New in version 1.1.7i3

Core, Setup, etc.

• Fix extra_nagios_conf: did not work in 1.1.7i2
• Service Check_MK now displays overall processing time including agent communication and adds this as performance data
• Fix bug: define_contactgroups was always assumed True. That led to duplicate definitions in case of manual definitions in Nagios

Checks & Agents

• New Check: hp_proliant_da_phydrv for monitoring the state of physical disks in HP Proliant Servers
• New Check: hp_proliant_mem for monitoring the state of memory modules in HP Proliant Servers
• New Check: hp_proliant_psu for monitoring the state of power supplies in HP Proliant Servers
• PNP-templates: fix several templates not working with MULTIPLE rrds
• new check mem.vmalloc for monitoring vmalloc address space in Linux kernel.
• Linux agent: add timeout of 2 secs to ntpq
• wmic_process: make check OK if no matching process is found

Livestatus

• Remove obsolete parameter 'accept_timeout'
• Allow disabling idle_timeout and query_timeout by setting them to 0.

Multisite

• logwatch page: wrap long log lines

New in version 1.1.7i2

Incompatible Changes

• Remove config option define_timeperiods and option --timeperiods. Check_MK does not longer define timeperiod definitions. Please define them manually in Nagios.
• host_notification_period has been removed. Use host_extra_conf["notification_period"] instead. Same holds for service_notification_periods, summary_host_notification_periods and summary_service_notification_periods.
• Removed modes -H and -S for creating config data. This now does the new option -N. Please set generate_hostconf = False if you want only services to be defined.

Core, Setup, etc.

• New config option usewalk_hosts, triggers --usewalk during normal checking for selected hosts.
• new option --scan-parents for automatically finding and configuring parent hosts (see online docu for details)
• inventory check: put detailed list of unchecked items into long plugin output (to be seen in status details)
• New configuration variable check_parameters, that allows to override default parameters set by inventory, without defining manual checks!

Checks & Agents

• drbd: changed check parameters (please re-inventorize!)
• New check ad_replication: Checks active directory replications of domain controllers by using repadm
• New check postifx_mailq: Checks mailqueue lengths of postifx mailserves
• New check hp_procurve_cpu: Checks the CPU load on HP Procurve switches
• New check hp_procurve_mem: Checks the memory usage on HP Procurve switches
• New check hp_procurve_sensors: Checks the health of PSUs, FANs and Temperature on HP Procurve switches
• New check heartbeat_crm: Monitors the general state of heartbeat clusters using the CRM
• New check heartbeat_crm_resources: Monitors the state of resources and nodes in heartbeat clusters using the CRM
• *nix agents: output AgentOS: in header
• New agent for FreeBSD: It is based on the linux agent. Most of the sections could not be ported easily so the FreeBSD agent provides information for less checks than the linux agent.
• heartbeat_crm and heartbeat_crm.resources: Change handling of check parameters. Please reinvenurize and read the updated man page of those checks
• New check hp_proliant_cpu: Check the physical state of CPUs in HP Proliant servers
• New check hp_proliant_temp: Check the temperature sensors of HP Proliant servers
• New check hp_proliant_fans: Check the FAN sensors of HP Proliant servers

Multisite

• fix chown problem (when nagios user own files to be written by the web server)
• Sidebar: Fixed snapin movement problem using older firefox than 3.5.
• Sidebar: Fixed IE8 and Chrome snapin movement problems
• Sidebar: Fixed IE problem where sidebar is too small
• Multisite: improve performance in multi site environments by sending queries to sites in parallel
• Multisite: improve performance in high latency situations by allowing persistent Livestatus connections (set "persist" : True in sites, use current Livestatus version)

Livestatus

• Fix problems with in_*_period. Introduce global timeperiod cache. This also improves performance
• Table timeperiods: new column 'in' which is 0/1 if/not the timeperiod is currently active
• New module option idle_timeout. It sets the time in ms Livestatus waits for the next query. Default is 300000 ms (5 min).
• New module option query_timeout. It limits the time between two lines of a query (in ms). Default is 10000 ms (10 sec).

New in version 1.1.7i1: Core, Setup, etc.

Changes

• New option -u for reordering autochecks in per-host-files (please refer to updated documentation about inventory for details)
• Fix exception if check_mk is called without arguments. Show usage in that case.
• install_nagios.sh: Updated to NagVis 1.5 and fixed download URL
• New options --snmpwalk and --usewalk help implemeting checks for SNMP hardware which is not present
• SNMP: Automatically detect missing entries. That fixes if64 on some CISCO switches.
• SNMP: Fix hex string detection (hopefully)
• Do chown only if running as root (avoid error messages)
• SNMP: SNMPv3 support: use 4-tuple of security level, auth protocol, security name and password instead of a string in snmp_communities for V3 hosts.
• SNMP: Fixed hexstring detection on empty strings
• New option -II: Is like -I, but removes all previous autochecks from inventorized hosts
• install_nagios.sh: Fix detection of PNP4Nagios URL and URL of NagVis
• Packager: make sanity check prohibiting creating of package files in Check MK's directories
• install_nagios.sh: Support Ubuntu 10.04 (Thanks to Ben)

Checks & Agents

• New check ntp.time: Similar to 'ntp' but only honors the system peer (that NTP peer where ntpq -p prints a *).
• wmic_process: new check for ressource consumption of windows processes
• Windows agent supports now plugins/ and local/ checks
• [FIX] ps.perf now correctly detects extended performance data output even if number of matching processes is 0
• renamed check cisco_3640_temp to cisco_temp, renamed cisco_temp to cisco_temp_perf, fixed snmp detection of those checks
• New check hr_cpu - checking the CPU utilization via SNMP
• New check hr_fs - checking filesystem usage via SNMP
• New check hr_mem - checking memory usage via SNMP
• ps: inventory now can configured on a per host / tag base
• Linux: new check nvidia.temp for monitoring temperature of NVIDIA graphics card
• Linux: avoid free-ipmi hanging forever on hardware that does not support IPMI
• SNMP: Instead of an artificial index column, which some checks use, now the last component of the OID is used as index. That means that inventory will find new services and old services will become UNKNOWN. Please remove the outdated checks.
• if: handle exception on missing OIDs
• New checks hp_blade* - Checking health of HP BladeSystem Enclosures via SNMP
• New check drbd - Checking health of drbd nodes
• New SNMP based checks for printers (page counter, supply), contributed by Peter Lauk (many thanks!)
• New check cups_queues: Checking the state of cups printer queues
• New check heartbeat_nodes: Checking the node state and state of the links of heartbeat nodes
• New check heartbeat_rscstatus: Checks the local resource status of a heartbeat node
• New check win_dhcp_pools: Checks the usage of Windows DHCP Server lease pools

Multisite

• New view showing all PNP graphs of services with the same description
• Two new filters for host: notifications_enabled and acknowledged
• Files created by the webserver (*.mk) are now created with the group configured as common group of Nagios and webserver. Group gets write permissions on files and directories.
• New context view: all services of a host group
• Fix problems with Umlauts (non-Ascii-characters) in performance data
• New context view: all services of a host group
• Sidebar snapins can now fetch URLs for the snapin content instead of building the snapin contents on their own.
• Added new nagvis_maps snapin which displays all NagVis maps available to the user. Works with NagVis 1.5 and newer.

New in version 1.1.6

Core, Setup, etc.

• Service aggregation: new config option aggregation_output_format. Settings this to "multiline" will produce Nagios multiline output with one line for each individual check.

Multisite

• New painter for long service plugin output (Currently not used by any builtin view)

Checks & Agents

• Linux agent: remove broken check for /dev/ipmi0

New in version 1.1.6rc3

Core, Setup, etc.

• New option --donate for donating live host data to the community. Please refer to the online documentation for details.
• Tactical Overview: Fixed refresh timeout typo (Was 16 mins instead of 10 secs)

Livestatus

• Assume strings are UTF-8 encoded in Nagios. Convert from latin-1 only on invalid UTF-8 sequences (thanks to Alexander Yegorov)

Multisite

• Correctly display non-ascii characters (fixes exception with 'ascii codec') (Please also update Livestatus to 1.1.6rc3)

New in version 1.1.6rc2

Multisite

• Fix bug in Master control: other sites vanished after klicking buttons. This was due to connection error detection in livestatus.py (Bug found by Benjamin Odenthal)
• Add theme and baseurl to links to PNP (using features of new PNP4Nagios 0.6.4)

Core, Setup, etc.

• snmp: hopefully fix HEX/string detection now

Checks & Agents

• md: fix inventory bug on resync=PENDING (Thanks to Darin Perusich)

New in version 1.1.6rc1

Multisite

• Repair Perf-O-Meters on webkit based browsers (e.g. Chrome, Safari)
• Repair layout on IE7/IE8. Even on IE6 something is working (definitely not transparent PNGs though). Thanks to Lars.
• Display host state correct if host is pending (painter "host with state")
• Logfile: new filter for plugin output
• Improve dialog flow when cloning views (button [EDIT] in views snapin)
• Quicksearch: do not open search list if text did not change (e.g. Shift up), close at click into field or snapin.

Core, Setup, etc.

• Included three patched from Jeff Dairiki dealing with compile flags and .gitignore removed from tarballs
• Fix problem with clustered_services_of[]: services of one cluster appeared also on others
• Packager: handle broken files in package dir
• snmp handling: better error handling in cases where multiple tables are merged (e.g. fc_brocade_port_detailed)
• snmp: new handling of unprintable strings: hex dumps are converted into binary strings now. That way all strings can be displayed and no information is lost - nevertheless.

Checks & Agents

• Solaris agent: fixed rare df problems on Solaris 10, fix problem with test -f (thanks to Ulf Hoffmann)
• Converted all PNP templates to format of 0.6.X. Dropped compatibility with 0.4.X.
• Do not use ipmi-sensors if /dev/ipmi0 is missing. ipmi-sensors tries to fiddle around with /dev/mem in that case and miserably fails in some cases (infinite loop)
• fjdary60_run: use new binary encoding of hex strings
• if64: better error handling for cases where clients do not send all information
• apc_symmetra: handle status 'smart boost' as OK, not CRITICAL

Livestatus

• Delay starting of threads (and handling of socket) until Nagios has started its event loop. This prevents showing services as PENDING a short time during program start.

New in version 1.1.6b3

Multisite

• Quicksearch: hide complete host list if field is emptied via Backspace or Del. Also allow handle case where substring match is unique.

New in version 1.1.6b2

Core, Setup, etc.

• Packager: fix unpackaged files (sounds, etc)

Multisite

• Complete new design (by Tobias Roeckl, Kopf & Herz)
• New filters for last service check and last service state change
• New views "Recently changed services" and "Unchecked services"
• New page for adding sidebar snapins
• Drag & Drop for sidebar snapins (thanks to Lars)
• Grab & Move for sidebar scrolling (thanks to Lars)
• Filter out summary hosts in most views.
• Set browser refresh to 30 secs for most views
• View host status: added a lot of missing information
• View service status: also added information here
• Make sure, enough columns can be selected in view editor
• Allow user to change num columns and refresh directly in view
• Get back to where you came after editing views
• New sidebar snapin "Host Matrix"
• New feature "status_host" for remote sites: Determine connection state to remote side by considering a certain host state. This avoids livestatus time outs to dead sites.
• Sidebar snapin site status: fix reload problem
• New Perf-O-Meters displaying service performance data
• New snapin "Custom Links" where you easily configure your own links via multisite.mk (see example in new default config file)
• Fixed problem when using only one site and that is not local

Livestatus

• new statistics columns: log_messages and log_messages_rate
• make statistics average algorithm more sluggish

New in version 1.1.5i3

Core, Setup, etc.

• New Check_MK packager (check_mk -P)

New in version 1.1.5i2

Core, Setup, etc.

• install_nagios.sh: add missing package php5-iconv for SLES11

Checks & Agents

• if64: new SNMP check for network interfaces. Like if, but uses 64 bit counters of modern switches. You might need to configure bulkwalk_hosts.
• Linux agent: option -d enabled debug output
• Linux agent: fix ipmi-sensors cache corruption detection
• New check for temperature on Cisco devices (cisco_3640_temp)
• recompiled waitmax with dietlibc (fixed incompatibility issues on older systems)

Multisite

• Filters for groups are negateable.

New in version 1.1.5i1

Checks & Agents

• uptime: new check for system uptime (Linux)
• if: new SNMP check for network interfaces with very detailed traffic, packet and error statistics - PNP graphs included

Multisite

• direct integration of PNP graphs into Multisite views
• Host state filter: renamed HTML variables (collision with service state). You might need to update custom views using a filter on host states.
• Tactical overview: exclude services of down hosts from problems, also exclude summary hosts
• View host problems/service problems: exclude summary hosts, exclude services of down hosts
• Simplified implementation of sidebar: sidebar is not any longer embeddeable.
• Sidebar search: Added host site to be able to see the context links on the result page
• Sidebar search: Hitting enter now closes the hint dropdown in all cases

New in version 1.1.5i0

Core, Setup, etc.

• Ship check-specific rra.cfg's for PNP4Nagios (save much IO and disk space)
• Allow sections in agent output to apear multiple times
• cleanup_autochecks.py: new option -f for directly activating new config
• setup.sh: better detection for PNP4Nagios 0.6
• snmpwalk: use option -Oa, inhibit strings to be output as hex if an umlaut is contained.

Checks & Agents

• local: allow more than once performance value, separated by pipe (|)
• ps.perf: also send memory and CPU usage (currently on Linux and Solaris)
• Linux: new check for filesystems mount options
• Linux: new very detailed check for NTP synchronization
• ifoperstatus: inventory honors device type, per default only Ethernet ports will be monitored now
• kernel: now inventory is supported and finds pgmajfault, processes (per/s) and context switches
• ipmi_sensors: Suppress performance data for fans (save much IO/space)
• dual_lan_check: fix problem which using MRPE
• apc_symmetra: PNP template now uses MIN for capacity (instead of AVERAGE)
• fc_brocade_port_detailed: PNP template now uses MAX instead of AVERAGE
• kernel: fix text in PNP template
• ipmi_sensors: fix timeout in agent (lead to missing items)
• multipath: allow alias as item instead of uuid
• caching agent: use /var/cache/check_mk as cache directory (instead of /etc/check_mk)
• ifoperstatus: is now independent of MIB

Multisite

• New column host painter with link to old Nagios services
• Multisite: new configuration parameter default_user_role

Livestatus

• Add missing LDFLAGS for compiling (useful for -g)

New in version 1.1.4

Summary

• A plentitude of problem fixes (including MRPE exit code bug)
• Many improvements in new Multisite GUI
• Stability and performance improvements in Livestatus

Core, Setup, etc.

• Check_MK is looking for main.mk not longer in the current and home directory
• install_nagios.sh: fix link to Check_MK in sidebar
• install_nagios.sh: switch PNP to version 0.6.3
• install_nagios.sh: better Apache-Config for Multisite setup
• do not search main.mk in ~ and . anymore (brought only trouble)
• clusters: new variable 'clustered_services_of', allowing for overlapping clusters (as proposed by Jörg Linge)
• install_nagios.sh: install snmp package (needed for snmp based checks)
• Fix ower/group of tarballs: set them to root/root
• Remove dependency from debian agent package
• Fixed problem with inventory when using clustered_services
• tcp_connect_timeout: Applies now only for connect(), not for time of data transmission once a connection is established
• setup.sh now also works for Icinga
• New config parameter debug_log: set this to a filename in main.mk and you will get a debug log in case if 'invalid output from plugin...'
• ping-only-hosts: When ping only hosts are summarized, remove Check_MK and add single PING to summary host.
• Service aggregation: fix state relationship: CRIT now worse than UNKNOWN
• Make extra_service_conf work also for autogenerated PING on ping-only-hosts (groups, contactgroups still missing)

Checks & Agents

• mrpe in Linux agent: Fix bug introduced in 1.1.3: Exit status of plugins was not honored anymore (due to newline handling)
• mrpe: allow for sending check_command to PNP4Nagios (see MRPE docu)
• Logwatch GUI: fix problem on Python 2.4 (thanks to Lars)
• multipath: Check is now less restrictive when parsing header lines with the following format: "<alias> (<id>)"
• fsc_ipmi_mem_status: New check for monitoring memory status (e.g. ECC) on FSC TX-120 (and maybe other) systems.
• ipmi_sensors in Linux agent: Fixed compatibility problem with new ipmi output. Using "--legacy-output" parameter with newer freeipmi versions now.
• mrpe: fix output in Solaris agent (did never work)
• IBM blade center: new checks for chassis blowers, mediatray and overall health
• New caching agent (wrapper) for linux, supporting efficient fully redundant monitoring (please read notes in agents/check_mk_caching_agent)
• Added new smbios_sel check for monitoring the System Event Log of SMBIOS.
• fjdarye60_rluns: added missing case for OK state
• Linux agent: The xinetd does not log each request anymore. Only failures are logged by xinetd now. This can be changed in the xinetd configuration files.
• Check df: handle mountpoints containing spaces correctly (need new inventorization if you have mountpoints with spaces)
• Check md on Linux: handle spare disks correctly
• Check md on Linux: fix case where (auto-read-only) separated by space
• Check md on Linux: exclude RAID 0 devices from inventory (were reported as critical)
• Check ipmi: new config variable ipmi_ignore_nr
• Linux agent: df now also excludes NFSv4
• Wrote man-page for ipmi check
• Check mrpe: correctly display multiline output in Nagios GUI
• New check rsa_health for monitoring IBM Remote Supervisor Adapter (RSA)
• snmp scan: suppress error messages of snmpget
• New check: cpsecure_sessions for number of sessions on Content Security Gateway
• Logwatch GUI: move acknowledge button to top, use Multisite layout, fix several layout problem, remove list of hosts
• Check logwatch: limit maximum size of stored log messages (configurable be logwatch_max_filesize)
• AIX agent: fix output of MRPE (state and description was swapped)
• Linux agent: fixed computation of number of processors on S390
• check netctr: add missing perfdata (was only sent on OK case)
• Check sylo: New check for monitoring the sylo state

Livestatus

• Table hosts: New column 'services' listing all services of that host
• Column servicegroups:members: 'AuthUser' is now honored
• New columns: hosts:services_with_state and servicegroups:members_with_state
• New column: hostgroup:members_with_state
• Columns hostgroup:members and hostgroup:members_with_state honor AuthUser
• New rudimentary API for C++
• Updates API for Python
• Make stack size of threads configurable
• Set stack size of threads per default o 64 KB instead of 8 MB
• New header Localtime: for compensating time offsets of remote sites
• New performance counter for fork rate
• New columns for hosts: last_time_{up,down,unreachable}
• New columns for services: last_time_{ok,warning,critical,unknown}
• Columns with counts honor now AuthUser
• New columns for hosts/services: modified_attributes{,_list}
• new columns comments_with_info and downtimes_with_info
• Table log: switch output to reverse chronological order!
• Fix segfault on filter on comments:host_services
• Fix missing -lsocket on Solaris
• Add missing SUN_LEN (fixed compile problem on Solaris)
• Separators: remote sanitiy check allowing separators to be equal
• New output format "python": declares strings as UTF-8 correctly
• Fix segault if module loaded without arguments

Multisite

• Improved many builtin views
• new builtin views for host- and service groups
• Number of columns now configurable for each layout (1..50)
• New layout "tiled"
• New painters for lists of hosts and services in one column
• Automatically compensate timezone offsets of remote sites
• New datasources for downtimes and comments
• New experimental datasource for log
• Introduce limitation, this safes you from too large output
• reimplement host- and service icons more intelligent
• Output error messages from dead site in Multisite mode
• Increase wait time for master control buttons from 4s to 10s
• Views get (per-view) configurable browser automatic reload interval
• Playing of alarm sounds (configurable per view)
• Sidebar: fix bookmark deletion problem in bookmark snapin
• Fixed problem with sticky debug
• Improve pending services view
• New column with icon with link to Nagios GUI
• New icon showing items out of their notification period.
• Multisite: fix bug in removing all downtimes
• View "Hostgroups": fix color and table heading
• New sidebar snapin "Problem hosts"
• Tactical overview: honor downtimes
• Removed filter 'limit'. Not longer needed and made problems with new auto-limitation.
• Display umlauts from Nagios comments correctly (assuming Latin-1), inhibit entering of umlauts in new comments (fixes exception)
• Switched sidebar from synchronous to asynchronous requests
• Reduced complete reloads of the sidebar caused by user actions
• Fix reload problem in frameset: Browser reload now only reloads content frames, not frameset.

New in version 1.1.3

Core, Setup, etc.

• Makefile: make sure all files are world readable
• Clusters: make real host checks for clusters (using check_icmp with multiple IP addresses)
• check_mk_templates: remove action_url from cluster and summary hosts (they have no performance data)
• check_mk_template.cfg: fix typo in notes_url
• Negation in binary conf lists via NEGATE (clustered_services, ingored_services, bulkwalk_hosts, etc).
• Better handling of wrapping performance counters
• datasource_programs: allow <HOST> (formerly only <IP>)
• new config variable: extra_nagios_conf: string simply added to Nagios object configuration (for example for define command, etc.)
• New option --flush: delete runtime data of some or all hosts
• Abort installation if livestatus does not compile.
• PNP4Nagios Templates: Fixed bug in template file detection for local checks
• nagios_install.sh: Added support for Ubuntu 9.10
• SNMP: handle multiline output of snmpwalk (e.g. Hexdumps)
• SNMP: handle ugly error output of snmpwalk
• SNMP: allow snmp_info to fetch multiple tables
• check_mk -D: sort hostlist before output
• check_mk -D: fix output: don't show aggregated services for non-aggregated hosts
• check_mk_templates.cfg: fix syntax error, set notification_options to n

Checks & Agents

• logwatch: fix authorization problem on web pages when acknowledging
• multipath: Added unhandled multipath output format (UUID with 49 signs)
• check_mk-df.php: Fix locale setting (error of locale DE on PNP 0.6.2)
• Make check_mk_agent.linux executable
• MRPE: Fix problems with quotes in commands
• multipath: Fixed bug in output parser
• cpu: fixed bug: apply level on 15min, not on 1min avg
• New check fc_brocade_port_detailed
• netctrl: improved handling of wrapped counters
• winperf: Better handling of wrapping counters
• aironet_client: New check for number of clients and signal quality of CISCO Aironet access points
• aironet_errors: New check for monitoring CRC errors on CISCO Aironet access points
• logwatch: When Agent does not send a log anymore and no local logwatch file present the state will be UNKNOWN now (Was OK before).
• fjdarye60_sum: New check for summary status of Fidary-E60 devices
• fjdarye60_disks: New check for status of physical disks
• fjdarye60_devencs: New check for status of device enclosures
• fjdarye60_cadaps: New check for status of channel adapters
• fjdarye60_cmods: New check for status of channel modules
• fjdarye60_cmods_flash: New check for status of channel modules flash
• fjdarye60_cmods_mem: New check for status of channel modules memory
• fjdarye60_conencs: New check for status of controller enclosures
• fjdarye60_expanders: New check for status of expanders
• fjdarye60_inletthmls: New check for status of inlet thermal sensors
• fjdarye60_thmls: New check for status of thermal sensors
• fjdarye60_psus: New check for status of PSUs
• fjdarye60_syscaps: New check for status of System Capacitor Units
• fjdarye60_rluns: New check for RLUNs
• lparstat_aix: New check by Joerg Linge
• mrpe: Handles multiline output correctly (only works on Linux, Agents for AIX, Solaris still need fix).
• df: limit warning and critical levels to 50/60% when using a magic number
• fc_brocade_port_detailed: allow setting levels on in/out traffic, detect baudrate of inter switch links (ISL). Display warn/crit/baudrate in PNP-template

MK Livestatus

• fix operators !~ and !~~, they didn't work (ever)
• New headers for waiting (please refer to online documentation)
• Abort on errors even if header is not fixed16
• Changed response codes to better match HTTP
• json output: handle tab and other control characters correctly
• Fix columns host:worst_service_state and host:worst_service_hard_state
• New tables servicesbygroup, servicesbyhostgroup and hostsbygroup
• Allow to select columns with table prefix, e.g. host_name instead of name in table hosts. This does not affect the columns headers output by ColumnHeaders, though.
• Fix invalid json output of group list column in tables hosts and services
• Fix minor compile problem.
• Fix hangup on AuthUser: at certain columns
• Fix some compile problems on Solaris

Multisite

• Replaced Multiadmin with Multisite.

New in version 1.1.2

Summary

• Lots of new checks
• MK Livestatus gives transparent access to log files (nagios.log, archive/*.log)
• Many bug fixes

MK Livestatus

• Added new table "log", which gives you transparent access to the Nagios log files!
• Added some new columns about Nagios status data to stable 'status'
• Added new table "comments"
• Added logic for count of pending service and hosts
• Added several new columns in table 'status'
• Added new columns flap_detection and obsess_over_services in table services
• Fixed bug for double columns: filter truncated double to int
• Added new column status:program_version, showing the Nagios version
• Added new column num_services_pending in table hosts
• Fixed several compile problems on AIX
• Fixed bug: queries could be garbled after interrupted connection
• Fixed segfault on downtimes:contacts
• New feature: sum, min, max, avg and std of columns in new syntax of Stats:

Checks & Agents

• Check ps: this check now supports inventory in a very flexible way. This simplifies monitoring a great number of slightly different processes such as with ORACLE or SAP.
• Check 'md': Consider status active(auto-read-only) as OK
• Linux Agent: fix bug in vmware_state
• New Checks for APC Symmetra USV
• Linux Agent: made <<<meminfo>>> work on RedHat 3.
• New check ps.perf: Does the same as ps, but without inventory, but with performance data
• Check kernel: fixed missing performance data
• Check kernel: make CPU utilization work on Linux 2.4
• Solaris agent: don't use egrep, removed some bashisms, output filesystem type zfs or ufs
• Linux agent: fixed problem with nfsmount on SuSE 9.3/10.0
• Check 'ps': fix incompability with old agent if process is in brackets
• Linux agent: 'ps' now no longer supresses kernel processes
• Linux agent: make CPU count work correctly on PPC-Linux
• Five new checks for monitoring DECRU SANs
• Some new PNP templates for existing checks that still used the default templates
• AIX Agent: fix filesystem output
• Check logwatch: Fix problem occuring at empty log lines
• New script install_nagios.sh that does the same as install_nagios_on_lenny.sh, but also works on RedHat/CentOS 5.3.
• New check using the output of ipmi-sensors from freeipmi (Linux)
• New check for LSI MegaRAID disks and arrays using MegaCli (based on the driver megaraid_sas) (Linux)
• Added section <<<cpu>>> to AIX and Solaris agents
• New Check for W&T web thermograph (webthermometer)
• New Check for output power of APC Symmetra USP
• New Check for temperature sensors of APC Symmetra WEB/SNMP Management Card.
• apc_symmetra: add remaining runtime to output
• New check for UPS'es using the generic UPS-MIB (such as GE SitePro USP)
• Fix bug in PNP-template for Linux NICs (bytes and megabytes had been mixed up).
• Windows agent: fix bug in output of performance counters (where sometimes with , instead of .)
• Windows agent: outputs version if called with 'version'

Core, Setup, etc.

• New SNMP scan feature: -I snmp scans all SNMP checks (currently only very few checks support this, though)
• make non-bulkwalk a default. Please edit bulkwalk_hosts or non_bulkwalk_hosts to change that
• Improve setup autodetection on RedHat/CentOS. Also fix problem with Apache config for Mutliadmin: On RedHat Check_MK's Apache conf file must be loaded after mod_python and was thus renamed to zzz_check_mk.conf.
• Fix problem in Agent-RPM: mark xinetd-configfile with %config -> avoid data loss on update
• Support PNP4Nagios 0.6.2
• New setup script "install_nagios.sh" for installing Nagios and everything else on SLES11
• New option define_contactgroups: will automatically create contactgroup definitions for Nagios

New in version 1.1.0

Changes

• Fixed problems in Windows agent (could lead to crash of agent in case of unusal Eventlog messages)
• Fixed problem sind 1.0.39: recompile waitmax for 32 Bit (also running on 64)
• Fixed bug in cluster checks: No cache files had been used. This can lead to missing logfile messages.
• Check kernel: allow to set levels (e.g. on pgmajfaults)
• Check ps now allows to check for processes owned by a specific user (need update of Linux agent)
• New configuration option aggregate_check_mk: If set to True, the summary hosts will show the status auf check_mk (default: False)
• Check winperf.cpuusage now supports levels for warning and critical. Default levels are at 101 / 101
• New check df_netapp32 which must be used for Netapps that do not support 64 bit counters. Does the same as df_netapp
• Symlink PNP templates: df_netapp32 and df_netapp use same template as df
• Fix bug: ifoperstatus does not produce performance data but said so.
• Fix bug in Multiadmin: Sorting according to service states did not work
• Fix two bugs in df_netapp: use 64 bit counters (32 counter wrap at 2TB filesystems) and exclude snapshot filesystems with size 0 from inventory.
• Rudimentary support for monitoring ESX: monitor virtual filesystems with 'vdf' (using normal df check of check_mk) and monitor state of machines with vcbVmName -s any (new check vmware_state).
• Fixed bug in MRPE: check failed on empty performance data (e.g. from check_snmp: there is emptyness after the pipe symbol sometimes)
• MK Livestatus is now multithreaded an can handle up to 10 parallel connections (might be configurable in a future version).
• mk_logwatch -d now processes the complete logfile if logwatch.state is missing or not including the file (this is easier for testing)
• Added missing float columns to Livestatus.
• Livestatus: new header StatsGroupBy:
• First version with "Check_MK Livestatus Module"! setup.sh will compile, install and activate Livestatus per default now. If you do not want this, please disable it by entering <tt>no</tt>, when asked by setup.
• New Option --paths shows all installation, config and data paths of Check_mk and Nagios
• New configuration variable define_hostgroups and define service_groups allow you to automatically create host- and service groups - even with aliases.
• Multiadmin has new filter for 'active checks enabled'.
• Multiadmin filter for check_command is now a drop down list.
• Dummy commands output error message when passive services are actively checked (by accident)
• New configuration option service_descriptions allows to define customized service descriptions for each check type
• New configuration options extra_host_conf, extra_summary_host_conf and extra_service_conf allow to define arbitrary Nagios options in host and service defitions (notes, icon_image, custom variables, etc)
• Fix bug: honor only_hosts also at option -C

New in version 1.0.39

Changes

• New configuration variable only_hosts allows you to limit check_mk to a subset of your hosts (for testing)
• New configuration parameter mem_extended_perfdata sends more performance data on Linux (see check manual for details)
• many improvements of Multiadmin web pages: optionally filter out services which are (not) currently in downtime (host or service itself), optionally (not) filter out summary hosts, show host status (down hosts), new action for removing all scheduled downtimes of a service. Search results will be refreshed every 90 seconds. Choose between two different sorting orders. Multadmin now also supports user authentication
• New configuration option define_timeperiods, which allows to create Nagios timeperiod definitions. This also enables the Multiadmin tools to filter out services which are currently not in their notification interval.
• NIC check for Linux (netctr.combined) now supports checking of error rates
• fc_brocade_port: New possibility of monitoring CRC errors and C3 discards
• Fixed bug: snmp_info_single was missing in precompiled host checks

New in version 1.0.38

Changes

• New: check_mk's multiadmin tool (Python based web page). It allows mass administration of services (enable/disable checks/notifications, acknowledgements, downtimes). It does not need Nagios service- or host groups but works with a freeform search.
• Remove duplicate <?php from the four new PNP templates of 1.0.37.
• Linux Agent: Kill hanging NFS with signal 9 (signal 15 does not always help)
• Some improvements in autodetection. Also make debug mode: ./autodetect.py: This helps to find problems in autodetection.
• New configuration variables generate_hostconf and generate_dummy_commands, which allows to suppress generation of host definitions for Nagios, or dummy commands, resp.
• Now also SNMP based checks use cache files.
• New major options --backup and --restore for intelligent backup and restore of configuration and runtime data
• New variable simulation_mode allows you to dry run your Nagios with data from another installation.
• Fixed inventory of Linux cpu.loads and cpu.threads
• Fixed several examples in checks manpages
• Fixed problems in install_nagios_on_lenny.sh
• ./setup.sh now understands option --yes: This will not output anything except error messages and assumes 'yes' to all questions
• Fix missing 'default.php' in templates for local

New in version 1.0.37

Changes

• IMPORTANT: Semantics of check "cpu.loads" has changed. Levels are now regarded as *per CPU*. That means, that if your warning level is at 4.0 on a 2 CPU machine, then a level of 8.0 is applied.
• On check_mk -v now also ouputs version of check_mk
• logfile_patterns can now contain host specific entries. Please refer to updated online documentation for details.
• Handling wrapping of performance counters. 32 and 64 bit counters should be autodetected and handled correctly. Counters wrapping over twice within one check cycle cannot be handled, though.
• Fixed bug in diskstat: Throughput was computed twice too high, since /proc/diskstats counts in sectors (512 Bytes) not in KB
• The new configuration variables bulkwalk_hosts and non_bulkwalk_hosts, that allow to specify, which hosts support snmpbulkwalk (which is faster than snmpwalk) and which not. In previos versions, always bulk walk was used, but some devices do not support that.
• New configuration variable non_aggregated_hosts allows to exclude hosts generally from service aggregation.
• New SNMP based check for Rittal CMC TC (ComputerMultiControl-TopConcept) Temperature sensors
• Fixed several problems in autodetection of setup
• Fixed inventory check: exit code was always 0 for newer Python versions.
• Fixed optical problem in check manual pages with newer version of less.
• New template check_mk-local.php that tries to find and include service name specific templates. If none is found, default.php will be used.
• New PNP templates check_mk-kernel.php for major page faults, context switches and process creation
• New PNP template for cpu.threads (Number of threads)
• Check nfsmounts now detects stale NFS handles and triggers a warning state in that case

New in version 1.0.36

Changes

• New feature of Linux/UNIX Agent: "MRPE" allows you to call Nagios plugins by the agent. Please refer to online documentation for details.
• Fix bug in logwatch.php: Logfiles names containing spaces now work.
• Setup.sh now automatically creates cfg_dir if none found in nagios.cfg (which is the case for the default configuration of a self compiled Nagios)
• Fix computation of CPU usage for VMS.
• snmp_hosts now allows config-list syntax. If you do not define snmp_hosts at all, all hosts with tag 'snmp' are considered to be SNMP hosts. That is the new preferred way to do it. Please refer to the new online documentation.
• snmp_communities now also allows config-list syntax and is compatible to datasource_programs. This allows to define different SNMP communities by making use of host tags.
• Check ifoperstatus: Monitoring of unused ports is now controlled via ifoperstatus_monitor_unused.
• Fix problem in Windows-Agent with cluster filesystems: temporarily non-present cluster-filesystems are ignored by the agent now.
• Linux agent now supports /dev/cciss/d0d0... in section <<<diskstat>>>
• host configuration for Nagios creates now a variable 'name host_' for each host. This allows you to add custom Nagios settings to specific hosts in a quite general way.
• hosts' parents can now be specified with the variable 'parents'. Please look at online documentation for details.
• Summary hosts now automatically get their real host as a parent. This also holds for summary cluster hosts.
• New option -X, --config-check that checks your configuration for invalid variables. You still can use your own temporary variables if you prefix them with an underscore. IMPORTANT: Please check your configuration files with this option. The check may become an implicit standard in future versions.
• Fixed problem with inventory check on older Python versions.
• Updated install_nagios_on_lenny.sh to Nagios version 3.2.0 and fixed several bugs.

New in version 1.0.35

Changes

• New option -R/--restart that does -S, -H and -C and also restarts Nagios, but before that does a Nagios config check. If that fails, everything is rolled back and Nagios keeps running with the old configuration.
• PNP template for PING which combines RTA and LOSS into one graph.
• Host check interval set to 1 in default templates.
• New check for hanging NFS mounts (currently only on Linux)
• Changed check_mk_templates.cfg for PING-only hosts: No performance data is processed for the PING-Check since the PING data is already processed via the host check (avoid duplicate RRDs)
• Fix broken notes_url for logwatch: Value from setup.sh was ignored and always default value taken.
• Renamed config variable mknagios_port to agent_port (please updated main.mk if you use that variable)
• Renamed config variable mknagios_min_version to agent_min_version (update main.mk if used)
• Renamed config variable mknagios_autochecksdir to autochecksdir (update main.mk if used)
• configuration directory for Linux/UNIX agents is now configurable (default is /etc/check_mk)
• Add missing configuration variable to precompiled checks (fix problem when using clusters)
• Improved multipath-check: Inventory now determines current number of paths. And check output is more verbose.
• Mark config files as config files in RPM. RPM used to overwrite main.mk on update!

New in version 1.0.34

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 now uses cache files only if they are current and if the hosts are not explicitely specified.

New in version 1.0.33

Changes

• Made check_mk run on Python 2.3.4 (as used in CentOS 4.7 und RedHat 4.7).
• New option -M that prints out manual pages of checks. Only a few check types are documented yet, but more will be following.
• Package the empty directory /usr/lib/check_mk_agent/plugins and ../local into the RPM and DEB package of the agent
• New feature: service_dependencies. check_mk lets you comfortably create Nagios servicedependency definitions for you and also supports them by executing the checks in an optimal order.
• logwatch.php: New button for hiding the context messages. This is a global setting for all logfiles and its state is stored in a cookie.

New in version 1.0.32

Changes

• IMPORTANT: Configuration variable datasource_programs is now analogous to that of host_groups. That means: the order of program and hostlist must be swapped!
• New option --fake-dns, useful for tests with non-existing hosts.
• Massive speed improvement for -S, -H and -C
• Fixed bug in inventory of clusters: Clustered services where silently dropped (since introduction of host tags). Fixed now.
• Fixed minor bug in inventory: Suppress DNS lookup when using --no-tcp
• Fixed bug in cluster handling: Missing function strip_tags() in check_mk_base.py was eliminated.
• Changed semantics of host_groups, summary_host_groups, host_contactgroups, and summary_host_groups for clusters. Now the cluster names will be relevant, not the names of the nodes. This allows the cluster hosts to have different host/contactgroups than the nodes. And it is more consistent with other parts of the configuration.
• Fixed bug: datasource_programs on cluster nodes did not work when precompiling

New in version 1.0.31

Changes

• New option -D, --dump that dumps all configuration information about one, several or all hosts New config variables 'ignored_checktypes' and 'ignored_services', which allow to include certain checktypes in general or some services from some hosts from inventory
• Config variable 'clustered_services' now has the same semantics as ignored_checktypes and allows to make it host dependent.
• Allow magic tags PHYSICAL_HOSTS, CLUSTER_HOSTS and ALL_HOSTS at all places, where lists of hosts are expected (except checks). This fixes various problems that arise when using all_hosts at

those places

• all_hosts might by changed by another file in conf.d
• all_hosts does not contain the cluster hosts
• Config file 'final.mk' is read after all other config files - if it exists. You can put debug code there that prints the contents of your variables.
• Use colored output only, if stdout is a tty. If you have problems with colors, then you can pipe the output through cat or less
• Fixed bug with host tags: didn't strip off tags when processing configuration lists (occurs when using custom host lists)
• mk_logwatch is now aware of inodes of logfiles. This is important for fast rotating files: If the inode of a logfile changes between two checks mk_logwatch assumes that the complete content is new, even if the new file is longer than the old one.
• check_mk makes sure that you do not have duplicate hosts in all_hosts or clusters.

New in version 1.0.30

Changes

• Windows agent now automatically monitors all existing event logs, not only "System" and "Application".

New in version 1.0.29

Changes

• Improved default Nagios configuration file: added some missing templates, enter correct URLs asked at setup time.
• IMPORANT: If you do not use the new default Nagios configuration file you need to rename the template for aggregated services (summary services) to check_mk_summarizes (old name was 'check_mk_passive-summary'). Aggregated services are *always* passive and do *never* have performance data.
• Hopefully fixed CPU usage output on multi-CPU machines
• Fixed Problem in Windows Agent: Eventlog monitoring does now also work, if first record has not number 1 (relevant for larger/older eventlogs)
• Fixed bug in administration.html: Filename for Nagios must be named check_mk.cfg and *not* main.mk. Nagios does not read files without the suffix .cfg.
• magic factor for df, that allows to automatgically adapt levels for very big or very small filesystems.
• new concept of host tags simplyfies configuration.
• IMPORTANT: at all places in the configuration where lists of hosts are used those are not any longer interpreted as regular expressions. Hostnames must match exactly. Therefore the list [ "" ] does not any longer represent the list of all hosts. It is a bug now. Please write all_hosts instead of [ "" ]. The semantics for service expressions has not changed.
• Fixed problem with logwatch.php: Begin with <?php, not with <?. This makes some older webservers happy.
• Fixed problem in check ipmi: Handle corrupt output from agent
• Cleaned up code, improved inline documentation
• Fixed problem with vms_df: default_filesystem_levels, filesystem_levels and df magic number now are used for df, vms_df and df_netapp together. Works now also when precompiled.

New in version 1.0.28

Changes

• IMPORTANT: the config file has been renamed from check_mk.cfg to main.mk. This has been suggested by several of my customers in order to avoid confusion with Nagios configuration files. In addition, all check_mk's configuration file have to end in '.mk'. This also holds for the autochecks. The setup.sh script will automatically rename all relevant files. Users of RPM or DEB installations have to remove the files themselves - sorry.
• Windows agent supports eventlogs. Current all Warning and Error messages from 'System' and 'Application' are being sent to check_mk. Events can be filtered on the Nagios host.
• Fixed bug: direct RRD update didn't work. Should now.
• Fixed permission problems when run as root.
• Agent is expected to send its version in <<<check_mk>>> now (not any longer in <<<mknagios>>>
• Fixed bug in Windows agent. Performance counters now output correct values
• Change checks/winperf: Changed 'ops/sec' into MB/s. That measures read and write disk throughput (now warn/crit levels possible yet)
• new SNMP check 'ifoperstatus' for checking link of network interfaces via SNMP standard MIB
• translated setup script into english
• fixed bug with missing directories in setup script
• made setup script's output nicer, show version information
• NEW: mk_logwatch - a new plugin for the linux/UNIX agent for watching logfiles
• Better error handling with Nagios pipe
• Better handling of global error: make check_mk return CRIT, when no data can retrieved at all.
• Added missing template 'check_mk_pingonly' in sample Nagios config file (is needed for hosts without checks)

New in version 1.0.27

Changes

• Ship source code of windows agent
• fix several typos
• fix bug: option --list-hosts did not work
• fix bug: precompile "-C" did not work because of missing extension .py
• new option -U,--update: It combines -S, -H and -U and writes the Nagios configuration into a file (not to stdout).
• ship templates for PNP4Nagios matching most check_mk-checks. Standard installation path is /usr/share/check_mk/pnp-templates - Changed License to GNU GPL Version 2

New in version 1.0.26

Changes

• modules check_mk_admin and check_mk_base are both shipped uncompiled.
• source code of windows agent togehter with Makefile shipped with normal distribution
• checks/md now handles rare case where output of /proc/mdstat shows three lines per array

New in version 1.0.25

Changes

• setup skript remembers paths

New in version 1.0.24

Changes

• fixed bug with precompile: Version of Agent was always 0

New in version 1.0.23

Changes

• fixed bug: check_config_variables was missing in precompiled files
• new logwatch agent in Python plus new logwatch-check that handles both the output from the old and the new agent

New in version 1.0.22

Changes

• Default timeout for TCP transfer increased from 3.0 to 60.0
• Windows agent supports '<<<mem>>>' that is compatible with Linux
• Windows agents performance counters output fixed
• Windows agent can now be cross-compiled with mingw on Linux
• New checktype winperf.cpuusage that retrieves the percentage of CPU usage from windows (still has to be tested on Multi-CPU machine)
• Fixed bug: logwatch_dir and logwatch_groupid got lost when precompiling.
• arithmetic for CPU usage on VMS multi-CPU machines changed

New in version 1.0.21

Changes

• fixed bug in checks/df: filesystem levels did not work with precompiled checks

New in version 1.0.20

Changes

• new administration guide in doc/
• fixed bug: option -v now works independent of order
• fixed bug: in statgrab_net: variable was missing (affected -C)
• fixed bug: added missing variables, imported re (affected -C)
• check ipmi: new option ipmi_summarize: create only one check for all sensors
• new pnp-template for ipmi summarized ambient temperature

New in version 1.0.19

Changes

• Monitoring of Windows Services
• Fixed bug with check-specific default parameters
• Monitoring of VMS (agent not included yet)
• Retrieving of data via an external programm (e.g. SSH/RSH)
• setup.sh does not overwrite check_mk.cfg but installs the new default file as check_mk.cfg-1.0.19
• Put hosts into default hostgroup if none is configured