Dear friends of Checkmk,
the new beta release 2.1.0b6 of Checkmk is ready for download.
This test release ships with 51 changes affecting all editions of Checkmk,
7 Enterprise Edition specific changes and 0 Managed Services Edition specific changes.
Additionally, we wanted to let you know that we are also preparing our user guide for the new version.
Here you can find some articles that are relevant for new features of 2.1:
New agents:
* https://docs.checkmk.com/master/en/agent_linux.html
* https://docs.checkmk.com/master/en/agent_windows.html
Changes in all Checkmk Editions:
BI:
* 13299 FIX: BI datasource program: Fixed aggregation assignment to affected hosts
* 13300 FIX: BI special agent: no longer hangs during agent baking
Checks & agents:
* 13255 Add EWS support to check_mailboxes active check
* 13863 Check HTML Form Submit: Add option to use TLS without server certificate validation
* 13802 KUBE: kube_collector_info shows number of Nodes with collector
* 14041 brocade_fcport: Set "CRC errors rate" display format to two decimals
* 13843 FIX: Active discovery check: use cached data
* 13846 FIX: Agent encryption: Enforce TLS for registered hosts
* 14027 FIX: Fix linux agent using 100% CPU
* 13825 FIX: Fix salesforce special agent
* 13878 FIX: Fix usage of piggyback data in simulation mode
* 13815 FIX: KUBE agent_kube: fix namespace filtering options for DaemonSets & StatefulSets
* 14066 FIX: KUBE kube_node_container_count: adjustment to properly handle configured levels
* 13798 FIX: KUBE: Handle missing partition attribute
* 13803 FIX: KUBE: Parse Objects without labels
* 13799 FIX: KUBE: add data processing information to Cluster Collector
* 13856 FIX: Pipe symbol in name of the NIC doesn't lead to crash
* 13996 FIX: Remove unresolved macros for additional IPs
* 13997 FIX: Rule merging for fileinfo_group
* 13821 FIX: Splunk System Message correctly reports service state
* 13822 FIX: The printer input check correctly handles capacity unit other
* 13845 FIX: cmk_agent_ctl_status: Fix crash upon empty section
* 13847 FIX: local: Do not crash upon invalid metric names
* 14039 FIX: netapp_disks: Fix WATO inline help
* 14037 FIX: oracle_performance: Wrong monitoring state when using thresholds
* 13986 FIX: postgres_stat_database: crash on empty values in database query
* 14026 FIX: rename license graph
* 14040 FIX: win_netstat: Add german translation for CLOSE_WAIT
* 13801 FIX: KUBE: Update inventory paths
NOTE: Please refer to the migration notes!
* 13804 FIX: KUBE: add cmk/kubernetes/label/ to host label keys
NOTE: Please refer to the migration notes!
* 13800 FIX: KUBE: update section name kube_collectors_metadata_v1
* 13419 FIX: cisco_cpu_multiitem: fix Werk #13413
NOTE: Please refer to the migration notes!
Core & setup:
* 13940 Long text in the inventory dashlet will now break into multiple lines
* 13926 FIX: validation of error responses of the REST API
* 13941 FIX: Barplot color is now correct for all hosts
* 13929 FIX: checkbox tag-group handling
* 13928 FIX: validation of custom tag-groups through the REST API
HW/SW inventory:
* 13679 FIX: Better detection of physical CPUs and CPU cores on Solaris
Notifications:
* 13897 SEC: Fix command injection vulnerability
NOTE: Please refer to the migration notes!
* 13876 FIX: Fix encoding of $SERVICEURL$ in notifications
* 13877 FIX: Fix possible UnicodeDecodeError on notify of users via mail
REST API:
* 13937 contact/service/host group responses now contain links to entries
* 13938 Requesting a non existing BI aggregation now results in a proper 404 response
NOTE: Please refer to the migration notes!
* 13646 FIX: Fix host API calls in case a previous discovery failed
Setup:
* 13297 Setup (WATO) now uses Redis for certain lookups to improve GUI performance
* 13864 FIX: Host registration: Enable on sites with disabled Setup & check site name
* 13880 FIX: Fix reset of automatic disk space cleanup settings on update
NOTE: Please refer to the migration notes!
User interface:
* 13298 Speed up loading time of user visuals
* 13879 FIX: Fix SyntaxError on CSV and JSON export of views containing labels
* 13882 FIX: Fix links to parents and childs of hosts
* 13884 FIX: Fix possible exception on download of agent output
Changes in the Checkmk Enterprise Edition:
Agent bakery:
* 13854 FIX: Agent bakery: Windows agent MSI is not signed anymore
* 13851 FIX: Baked windows agent packages are not signed anymore
Checks & agents:
* 13853 WATO supports windows agent controller parameters
* 13855 FIX: Bakery sets windows agent product name correctly
* 13008 FIX: Fix haproxy status on DOWN 1/2 and MAINT(via)
Metrics system:
* 13862 InfluxDB Connections: Add option to use password store
Other components:
* 13824 Bake mk_filestats for solaris
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
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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 2.0.0p23 of Checkmk is ready for download.
This maintenance release ships with 28 changes affecting all editions of Checkmk,
2 Enterprise Edition specific changes and 0 Managed Services Edition specific changes.
Changes in all Checkmk Editions:
Checks & agents:
* 13843 FIX: Active discovery check: use cached data
* 13257 FIX: Avoid redundant and unwanted listing of processes in ps based checks
* 13825 FIX: Fix salesforce special agent
* 13996 FIX: Remove unresolved macros for additional IPs
* 13821 FIX: Splunk System Message correctly reports service state
* 13838 FIX: TCP fetcher: don't connect if no data is needed
* 13823 FIX: The printer input check correctly handles capacity unit other
* 12393 FIX: informix_{dbspaces,locks,logusage,sessions}: Add missing WATO rulesets
* 13847 FIX: local: Do not crash upon invalid metric names
* 13677 FIX: mk_apt: Check crashes on single-line agent sections
* 13676 FIX: postgres_stat_database: Support DBs named with numbers only
* 13842 FIX: ups_test: Display result of last test
* 13419 FIX: cisco_cpu_multiitem: fix Werk #13413
NOTE: Please refer to the migration notes!
Core & setup:
* 13725 SEC: Update openssl to 1.1.1n
* 13896 SEC: Update postgres from 10.12 to 10.20
* 13898 SEC: Update stunnel to 5.63
* 13085 FIX: REST API: fix missing host/folder attributes
Notifications:
* 13876 FIX: Fix encoding of $SERVICEURL$ in notifications
* 13868 FIX: Fix missing graphs in notifications
* 13877 FIX: Fix possible UnicodeDecodeError on notify of users via mail
Other components:
* 13645 FIX: NagVis: Updated to 1.9.31
REST API:
* 13937 contact/service/host group responses now contain links to entries
* 13938 Requesting a non existing BI aggregation now results in a proper 404 response
NOTE: Please refer to the migration notes!
* 13642 FIX: REST API: Fix representation of locked_by host attribute
Setup:
* 13194 Add several security HTTP headers
* 13875 FIX: Fix name of time period in edit mode
User interface:
* 13874 FIX: Fix ignored timerange of graphs on PDF export
* 13871 FIX: Fix possibility to edit foreign visuals without permission
Changes in the Checkmk Enterprise Edition:
Core & setup:
* 13906 FIX: Fix perf data not sent to Carbon if no state is selected
User interface:
* 13873 FIX: Remove reports from 'Views' sidebar snapin
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 2.1.0b5 of Checkmk is ready for download.
This test release ships with 31 changes affecting all editions of Checkmk,
5 Enterprise Edition specific changes and 0 Managed Services Edition specific changes.
This release will be in active maintenance until 2022-05-07.
The passive maintenance will be until 2022-06-06. For details take
a look at the Checkmk versions chapter of the Checkmk handbook.
Additionally, we wanted to let you know that we are also preparing our user guide for the new version.
Here you can find some articles that are relevant for new features of 2.1:
New agents: https://docs.checkmk.com/master/en/agent_linux.html & https://docs.checkmk.com/master/en/agent_windows.html
Kubernetes: https://docs.checkmk.com/master/en/monitoring_kubernetes.html
Influx: https://docs.checkmk.com/master/en/metrics_exporter.html
Grafana: https://docs.checkmk.com/master/en/grafana.html
Datadog: https://docs.checkmk.com/master/en/integrating_datadog.html
Two-factor authentication: https://docs.checkmk.com/master/en/wato_user.html#2fa
Changes in all Checkmk Editions:
Checks & agents:
* 13814 KUBE addition of namespace object as monitored entity
* 13793 KUBE: Base Cluster aggregation on Node role
* 13418 KUBE: add cmk/kubernetes:yes label
* 13462 agent_azure: Host labels added to resource group and vm
* 13840 check_sql: Used metric name is now configurable
* 13792 KUBE: kube_replicas supports StatefulSet and DaemonSet
* 13795 KUBE: update section kube_replicas_v1
NOTE: Please refer to the migration notes!
* 13794 KUBE: update sections kube_strategy
NOTE: Please refer to the migration notes!
* 13841 FIX: Agent Linux/Solaris: Fix skipped agent plugins section
* 13257 FIX: Avoid redundant and unwanted listing of processes in ps based checks
* 13742 FIX: Crash check job: Cannot render negative timespan
* 13838 FIX: TCP fetcher: don't connect if no data is needed
* 13839 FIX: cisco_stack: Handle switch role "standby"
* 13677 FIX: mk_apt: Check crashes on single-line agent sections
* 13842 FIX: ups_test: Display result of last test
* 13791 FIX: KUBE: Change controller daemon_set to daemonset
NOTE: Please refer to the migration notes!
Core & setup:
* 13898 SEC: Update stunnel to 5.63
* 13085 FIX: REST API: fix missing host/folder attributes
Other components:
* 13644 Deprecating NSCA as part of Checkmk
NOTE: Please refer to the migration notes!
* 13645 FIX: NagVis: Updated to 1.9.31
* 13585 FIX: check_snmp "External command error with no output"
REST API:
* 13643 Bulk host create/update calls now report succeeded and failed hosts
* 13642 FIX: REST API: Fix representation of locked_by host attribute
Setup:
* 13415 Add kubernetes filter
* 13416 Add painters to link to dashboards
* 13869 FIX: Fix error on editing of timeperiods
User interface:
* 13872 Add RobotMK GUI integration
* 13866 RobotMK: Add page to view and download HTML reports
* 13916 FIX: Barplot dashlet: Fix the bar coloring
* 13874 FIX: Fix ignored timerange of graphs on PDF export
* 13871 FIX: Fix possibility to edit foreign visuals without permission
Changes in the Checkmk Enterprise Edition:
Agent bakery:
* 13678 super_server: Add rule to deactivate Solaris network service
Checks & agents:
* 13006 FIX: proxmox backup time calculation
Core & setup:
* 13906 FIX: Fix perf data not sent to Carbon if no state is selected
Setup:
* 13417 KUBE: add dashboards
User interface:
* 13873 FIX: Remove reports from 'Views' sidebar snapin
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