ID: 10993
Title: Diagnostics: New WATO mode for diagnostic analysis purposes
Component: WATO
Level: 2
Class: New feature
Version: 1.7.0i1
In order to improve error analysis there's a new WATO mode {{Diagnostics}}.
With this new mode you can collection some general information about the
Checkmk server and version. Details can be found on the {{Diagnostics}} page.
In the future this mode will be extended with specific diagnostics elements,
eg. information about local files.
This mode will help you to analyse error situations. Another purpose is to have
an interface for collecting information for our support, your customers or
simply for your own analysis.
The diagnostics information are stored within tar files in the folder
{{var/check_mk/diagnostics}}. At the moment maximal five of these tar files are
stored. This number is not configurable.
There's also a command line option for collecting diagnostics information and
collects information about the Checkmk site where it's executed.
C+:
cmk --create-diagnostics-dump [OPTIONS]
C-:
Note: The {{Diagnostics}} mode does not solve any problems. It's just a data
collection which consolidates some commands and therefore facilitates error
analysis.
ID: 11078
Title: Dynamic configuration: Add connector plugin API
Component: DCD
Level: 2
Class: New feature
Version: 1.7.0i1
The Dynamic configuration is now loading plugins that are located below
the path <tt>local/lib/check_mk/cee/dcd/plugins/connectors/</tt>.
You can find a minimal example connector implementation it in your site at
<tt>lib/check_mk/cee/dcd/plugins/connectors/example_connector.py</tt>. You may
use this as base for your own connectors. To enable this connector, you need to
copy it to the plugin directory mentioned above and uncomment the registry
registration lines in the plugin (See TODO).
To be able to configure connections based on this connector in the GUI, you
also need to deploy a GUI plugin. An example can be found in your site at
<tt>lib/check_mk/gui/cee/plugins/wato/example_dcd_connector.py</tt>. This
needs to be placed in the WATO plugin directory of your site. You also need to
uncomment the registry registration line in the plugin (See TODO).