ID: 0311
Title: Fixed "Inventory failed" message when trying an inventory on clusters via WATO
Component: WATO
Level: 2
Class: Bug Fix
Version: 1.2.3i8
The service inventory of cluster hosts via WATO failed all the time with an error message
like "Inventory failed for this host: Error - host is unreachable, no usable cache file present".
This error has been fixed with this change.
A WATO-inventory on a cluster node also no longer removes previously detected clustered services.
ID: 0311
Title: Fixed "Inventory failed" message when trying an inventory on clusters via WATO
Component: WATO
Level: 2
Class: Bug Fix
Version: 1.2.3i8
The service inventory of cluster hosts via WATO failed all the time with an error message
like "Inventory failed for this host: Error - host is unreachable, no usable cache file present".
This error has been fixed with this change.
ID: 0086
Title: timemachine: new check
Component: Checks & Agents
Level: 2
Class: New Feature
Version: 1.2.3i8
Checks the age of latest backup by timemachine on MAC OS and compares the age against given levels.
ID: 0057
Title: Fix exception in WATO host editor on custom tag without topic
Component: WATO
Level: 2
Class: Bug Fix
Version: 1.2.3i7p1
When you've defined a host tag group in WATO that has no topic,
then the host edit dialog would be interrupted with an exception.
A simple workaround to this is to alwasy define a topic.
The problem has now been fixed. It had shortly been introduced by fixing a
problem appearing when you used a slash in the name of a tag group.
ID: 0057
Title: Fix exception in WATO host editor on custom tag without topic
Component: WATO
Level: 2
Class: Bug Fix
Version: 1.2.3i8
When you've defined a host tag group in WATO that has no topic,
then the host edit dialog would be interrupted with an exception.
A simple workaround to this is to alwasy define a topic.
The problem has now been fixed. It had shortly been introduced by fixing a
problem appearing when you used a slash in the name of a tag group.
ID: 0016
Title: Linux+Windows agent: allow spooling plugin outputs via files
Component: Checks & Agents
Level: 2
Class: New Feature
Version: 1.2.3i7
The Windows and Linux agent now have a new feature for sending the contents of
files as a part of the agent output. This is useful for generating monitoring
data asychronously, e.g. by a cron job.
Simply let the job create or update a file in the directory
<tt>/etc/check_mk/spool</tt> (Linux) or in the subdirection <tt>spool</tt>
of the agent directory (Windows). If that directory is missing, simply
create it. The agent will then add the contents of all files contained in
that directory to its output. You can use any filename you like. Just files
beginning with a dot are ignored. This is an easy way to have applications
on the host drop monitoring data into Check_MK. Especially conveniant is
using a local <tt><<<local>>></tt> section here.
If you prefix the file name with a number (e.g. <tt>600MyOutput</tt>
or <tt>3600_app_data.txt</tt>) then that number is interpreted as a
number of seconds. If the last modification of the file is older than
that number, it will be ignored. This will usually set the corresponding
services in the monitoring to <b>UNKNOWN</b>. That way you can make sure
that you will be alarmed if no fresh monitoring data is available.
Here is an example for a spool file using a [check_local|<tt>local</tt>] section:
F+:C:\Program Files\Check_MK\spool\600_foobar.txt
<<<local>>>
0 Service_FOO V=1 This Check is OK
1 Bar_Service - This is WARNING and has no performance data
2 NotGood V=120;50;100;0;1000 A critical check
F-:
ID: 0016
Title: Linux+Windows agent: allow spooling plugin outputs via files
Component: Checks & Agents
Level: 2
Class: New Feature
Version: 1.2.3i7
The Windows and Linux agent now have a new feature for sending the contents of
files as a part of the agent output. This is useful for generating monitoring
data asychronously, e.g. by a cron job.
Simply let the job create or update a file in the directory
<tt>/etc/check_mk/spool</tt> (Linux) or in the subdirection <tt>spool</tt>
of the agent directory (Windows). If that directory is missing, simply
create it. The agent will then add the contents of all files contained in
that directory to its output. You can use any filename you like. Just files
beginning with a dot are ignored. This is an easy way to have applications
on the host drop monitoring data into Check_MK. Especially conveniant is
using a local <tt><<<local>>></tt> section here.
If you prefix the file name with a number (e.g. <tt>600MyOutput</tt>
or <tt>3600_app_data.txt</tt>) then that number is interpreted as a
number of seconds. If the last modification of the file is older than
that number, it will be ignored. This will usually set the corresponding
services in the monitoring to <b>UNKNOWN</b>. That way you can make sure
that you will be alarmed if no fresh monitoring data is available.
ID: 0009
Title: Automatically schedule inventory check after service config change
Component: WATO
Level: 2
Class: New Feature
Version: 1.2.3i7
Now after each change of the service configuration of a host via WATO -
may it be via manual changes or a bulk inventory - the inventory check
is automatically rescheduled in order to reflect the new service state
correctly immediately.
You can switch off this behaviour via a new global option called <i>Inventory
triggers inventory check</i>. The default setting is <b>on</b>.
ID: 0236
Title: windows_agent: each script can now be configured to run sync / async
Component: Checks & Agents
Level: 2
Class: New Feature
Version: 1.2.3i7
The windows agent got two new configuration options <br>
For the <tt>[local]</tt> and <tt>plugins</tt> sections the parameter
<tt>execution</tt>, which allows to configure if a script should be executed
afterwards or while the agent collect its general data.
<br>
The <tt>[global]</tt> section now has the parameter <tt>async_script_execution</tt>
where you can configure whether 'delayed' scripts should be executed sequential or parallel.
You can find more information in our official documentation at the page "Monitoring Windows".