Dear friends of Checkmk,
the new beta release 1.6.0b7 of Checkmk is ready for download.
Please test 1.6.0b7 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 39 changes affecing all editions of Checkmk,
4 Enterprise Edition specific changes and 0 Managed Services Edition specific changes.
This release will be in active maintenance until 2019-09-23.
The passive maintenance will be until 2019-10-23. For details take
a look at the Checkmk versions chapter of the Checkmk handbook.
Changes in all Checkmk Editions:
Checks & agents:
* 7271 Decreased configuration loading time for setups with large amount of folders
* 8869 ESX: Add type labels for ESX vCenter, servers, VMs
* 8903 apache_status: Optional path to X.509 cert
* 8932 FIX: Do not crash if at least one data set of resources, groups, system or cluster is missing
* 8830 FIX: MSSQL checks: Do not crash if line contains invalid data
* 8937 FIX: aix_diskiod: Skip lines which do not contain data about DISK IO
* 8832 FIX: akcp_sensor_humidity: Do not crash if percentual value about humidity is missing
* 8826 FIX: canon_pages: Fixed SNMP scan of Canon printers
* 7932 FIX: check_sftp: support for custom ports for SFTP
* 8929 FIX: cisco_fan: Fixed crash if device status is unknown
* 8928 FIX: citrix_controller: Add the licensing grace state 'Expired'
* 8931 FIX: cmctc_state: Handle unknown states
* 8926 FIX: dell_idrac_info: Fixed crash if BIOS date cannot be converted or is missing
* 8834 FIX: enterasys_powersupply: Do not crashed while translating redundancy and supply types
* 8933 FIX: fast_lta_headunit: Do not crash if states about head unit, slave and replication are missing
* 8833 FIX: hp_msa_fan: Translate status and health status regardless of language
* 8927 FIX: hp_psu.temp: Use generic 'Item not found' if data of an item is missing
* 8939 FIX: juniper_trpz_aps_sessions: Skip radios which do not provide useful data
* 8923 FIX: lxc_container_cpu: Do not crash if USER and SYSTEM values are missing
* 8940 FIX: mbg_lantime_ng_refclock: Fixed crash if field strength cannot be calculated
* 8920 FIX: megaraid_ldisks: Show generic message 'Item not found' if state information is missing
* 8827 FIX: mk_oracle: Fixed saving agent plugin rule "ORACLE Databases"
* 8925 FIX: netapp_api_aggr: Do not discover if needed values about available and total size are missing
* 8921 FIX: sansymphony_serverstatus: Do not discover if info empty
* 8831 FIX: ups_test: Show generic message 'Item not found' if needed values (UPS diagnostics) are missing
* 8922 FIX: veeam_tapejobs: Fixed crash because of missing columns
Core & setup:
* 8866 FIX: Docker: Fix GUI redirects (1.6 regression)
* 8856 FIX: Fix autocheck conversion of old if64 checks
HW/SW inventory:
* 8825 FIX: win_wmi_updates: Do not inventorize header line
Notifications:
* 8786 FIX: Host contact groups were not inherited to services
* 8787 FIX: Links in the mail plugin were not displayed
Site management:
* 8859 FIX: omd: Improved output of hook scripts (e.g. during update)
User interface:
* 8870 Add host/service label filters to more views
* 8871 Views/Dashboards: Add option to show filter parts in title or not
* 8864 FIX: "Change password on next login" page is working again
* 8868 FIX: Fix broken graph loading image
* 8872 FIX: Label filters: Add filter info to page title
WATO:
* 8863 Discovery page: Add action to update the discovered host labels
* 8867 FIX: Fix discovery and activation on temporarily disabled sites
Changes in the Checkmk Enterprise Edition:
Agent bakery:
* 8828 FIX: mk_db2: Agent plugin for DB2 database is now bakeable
Core & setup:
* 8865 DCD: Add host deletion grace time after site initialization
* 8862 FIX: DCD: Fix retrying to activate changes when there are no changes pending
* 8861 FIX: DCD: Gracefully handle single host issues when creating hosts
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 1.6.0b6 of Checkmk is ready for download.
This is a quick fix release to make distributed setups work again. The 1.6.0b5
shipped with a regression (#7987) that was fixed with werk #8858.
Please test 1.6.0b6 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 9 changes affecing all editions of Checkmk,
1 Enterprise Edition specific changes and 0 Managed Services Edition specific changes.
This release will be in active maintenance until 2019-09-16.
The passive maintenance will be until 2019-10-16. For details take
a look at the Checkmk versions chapter of the Checkmk handbook.
Changes in all Checkmk Editions:
Checks & agents:
* 8837 check_mk_agent.linux: Modification of agent's encryption functionality in order to accomodate for newer digest functions
Core & setup:
* 8855 FIX: cmk-update-config: Improve error handling
Other components:
* 8860 NagVis: Updated to 1.9.14
Site management:
* 8858 FIX: Fix broken distributed setup when Livestatus TLS is not enabled (1.6.0b5 regression, #7987)
* 8850 FIX: Fix omd backup/restore with site rename
* 8849 FIX: omd rm: Do not fail in case user not exists anymore
User interface:
* 8854 SEC: Dashboard: Static text dashlet only allows limited HTML
WATO:
* 8853 FIX: Cleanup ancient "(no status host)" choice from site config
* 8852 FIX: Fix error on tag management page when tags are defined outside of WATO
Changes in the Checkmk Enterprise Edition:
Metrics system:
* 7450 Custom Graphs timeseries transformation percentile
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 1.6.0b5 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 1.6.0b5 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 38 changes affecing all editions of Checkmk,
4 Enterprise Edition specific changes and 0 Managed Services Edition specific changes.
This release will be in active maintenance until 2019-09-12.
The passive maintenance will be until 2019-10-12. For details take
a look at the Checkmk versions chapter of the Checkmk handbook.
Changes in all Checkmk Editions:
BI:
* 7268 BI aggregations: Introduced aggregation ID
NOTE: Please refer to the migration notes!
Checks & agents:
* 7718 Command line parameter version added to the Windows Agent
* 8890 Windows Agent 1.6: Configuration reloading had been restructured
* 8891 Windows Agent 1.6: Now able to remove the Legacy Agent
* 8814 netstat: Support of netstat functionality for Solaris Operating System
* 7958 ps: Allow to filter discovery by cgroup (Linux only)
* 7960 ps: Option to include process arguments in long-output
* 8822 FIX: 3par_hosts: Do not crash if OS info is missing
* 7448 FIX: Fix RRD Metadata update script for Filesystem checks
* 7449 FIX: Fix Remove spurious perfdata in IF checks
* 7962 FIX: Fix various bugs in the liebert* check plugins
* 8901 FIX: Fixed calculation of latency for netapp check
* 7270 FIX: Timespecific parameters: Some checks no longer loose discovered check parameters
* 7929 FIX: Unified rendering of percentage values in service details, graphs and other places
* 7719 FIX: Windows Agent 1.6: The section 'ps' by default doesn't generate full paths in the output
* 8815 FIX: ceph_df: Fixed wrong calculation of size and available space
* 8892 FIX: check_mk_agent.exe can be used without changing working directory to the Agent install directory
* 8821 FIX: emc_datadomain_temps: Do not discover missing temperature sensors
* 7955 FIX: esx_vsphere_counters.diskio: Fix wrong count of I/O ops
* 7961 FIX: f5_bigip_vserver: Handle imcomplete information
* 7959 FIX: statgrab_mem,aix_memory,docker_conteiner_mem,solaris_mem,mem: Fixed wrong unit of SWAP in service output
* 8823 FIX: stormshield_cluster, stormshield_cluster_node: Do not discover services if cluster info is missing
* 8900 FIX: mysql_capacity: Fix problem with warn/crit size
NOTE: Please refer to the migration notes!
Core & setup:
* 7986 Service labels can be used as rule conditions
* 8841 Change internal mechanic of discovered host labels
* 8840 Docker: Introduce host labels for different docker hosts
* 8842 Show host labels in "cmk -D HOST" output
Event console:
* 7939 FIX: Fixed address => host name mapping for events
HW/SW inventory:
* 8820 FIX: lnx_packages: Do not crash if agent sends incomplete output
Notifications:
* 8784 FIX: bulk notifications were sent multiple times
Site management:
* 7987 FIX: Fix xinetd.conf conflict on "omd mv/cp"
User interface:
* 8844 FIX: Fix TypeError when sorting view by some columns
* 7269 FIX: Increased LDAP user profile synchronisation timeout to remote sites
WATO:
* 8848 FIX: Fix broken service discovery on remote sites (1.6.0b4 regression)
* 7991 FIX: Label condition: Use regular label input as condition input field
* 7988 FIX: Result of moving tags was not immediately displayed
* 8847 FIX: Service discovery: Print warning instead of failing on discovery errors
* 8845 FIX: Web-API: Prevent adding wrong encoded labels to hosts / rulesets
Changes in the Checkmk Enterprise Edition:
Metrics system:
* 8843 FIX: Fix adding single service metrics to custom graphs
Reporting & availability:
* 7992 Add DATE_YEAR, DATE_MONTH, DATE_DAY report scheduler macros
* 7990 Allow report PDFs to be opened inline (shown in browser)
WATO:
* 8846 FIX: Extension packages: Sort package list by name
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
