Check_MK Changelog

What's new in Check_MK 1.2.4p5

Dec 5, 2014

Core & Setup:
1035 FIX: Do not fail on errors in *.mk files anymore - except in interactive mode...
Checks & Agents:
0994 FIX: agent plugin smart: fixed syntax error
0989 FIX: logwatch.ec: Fix forwarding multiple messages via syslog/TCP...
0943 FIX: if.include: fixed incorrect traffic percentage values in the check output of if checks...
1037 FIX: bintec_info: support bintec RXL12500
0827 FIX: lnx_thermal: Not checking active trip points (e.g. cooling device triggers) anymore
Multisite:
1036 FIX: doc/treasures/downtime: fix --url option, better error output
WATO:
0990 FIX: Fix HTTP error handling in bulk inventory...
1004 FIX: Fix exception when saving rules, caused by empty item
Event Console:
1040 FIX: Avoid sporadic errors when checking event state in Event Console...
Livestatus:
0988 FIX: livedump: Fix exception in case no contact groups are defined for a service

New in Check_MK 1.2.4 (Feb 13, 2014)

New in Check_MK 1.2.2p3 (Nov 6, 2013)

New in Check_MK 1.2.3i2 (Sep 28, 2013)

Core:
New option -B for just generating the configuration
Introduced persistent host address lookup cache to prevent issues loading an unchanged configuration after a single address is not resolvable anymore
Assigning a service to a cluster host no longer requires a reinventory
Setting a check_type or service to ignore no longer requires a reinventory Note: If the ignore rule is removed the services will reappear
Config creation: The ignore services rule now also applies to custom, active and legacy checks
Predictive monitoring: correctly handle spaces in variable names (thanks to Karl Golland)
New man page browser for console (cmk -m)
New option explicit_snmp_communities to override rule based SNMP settings
Preparations for significant SNMP monitoring performance improvement (It's named Inline SNMP, which is available as special feature via subscriptions)
Allow to specify custom host check via WATO (arbitrary command line)
Implement DNS caching. This can be disabled with use_dns_cache = False
Livestatus:
new service column staleness: indicator for outdated service checks
new host column staleness: indicator for outdated host checks
Checks & Agents:
esx_hostystem multipath: criticize standby paths only if not equal to active paths
mk_logwatch: fixed bug when rewriting logwatch messages
check_mk: Re-inventory is no longer required when a service is ignored via rule
check_mk: Now possible to assign services to clusters without the need to reinventorize
lnx_if: Fixed crash on missing "Address" field
viprinet_router: Now able to set required target state via rule
windows_agent: Now available as 64 bit version
agent_vsphere: fix problem where sensors were missing when you queried multiple host systems via vCenter
cached checks: no longer output cached data if the age of the cache file is twice the maximum cache age
windows agent: no longer tries to execute directories
fileinfo: no longer inventorize missing files(reported by windows agent)
New checks for Brocade fans, temperature and power supplies
cluster hosts: removed agent version output from Check_MK service (this was misleading for different agent versions on multiple nodes)
job check: better handling of unexpected agent output
lnx_thermal: Added check for linux thermal sensors (e.g. acpi)
hwg_temp: Make WATO-Rule "Room Temperature" match, add man page, graph and Perf-O-Meter
ps.perf: Support Windows with new plugin "psperf.bat". wmicchecks.bat is obsolete now.
Special Agent vSphere: support ESX 4.1 (thanks to Mirko Witt)
esx_vsphere_object: make check state configurable
mk_logwatch: support continuation lines with 'A'. Please refer to docu.
mk_oracle: Added plugin for solaris
win_netstat: New check for Windows for checking the existance of a UDP/TCP connection or listener
ps/ps.perf: allow to set levels on CPU util, optional averaging of CPU
diskstat: Agent is now also processing data of mmcblk devices
qmail: Added check for mailqueue
cisco_locif: removed obsolete and already disabled check completely
fc_brocade_port: removed obsolete check
fc_brocade_port_detailed: removed obsolete check
tsm_stgpool: removed orphaned check
vmware_state: removed ancient, now orphaned check. Use vsphere_agent instead.
vms_{df,md,netif,sys}: remove orphaned checks that are not needed by the current agent
tsm: Added new TSM checks with a simple windows agent plugin
windows_agent: now starts local/plugin scripts in separate threads/processes new script parameters cache_age, retry_count, timeout new script caching options "off", "async", "sync"
windows_agent: increased maximum local/plugin script output length to 512kB (output buffer now grows dynamically)
jolokia_metrics: fixed incorrect plugin output for high warn/crit levels
jolokia_metrics.uptime: Added pnp template
hyperv: Added a check for checking state changes.
df / esx_vsphere_datastore: now able to set absolute levels and levels depending on total disk space of used and free space
cisco_wlc: New check for monitoring cisco wireless lan access points
cisco_wlc_clients: New check for the nummber of clients in a wlc wifi
df: Negative integer levels for MB left on a device
win_printers: Monitoring of printer queue on a windows printserver
cisco_qos: Updated to be able to mintor IOS XR 4.2.1 (on a ASR9K device)
New active check, check_form_submit, to submit HTML forms and check the resulting page
mk-job: /var/lib/check_mk_agent/job directory is now created with mode 1777 so mk-job can be used by unprivileged users too
ADD: etherbox: new check for etherbox (messpc) sensors. currently supported: temperature, humidity, switch contact and smoke sensors
cisco_wlc_client: now supports low/high warn and crit levels
cisco_wlc: now supports configuration options for missing AP
agent_vsphere: completely rewritten, now considerably faster vCenter is still queried by old version
windows_agent: windows eventlog informational/audit logs now reported with O prefix
mk_logwatch: ignored loglines now reported with an "." prefix (if required)
apache_status: Nopw also supports multithreaded mpm
windows_agent: now able to suppress context messages in windows eventlogs
agent_vsphere: completely rewritten, now considerably faster vCenter is still queried by old version
windows_agent: windows eventlog informational/audit logs now reported with O prefix
mk_logwatch: ignored loglines now reported with an "." prefix (if required)
check_mk-if.pnp: fixed bug with pnp template on esx hosts without perfdata
jolokia checks (JVM): uptime, threads, sessions, requests, queue now configurable via WATO
vSphere checks: secret is not shown to the user via WATO anymore
WATO rule to check state of physical switch (currently used by etherbox check)
cisco_wlc: Allows to configure handling of missing AP
logwatch.ec: show logfiles from that we forwarded messages
FIX: blade_blades: Fixed output of "(UNKNOWN)" even if state is OK
FIX: apache_status: fix exception if parameter is None
FIX: hr_mem: handle virtual memory correct on some devices
FIX: apache_status agent plugin: now also works, if prog name contains slashes
FIX: check_dns: parameter -A does not get an additional string
FIX: cisco_qos: Catch policies without post/drop byte information
FIX: cisco_qos: Catch policies without individual bandwidth limits
FIX: windows_agent: fixed bug on merging plugin output buffers
FIX: esx_vsphere_datastores: Fix incomplete performance data and Perf-O-Meter
FIX: cleaned up fileinfo.groups pattern handling, manual configuration is now possible using WATO
FIX: check_mk-ipmi.php: PNP template now displays correct units as delivered by the check plugin
FIX: check_disk_smb: Remove $ from share when creating service description. Otherwise Nagios will not accept the service description.
FIX: mrpe: gracefully handle invalid exit code of plugin
Notifications:
notify.py: Matching service level: Use the hosts service level if a service has no service level set
notify.py: fixed bug with local notification spooling
HTML notifications: Now adding optional links to host- and service names when second argument notification script is configured to the base url of the monitoring installation (e.g. http://// in case of OMD setups)
HTML notifications: Added time of state change
Multisite:
Finally good handling of F5 / browser reloads -> no page switching to start page anymore (at least in modern browsers)
User accounts can now be locked after a specified amount of auth failures (lock_on_logon_failures can be set to a number of tries)
Column Perf-O-Meter is now sortable: it sorts after the *first* performance value. This might not always be the one you like, but its far better than nothing.
logwatch: Logwatch icon no longer uses notes_url
Inventory screen: Host inventory also displays its clustered services
Rules: Renamed "Ignored services" to "Disabled services" Renamed "Ignored checks" to "Disabled checks"
Sorter Host IP address: fixed sorting, no longer uses str compare on ip
Views: New: Draw rule editor icon in multisite views (default off) Can be activated in global settings
New global multisite options: Adhoc downtime with duration and comment Display current date in dashboard
LDAP: Using asynchronous searches / added optional support for paginated searches (Can be enabled in connection settings)
LDAP: It is now possible to provide multiple failover servers, which are tried when the primary ldap server fails
LDAP: Supporting posixGroup with memberUid as member attribute
LDAP: Added filter_group option to user configuration to make the synchonized users filterable by group memberships in directories without memberof attributes
LDAP: Moved configuration to dedicated page which also provides some testing mechanisms for the configuration
Added option to enable browser scrollbar to the multisite sidebar (only via "sidebar_show_scrollbar = True" in multisite.mk
Added option to disable automatic userdb synchronizations in multisite
Implemented search forms for most data tables
New icons in view footers: export as CSV, export as JSON
Availability: new columns for shortest, longest, average and count
Editing localized strings (like the title) is now optional when cloning views or editing cloned views. If not edited, the views inherit the localized strings from their ancestors
Added simple problems Dashboard
New filter and column painter for current notification number (escalations)
Added new painters for displaying host tags (list of tags, single tag groups). All those painters are sortable. Also added new filters for tags.
Added painters, icon and filters for visualizing staleness information
Improved filtering of the foldertree snapin by user permissions (when a user is only permitted on one child folder, the upper folder is removed from the hierarchy)
"Unchecked Services" view now uses the staleness of services for filtering
Globe dashlets make use of the parameter "id" to make it possible to provide unique ids in the render HTML code to the dashlets
Multisite can now track wether or not a user is online, this need to be enabled e.g. via Global Settings in WATO (Save last access times of users)
Added popup message notification system to make it possible to notify multisite users about various things. It is linked on WATO Users page at the moment. An image will appear for a user in the sidebar footer with the number of pending messages when there are pending messages for a user. To make the sidebar check for new messages on a regular base, you need to configure the interval of sidebar popup notification updates e.g. via WATO Global Settings.
Event views: changed default horizon from 31 to 7 days
New option for painting timestamp: as Unix Epoch time
New filters: Host state type and Service state type
FIX: better error message in case of exception in SNMP handling
FIX: Inventory screen: Now shows custom checks
FIX: Fixed locking problem of multisite pages related to user loading/saving
FIX: Fixed wrong default settings of view filters in localized multisite
FIX: line wrapping of logwatch entries
FIX: Fixed button dragging bug when opening the view editor (at least in Firefox)
WATO:
Allow to configure check-/retry_interval in second precision
Custom user attributes can now be managed using WATO
Allow GIT to be used for change tracking (enable via global option)
Hosts/Folders: SNMP communities can now be configured via the host and folders hierarchy. Those settings override the rule base config.
Require unique alias names in between the following elements: Host/Service/Contact Groups, Timeperiods and Roles
Removed "do not connect" option from site socket editor. Use the checkbox "Disable" to disable the site for multisite.
Converted table of Event Console Rules to new implementation, make it sortable
FIX: do validation of check items in rule editor
FIX: More consistent handling of folderpath select in rule editor
FIX: Now correctly handling depends_on_tags on page rendering for inherited values
FIX: Changed several forms from GET to POST to prevent "Request-URI too large" error messages during submitting forms
FIX: automation snmp scan now adhere rules for shoddy snmp devices which have no sys description
FIX: Cisco ruleset "Cisco WLC WiFi client connections" has been generalized to "WLC WiFi client connections"
FIX: Snapshot handling is a little more robust agains manually created files in snapshot directory now
FIX: Slightly more transparent handling of syntax errors when loading rules.mk
Notifications:
Flexible Notification can now filter service levels
FIX: check_tcp corrected order of parameters in definition
Event Console:
New global setting "force message archiving", converts the EC into a kind of syslog archive
New built-in snmptrap server to directly receive snmp traps
FIX: fix layout of filter for history action type
FIX: better detect non-IP-number hosts in hostname translation

New in Check_MK 1.2.2p2 (Jun 11, 2013)

New in Check_MK 1.2.3i1 (May 28, 2013)

Core:
Agents can send data for other hosts "piggyback". This is being used by the vSphere and SAP plugins
New variable host_check_commands, that allows the definition of an alternative host check command (without manually defining one)
New variable snmp_check_interval which can be used to customize the check intervals of SNMP based checks
setup: Added missing vars rrd_path and rrdcached_sock
new variable check_mk_exit_status: allows to make Check_MK service OK, even if host in not reachable.
set always_cleanup_autochecks to True per default now
check_mk: new option --snmptranslate
Multisite:
New availability view for arbitrary host/service collections
New option auth_by_http_header to use the value of a HTTP header variable for authentication (Useful in reverse proxy environments)
New permission that is needed for seeing views that other users have defined (per default this is contained in all roles)
New path back to the view after command exection with all checkboxes cleared
Added plugins to config module to make registration of default values possible for addons like mkeventd - reset to default values works now correctly even for multisite related settings
perfometer: Bit values now using base of 1000
Added PNP tempate for check_disk_smb
Dashboards can now be configured to be reloaded on resizing (automatically adds width/height url parameters)
LDAP authentification: New config option "Do not use persistent connections to ldap server"
Hosttags and auxiliary tags can now be grouped in topics
Fixed output of time in view if server time differs from user time
Event Console:
New rule feature: automatically delete event after actions
New filter for maximum services level (minimum already existed)
New global setting: hostname translation (allows e.g. to drop domain name)
New rule match: only apply rule within specified time period
Checks & Agents:
solaris_mem: New check for memory and swap for Solaris agent
agent_vsphere: New VMWare ESX monitoring that uses pySphere and the VMWare API in order to get data very efficiently. Read (upcoming) documentation for details.
new special agent agent_random for creating random monitoring data
New checks: windows_intel_bonding / windows_broadcom_bonding
Implemented SAP monitoring based on the agent plugin mk_sap. This must be run on a linux host. It connects via RFC calls to SAP R/3 systems to retrieve monitoring information for this or other machines.
sap.dialog: Monitors SAP dialog statistics like the response time
sap.value: Simply processes information provided by SAP to Nagios
openvpn_clients: new check for OpenVPN connections
if64_tplink: special new check for TP Link switches with broken SNMP output
job: Monitoring states and performance indicators of any jobs on linux systems
oracle_asm_diskgroups: Added missing agent plugin + asmcmd wrapper script
oracle_jobs: New check to monitor oracle database job execution
oracle_rman_backups: New check to monitor state of ORACLE RMAN backups
jar_signature: New check to monitor wether or not a jar is signed and certificate is not expired
cisco_qos: adhere qos-bandwidth policies
check_disk_smb: WATO formalization for active check check_disk_smb
if.include: new configurable parameters for assumed input and output speed
cisco_qos: new param unit: switches between bit/byte display new param average: average the values over the given minute new params post/drop can be configured via int and float fixed incorrect worst state if different parameters exceed limit
logwatch.ec: Added optional spooling to the check to prevent dataloss when processing of current lines needs more time than max execution time
mounts: ignore multiple occurrances of the same device
Linux agent: allow cached local/plugins checks (see docu)
mem.include: Linux memory check now includes size of page tables. This can be important e.g. on ORACLE systems with a lot of memory
windows_agent: Now buffers output before writing it to the socket Results in less tcp packages per call
smart.stats: rewrote check. Please reinventorize. Error counters are now snapshotted during inventory.
smart.temp: add WATO configuration
windows_agent: check_mk.ini: new option "port" - specifies agent port
winperf_processor: introduce averaging, support predictive levels
cpu_util.include: fixed bug when params are set to None
predictive levels: fixed bug when existing predictive levels get new options
windows_plugin mssql.vbs: No longer queries stopped mssql instances
cisco_hsrp: fixed problem when HSRP groups had same ip address
winperf_if: hell has frozen over: a new check for network adapters on Windows
windows agent: new config section plugins, now able to set timeouts for specific plugins new global config option: timeout_plugins_total
lnx_if in Linux agent: force deterministical order of network devices
Linux agent: remove obsolete old and sections
logwatch, logwatch.ec: detect error in agent configuration
Linux agent: cups_queues: do not monitor non-local queues (thanks to Olaf Morgenstern)
AIX agent: call lparstat with argument 1 1, this give more accurate data
Check_MK check: enable extended performance data per default now
viprinet checks: New checks for firmware version/update, memory usage, power supply status, router mode, serialnumber and temperature sensors
uptime, snmp_uptime, esx_vsphere_counters.uptime: allow to set lower and upper levels
winperf_processor: Now displays (and scales) to number of cpus in pnpgraph
mk_postgres plugin: replace select * with list of explicit columns (fix for PG 9.1)
lnx_if: show MAC address for interfaces (needs also agent update)
winperf_tcp_conn: New check. Displays number of established tcpv4 connections in windows Uses WATO Rule "TCP connection stats (Windows)"
windows_agent: fixed timeouts for powershell scripts in local/plugins
logwatch: Agent can now use logwatch.d/ to split config to multipe files
logwatch: Agent can now rewrite Messages
apache_status: New rule: set levels for number of remaining open slots
mrpe: handle long plugin output correctly, including performance data
Notifications:
notify.py: unique spoolfiles name no longer created with uuid
Warn user if only_services does never match
Livestatus:
Table statehist: Improved detection of vanished hosts and services. Now able to detect and remove nonsense check plugin output
FIX: able to handle equal comment_id between host and service
livestatus.log: show utf-8 decoding problems only with debug logging >=2
livestatus: fixed incorrect output formatting of comments_with_info column
BI:
Integrated availability computing, including nifty time warp feature
WATO:
Configuration of datasource programs via dedicated rules
New editor for Business Intelligence rules
Rule Editor: Now able to show infeffective rules
Valuespec: CascadingDropdown now able to process choice values from functions
cisco_qos parameters now configurable via WATO
Removed global option logwatch_forward_to_ec, moved this to the logwatch_ec ruleset. With this option the forwarding can now be enabled for each logfile on a host
Configuration of an alternativ host check command
Inventory: Display link symbol for ps ruleset
New rule for notification_options of hosts and services
FIX: Rulesets: correct display of rules within subfolders
Remove Notification Command user settings, please use flexible notifications instead

New in Check_MK 1.2.2 (Apr 9, 2013)

New in Check_MK 1.2.2 Beta 6 (Apr 4, 2013)

New in Check_MK 1.2.2 Beta 3 (Feb 18, 2013)

New in Check_MK 1.2.2 Beta 1 (Feb 12, 2013)

Core:
cmk --notify: added notification script to generate HTML mails including the performance graphs of hosts and services
cmk --notify: added the macros NOTIFY_LASTHOSTSTATECHANGE, NOTIFY_HOSTSTATEID, NOTIFY_LASTSERVICESTATECHANGE, NOTIFY_SERVICESTATEID, NOTIFY_NOTIFICATIONCOMMENT, NOTIFY_NOTIFICATIONAUTHOR, NOTIFY_NOTIFICATIONAUTHORNAME, NOTIFY_NOTIFICATIONAUTHORALIAS
FIX: more robust deletion of precompiled files to ensure the correct creation of the files (Thanks to Guido Günther)
FIX: Inventory for cluster nodes who are part of multiple clusters
cmk --notify: added plugin for sms notification
FIX: precompiled checks: correct handling of sys.exit() call when using python2.4
cmk --notify: improved logging on wrong notification type
RPM: Added check_mk-agent-scriptless package (Same as normal agent rpm, but without RPM post scripts)
Checks & Agents:
winperf_processor now outputs float usage instead of integer
FIX: mssql_counters.file_sizes - Fixed wrong value for "Log Files" in output
FIX: drbd: Parameters for expected roles and disk states can now be set to None to disable alerting on changed values
printer_supply_ricoh: New check for Ricoh printer supply levels
jolokia_metrics.mem: now supports warn/crit levels for heap, nonheap, totalheap
jolokia_metrics.mem: add dedicated PNP graph
FIX: logwatch.ec: use UNIX socket instead of Pipe for forwarding into EC
FIX: logwatch.ec: fixed exception when forwarding "OK" lines
FIX: logwatch.ec: fixed forwarding of single log lines to event console
Improved performance of logwatch.ec check in case of many messages
livestatus_status: new check for monitoring performance of monitoring
FIX: diskstat.include: fix computation of queue length on windows (thanks to K.H. Fiebig)
lnx_bonding: new check for bonding interfaces on Linux
ovs_bonding: new check for bonding interfaces on Linux / Open vSwitch
if: Inventory settings can now be set host based
FIX: lnx_bonding/ovs_bonding: correct definition of bonding.include
Add: if check now able to handle interface groups (if_groups)
Add: New check for DB2 instance memory levels
Add: winperf_phydisk can now output IOPS
Add: oracle_tablespace now with flexible warn/crit levels(magic number)
Livestatus:
Add: new column in hosts/services table: comments_with_extra_info Adds the entry type and entry time
Multisite:
Added comment painter to notification related views
Added compatibility code to use hashlib.md5() instead of md5.md5(), which is deprecated in python > 2.5 to prevent warning messages in apache error log
Added host filter for "last host state change" and "last host check"
FIX: Preventing autocomplete in password fields of "edit profile" dialog
The ldap member attribute of groups is now configruable via WATO
Added option to enforce lower User-IDs during LDAP sync
Improved debug logging of ldap syncs (Now writing duration of queries to log)
Displaying date/time of comments in comment icon hover menu (Please note: You need to update your livestatus to current version to make this work)
FIX: Making "action" context link unclickable during handling actions / confirms
BI:
Use Ajax to delay rendering of invisible parts of the tree (this saves lots of HTML code)
WATO:
Added hr_mem check to the memory checkgroup to make it configurable in WATO
Make page_header configurable in global settings
FIX: Fixed some typos in ldap error messages
FIX: Fixed problem on user profile page when no alias set for a user
FIX: list valuespecs could not be extended after once saving
FIX: fix title of foldable areas contained in list valuespecs
FIX: Fixed bug where pending log was not removed in multisite setup
FIX: Fixed generation of auth.php (Needed for NagVis Multisite Authorisation)
FIX: Fixed missing general.* permissions in auth.php on slave sites in case of distributed WATO setups
Added oracle_tablespaces configuration to the application checkgroup
FIX: Fixed synchronisation of mkeventd configs in distributed WATO setups
FIX: "Sync & Restart" did not perform restart in distributed WATO setups
FIX: Fixed exception in editing code of ldap group to rule plugin
FIX: Don't execute ldap sync while performing actions on users page
Event Console:
Added UNIX socket for sending events to the EC
Speed up rule matches in some special cases by factor of 100 and more
Init-Script: Improved handling of stale pidfiles
Init-Script: Detecting and reporting already running processes
WATO: Added hook to make the mkeventd reload in distributed WATO setups during "activate changes" process
Added hook mkeventd-activate-changes to add custom actions to the mkeventd "activate changes" GUI function
FIX: When a single rule matching raises an exception, the line is now matched agains the following rules instead of being skipped. The exception is logged to mkeventd.log

New in Check_MK 1.1.12p7 / 1.2.1i5 (Jan 19, 2013)

Core:
Improved handling of CTRL+C (SIGINT) to terminate long runnining tasks (e.g. inventory of SNMP hosts)
FIX: PING services on clusters are treated like the host check of clusters
cmk --notify: new environment variable NOTIFY_WHAT which has HOST or SERVICE as value
cmk --notify: removing service related envvars in case of host notifications
cmk --notify: added test code to help developing nitofication plugins. Can be called with "cmk --notify fake-service debug" for example
Checks & Agents:
Linux Agent, diskstat: Now supporting /dev/emcpower* devices (Thanks to Claas Rockmann-Buchterkirche)
FIX: winperf_processor: Showing 0% on "cmk -nv" now instead of 100%
FIX: win_dhcp_pools: removed faulty output on non-german windows 2003 servers with no dhcp server installed (Thanks to Mathias Decker)
Add: fileinfo is now supported by the solaris agent. Thanks to Daniel Roettgermann
Logwatch: unknown eventlog level ('u') from windows agent treated as warning
FIX: logwatch_ec: Added state undefined as priority
Add: New Check for Raritan EMX Devices
Add: mailman_lists - New check to gather statistics of mailman mailinglists
FIX: megaraid_bbu - Handle missing charge information (ignoring them)
FIX: myssql_tablespaces - fix PNP graph (thanks to Christian Zock)
kernel.util: add "Average" information to PNP graph
Windows Agent: Fix startup crash on adding a logfiles pattern, but no logfile specified
Windows Agent: check_mk.example.ini: commented logfiles section
Multisite:
FIX: Fixed rendering of dashboard globes in opera
When having row selections enabled and no selected and performing actions an error message is displayed instead of performing the action on all rows
Storing row selections in user files, cleaned up row selection handling to single files. Cleaned up GET/POST mixups in confirm dialogs
Add: New user_options to limit seen nagios objects even the role is set to see all
Fix: On site configaration changes, only relevant sites are marked as dirty
Fix: Distributed setup: Correct cleanup of pending changes logfile after "Activate changes"
FIX: LDAP: Fixed problem with special chars in LDAP queries when having contactgroup sync plugin enabled
FIX: LDAP: OpenLDAP - Changed default filter for users
FIX: LDAP: OpenLDAP - Using uniqueMember instead of member when searching for groups of a user
FIX: LDAP: Fixed encoding problem of ldap retrieved usernames
LDAP: Role sync plugin validates the given group DNs with the group base dn now
LDAP: Using roles defined in default user profile in role sync plugin processing
LDAP: Improved error handling in case of misconfigurations
LDAP: Reduced number of ldap querys during a single page request / sync process
LDAP: Implemnted some kind of debug logging for LDAP communication
FIX: Re-added an empty file as auth.py (wato plugin) to prevent problems during update
WATO:
CPU load ruleset does now accept float values
Added valuespec for cisco_mem check to configure thresholds via WATO
FIX: Fixed displaying of tag selections when creating a rule in the ruleeditor
FIX: Rulesets are always cloned in the same folder
Flexibile notifications: removed "debug notification" script from GUI (you can make it executable to be choosable again)
Flexibile notifications: added plain mail notification which uses the mail templates from global settings dialog
BI:
Added FOREACH_SERVICE capability to leaf nodes
Add: Bi views now support debug of livestatus queries

New in Check_MK 1.2.1i4 (Jan 10, 2013)

Core:
Better exception handling when executing "Check_MK"-Check. Printing python exception to status output and traceback to long output now.
Added HOSTTAGS to notification macros which contains all Check_MK-Tags separated by spaces
Output better error message in case of old inventory function
Do object cache precompile for monitoring core on cmk -R/-O
Avoid duplicate verification of monitoring config on cmk -R/-O
FIX: Parameter --cleanup-autochecks (long for -u) works now like suggested in help
FIX: Added error handling when trying to --restore with a non existant file
Notifications:
Fix flexible notifications on non-OMD systems
Checks & Agents:
Linux Agent, mk_postgres: Supporting pgsql and postgres as user
Linux Agent, mk_postgres: Fixed database stats query to be compatible with more versions of postgres
apache_status: Modified to be usable on python < 2.6 (eg RHEL 5.x)
apache_status: Fixed handling of PIDs with more than 4 numbers
Add: New Check for Rittal CMC PSM-M devices
Smart plugin: Only use relevant numbers of serial
Add: ibm_xraid_pdisks - new check for agentless monitoring of disks on IBM SystemX servers.
Add: hp_proliant_da_cntlr check for disk controllers in HP Proliant servers
Add: Check to monitor Storage System Drive Box Groups attached to HP servers
Add: check to monitor the summary status of HP EML tape libraries
Add: apc_rackpdu_status - monitor the power consumption on APC rack PDUs
Add: sym_brightmail_queues - monitor the queue levels on Symantec Brightmail mail scanners.
Add: plesk_domains - List domains configured in plesk installations
Add: plesk_backups - Monitor backup spaces configured for domains in plesk
Add: mysql_connections - Monitor number of parallel connections to mysql daemon
Add: flexible notifcations: filter by hostname
New script multisite_to_mrpe for exporting services from a remote system
FIX: postgres_sessions: handle case of no active/no idle sessions
FIX: correct backslash representation of windows logwatch files
FIX: postgres_sessions: handle case of no active/no idle sessions
FIX: zfsget: fix exception on snapshot volumes (where available is '-')
FIX: zfsget: handle passed-through filesystems (need agent update)
FIX: loading notification scripts in local directory for real
FIX: oracle_version: return valid check result in case of missing agent info
FIX: apache_status: fixed bug with missing 'url', wrote man page
FIX: fixed missing localisation in check_parameteres.py
FIX: userdb/ldap.py: fixed invalid call site.getsitepackages() for python 2.6
FIX: zpool_status: fixed crash when spare devices were available
FIX: hr_fs: handle negative values in order to larger disks (thanks to Christof Musik)
FIX: mssql_backup: Fixed wrong calculation of backup age in seconds
Multisite:
Implemented LDAP integration of Multisite. You can now authenticate your users using the form based authentication with LDAP. It is also possible to synchronize some attributes like mail addresses, names and roles from LDAP into multisite.
Restructured cookie auth cookies (all auth cookies will be invalid after update -> all users have to login again)
Modularized login and cookie validation
Logwatch: Added buttons to acknowledge all logs of all hosts or really all logs which currently have a problem
Check reschedule icon now works on services containing an \
Now showing correct representation of SI unit kilo ( k )
if perfometer now differs between byte and bit output
Use pprint when writing global settings (makes files more readable)
New script for settings/removing downtimes: doc/treasures/downtime
New option when setting host downtimes for also including child hosts
Option dials (refresh, number of columns) now turnable by mouse wheel
Views: Commands/Checkboxes buttons are now activated dynamically (depending on data displayed)
FIX: warn / crit levels in if-check when using "bit" as unit
FIX: Fixed changing own password when notifications are disabled
FIX: On page reload, now updating the row field in the headline
FIX: ListOfStrings Fields now correctly autoappend on focus
FIX: Reloading of sidebar after activate changes
FIX: Main Frame without sidebar: reload after activate changes
FIX: output_format json: handle newlines correctly
FIX: handle ldap logins with ',' in distinguished name
FIX: quote HTML variable names, fixes potential JS injection
FIX: Sidebar not raising exceptions on configured but not available snapins
FIX: Quicksearch: Fixed Up/Down arrow handling in chrome
FIX: Speedometer: Terminating data updates when snapin is removed from sidebar
FIX: Views: toggling forms does not disable the checkbox button anymore
FIX: Dashboard: Fixed wrong display options in links after data reloads
FIX: Fixed "remove all downtimes" button in views when no downtimes to be deleted
FIX: Services in hosttables now use the service name as header (if no custom title set)
New filter for host_contact and service_contact
WATO:
Add: Creating a new rule immediately opens its edit formular
The rules formular now uses POST as transaction method
Modularized the authentication and user management code
Default config: add contact group 'all' and put all hosts into it
Reverse order of Condition, Value and General options in rule editor
Allowing "%" and "+" in mail prefixes of contacts now
FIX: Fixed generated manual check definitions for checks without items like ntp_time and tcp_conn_stats
FIX: Persisting changing of folder titles when only the title has changed
FIX: Fixed rendering bug after folder editing
Event Console:
Replication slave can now copy rules from master into local configuration via a new button in WATO.
Speedup access to event history by earlier filtering and prefiltering with grep
New builtin syslog server! Please refer to online docu for details.
Icon to events of host links to view that has context button to host
FIX: remove event pipe on program shutdown, prevents syslog freeze
FIX: hostnames in livestatus query now being utf8 encoded
FIX: fixed a nastiness when reading from local pipe
FIX: fix exception in rules that use facility local7
FIX: fix event icon in case of using TCP access to EC
FIX: Allowing ":" in application field (e.g. needed for windows logfiles)
FIX: fix bug in Filter "Hostname/IP-Address of original event"
Livestatus:
FIX: Changed logging output "Time to process request" to be debug output

New in Check_MK 1.2.1i3 (Nov 23, 2012)

New in Check_MK 1.1.12 (Oct 26, 2011)

New in Check_MK 1.1.12b2 (Oct 24, 2011)

New in Check_MK 1.1.11i4 (Sep 9, 2011)

Core, Setup, etc.:
FIX: use hostgroups instead of host_groups in Nagios configuration. This fixes a problem with Shinken
--scan-parents: detected parent hosts are now tagged with 'ping', so that no agent will be contacted on those hosts
Checks & Agents:
Added 4 new checks dell_powerconnect_* by Chris Bowlby
ipmi_sensors: correctly handle further positive status texts (thanks to Sebastian Talmon)
FIX: nfsmounts handles zero-sized volumes correctly
AIX agent now outputs the user and performance data in
Multisite:
FIX: WATO filtered status GUIs did not update the title after changing the title of the file/folder in WATO
FIX: Removed new python syntax which is incompatible with old python versions
FIX: Made bulk inventory work in IE
FIX: Fixed js errors in IE when having not enough space on dashboard
FIX: fix error when using non-Ascii characters in view title
FIX: fix error on comment page caused by missing sorter
FIX: endless javascript when fetching pnp graphs on host/service detail pages
FIX: Not showing the action form in "try" mode of the view editor
FIX: Preventing up-then-over effect while loading the dashboard in firefox
Added missing i18n strings in command form and list of views
Views are not reloaded completely anymore. The data tables are reloaded on their own.
Open tabs in views do not prevent reloading the displayed data anymore
Added display_option "L" to enable/disable column title sortings
Sorting by joined columns is now possible
Added missing sorters for "service nth service perfdata" painters
Implemented row selection in views to select only a subset of shown data for actions
Sort titles in views can be enabled by clicking on the whole cells now
Submitting the view editor via ENTER key saves the view now instead of try mode
Host comments have red backgrounded rows when host is down
Implemented hook api to draw custom link buttons in views
WATO:
Changed row selection in WATO to new row selection mechanism
Bulk action buttons are shown at the top of hostlists too when the lists have more than 10 list items
New function for backup and restore of the configuration
Livestatus:
FIX: fix compile error in TableLog.cc by including stddef.h
FIX: tables comments and downtimes now honor AuthUser
Table log honors AuthUser for entries that belong to hosts (not for external commands, though. Sorry...)
FIX: fix Stats: sum/min/max/avg for columns of type time

New in Check_MK 1.1.11i3 (Aug 25, 2011)

Core, Setup, etc.:
FIX: allow host names to have spaces
--snmpwalk: fix missing space in case of HEX strings
cmk --restore: be aware of counters and cache being symbolic links
do_rrd_update: direct RRD updates have completely been removed. Please use rrdcached in case of performance problems.
install_nagios.sh has finally been removed (was not maintained anyway). Please use OMD instead.
Inventory functions now only take the single argument 'info'. The old style FUNC(checkname, info) is still supported but deprecated.
Show datasource program on cmk -D
Remove .f12 compile helper files from agents directory
Output missing sections in case of "WARNING - Only __ output of __..."
Remove obsolete code of snmp_info_single
Remove 'Agent version (unknown)' for SNMP-only hosts
Options --version, --help, --man, --list-checks and --packager now work even with errors in the configuration files
Minor layout fix in check man-pages
Checks & Agents:
FIX: hr_mem: take into account cache and buffers
FIX: printer_pages: workaround for trailing-zero bug in HP Jetdirect
mk_logwatch: allow to set limits in processing time and number of new log messages per log file
Windows Agent: Now supports direct execution of powershell scripts
local: PNP template now supports multiple performance values
lnx_if: make lnx_if the default interface check for Linux
printer_supply: support non-Ascii characters in items like "Resttonerbehälter". You need to define snmp_character_encodings in main.mk
mem.win: new dedicated memory check for Windows (see Migration notes)
hr_mem: added Perf-O-Meter
Renamed all temperature checks to "Temperature %s". Please read the migration notes!
df and friends: enabled trend performance data per default. Please carefully read the migration notes!
diskstat: make summary mode the default behavious (one check per host)
MK Livestatus:
WaitObject: allow to separate host name and service with a semicolon. That makes host names containing spaces possible.
Better error messages in case of unimplemented operators
Multisite:
FIX: reschedule now works for host names containing spaces
FIX: correctly sort log views in case of multi site setups
FIX: avoid seven broken images in case of missing PNP graphs
FIX: Fixed javascript errors when opening dashboard in IE below 9
FIX: Views: Handling deprecated value "perpage" for option column_headers correctly
FIX: Fixed javascript error when saving edited views without sidebar
FIX: Showing up PNP hover menus above perfometers
Host/Service Icon column is now modularized and can be extended using the multisite_icons list.
New sorters for time and line number of logfile entries
Bookmarks snapin: save relative URLs whenever possible
Man-Pages of Check_MK checks shown in Multisite honor OMD's local hierarchy
nicer output of substates, translate (!) and (!!) into HTML code
new command for clearing modified attributes (red cross, green checkmark)
Perf-O-Meters: strip away arguments from check_command (e.g. "check-foo!17!31" -> "check-foo").
Added several missing i18n strings in view editor
Views can now be sorted by the users by clicking on the table headers. The user sort options are not persisted.
Perf-O-Meters are now aware if there really is a PNP graph
WATO:
Show error message in case of empty inventory due to agent error
Commited audit log entries are now pages based on days
Added download link to download the WATO audit log in CSV format

New in Check_MK 1.1.11i2 (Aug 18, 2011)

Core, Setup, etc.:
FIX: sort output of cmk --list-hosts alphabetically
FIX: automatically remove leading and trailing space from service names (this fixes a problem with printer_pages and an empty item)
Great speed up of cmk -N/-C/-U/-R, especially when number of hosts is large.
new main.mk option delay_precompile: if True, check_mk will skip Python precompilation during cmk -C or cmk -R, but will do this the first time the host is checked. This speeds up restarts. Default is False. Nagios user needs write access in precompiled directory!
new config variable agent_ports, allowing to specify the agent's TCP port (default is 6556) on a per-host basis.
new config variable snmp_ports, allowing to specify the UDP port to used with SNMP, on a per-host basis.
new config variable dyndns_hosts. Hosts listed in this configuration list (compatible to bulkwalk_hosts) use their hostname as IP address.
Checks & Agents:
FIX: AIX agent: output name of template in case of MRPE
FIX: cisco_temp: skip non-present sensors at inventory
FIX: apc_symmetra: fix remaining runtime calculation (by factor 100)
FIX: Added PNP-template for winperf_phydisk
FIX: if64: fix UNKNOWN in case of non-unique ifAlias
FIX: lnx_if/if/if64: ignore percentual traffic levels on NICs without speed information.
FIX: cisco_temp_perf: add critical level to performance data
FIX: windows agent: hopefully fix case with quotes in directory name
FIX: printer_supply: fixed logic of Perf-O-Meter (mixed up crit with ok)
FIX: Solaris agent: reset localization to C, fixes problems with statgrab
FIX: blade_*: fix SNMP scan function for newer firmwares (thanks to Carlos Peón)
snmp_uptime, snmp_info: added scan functions. These checks will now always be added. Please use ingored_checktypes to disable, if non needed.
brocade_port: check for Brocade FC ports has been rewritten with lots of new features.
AIX agent now simulates output (by Jörg Linge)
mbg_lantime_state: Handling refclock offsets correctly now; Changed default thresholds to 5/10 refclock offset
brocade_port: parameter for phystate, opstate and admstate can now also be lists of allowed states.
lnx_if: treat interfaces without information from ethtool as softwareLoopback interface. The will not be found by inventory now.
vbox_guest: new check for checking guest additions of Linux virtual box hosts
if/if64: Fixed bug in operstate detection when using old tuple based params
if/if64: Fixed bug in operstate detection when using tuple of valid operstates
mk_oracle: Added caching of results to prevent problems with long running SQL queries. Cache is controlled by CACHE_MAXAGE var which is preset to 120 seconds
mk_oracle: EXCLUDE_=ALL or EXCLUDE_=oracle_sessions can be used to exclude specific checks now
mk_oracle: Added optional configuration file to configure the new options
j4p_performance agent plugin: Supports basic/digest auth now
New checks j4p_performance.threads and j4p_performance.uptime which track the number of threads and the uptime of a JMX process
j4p_performance can fetch app and servlet specific status data. Fetching the running state, number of sessions and number of requests now. Can be extended via agent configuration (j4p.cfg).
Added some preflight checks to --scan-parents code
New checks netapp_cluster, netapp_vfiler for checking NetAPP filer running as cluster or running vfilers.
megaraid_pdisks: Better handling of MegaCli output (Thanks to Bastian Kuhn)
Windows: agent now also sends start type (auto/demand/disabled/boot/system)
Windows: inventory_services now allowes regexes, depends and state/start type and also allows host tags.
Multisite:
FIX: make non-Ascii characters in services names work again
FIX: Avoid exceptions in sidebar on Nagios restart
FIX: printer_supply perfometer: Using white font for black toners
FIX: ipmi: Skipping items with invalid data (0.000 val, "unspecified" unit) in summary mode
FIX: ipmi: Improved output formating in summary mode
FIX: BI - fixed wrong variable in running_on aggregation function
FIX: "view_name" variable missing error message when opening view.py while using the "BI Aggregation Groups" and "Hosts" snapins in sidebar
FIX: Fixed styling of form input elements in IE + styling improvements
FIX: Fixed initial folding state on page loading on pages with multiple foldings opened
Introduced basic infrastructure for multilanguage support in Multisite
Make 'Views' snapin foldable
Replace old main view by dashboard
Sidebar: Snapins can register for a triggered reload after a nagios restart has been detected. Check interval is 30 seconds for now.
Quicksearch snapin: Reloads host lists after a detected nagios restart.
New config directory multisite.d/ - similar to conf.d/
great speed up of HTML rendering
support for Python profiling (set profile = True in multisite.mk, profile will be in var/check_mk/web)
WATO: Added new hook "active-changes" which calls the registered hosts with a dict of "dirty" hosts
Added column painter for host contacts
Added column painters for contact groups, added those to detail views
Added filters for host and service contact groups
Detail views of host/service now show contacts
Fix playing of sounds: All problem views now have play_sounds activated, all other deactivated.
Rescheduling of Check_MK: introduce a short sleep of 0.7 sec. This increases the chance of the passive services being updated before the repaint.
Added missing i18n strings in filter section of view editor
Added filter and painter for the contact_name in log table
Added several views to display the notification logs of Nagios
WATO:
Configration files can now be administered via the WEB UI (config_files in multisite.mk is obsolete)
Snapin is tree-based and foldable
Bulk operation on host lists (inventory, tags changed, etc)
Easy search operation in host lists
Dialog for global host search
Services dialog now tries to use cached data. On SNMP hosts no scan will be done until new button "Full Scan" is pressed.
BI:
FIX: Fixed displaying of host states (after i18n introduction)h
FiX: Fixed filter for aggregation group
FIX: Fixed assumption button for services with non-Ascii-characters
MK Livestatus:
FIX: fix compile problem on Debian unstable (Thanks to Sven Velt)
Column aggregation (Stats) now also works for perf_data
New configuration variable data_encoding and full UTF-8 support.
New column contact_groups in table hosts and services (thanks to Matthew Kent)
New headers Negate:, StatsNegate: and WaitConditionNegate:

New in Check_MK 1.1.10p3 (May 19, 2011)

New in Check_MK 1.1.11i1 (May 12, 2011)

Core, Setup, etc.:
FIX: Avoid duplicate SNMP scan of checktypes containing a period
FIX: honor ignored_checktypes also on SNMP scan
FIX: cmk -II also refreshes cluster checks, if all nodes are specified
FIX: avoid floating points with 'e' in performance data
FIX: cmk -D: drop obsolete (and always empty) Notification:
FIX: better handling of broken checks returning empty services
FIX: fix computation of weight when averaging
FIX: fix detection of missing OIDs (led to empty lines)
SNMP scan functions can now call oid(".1.3.6.1.4.1.9.9.13.1.3.1.3.*") That will return the *first* OID beginning with .1.3.6.1.4.1.9.9.13.1.3.1.3
New config option: Set check_submission = "file" in order to write check result files instead of using Nagios command pipe (safes CPU ressources)
Agent simulation mode (for internal use and check development)
Call snmpgetnext with the option -Cf (fixes some client errors)
Call snmp(bulk)walk always with the option -Cc (fixes problems in some cases where OIDs are missing)
Allow merging of dictionary based check parameters
--debug now implies -v
new option --debug: creates execution profile of check_mk itself
sped up use of stored snmp walks
find configuration file in subdirectories of conf.d also
check_mk_templates.cfg: make check-mk-ping take arguments
Multisite:
FIX: Display limit-exceeded message also in multi site setups
FIX: Tactical Overview: fix unhandled host problems view
FIX: customlinks snapin: Suppressing exception when no links configured
FIX: webservice: suppress livestatus errors in multi-site setups
FIX: install missing example icons in web/htdocs/images/icons
FIX: Nagios-Snapin: avoid duplicate slash in URL
FIX: custom_style_sheet now also honored by sidebar
FIX: ignore case when sorting groups in ...groups snapin
IX: Fixed handling of embedded graphs to support the changes made to
FIX: avoid duplicate import of plugins in OMD local installation the PNP webservice
FIX: Added host_is_active and host_flapping columns for NagStaMon views
Added snmp_uptime, uptime and printer_supply perfometers
Allow for displaying service data in host tables
View editor foldable states are now permament per user
New config variable filter_columns (default is 2)
BI:
Added new component BI to Multisite.
WATO:
FIX: fix crash when saving services after migration from old version
Allow moving hosts from one to another config file
Checks & Agents:
IX: hr_mem: ignore devices that report zero memory
FIX: cisco_power: fix syntax error in man page (broke also Multisite)
FIX: local: fixed search for custom templates PNP template
FIX: if/if64: always generate unique items (in case ifAlias is used)
FIX: ipmi: fix ugly ouput in case of warning and error
FIX: vms_df: fix, was completely broken due to conversion to df.include
FIX: blade_bays: add missing SNMP OIDs (check was always UNKNOWN)
FIX: df: fix layout problems in PNP template
FIX: df: fix trend computation (thanks to Sebastian Talmon)
FIX: df: fix status in case of critical trend and warning used
FIX: df: fix display of trend warn/crit in PNP-graph
FIX: cmctc: fix inventory in case of incomplete entries
FIX: cmctc: add scan function
FIX: ucd_cpu_load and ucd_cpu_util: make scan function find Rittal
FIX: ucd_cpu_util: fix check in case of missing hi, si and st
FIX: mk_logwatch: improve implementation in order to save RAM
FIX: mk_oracle: Updated tablespace query to use 'used blocks' instead of 'user blocks'
FIX: mk_oracle: Fixed computation for TEMP table spaces
FIX: bluecoat_sensors: Using scale parameter provided by the host for reported values
FIX: fjdarye60_devencs, fjdarye60_disks.summary: added snmp scan functions
FIX: decru_*: added snmp scan functions
FIX: heartbeat_rscstatus handles empty agent output correctly
FIX: hp_procurve_cpu: fix synatx error in man page
FIX: hp_procurve_memory: fix syntax error in man page
FIX: fc_brocade_port_detailed: fix PNP template in MULTIPLE mode
FIX: ad_replication.bat only generates output on domain controllers now. This is useful to prevent checks on non DC hosts (Thanks to Alex Greenwood)
FIX: cisco_temp_perf: handle sensors without names correctly printer_supply: Changed order of tests. When a printer reports -3 this is used before the check if maxlevel is -2.
printer_supply: Skipping inventory of supplies which have current value and maxlevel both set to -2.
cisco_locif: The check has been removed. Please switch to if/if64 has not the index 1
cisco_temp/cisco_temp_perf: scan function handles sensors not beginning with index 1
df: split PNP graphs for growth/trend into two graphs
omd_status: new check for checking status of OMD sites
printer_alerts: Added new check for monitoring alert states reported by printers using the PRINTER-MIB
diskstat: rewritten check: now show different devices, r+w in one check
canon_pages: Added new check for monitoring processed pages on canon printer/multi-function devices
strem1_sensors: added check to monitor sensors attached to Sensatorinc EM1 devices windows_update: Added check to monitor windows update states on windows clients. The check monitors the number of pending updates and checks if a reboot is needed after updates have been installed.
lnx_if: new check for Linux NICs compatible with if/if64 replacing netif.* and netctr.
if/if64: also output performance data if operstate not as expected
if/if64: scan function now also detects devices where the first port
if/if64: also show perf-o-meter if speed is unknown
f5_bigip_pool: status of F5 BIP/ip load balancing pools
f5_bigip_vserver: status of F5 BIP/ip virtual servers
ipmi: new configuration variable ipmi_ignored_sensors (see man page)
hp_procurve_cpu: rename services description to CPU utilization
ipmi: Linux agent now (asynchronously) caches output of ipmitool for 20 minutes
windows: agent has new output format for performance counters
winperf_process.util: new version of winperf.cpuusage supporting new agent
winperf_system.diskio: new version of winperf.diskstat supporting new agent
winperf_msx_queues: new check for MS Exchange message queues
winperf_phydisk: new check compatible with Linux diskstat (Disk IO per device!)
smart.temp/smart.stats: added new check for monitoring health of HDDs using S.M.A.R.T
mcdata_fcport: new check for ports of MCData FC Switches
hp_procurve_cpu: add PNP template
hp_procurve_cpu: rename load to utilization, rename service to CPU utilizition
df,df_netapp,df_netapp32,hr_fs,vms_df: convert to mergeable dictionaries
mbg_lantime_state,mbg_lantime_refclock: added new checks to monitor Meinberg LANTIME GPS clocks
Livestatus:
Updated Perl API to version 0.74 (thanks to Sven Nierlein)

New in Check_MK 1.1.10p2 (May 9, 2011)

New in Check_MK 1.1.10 (Mar 10, 2011)

New in Check_MK 1.1.9i9 (Feb 25, 2011)

New in Check_MK 1.1.9i8 (Feb 7, 2011)

New in Check_MK 1.1.9i2 (Dec 15, 2010)

New in Check_MK 1.1.8 (Nov 3, 2010)

Core, Setup, etc:
setup.sh: turn off Python debugging
Cleaned up documentation directory
cluster host: use real IP address for host check if cluster has one (e.g. service IP address)
Checks & Agents:
Added missing PNP template for check_mk-hr_cpu
hr_fs: inventory now ignores filesystem with size 0, check does not longer crash on filesystems with size 0
logwatch: Fixed typo in 'too many unacknowledged logs' error message
ps: fix bug: inventory with fixed user name now correctly puts that user name into the resulting check - not None.
ps: inventory with GRAB_USER: service description may contain %u. That will be replaced with the user name and thus makes the service description unique.
win_dhcp_pools: better handle invalid agent output
hp_proliant_psu: Fixed multiple PSU detection on one system (Thanks to Andreas Döhler)
megaraid_pdisks: Fixed coding error
cisco_fan: fixed check bug in case of critical state
nfsmounts: fix output (free and used was swapped), make output identical to df
Livestatus:
Prohibit { and } in regular expressions. This avoids a segmentation fault caused by regcomp in glibc for certain (very unusual) regular expressions.
Table status: new columns external_command_buffer_slots, external_command_buffer_usage and external_command_buffer_max (this was implemented according to an idea and special request of Heinz Fiebig. Please sue him if this breaks anything for you. I was against it, but he thinks that it is absolutely neccessary to have this in version 1.1.8...)
Table status: new columns external_commands and external_commands_rate (also due to Mr. Fiebig - he would have quit our workshop otherwise...)
Table downtimes/comments: new column is_service
Multisite:
Snapin Performance: show external command per second and usage and size of external command buffer
Downtimes view: Group by hosts and services - just like comments
Fix links for items containing + (e.g. service descriptionen including spaces)
Allow non-ASCII character in downtimes and comments
Added nagvis_base_url to multisite.mk example configuration
Filter for host/service groups: use name instead of alias if user has no permissions for groups

New in Check_MK 1.1.8 Beta 1 (Sep 27, 2010)

Core, Setup, etc.:
SNMPv3: allow privProtocol and privPassword to be specified (thanks to Josef Hack)
install_nagios.sh: fix problem with broken filenames produced by wget
install_nagios.sh: updated software to newest versions
install_nagios.sh: fix Apache configuration problem
install_nagios.sh: fix configuration vor PNP4Nagios 0.6.6
config generation: fix host check of cluster hosts
config generation: add missing contact groups for summary hosts
RPM package of agent: do not overwrite xinetd.d/check_mk, but install new version with .rpmnew, if admin has changed his one
legacy_checks: fix missing perfdata, template references where in wrong direction (thanks Daniel Nauck for his precise investigation)
Checks & Agents:
New check imm_health by Michael Nieporte
rsa_health: fix bug: detection of WARNING state didn't work (was UNKNOWN instead)
check_mk_agent.solaris: statgrab now excludes filesystems. This avoids hanging in case of an NFS problem. Thanks to Divan Santana.
multipath: Handle new output of multipath -l (found on SLES11 SP1)
ntp: fix typo in variable ntp_inventory_mode (fixes inventory problem)
if64: improve output formatting of link speed
cisco_power: inventory function now ignores non-redundant power supplies
zpool_status: new check from Darin Perusich for Solaris zpools
Multisite:
fix several UTF-8 problems: allow non-ascii characters in host names (must be UTF 8 encoded!)
improve compatibility with Python 2.3
Allow loading custom style sheet overriding Check_MK styles by setting custom_style_sheet in multisite.mk
Host icons show link to detail host, on summary hosts.
Fix sidebar problem: Master Control did not display data correctly
status_host: honor states even if sites hosting status hosts is disabled (so dead-detection works even if local site is disabled)
new config variable start_url: set url for welcome page
Snapin Quicksearch: if no host is matching, automatically search for services
Remove links to legacy Nagios GUI (can be added by user if needed)
Sidebar Quicksearch: fix several annoyances
Views with services of one host: add title with host name and status
Livestatus:
fix memory leak: lost ~4K on memory on each StatsAnd: or StatsOr: header (found by Sven Nierlein)
fix invalid json output for empty responses (found by Sven Nierlein)
fix Stats: avg ___ for 0 matching elements. Output was '-nan' and is now '0.0'
fix output of floating point numbers: always use exponent and make sure a decimal point is contained (this makes JSON/Python detect the correct type)

New in Check_MK 1.1.7i5 (Sep 20, 2010)

Core, Setup, etc.:
SNMP: do not load any MIB files (speeds up snmpwalk a lot!)
legacy_checks: new config variable allowing creating classical non-Check_MK checks while using host tags and config options
check_mk_objects.cfg: beautify output, use tabs instead of spaces
check_mk -II: delete only specified checktypes, allow to reinventorize all hosts
New option -O, --reload: Does the same as -R, but reloads Nagios instead of restarting it.
SNMP: Fixed string detection in --snmpwalk calls
SNMP: --snmpwalk does walk the enterprises tree correctly now
SNMP: Fixed missing OID detection in SNMP check processing. There was a problem when the first column had OID gaps in the middle. This affected e.g. the cisco_locif check.
install_nagios.sh: correctly detect Ubuntu 10.04.1
Config output: make order of service deterministic
fix problem with missing default hostgroup
Multisite:
Sidebar: Improved the quicksearch snapin. It can search for services, servicegroups and hostgroups now. Simply add a prefix "s:", "sg:" or "hg:" to search for other objects than hosts.
View editor: fix bug which made it impossible to add more than 10 columns
Service details: for Check_MK checks show description from check manual in service details
Notes: new column 'Custom notes' which allows customizable notes on a per host / per service base (see online docu for details)
Configuration: new variable show_livestatus_errors which can be set to False in order to hide error about unreachable sites
hiding views: new configuration variables hidden_views and visible_views
View "Service problems": hide problems of down or unreachable hosts. This makes the view consistant with "Tactical Overview"
Checks & Agents:
Two new checks: akcp_sensor_humidity and akcp_sensor_temp (Thanks to Michael Nieporte)
PNP-template for kernel: show average of displayed range
ntp and ntp.time: Inventory now per default just creates checks for ntp.time (summary check). This is controlled by the new variable ntp_inventory_mode (see check manuals).
3ware: Three new checks by Radoslav Bak: 3ware_disks, 3ware_units, 3ware_info
nvidia: agent now only queries GPUCoreTemp and GPUErrors. This avoids a vmalloc leakage of 32kB per call (bug in NVIDIA driver)
Make all SNMP based checks independent of standard MIB files
ad_replication: Fixed syntax errors and unhandled date output when not replicated yet
ifoperstatus: Allowing multiple target states as a list now
cisco_qos: Added new check to monitor traffic in QoS classes on Cisco routers
cisco_power: Added scan function
if64/if/cisco_qos: Traffic is displayed in variable byte scales B/s,KB/s,MB/s,GB/s depending on traffic amount.
if64: really using ifDescr with option if_inventory_uses_description = True
if64: Added option if_inventory_uses_alias to using ifAlias for the item names
if64/if: Fixed bug displaying the out traffic (Perfdata was ok)
if64/if: Added WARN/CRIT thresholds for the bandwidth usage to be given as rates
if64/if: Improved PNP-Templates
if64/if: The ifoperstatus check in if64/if can now check for multiple target states
if64/if: Removing all null bytes during hex string parsing (These signs Confuse nagios pipe)
Fixed hr_mem and hr_fs checks to work with new SNMP format
ups_*: Inventory works now on Riello UPS systems
ups_power: Working arround wrong implemented RFC in some Riello UPS systems (Fixing negative power consumption values)
FreeBSD Agent: Added sections: df mount mem netctr ipmitool (Thanks to Florian Heigl)
AIX: exclude NFS and CIFS from df (thanks to Jörg Linge)
cisco_locif: Using the interface index as item when no interface name or description are set
Livestatus:
table columns: fix type of num_service_* etc.: was list, is now int (thanks to Gerhard Laußer)
table hosts: repair semantics of hard_state (thanks to Michael Kraus). Transition was one cycle to late in certain situations.

New in Check_MK 1.1.7i4 (Aug 1, 2010)

New in Check_MK 1.1.7i3 (Jul 28, 2010)

New in Check_MK 1.1.7i2 (Jul 22, 2010)

New in Check_MK 1.1.7i1 (Jul 2, 2010)

New in Check_MK 1.1.6p1 (Jun 28, 2010)

New in Check_MK 1.1.6 (Jun 17, 2010)

New in Check_MK 1.0.38 (Oct 11, 2009)

New in Check_MK 1.0.37 (Sep 25, 2009)

New in Check_MK 1.0.36 (Sep 18, 2009)

New in Check_MK 1.0.35 (Aug 4, 2009)

New in Check_MK 1.0.34 (Jul 18, 2009)

New features:
Agents for AIX and SunOS/Solaris
Inventory checks
New SNMP based checks for FSC ServerView
Detailed list of changes:
Ship agents for AIX and SunOS/Solaris (beta versions).
setup script now autodetects paths and settings of your running Nagios
Debian package of check_mk itself is now natively build with paths matching the prepackaged Nagios on Debian 5.0
checks/df: Fix output of check: percentage shown in output did include reserved space for root where check logic did not. Also fix logic: account reserved space as used - not as avail.
checks/df: Exclude filesystems with size 0 from inventory.
Fix bug with host tags in clusters -> precompile did not work.
New feature "Inventory Check": Check for new services. Setting inventory_check_interval=120 in main.mk will check for new services every 2 hours on each host. Refer to online documentation for more details.
Fixed bug: When agent sends invalid information or check has bug, check_mk now handles this gracefully
Fixed bug in checks/diskstat and in Linux agent. Also IDE disks are found. The inventory does now work correctly if now disks are found.
Determine common group of Apache and Nagios at setup. Auto set new variable www_group which replaces logwatch_groupid. Fix bug: logwatch directories are now created with correct ownership when check_mk is called manually as root.
Default templates: notifications options for hosts and services now include also recovery, flapping and warning events.
Windows agent: changed computation of RAM and SWAP usage (now we assume that "totalPageFile" includes RAM and SWAP).
Fix problem with Nagios configuration files: remove characters Nagios considers as illegal from service descriptions.
Processing of performance data (check_icmp) for host checks and PING-only-services now set to 1 in default templates check_mk_templates.cfg.
New SNMP checks for querying FSC ServerView Agent: fsc_fans, fsc_temp and fsc_subsystems. Successfully tested with agents running on Windows and Linux.
RPM packaged agent tested to be working on VMWare ESX 4.0 (simply install RPM package with rpm -i ... and open port in firewall with "esxcfg-firewall -o 6556,tcp,in,check_mk")
Improve handling of cache files: inventory noew uses cache files only if they are current and if the hosts are not explicitely specified.

Check_MK Changelog

What's new in Check_MK 1.2.4p5

New in Check_MK 1.2.4 (Feb 13, 2014)

New in Check_MK 1.2.2p3 (Nov 6, 2013)

New in Check_MK 1.2.3i2 (Sep 28, 2013)

New in Check_MK 1.2.2p2 (Jun 11, 2013)

New in Check_MK 1.2.3i1 (May 28, 2013)

New in Check_MK 1.2.2 (Apr 9, 2013)

New in Check_MK 1.2.2 Beta 6 (Apr 4, 2013)

New in Check_MK 1.2.2 Beta 3 (Feb 18, 2013)

New in Check_MK 1.2.2 Beta 1 (Feb 12, 2013)

New in Check_MK 1.1.12p7 / 1.2.1i5 (Jan 19, 2013)

New in Check_MK 1.2.1i4 (Jan 10, 2013)

New in Check_MK 1.2.1i3 (Nov 23, 2012)

New in Check_MK 1.1.12 (Oct 26, 2011)

New in Check_MK 1.1.12b2 (Oct 24, 2011)

New in Check_MK 1.1.11i4 (Sep 9, 2011)

New in Check_MK 1.1.11i3 (Aug 25, 2011)

New in Check_MK 1.1.11i2 (Aug 18, 2011)

New in Check_MK 1.1.10p3 (May 19, 2011)

New in Check_MK 1.1.11i1 (May 12, 2011)

New in Check_MK 1.1.10p2 (May 9, 2011)

New in Check_MK 1.1.10 (Mar 10, 2011)

New in Check_MK 1.1.9i9 (Feb 25, 2011)

New in Check_MK 1.1.9i8 (Feb 7, 2011)

New in Check_MK 1.1.9i2 (Dec 15, 2010)

New in Check_MK 1.1.8 (Nov 3, 2010)

New in Check_MK 1.1.8 Beta 1 (Sep 27, 2010)

New in Check_MK 1.1.7i5 (Sep 20, 2010)

New in Check_MK 1.1.7i4 (Aug 1, 2010)

New in Check_MK 1.1.7i3 (Jul 28, 2010)

New in Check_MK 1.1.7i2 (Jul 22, 2010)

New in Check_MK 1.1.7i1 (Jul 2, 2010)

New in Check_MK 1.1.6p1 (Jun 28, 2010)

New in Check_MK 1.1.6 (Jun 17, 2010)

New in Check_MK 1.0.38 (Oct 11, 2009)

New in Check_MK 1.0.37 (Sep 25, 2009)

New in Check_MK 1.0.36 (Sep 18, 2009)

New in Check_MK 1.0.35 (Aug 4, 2009)

New in Check_MK 1.0.34 (Jul 18, 2009)

New in Check_MK 1.0.33 (Jun 28, 2009)

New in Check_MK 1.0.32 (Jun 19, 2009)

New in Check_MK 1.0.31 (Jun 13, 2009)

New in Check_MK 1.0.30 (May 30, 2009)

New in Check_MK 1.0.29 (May 26, 2009)

New in Check_MK 1.0.28 (May 18, 2009)

New in Check_MK 1.0.27 (May 4, 2009)