Dear friends of Checkmk,
the new stable release 2.0.0p1 of Checkmk is ready for download.
This maintenance release ships with 48 changes affecing all editions of Checkmk,
9 Enterprise Edition specific changes and 4 Managed Services Edition specific changes.
Changes in all Checkmk Editions:
Checks & agents:
* 12238 FIX: <tt>cmk_site_statistics</tt>: Fix exception "StopIteration()" triggered by timeouts
* 12353 FIX: Crash during discovery of fans of Alcatel devices
* 12316 FIX: Eliminated rare crash when Windows agent is used to call updater without parameters
* 12355 FIX: Invalid configuration variable 'logwatch_groups'
* 12477 FIX: Nimble volumes display graphs in correct scale
* 11856 FIX: Windows agent installation now supresses reboot of a host even if reboot is requested
* 12377 FIX: agent_azure, agent_hp_msa, agent_zerto: Fix execution if option '-v' or '--verbose' is not given
* 12351 FIX: cmk option --plugins does not work with -i
* 12306 FIX: docker_container_cpu: fix `KeyError (percpu_usage)` crash
* 12358 FIX: interfaces: Wrong scaling of metrics
* 12361 FIX: watchdog_sensors: not possible to apply different rules to dew point and temperature
Core & setup:
* 12372 FIX: API time_period: modifying update endpoint to conform to internal structure
* 12548 FIX: Fix cmk --scan-parents on localized linux systems
* 12339 FIX: REST API folder_config host_config sub resource
* 12338 FIX: REST API list of currently running activations
* 12337 FIX: REST API: acknowledgement - not found on update is a 400
* 12340 FIX: delete downtimes by_id
Event console:
* 12287 FIX: Raw edition: Remove useless rule pack packaging buttons
Metrics system:
* 11399 FIX: Standardize CPU utilization graphs with fixed range from 0% to 100%
Other components:
* 12290 FIX: NagVis: Updated to 1.9.25
Setup:
* 12547 SEC: Fix possible XSS on audit log page
* 12357 FIX: "Parameters for this service" was incomplete for clusters
* 12352 FIX: Allow to disable management board checks in <i>Disabled checks</i>
* 12289 FIX: Backup: Fix adding / editing backup jobs with manual schedule
* 12294 FIX: Changing predefined conditions now triggers core reload
* 12549 FIX: Fix parent scan
* 12288 FIX: Prometheus: Fix javascript error when configuring PromQL queries
* 12292 FIX: Rules: Fix displaying rule with empty service conditions
* 12293 FIX: Service discovery: Fix discovered host label processing
* 12546 FIX: Tags: Fix exception when changing existing tag ID
* 12354 FIX: Uneditable WATO rules: <i>"You are trying to edit a rule which does not exist anymore."</i>
User interface:
* 12526 FIX: Add success message to "Change password" page
* 12226 FIX: Don't show disabled sites in sidebar snapins
* 11793 FIX: Dropdowns with too small width
* 12230 FIX: Fix TypeError on LDAP user synchronization
* 12229 FIX: Fix bulk operations in host search
* 12227 FIX: Fix displaying inventory status data in CRE
* 12527 FIX: Fix error handling of missing dashlet types
* 12532 FIX: Fix graph popup preview styling in CRE
* 12517 FIX: Fixed "Services colored according to state" view column
* 10615 FIX: Fixed agent file links to always trigger a download
* 12516 FIX: Fixed state colors and overlapping texts in availability and timeline tables
* 12378 FIX: HW/SW Inventory: Do not show inventory tree of same-named hosts
* 12376 FIX: HW/SW Inventory: Fix sorting inventory tables, eg. 'Network interfaces'
* 12528 FIX: Remove duplicated save button on some dashlets
* 12530 FIX: Remove problem dashboard from CRE
* 12228 FIX: Remove single metric dashlets from CRE dashboard
* 12295 FIX: View editor: Fix title of custom host attribute painter
Changes in the Checkmk Enterprise Edition:
Agent bakery:
* 12154 FIX: Agent Bakery fails over custom binary files
* 12150 FIX: Bakery error when baking with agent updater proxy configuration
* 12152 FIX: mk_jolokia: Error running agent plugin when deploying via agent bakery
* 12151 FIX: Agent updater fails eventually when proxy environment is set on host
NOTE: Please refer to the migration notes!
Metrics system:
* 12478 Automatic page refresh on graph collections and combined graphs
Ntopng integration:
* 11354 FIX: Crash in service dropdown of interfaces without IP
* 12396 FIX: Links to ntopng are now using ifid
* 12398 FIX: TopTalkers: Do not let figures vanish
* 12397 FIX: Use correct units for Top Talkers Dashboard
Changes in the Checkmk Managed Services Edition:
Setup:
* 12451 CME: Improved performance when pushing snapshots to remote sites
* 12291 FIX: Fix exception on logo upload page (UnsupportedOperation)
* 12452 FIX: Pushing snapshot to remote site no longer causes an exception
User interface:
* 12529 FIX: Remove duplicated upload button on "Custom GUI design" page
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 2.0.0 of Checkmk is ready for download.
We are proud to bring you the biggest Checkmk release yet, with major
improvements to future-proof your IT monitoring.
Among the new features are a completely redesigned user interface with powerful
visualization options, a REST-API, network flow monitoring, improved cloud and
container monitoring, a new Check-API, plenty of new check plug-ins and many
more things. We also did major changes under the hood including migrating 500k+
lines of Python code to Python 3.
Take a look at our latest version page to learn more about Checkmk 2.0:
https://checkmk.com/product/latest-version
In the next months, we will be producing educational content in the form of
user manual articles, blogs, videos, and community events to help you adapt to
the changes in version 2.0. We will be announcing them on our monthly
newsletter, our social channels (https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/checkmk/ and
http://twitter.com/checkmk), and in the Checkmk Forum
(http://forum.checkmk.com/). Stay tuned!
This stable release ships with 13 changes affecing all editions of Checkmk, 2
Enterprise Edition specific changes and 0 Managed Services Edition specific
changes.
This release will be in active maintenance until 2022-08-31. The passive
maintenance will be until 2024-02-22. For details take a look at the Checkmk
versions chapter of the Checkmk handbook.
Changes in all Checkmk Editions:
Checks & agents:
* 11855 FIX: The updating of the Windows agent no longer causes the disappearing of directories in the ProgramData
* 12237 FIX: Network interface and switch port discovery parameters
* 11952 FIX: cmciii: door sensor always returns CRIT status
Core & setup:
* 12350 API: addition of get single downtime endpoint
* 12348 FIX: API: adjusting code example for service endpoint
* 12349 FIX: API: adjusting downtime doc examples and fixing downtime objects links
* 12347 FIX: API: adjustment of code example for user endpoint
* 12346 FIX: API: modifying the host and folder update endpoints
NOTE: Please refer to the migration notes!
Setup:
* 12283 FIX: Service discovery page: Do not fail in case of unknown manual check rules
User interface:
* 12286 FIX: Fix GUI connection issues in distributed setups
* 12225 FIX: Add service discovery rules to parameters of services page
* 12221 FIX: Fix exporting of rules for API
* 12223 FIX: Fix text wrap of wato error messages
Changes in the Checkmk Enterprise Edition:
Dynamic host configuration:
* 12224 FIX: Dynamic configuration: Fix placement of "Execution has been triggered" message
* 12222 FIX: Dynamic configuration: Fix example connector configuration
NOTE: Please refer to the migration notes!
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 2.0.0b8 of Checkmk is ready for download.
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 83 changes affecing all editions of Checkmk,
7 Enterprise Edition specific changes and 0 Managed Services Edition specific changes.
This release will be in active maintenance until 2021-04-03.
The passive maintenance will be until 2021-05-03. For details take
a look at the Checkmk versions chapter of the Checkmk handbook.
Changes in all Checkmk Editions:
BI:
* 11451 FIX: BI 1.6->2.0 Conversion: Fixed invalid conversion of aggregation function "Count Nodes"
Checks & agents:
* 12180 Display services of unimplemented check plugins
* 12149 Support for Python 2 based UNIX agent plugins
NOTE: Please refer to the migration notes!
* 12050 Consolidation of interface check plugins
* 11850 Windows agent ignores cmk-update-agent.exe in plugins directory
* 11955 agent_kubernetes: improved agent set-up rules
* 12208 agent_prometheus: addition of feature to only monitor specific namespaces
* 11979 apache_status: HTTPS support for Python 2.6, 3.0, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4
* 11978 ceph_df: support for octopus (15.2.6) and nautilus (14.2.15) with JSON output
* 12176 statgrab_disk becomes diskstat
* 12207 timesyncd: increasing time thresholds for last synchronisation
* 11956 watchdog_sensors: support Vertiv Geist Watchdog 15 firmware update
* 12181 FreeBSD interfaces: prefer SNMP check
NOTE: Please refer to the migration notes!
* 11853 FIX: Windows agent uses separate script to protect own files from unathorized access
* 12182 FIX: Create MKP: No longer list all plugins as unpackaged
* 12179 FIX: Duplicate service description 'CPU Load' on FreeBSD
* 12296 FIX: Fix IPv6 handling in dual stack
* 12010 FIX: Fix for config update: Regex validation will ignore items that are not dictionaries
* 12178 FIX: IPMI Management Interface
* 12184 FIX: OIDCached not refreshing
* 12183 FIX: Outdated data during full scan discovery
* 12083 FIX: OverflowError on bad varnishstats uptime value
* 12235 FIX: Permissions issues for DB2 Linux agent plugin
* 11935 FIX: Printer IO: No longer skip "Unavailable and on request" state in discovery
* 12177 FIX: Process management board data in HW/SW inventory
* 12085 FIX: Use Python2 pendant of mailman_lists agent plugin
* 11852 FIX: Windows agent ignores cmk-update-agent.exe always
* 11854 FIX: Windows agent service terminates all processes started from programdata/checkmk directory
* 11452 FIX: agent_innovaphone: fixed non-working agent caused by invalid argument parsing
* 11949 FIX: agent_siemens_plc: improved agent error handling
* 12216 FIX: agent_vsphere: Fix compatibility for version 5.5
* 12082 FIX: hr_mem: workarounds for bad SNMP data for OKI and HP printers
* 12081 FIX: proxmox_ve_mem_usage: clear default levels
* 11953 FIX: tab character in service description causes stale services
* 12251 FIX: unitrends_replication.py: support for Python 2/Python 3
* 12084 FIX: wrong command line argument usage in check_mail active check
Core & setup:
* 12125 API: addition of show all endpoint to user, host tag, password and time period
* 12210 API: modification of group update endpoint
* 12121 API: modification of password endpoints to return an object for create and update
* 12209 API: modification of show all host tags endpoint
* 12122 API: modification of time period endpoint to support built-in time period
* 12274 API: removing etag requirement in delete endpoints
* 11938 REST API: make optimistic locking via ETags configurable
* 12336 REST API: single folder/folder list, additional parameter "show_hosts"
* 12206 downtime_script: changing script to use REST API endpoints
* 12275 downtime script: deprecating the previous downtime scripts
NOTE: Please refer to the migration notes!
* 12277 SEC: Docker container: Update base image to Debian buster
* 12272 FIX: API: WATO change message fix for remove password endpoint
* 12271 FIX: API: fixing password update endpoint
* 12273 FIX: API: modifications for downtime endpoint
* 11943 FIX: REST API: fix HTTP digest login
HW/SW inventory:
* 11633 FIX: HW/SW Inventory: Fix inventorizing only one entry on SNMP devices
* 11634 FIX: inv_if: Fix missing interface description and alias in HW/SW inventory tree if not "do status data inventory"
Metrics system:
* 11398 Predefined graphs avaible on the grafana connector for RAW Edition
Notifications:
* 11792 mail: adjustments to the number of graphs
NOTE: Please refer to the migration notes!
Setup:
* 12144 Number of fetchers is now initialized with previous Checkmk helpers
* 12280 SEC: Fix XSS on host / folder properties page
* 12281 FIX: Activate changes: Failed to report "locked site" state
* 12142 FIX: Agent encryption: Rule edit can display stored secrets again
* 12139 FIX: Backup schedule: Fix empty "time of day" selection
* 11632 FIX: Bulk discovery: Fix 'too many values to unpack' if old performance parameters are still used
* 12145 FIX: Config update: Site specific global settings are now also updated
* 12232 FIX: Error reporting in downtime script (treasures)
* 12276 FIX: Predefined conditions: Fix broken link "rules using this condition"
* 12282 FIX: Ruleset edit page: Fix move / delete of rules disable rule analyzation
User interface:
* 12213 Add option for number of items to show in topics
* 12143 Graph dashlets: Optionally disable time range synchronization
* 12212 Make confirm dialog for downtimes more user friendly
* 12137 Monitor menu entries are now searchable in mega menu
* 12218 Remove custom graph and combined graph option from CRE dashboards
* 12074 FIX: Add help text to "Archive events of hosts" command
* 12279 FIX: Availability: Fix services appearing in wrong groups
* 12138 FIX: Dashboard: Fix broken graph hover effects
* 12219 FIX: Fix GIT version control for WATO
* 12214 FIX: Fix adding label conditions in rulesets
* 12075 FIX: Fix color of status column entries in events view
* 12141 FIX: Fix missing navigation after automatic logout and login
* 12220 FIX: Fix saving of values in suggestion fields
* 12211 FIX: Fix show more mode in page menu dropdowns
* 10614 FIX: Improved hexagon visualization on dashboards
* 11453 FIX: Network Topology: Fixed incorrect connection lines after data update
* 12217 FIX: Set topic to "Other" if view topic is empty
* 12215 FIX: db2_mem, mssql_blocked_sessions: Fix usage of new service description
Changes in the Checkmk Enterprise Edition:
Agent bakery:
* 12146 Agent Bakery: Improve deployment host selection form
* 12148 FIX: Bake&Sign sometimes misses some signatures
* 12147 FIX: Baked agents implicitly lose their signature when new hosts are added
* 12140 FIX: mk_redis: Add missing agent bakery plugin
Reporting & availability:
* 12278 FIX: Fix adding new views elements to reports
Setup:
* 11851 Windows agent MSI checks that Windows OS is appropriate for installation
* 11849 Windows agent's Python supports obsolete Windows OS's
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
