIX: mk_postgres: fix syntax error
NOTE: Please refer to the migration notes!
* 7426 FIX: mk_postgres: fix the version detection when using an MK_CONFFILE
NOTE: Please refer to the migration notes!
* 7431 FIX: mk_postgres: version detection may fail
NOTE: Please refer to the migration notes!
* 7845 FIX: winperf_processor: Changed default levels back to 101, 101 percent in order avoid a lot of false alarms
NOTE: Please refer to the migration notes!
Core & setup:
* 7907 FIX: Fix broken 'cmk --flush HOST' command
* 7443 FIX: SW/HW inventory filters only query for information when configured
* 7902 FIX: cmk --localize update: Finds relevant texts again
HW/SW inventory:
* 7822 FIX: HW/SW filter did not work: Network interface: Last Change
* 7840 FIX: aix_packages lnx_packages win_exefiles win_reg_uninstall win_wmi_software win_wmi_updates, solaris_pkginfo: Do not crash if package has no 'name' information
Notifications:
* 7429 FIX: pushover: fix broken error handling
* 7824 FIX: Fix deletion of user notification rules with missing plugins
* 7442 FIX: Pagerduty notification host identifier to hostname when IP address is uknown
* 7752 FIX: Servicenow: Fixed missing handling of ending downtimes
* 7428 FIX: email: don't escape email subject and addresses
* 7433 FIX: mail: make the long output of HTML mails more readable
* 7427 FIX: mail: don't escape state markers in emails
NOTE: Please refer to the migration notes!
Site management:
* 7825 FIX: NagVis: Fix missing worldmap background
User interface:
* 7895 FIX: Download agent output: Fix timeouts in distributed setups
* 7829 FIX: Fix displaying of HTML codes in background job progress info
* 7828 FIX: Fix duplicate "24x7 - always" selection in timeperiod dropdowns
* 7827 FIX: Fix duplicate explicit host/service condition help text
* 7908 FIX: Improve metric plugin compatibility
* 7261 FIX: Quicksearch: Fixed exception shown with queries "sg: mysg s: .*"
* 7819 FIX: Fix "HTTP header authentication"
NOTE: Please refer to the migration notes!
WATO:
* 7905 FIX: Analyze configuration: Fix Livestatus usage test with Nagios core
* 7900 FIX: BI: Fix "Request-URI Too Long" after creating BI rule
* 7820 FIX: Custom tag topics are now correctly shown in host edit dialog
* 7897 FIX: Fix "TypeError: not enough arguments for format string" at end of bulk discovery
* 7899 FIX: Fix configuring empty tag ID tags on hosts / folders
* 7898 FIX: Fix possible syntax error when configuring service contact groups (1.6.0b2 regression)
* 7896 FIX: Fix wrong rule match analyse in WATO
* 7904 FIX: Host diagnose: Only contact agent source in agent test
* 7901 FIX: Ruleset "Service labels" had no effect
Changes in the Checkmk Enterprise Edition:
Agent bakery:
* 7170 FIX: cmk-update-agent: Stop stockpiling broken installation packages
* 7880 FIX: mrpe: Create mrpe config also for AIX systems when configured
Checks & agents:
* 7891 systemd_units: allow to blacklist specific services
Core & setup:
* 7935 FIX: Fixed execution_time column for passive checks.
Inline SNMP:
* 7906 FIX: Fix possible AttributeError "'NoneType' has no attribute 'delete_session'" on SNMP hosts
Metrics system:
* 7903 FIX: Add missing "Dissolve icon" in custom graph editor
Reporting & availability:
* 7821 FIX: Fix adding graphs with many metrics to reports / dashboards
* 7826 FIX: Report snapin: Fix timerange selection
User interface:
* 7263 Graph Tunings: Now able to disable graph
Changes in the Checkmk Managed Services Edition:
NO CHANGES
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
---
tribe29 GmbH - The Checkmk Company
Kellerstraße 29, 81667 München, Germany
Amtsgericht München, HRB 165902
Geschäftsführer: Jan Justus, Mathias Kettner
https://tribe29.com
Phone: +49 89 9982 097 00
