Checkmk werks level1 October 2020

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Checkmk Werk 11515: prism_containers: Fix evaluation of percentage levels and scale of levels in graphs

by Simon Jess

ID: 11515 Title: prism_containers: Fix evaluation of percentage levels and scale of levels in graphs Component: Checks & agents Level: 1 Class: Bug fix Version: 2.0.0i1 Levels for the usage regarding the capacity can be set absolute or in percent. The percentage levels did not apply correctly. Also the warn and crit values were not displayed correct in the related graphs.

3 years, 12 months

Checkmk Werk 11418: WATO: do not create empty rules.mk files when saving rulesets

by Andreas Boesl

ID: 11418 Title: WATO: do not create empty rules.mk files when saving rulesets Component: WATO Level: 1 Class: Bug fix Version: 2.0.0i1

3 years, 12 months

Checkmk Werk 11427: WATO: Improved performance on host lookup on various pages

by Andreas Boesl

ID: 11427 Title: WATO: Improved performance on host lookup on various pages Component: WATO Level: 1 Class: New feature Version: 2.0.0i1 Bigger installations (>200k services) tend to have a large WATO configuration with thousands of folders and hosts. Finding a host in these configuration took a considerable amount of time on some pages <ul> <li>Web API host calls, except add_host</li> <li>Bulk discovery</li> <li>Host diagnose</li> <li>Fetching agent output</li> <li>Service discovery</li> <li>And some other pages, where the actual folder of the host is not known/specified</li> <li></li> </ul> To fix this problem, a folder lookup index has been introduced to improve the time taken to find a hostname in the configuration.

3 years, 12 months

Checkmk Werk 11501: Fix possible XSS using titles of views

by Lars Michelsen

ID: 11501 Title: Fix possible XSS using titles of views Component: Multisite Level: 1 Class: Security fix Version: 2.0.0i1 Authenticated users that are allowed to configure and share custom views could inject arbitrary JS code to all users which are permitted to view this view.

3 years, 12 months

Checkmk Werk 11500: Microcore: Improved memory efficiency of helper processes

by Lars Michelsen

ID: 11500 Title: Microcore: Improved memory efficiency of helper processes Component: Core & setup Level: 3 Class: New feature Version: 2.0.0i1 In previous versions the Checkmk Microcore used so called Checkmk helper processes to execute the "Check_MK" services of the monitored hosts. In larger installations, these processes consumed a lot of memory, because a) they held the Checkmk configuration in memory and b) you needed to configure a lot of them to scale the performance of your monitoring with the growing number of hosts. This resulted in a resource bottleneck. Checkmk 2.0 comes with a completely reworked helper model. This introduces two kinds of helper processes. <ul> <li>Fetcher: It's only task is to fetch the needed information from the monitored hosts. So it handles the network communication with the Checkmk agent, SNMP agent or other special agents. It may take some time to gather these information and it also may be blocked by network timeouts. But it consumes only a small amount of memory. So you can configure a lot of these processes without problems.</li> <li>Checker: It's task is to parse, analyze and evaluate the information gathered by the fetcher. It produces the check results for your services. It is a memory hungry process, because it needs to know all of your Checkmk configuration. It only takes a very short time to process the information from the fetcher. There is no network IO done by this helper process, which makes it pretty fast. You only need a small number of these processes.</li> </ul> This new model separates the problems of the previous "Checkmk helpers" into two separate pools: a) The network IO bound fetching of information and b) the CPU bound checking of the fetched information. We can now scale these different helper types independently from each other. Bottom line: Checkmk 2.0 has consumes significantly less memory (~ factor of 4, depending on your configuration) while achieving the same amount of checks per second. As a result, Checkmk 2.0 can monitor even more hosts on the same platform than before. The new model is enabled with Checkmk 2.0 by default. It can be configured using the global settings "Use separate fetchers and checkers", "Maximum concurrent Checkmk fetchers", "Maximum concurrent Checkmk checkers". All sites start with 13 fetcher processes and 4 checker processes. After updating you should have a look at the "Fetcher helper usage" and "Checker helper usage". It can be viewed in the "Micro core statistics" snapin and the detailed output of the "OMD [SITE] performance" services on your Checkmk host. The usage of both pools should not exceed 80%. In case it does, you should consider increasing the number of helpers of that type.

3 years, 12 months

Checkmk Werk 11513: sap_hana_diskusage: Fix scaling of filesystem values in service graphs

by Simon Jess

ID: 11513 Title: sap_hana_diskusage: Fix scaling of filesystem values in service graphs Component: Checks & agents Level: 1 Class: Bug fix Version: 2.0.0i1

3 years, 12 months

Checkmk Werk 11405: Improved performance of agent bakery

by Andreas Umbreit

ID: 11405 Title: Improved performance of agent bakery Component: agents Level: 1 Class: New feature Version: 2.0.0i1 With the introduction of the new Bakery API (see Werk #11401), the Agent Bakery itself has undergone a complete overhaul. While baking agents, the agent bakery now tries to reuse as many resources as possible, instead of collecting data for every package separately. If the contents for a to-be-baked package are identical to an already-baked one, this optimization will be communicated as "fast repackage" (visible at the bake-agents background job within the GUI or at the console directly when baking on the command line). Furthermore, the packaging processes for RPM and DEB packages have been optimized in performance. In summary, you will experience an agent bakery that runs noticeably faster and finishes earlier, compared to Checkmk 1.6 and before.

3 years, 12 months

Checkmk Werk 11331: heartbeat_crm: fixed crash when checking pacemaker version 2.0.3

by Lisa Pichler

ID: 11331 Title: heartbeat_crm: fixed crash when checking pacemaker version 2.0.3 Component: Checks & agents Level: 1 Class: Bug fix Version: 2.0.0i1 The check heartbeat_crm crashed when checking pacemaker version 2.0.3 (CentOS8 / RHEL8). This has been fixed.

3 years, 12 months

Checkmk Werk 11404: Better detection of changes in baked agent packages

by Andreas Umbreit

ID: 11404 Title: Better detection of changes in baked agent packages Component: agents Level: 1 Class: New feature Version: 2.0.0i1 Previously, the only property that has been observed by the agent bakery to decide whether to bake new agents, was the WATO agent configuration. This sometimes lead to problems when deploying your own plugins, because changes in agent plugin files won't get recognized and hence no new agent would get baked. Furthermore, if you managed to force-bake the agents, including the file changes, the config hash would still stay the same, hence the agent updater would refuse to deploy the new package to the hosts. The agent bakery will now recognize changes in every file that gets deployed to the configured agent packages and reflect them in generating a different agent hash on baking agents. This is also true for files that get superceded by their counterpart at the local hierarchy, see Werk #10975. Similar to a config change, changes in underlying files will lead to a highlighted "Bake agents" button at the agent bakery. Please note that this mechanism will only work work bakery plugins that are specified via the new Bakery API, see Werk #11401. This includes all builtin bakery plugins. E.g., if you decide to adapt the Checkmk linux agent (copy an adapted version to the local hierarchy), your changes will get recognized.

3 years, 12 months

Checkmk Werk 7899: Fix configuring empty tag ID tags on hosts / folders

by Lars Michelsen

ID: 7899 Title: Fix configuring empty tag ID tags on hosts / folders Component: WATO Level: 1 Class: Bug fix Version: 2.0.0i1

3 years, 12 months

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