Dear friends of Checkmk,
the new beta release 2.0.0b5 of Checkmk is ready for download.
We are excited to continue the beta phase of Checkmk 2.0 with Checkmk 2.0.0b5.
With Version 2.0 among many new features, we will be introducing a new user
interface and user experience. While most features are already included in the
beta release, we are still tuning several aspects, especially of the UX.
We are very interested in your feedback on the new UX and would therefore
appreciate it if you would take some time (~15 min) to give us your feedback:
https://www.surveymonkey.de/r/2MRPLQW
Please send general feedback, feedback on the new user experience, and bug
reports to this dedicated mail address:
feedback-2.0 at checkmk.com
All mails to this address will be used to improve the 2.0 and are completely
free of charge.
This test release ships with 51 changes affecing all editions of Checkmk,
6 Enterprise Edition specific changes and 0 Managed Services Edition specific changes.
This release will be in active maintenance until 2021-02-27.
The passive maintenance will be until 2021-03-29. For details take
a look at the Checkmk versions chapter of the Checkmk handbook.
Changes in all Checkmk Editions:
Checks & agents:
* 11841 Windows agent's Python module supports now Windows Server 2012 and Windows 8
* 11834 cmk_site_statistics: new check plugin to monitor site statistics
* 11874 FIX: Linux agent: Fix execution of cached plugins (2.0.0b4 regression)
* 11894 FIX: "Disabled and enabled sections (SNMP)" not effective
* 11973 FIX: Be more precise if include files are missing
* 11928 FIX: Crash: When service goes Crit or Warn but the respective level is not defined (None)
* 11896 FIX: Improve detailed service view
* 11875 FIX: Linux agent: Fix random broken pipe error in agent output
* 11932 FIX: Logwatch: Logfile patterns not working as intended
* 11998 FIX: Permission error for unreadable certificates
* 11888 FIX: Rename SNMP section ruleset
* 11840 FIX: Windows agent removes own Windows Firewall rule after uninstall
* 11890 FIX: acp_ats_output: Fix discovery of services
* 11994 FIX: aruba_cpu_util: UNKNOWN state if cpu utilization is zero
* 11527 FIX: check_mk: Fix missing info about Checkmk agent version in HW/SW Inventory System and Support Diagnostics
* 11829 FIX: esx_vsphere_counters_diskio: IOPS
* 11947 FIX: fileinfo: SAP HANA files shown as WARN if jointly monitored with other files
* 11704 FIX: ibm_mq: Various bugfixes
* 11525 FIX: lnx_if: Treat only interfaces with UP and LOWER_UP (bracket info from ip address) as UP
* 11996 FIX: mem: remove pointless metrics for LXC containers
* 11997 FIX: mk_docker.py: Handle parallel calls of the plugin
* 11892 FIX: mk_errpt.aix: Crash upon non-existing mv option
* 11893 FIX: mk_errpt.aix: avoid escaping issues when '/' is in errpts output
* 11784 FIX: mpre check missing handling for 'U' value in Nagios performance data
* 11745 FIX: mssql_counters.file_sizes: convert all performance data to bytes
* 11746 FIX: mssql_counters.file_sizes: return performance data for warn/crit values in bytes
* 11895 FIX: omd_info: only create host label 'cmk/check_mk_server:yes' if sites are present
* 11889 FIX: tcp_conn_stats: Missing data for datapower devices
Core & setup:
* 11967 FIX: REST API: fixing password get endpoint
* 11968 FIX: REST API: restricting host tag group id to the same pattern as in WATO
* 11868 FIX: mkbackup: Fix permission issues when backing up different sites
Event console:
* 11744 FIX: support case-insensitive hostname matching for multiple host match types
Linux distributions:
* 11957 Dropping support Ubuntu 19.10
NOTE: Please refer to the migration notes!
Notifications:
* 11833 FIX: Pagerduty notifications: HTTP 400, "'payload.source' is missing or blank"
Other components:
* 10320 Enable SAML athentication
Reporting & availability:
* 11835 Remove options to change foreground, background, canvas color of graphs
Setup:
* 11995 FIX: Availablity: GUI crash if timeline is displayed in table
* 11872 FIX: Edit tag groups: Extend size of tag ID and title input fields
* 11870 FIX: Extension packages: Be more robust against broken packages
* 11873 FIX: Fix exception caused by custom host attributes when saving host changes
* 11972 FIX: Missing DCD connections
* 11930 FIX: Pattern Analyzer: Fix broken link to edit rules
* 11887 FIX: Rename Linux agent section ruleset
* 11886 FIX: Rename Windows agent section rulesets
User interface:
* 11914 Remove 'Individual program call' option from connection tests page
* 11876 FIX: Dashboard: Prevent exception when trying to copy view to dashboard
* 11919 FIX: Fix closing popup on host deletion
* 11918 FIX: Fix default value of "Number of columns" in display options of views
* 11915 FIX: Fix error messages on check plugin page if check or catalog entry is missing
* 11920 FIX: Fix preview selection of folders while moving
* 10613 FIX: Service discovery: Make the 'Add missing, remove vanished' action responsive to checkboxes
Changes in the Checkmk Enterprise Edition:
Agent bakery:
* 11721 Allow additional tags for baked RPM agent packages
Dynamic host configuration:
* 11891 FIX: Inform remote site when a DCD Connection is moved somewhere else
Inline SNMP:
* 11929 FIX: Change Inline SNMP Backend back to NetSNMP
* 11931 FIX: PySNMP: Increase performance when creating core config
User interface:
* 11916 FIX: Fix adding of graphs to custom graphs or graph collections
* 11921 FIX: Fix title of sla columns in view configuration
Changes in the Checkmk Managed Services Edition:
You can download Checkmk from our download page:
* https://checkmk.com/download.php
Please mail bug reports and qualified feedback to feedback(a)checkmk.com.
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 2.0.0b4 of Checkmk is ready for download.
We are excited to continue the beta phase of Checkmk 2.0 with Checkmk 2.0.0b4.
With Version 2.0 among many new features, we will be introducing a new user
interface and user experience. While most features are already included in the
beta release, we are still tuning several aspects, especially of the UX.
We are very interested in your feedback on the new UX and would therefore
appreciate it if you would take some time (~15 min) to give us your feedback:
https://www.surveymonkey.de/r/2MRPLQW
Please send general feedback, feedback on the new user experience, and bug
reports to this dedicated mail address:
feedback-2.0 at checkmk.com
All mails to this address will be used to improve the 2.0 and are completely
free of charge.
This test release ships with 36 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 2021-02-14. The passive
maintenance will be until 2021-03-16. For details take a look at the Checkmk
versions chapter of the Checkmk handbook.
Changes in all Checkmk Editions:
Checks & agents:
* 11385 mk_oracle_crs: Added support for Solaris
* 11910 FIX: Add warn/crit metrics for percentage usage of filesystems
* 11716 FIX: Logwatch: Clear log for individual files
* 11715 FIX: Logwatch: Crash when using "\" in regular expression (e.g. windows paths)
* 11781 FIX: Shorten Check_MK service summary
* 11885 FIX: Stale services of management boards in CRE
* 11740 FIX: ceph_status_mgrs: fix crash on KeyError(epoch)
* 11739 FIX: ceph_status_osds: Ceph version 15.2.5 fix crash on KeyError(osdmap)
* 11869 FIX: check_ldap: Fix broken "Version 3 and TLS" SSL version
* 11524 FIX: check_mail: Fix cleanup of messages ('Namespace' object has no attribute 'cleanup_messages')
* 11741 FIX: fileinfo.groups: group pattern not found for enforced services
* 11783 FIX: hr_mem crashes on HP and Arris SNMP data
* 11882 FIX: mk_logwatch: Output limitation counted characters instead of bytes
* 11742 FIX: mssql_instance: add MSSQL 2019 to known instances
* 11880 FIX: ups_capacity: Bring back UPS 'capacity' metric
* 11782 FIX: ups_out_load check and discovery crash on empty values for load and voltage
Core & setup:
* 10293 REST API: allow effective host attributes to be queries
* 11937 REST API: support users authenticated via site Apache
* 11900 FIX: Avoid duplicate display for extension packages
* 11871 FIX: Docker container: Add git client to support setup git integration
* 10294 FIX: REST API: fix update/remove attributes in update host endpoint
* 10295 FIX: REST API: host and service filtering now usable without table prefixes
Notifications:
* 11832 FIX: SIGNL4, iLert: Process response codes correctly
* 11384 FIX: ilert: Fixed exception while sending messages
* 11913 FIX: Fix usage of host custom attribute in service notification bulking
Setup:
* 11397 FIX: Fix Service discovery when service checkoutput has values of -inf
* 11861 FIX: Fix broken host search
* 11865 FIX: Fix errors after moving hosts on folder page
* 11862 FIX: Fix label completion
* 11864 FIX: Fix moving tag groups on tag groups page
* 11927 FIX: Pattern Editor: Unable to analyze matching, because "service" parameter is missing
* 11685 FIX: check_mk_agent.linux: moving sections exclude rule option to linux agent section
User interface:
* 11912 FIX: Fix KeyError on editing roles of LDAP user
* 11909 FIX: Fix hostname as required field in host search
* 11908 FIX: Fix show more mode for dictionary valuespecs
* 11867 FIX: Fix too many page and graph reloads when reopening inactive tabs
Changes in the Checkmk Enterprise Edition:
Setup:
* 11863 FIX: Fix upload of CA files to "Agent Updater" rule
User interface:
* 11911 FIX: Fix missing context/search filters in report scheduler
* 10612 FIX: Service graphs: Vertically align the timerange choices with the displayed graph
* 11866 FIX: Views: Host/service context PDF links are now visible in Export menu
Changes in the Checkmk Managed Services Edition:
You can download Checkmk from our download page:
* https://checkmk.com/download.php
Please mail bug reports and qualified feedback to feedback(a)checkmk.com.
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 1.6.0p20 of Checkmk is ready for download.
This maintenance release ships with 39 changes affecing all editions of Checkmk,
1 Enterprise Edition specific changes and 0 Managed Services Edition specific changes.
Changes in all Checkmk Editions:
BI:
* 11432 FIX: BI Aggregation: Improved performance when using filter in "All aggregations"
Checks & agents:
* 11463 SEC: Windows Agent: additional protection of the working directories
* 11469 FIX: Windows agent removes legacy agent on install if this is requested by WATO
* 11787 FIX: Kubernetes: add support for newer versions
NOTE: Please refer to the migration notes!
* 11057 FIX: AWS: restriction by tag caused exception
* 11545 FIX: False positive CRIT status in lnx_bonding check
* 11692 FIX: agent_aws: fix check_mk discovery UNKN status when configuring the AWS agent
* 11693 FIX: agent_aws: security improvements
* 11695 FIX: agent_azure: fixed Section Name error when configuring Azure special agent
* 11694 FIX: agent_azure: security improvements
* 11740 FIX: ceph_status_mgrs: fix crash on KeyError(epoch)
* 11739 FIX: ceph_status_osds: Ceph version 15.2.5 fix crash on KeyError(osdmap)
* 11521 FIX: fileinfo.groups: Do not evaluate parameters if no files are found
* 11522 FIX: fileinfo.groups: Fix scale of newest age in Perf-O-meter
* 11688 FIX: hr_ps: fixed no results when using path to discover processes
* 11883 FIX: local: Wrong state in 'best' aggregation of clustered services
* 11523 FIX: mk_oracle: Fixed problems with multiple ORACLE_HOME entries on Grid setups
* 11742 FIX: mssql_instance: add MSSQL 2019 to known instances
* 11717 FIX: oracle_dataguard_stats: Issue warning about missing apply lag
* 11880 FIX: ups_capacity: Bring back UPS 'capacity' metric
* 11094 FIX: AWS RDS
NOTE: Please refer to the migration notes!
* 11788 FIX: k8s_replicas: discover paused deployments
NOTE: Please refer to the migration notes!
* 11379 FIX: mk_oracle.ps1: Fixed missing escaping of single quotes and error handling
NOTE: Please refer to the migration notes!
* 11730 FIX: oracle_jobs: correct usage of user-defined parameters for missing jobs
Core & setup:
* 11160 FIX: CSV/JSON/Python exports of views: improve formatting of labels
* 11431 FIX: Core restart: fixed race condition causing the core to stop
Event console:
* 11383 ec: Make filter for rule packs able to match "text to match"
* 11747 SEC: Fix stored XSS triggered by received syslog messages
Linux distributions:
* 10318 Add support for SLES 15 SP2
Notifications:
* 11669 Opsgenie: Added missing proxy option
Setup:
* 11860 SEC: Password dialogs now handle passwords more securely
* 11763 FIX: Do not clear changes when editing central site configuration
* 11862 FIX: Fix label completion in config dialogs
* 11736 FIX: Rename hosts: folders names for changed rules in audit log
Site management:
* 10332 FIX: Fix cleaning initialized tmp directory
User interface:
* 11396 FIX: All dashlets can have a custom title
* 11610 FIX: Bulk import: Improve validation of imported attributes
* 11616 FIX: Fix accidental publishing of cloned user elements (e.g. bookmark lists)
* 11859 FIX: Fix handling of upper case characters in login _origtarget
Changes in the Checkmk Enterprise Edition:
Core & setup:
* 10130 FIX: Fixed performance bug in monitoring history cache
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)checkmk.com.
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
