New in version 1.2.2p2

Checks & Agents

• FIX: jolokia_info: ignore ERROR instances
• FIX: apache_status: use (also) apache_status.cfg instead of apache_status.conf
• FIX: f5_bigip_vserver: fix wrong OID (13 instead of 1), thanks to Miro Ramza
• FIX: f5_bigip_psu: handle more than first power supply, thanks to Miro Ramza
• FIX: ipmi_sensors: ignore sensors in state [NA] (not available)
• FIX: aix_lvm: handle agents that output an extra header line
• FIX: zfsget: do not assume that devices begin with /, but mountpoints
• FIX: ipmi_sensors: handle two cases for DELL correctly (thanks to Sebastian Talmon)
• FIX: check_dns: enable performance data
• FIX: free_ipmi: fix name of sensor cache file if hostname contains domain part

Multisite

• List of views: Output the alias of a datasource instead of internal name
• FIX: fix column editor for join columns if "SERVICE:" is l10n'ed

WATO

• FIX: convert editing of global setting to POST. This avoid URL-too-long when defining lots of Event Console actions
• FIX: LDAP configuration: allow DNs without DC=

Event Console

• FIX: fix icon in events check if host specification is by IP address

New in version 1.2.2p1

Core

• FIX: correctly quote ! and \ in active checks for Nagios
• FIX: Performing regular inventory checks at configured interval even when the service is in problem state
• Check_MK core now supports umlauts in host-/service- and contactgroup names

Checks & Agents

• FIX: vsphere_agent: fix problems whith ! and \ in username or password
• FIX: check_mk_agent.aix: fix shebang: was python, must be ksh
• FIX: cisco_qos: Be compatible to newer IOS-XE versions (Thanks to Ken Smith)
• FIX: mk_jolokia: Handling spaces in application server instances correctly

Multisite

• FIX: do not remove directories of non-exisant users anymore. This lead to a deletion of users' settings in case of an external authentication (like mod_ldap).
• FIX: Fixed handling of dashboards without title in sidebar view snapin
• FIX: titles and services got lost when moving join-columns in views
• FIX: Fixed exception during initial page rendering in python 2.6 in special cases (Internal error: putenv() argument 2 must be string, not list)

Livestatus

• livestatus.log: show utf-8 decoding problems only with debug logging >=2

Notifications

• FIX: HTML mails: Handle the case where plugin argument is not set
• FIX: HTML mails: remove undefinded placeholders like $GRAPH_CODE$

WATO

• Improved handling of valuespec validations in WATO rule editor. Displaying a warning message when going to throw away the current settings.
• FIX: fix bug where certain settings where not saved on IE. This was mainly on IE7, but also IE8,9,10 in IE7 mode (which is often active). Affected was e.g. the nodes of a cluster or the list of services for service inventory

New in version 1.2.2

Core

• Added $HOSTURL$ and $SERVICEURL$ to notification macros which contain an URL to the host/service details views with /check_mk/... as base.

Checks & Agents

• FIX: blade_bx_load: remove invalid WATO group
• FIX: lnx_bonding: handle also 802.3ad type bonds

Notifications

• FIX: Removing GRAPH_CODE in html mails when not available
• Using plugin argument 1 for path to pnp4nagios index php to render graphs
• Little speedup of check_mk --notify

Multisite

• FIX: Fixed umlaut handling in reloaded snapins

WATO

• FIX: Fix several cases where WATO rule analyser did not hilite all matching rules
• Added tcp port parameter to SSL certificate check (Thanks to Marcel Schulte)

Event Console

• FIX: Syslog server is now able to parse RFC 5424 syslog messages

New in version 1.2.2b7

Checks & Agents

• FIX: postfix_mailq: fix labels in WATO rule, set correct default levels

New in version 1.2.2b6

Core

• FIX: setup: detect check_icmp also on 64-Bit CentOS (thanks to あきら)
• FIX: setup.sh: create auth.serials, fix permissions of htpasswd
• FIX: livecheck: now able to handle check output up to 16kB

Checks & Agents

• FIX: apc_symmetra_power: resurrect garble PNP template for
• FIX: check_mk_agent.freebsd: remove garble from output (Thanks to Mathias Decker)
• FIX: check_mk-mssql_counters.locks: fix computation, was altogether wrong
• FIX: check_mk-mssql_counters.transactions: fix computation also
• check_http: now support the option -L (urlizing the result)
• Added mem section to Mac OSX agent (Thanks to Brad Davis)
• FIX: mssql.vbs (agent plugin) now sets auth options for each instance
• FIX: jolokia_metrics.mem: error when missing max values
• Make levels for SMART temperature editable via WATO

Multisite

• FIX: fix localization in non-OMD environment (thanks to あきら)
• FIX: hopefully fix computation of Speed-O-Meter
• Add $SERVICEOUTPUT$ and $HOSTOUTPUT$ to allowed macros for custom notes
• FIX: Writing one clean message to webserver error_log when write fails
• FIX: Escaping html entities when displaying comment fields
• FIX: Monitored on site attribute always has valid default value

Notifications

• FIX: fix event type for recoveries
• FIX: fix custom notifications on older nagios versions
• FIX: handle case where type HOST/SERVICE not correctly detected

Livestatus

• FIX: memory leak when removing downtime / comment

WATO

• FIX: Removed "No roles assigned" text in case of unlocked role attribute in user management dialog
• FIX: Fix output of rule search: chapters appeared twice sometimes

Event Console

• FIX: check_mkevents: fix usage help if called with illegal options
• check_mkevents now allows specification of a UNIX socket This is needed in non-OMD environments
• setup.py now tries to setup Event Console even in non-OMD world

New in version 1.2.2b5

Core

• Checks can now omit the typical "OK - " or "WARN -". This text will be added automatically if missing.
• FIX: livecheck: fixed compilation bug
• FIX: check_mk: convert service description unicode into utf-8
• FIX: avoid simultanous activation of changes by means of a lock

Checks & Agents

• FIX: jolokia_metrics.mem - now able to handle negative/missing max values
• ADD: tcp_conn_stats: now additionally uses /proc/net/tcp6
• ADD: wmic_processs: cpucores now being considered when calculating user/kernel percentages. (thanks to William Baum)
• FIX: UPS checks support Eaton Evolution
• FIX: windows agent plugin: mssql now exits after 10 seconds

Notifications

• FIX: fixed crash on host notification when contact had explicit services set

Livestatus

• FIX: possible crash with VERY long downtime comments

WATO

• FIX: Fix hiliting of errors in Nagios output
• FIX: localisation error

Multisite

• FIX: Avoid duplicate "Services" button in host detail views
• FIX: fix rescheduling icon for services with non-ASCII characters
• New filter for IP address of a host
• Quicksearch: allow searching for complete IP addresses and IP address prefixes
• Add logentry class filter to view 'Host- and Service events'

BI

• FIX: fix exception with expansion level being 'None'
• FIX: speedup for single host tables joined by hostname (BI-Boxes)
• FIX: avoid closing BI subtree while tree is being loaded

Event Console

• FIX: make hostname matching field optional. Otherwise a .* was neccessary for the rule in order to match
• FIX: event_simulator now also uses case insensitive matches

New in version 1.2.2b4

Core

• FIX: Fix output of cmk -D: datasource programs were missing
• FIX: allow unicode encoded extra_service_conf
• FIX: no default PING service if custom checks are defined
• FIX: check_mk_base: fixed rounding error in get_bytes_human_readable
• FIX: check_mk: improved support of utf-8 characters in extra_service_conf
• FIX: livestatus: table statehist now able to check AuthUser permissions
• New configuration variable contactgroup_members

Checks & Agents

• FIX: smart - not trying to parse unhandled lines to prevent errors
• FIX: winperf_processor - fixed wrong calculations of usage
• FIX: WATO configuration of filesystem trends: it's hours, not days!
• FIX: mysql: fixed crash on computing IO information
• FIX: diskstat: fix local variable 'ios_per_sec' referenced before assignment
• FIX: multipath: ignore warning messages in agent due to invalid multipath.conf
• FIX: megaraid_bbu: deal with broken output ("Adpater"), found in Open-E
• FIX: megaraid_pdisk: deal with special output of Open-E
• FIX: jolokia_metrics.mem: renamed parameter totalheap to total
• FIX: megaraid_bbu: deal with broken output ("Adpater")
• FIX: check_ldap: added missing host address (check didn't work at all)
• FIX: check_ldap: added missing version option -2, -3, -3 -T (TLS)
• FIX: mssql: Agent plugin now supports MSSQL Server 2012
• FIX: hr_mem: fix max value in performance data (thanks to Michaël COQUARD)
• FIX: f5_bigip_psu: fix inventory function (returned list instead of tuple)
• FIX: mysql.connections: avoid crash on legacy agent output
• FIX: tcp_conn_stats: use /proc/net/tcp instead of netstat -tn. This should avoid massive performance problems on system with many connections
• Linux agent: limit netstat to 10 seconds
• ps: Allow %1, %2, .. instead of %s in process_inventory. That allows reordering of matched groups
• FIX: f5_bigip_psu - fixed inventory function
• FIX: printer_supply - fixed inventory function for some kind of OKI printers

Multisite

• FIX: Fixed problem with error during localization scanning
• FIX: Fixed wrong localization right after a user changed its language
• FIX: Improved handling of error messages in bulk inventory
• FIX: fixed focus bug in transform valuespec class
• FIX: stop doing snapin refreshes after they have been removed
• FIX: sidebar snapins which refresh do not register for restart detection anymore
• FIX: fix user database corruption in case of a race condition
• FIX: added checks wether or not a contactgroup can be deleted
• FIX: Avoid deadlock due to lock on contacts.mk in some situations
• Changed sidebar snapin reload to a global interval (option: sidebar_update_interval), defaults to 30 seconds
• Sidebar snapins are now bulk updated with one HTTP request each interval

BI

• FIX: fixed invalid links to hosts and services in BI tree view
• FIX: fix exception in top/down and bottom/up views
• FIX: fix styling of top/down and bottom/up views (borders, padding)
• FIX: fix style of mouse pointer over BI boxes
• FIX: list of BI aggregates was incomplete in some cases
• FIX: single host aggregations didn't work for aggregations += [...]
• FIX: top-down and bottom-up was broken in case of "only problems"
• FIX: BI see_all permission is now working again
• Do not handle PENDING as "problem" anymore
• Make titles of non-leaf tree nodes klickable

WATO

• FIX: flexible notification valuespec is now localizable
• FIX: Alias values of host/service/contact groups need to be set and unique within the group
• FIX: Fixed exception when editing contactgroups without alias
• FIX: Fix localization of rule options
• FIX: ValueSpec OptionalDropDown: fix visibility if default is "other"
• Suggest use default value for filesystem levels that make sense
• Valuespec: CascadingDropdown now able to process choice values from functions
• Freshness checking for classical passive Nagios checks (custom_checks)

New in version 1.2.2b3

Checks & Agents

• FIX: Fixed date parsing code ignoring the seconds value in several checks (ad_replication, cups_queues, heartbeat_crm, mssql_backup, smbios_sel)
• FIX: Fixed pnp template for apc_symmetra check when using multiple rrds

Multisite

• FIX: Removed uuid module dependency to be compatible to python < 2.5
• FIX: remove Javascript debug popup from multi-string input fields
• FIX: list of strings (e.g. host list in rule editor) didn't work anymore

New in version 1.2.2b2

Checks & Agents

• Added dynamic thresholds to the oracle_tablespace check depending on the size of the tablespaces.

BI

• FIX: fix exception in BI-Boxes views of host groups
• FIX: fix problem where BI-Boxes were invisible if not previously unfolded

Event Console

• FIX: support non-Ascii characters in matching expressions. Note: you need to edit and save each affected rule once in order to make the fix work.
• FIX: Fixed exception when logging actions exectuted by mkeventd
• FIX: etc/init.d/mkeventd flush did not work when mkeventd was stopped

Multisite

• FIX: Fixed several minor IE7 related layout bugs
• FIX: title of pages was truncated and now isn't anymore
• Cleanup form for executing commands on hosts/services

WATO

• FIX: Fixed layout of rulelist table in IE*
• FIX: Fixed adding explicit host names to rules in IE7
• Add: Improved navigation convenience when plugin output contains [running on ... ]

New in version 1.2.2b1

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 version 1.2.1i5

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 version 1.2.1i4

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 version 1.2.1i3

Core

• added HOST/SERVICEPROBLEMID to notification macros
• New configuration check_periods for limiting execution of Check_MK checks to a certain time period.

Checks & Agents

• Windows agent: persist offsets for logfile monitoring

Notifications

• fix two errors in code that broke some service notifications

Event Console

• New performance counter for client request processing time
• FIX: fixed bug in rule optimizer with ranges of syslog priorities

WATO

• Cloning of contact/host/service groups (without members)

Checks & Agents

• logwatch: Fixed confusion with ignore/ok states of log messages
• AIX Agent: now possible to specify -d flag. Please test :)

New in version 1.2.1i2

Core

• Improved validation of inventory data reported by checks
• Added -d option to precompiled checks to enable debug mode
• doc/treasures: added script for printing RRD statistics

Notifications

• New system of custom notification, with WATO support

Event Console

• Moved source of Event Console into Check_MK project
• New button for resetting all rule hits counters
• When saving a rule then its hits counter is always reset
• New feature of hiding certain actions from the commands in the status GUI
• FIX: rule simulator ("Try out") now handles cancelling rules correctly
• New global option for enabling log entries for rule hits (debugging)
• New icon linking to event views for the event services
• check_mkevents outputs last worst line in service output
• Max. number of queued connections on status sockets is configurable now
• check_mkevents: new option -a for ignoring acknowledged events
• New sub-permissions for changing comment and contact while updating an event
• New button for generating test events directly via WATO
• Allow Event Console to replicate from another (master) console for fast failover.
• Allow event expiration also on acknowledged events (configurable)

Multisite

• Enable automation login with _username= and _secret=, while _secret is the content of var/check_mk/web/$USER/automation.secret
• FIX: Fixed releasing of locks and livestatus connections when logging out
• FIX: Fixed login/login confusions with index page caching
• FIX: Speed-o-meter: Fixed calculation of Check_MK passive check invervals
• Removed focus of "Full name" attribute on editing a contact
• Quicksearch: Convert search text to regex when accessing livestatus
• FIX: WATO Folder filter not available when WATO disabled
• WATO Folder Filter no longer available in single host views
• Added new painters "Service check command expanded" and "Host check command expanded"
• FIX: Corrected garbled description for sorter "Service Performance data"
• Dashboard globes can now be filtered by host_contact_group/service_contact_group
• Dashboard "iframe" attribute can now be rendered dynamically using the "iframefunc" attribute in the dashlet declaration
• Dashboard header can now be hidden by setting "title" to None
• Better error handling in PNP-Graph hover menus in case of invalid responses

Livestatus

• Added new table statehist, used for SLA queries
• Added new column check_command_expanded in table hosts
• Added new column check_command_expanded in table services
• New columns livestatus_threads, livestatus_{active,queued}_connections

BI

• Added missing localizations
• Added option bi_precompile_on_demand to split compilations of the aggregations in several fragments. If possible only the needed aggregations are compiled to reduce the time a user has to wait for BI based view. This optimizes BI related views which display information for a specific list of hosts or aggregation groups.
• Added new config option bi_compile_log to collect statistics about aggregation compilations
• Aggregations can now be part of more than one aggregation group (just configure a list of group names instead of a group name string)
• Correct representation of (!), (!!) and (?) markers in check output
• Corrected representation of assumed state in box layout
• Feature: Using parameters for hosttags

WATO

• Added progress indicator in single site WATO "Activate Changes"
• Users & Contacts: Case-insensitive sorting of 'Full name' column
• ntp/ntp.time parameters are now configurable via WATO
• FIX: Implemented basic non HTTP 200 status code response handling in interactive progress dialogs (e.g. bulk inventory mode)
• FIX: Fixed editing of icon_image rules
• Added support of locked hosts and folders ( created by CMDB )
• Logwatch: logwatch agents/plugins now with ok pattern support
• Valuespec: Alternative Value Spec now shows helptext of its elements
• Valuespec: DropdownChoice, fixed exception on validate_datatype

Checks & Agents

• New check mssql_counters.locks: Monitors locking related information of MSSQL tablespaces
• Check_MK service is now able to output additional performance data user_time, system_time, children_user_time, children_system time
• windows_updates agent plugin: Fetching data in background mode, caching update information for 30 minutes
• Windows agent: output ullTotalVirtual and ullAvailVirtual (not yet being used by check)
• Solaris agent: add <<<uptime>>> section (thanks to Daniel Roettgermann)
• Added new WATO configurable option inventory_services_rules for the windows services inventory check
• Added new WATO configurable option inventory_processes_rules for the ps and ps.perf inventory
• FIX: mssql_counters checks now really only inventorize percentage based counters if a base value is set
• win_dhcp_pools: do not inventorize empty pools any more. You can switch back to old behaviour with win_dhcp_pools_inventorize_empty = True
• Added new Check for Eaton UPS Devices
• zfsget: new check for monitoring ZFS disk usage for Linux, Solaris, FreeBSD (you need to update your agent as well)
• Added new Checks for Gude PDU Units
• logwatch: Working around confusion with OK/Ignore handling in logwatch_rules
• logwatch_ec: Added new subcheck to forward all incoming logwatch messages to the event console. With this check you can use the Event Console mechanisms and GUIs instead of the classic logwatch GUI. It can be enabled on "Global Settings" page in WATO for your whole installation. After enabling it you need to reinventorize your hosts.
• Windows Update Check: Now with caching, Thanks to Phil Randal and Patrick Schlüter
• Windows Check_MK Agent: Now able to parse textfiles for logwatch output
• Added new Checks sni_octopuse_cpu, sni_octopuse_status, sni_octopuse_trunks: These allow monitoring Siemens HiPath 3000/5000 series PBX.
• if-checks now support "bit" as measurement unit
• winperf_phydisk: monitor average queue length for read/write

New in version 1.2.0p5

Checks & Agents

• FIX: windows agent: fixed possible crash in eventlog section

BI

• FIX: fixed bug in aggregation count (thanks Neil)

New in version 1.2.0p4

WATO

• FIX: fixed detection of existing groups when creating new groups
• FIX: allow email addresses like test@test.test-test.com
• FIX: Fixed Password saving problem in user settings

Checks & Agents

• FIX: postgres_sessions: handle case of no active/no idle sessions
• FIX: winperf_processor: handle parameters "None" (as WATO creates)
• FIX: mssql_counters: remove debug output, fix bytes output
• FIX: mssql_tablespaces: gracefully handle garbled agent output

Multisite

• FIX: performeter_temparature now returns unicode string, because of °C
• FIX: output_format json in webservices now using " as quotes

Livestatus

• FIX: fix two problems when reloading module in Icinga (thanks to Ronny Biering) Mulitisite

New in version 1.2.0p3

Changes

• Added "view" parameter to dashlet_pnpgraph webservice
• FIX: BI: Assuming "OK" for hosts is now possible
• FIX: Fixed error in makeuri() calls when no parameters in URL
• FIX: Try out mode in view editor does not show context buttons anymore
• FIX: WATO Folder filter not available when WATO disabled
• FIX: WATO Folder Filter no longer available in single host views
• FIX: Quicksearch converts search text to regex when accessing livestatus
• FIX: Fixed "access denied" problem with multisite authorization in PNP/NagVis in new OMD sites which use the multisite authorization
• FIX: Localize option for not OMD Environments

WATO

• FIX: Users & Contacts uses case-insensitive sorting of 'Full name' column
• FIX: Removed focus of "Full name" attribute on editing a contact
• FIX: fix layout bug in ValueSpec ListOfStrings (e.g. used in list of explicit host/services in rules)
• FIX: fix inheritation of contactgroups from folder to hosts
• FIX: fix sorting of users, fix lost user alias in some situations
• FIX: Sites not using distritubed WATO now being skipped when determining the prefered peer
• FIX: Updating internal variables after moving hosts correctly (fixes problems with hosts tree processed in hooks)

BI

• FIX: Correct representation of (!), (!!) and (?) markers in check output

Livestatus

• FIX: check_icmp: fixed calculation of remaining length of output buffer
• FIX: check_icmp: removed possible buffer overflow on do_output_char()

Livecheck

• FIX: fixed problem with long plugin output
• FIX: added /0 termination to strings
• FIX: changed check_type to be always active (0)
• FIX: fix bug in assignment of livecheck helpers
• FIX: close inherited unused filedescriptors after fork()
• FIX: kill process group of called plugin if timeout is reached -> preventing possible freeze of livecheck
• FIX: correct escaping of character / in nagios checkresult file
• FIX: fixed SIGSEGV on hosts without defined check_command
• FIX: now providing correct output buffer size when calling check_icmp

Checks & Agents

• FIX: Linux mk_logwatch: iregex Parameter was never used
• FIX: Windows agent: quote '%' in plugin output correctly
• FIX: multipath check now handles '-' in "user friendly names"
• New check mssql_counters.locks: Monitors locking related information of MSSQL tablespaces
• FIX: mssql_counters checks now really only inventorize percentage based counters if a base value is set
• windows_updates agent plugin: Fetching data in background mode, caching update information for 30 minutes
• FIX: netapp_vfiler: fix inventory function (thanks to Falk Krentzlin)
• FIX: netapp_cluster: fix inventory function
• FIX: ps: avoid exception, when CPU% is missing (Zombies on Solaris)
• FIX: win_dhcp_pools: fixed calculation of perc_free
• FIX: mssql_counters: fixed wrong log size output

New in version 1.2.0p3

Multisite

• Added "view" parameter to dashlet_pnpgraph webservice

WATO

• FIX: It is now possible to create clusters in empty folders
• FIX: Fixed problem with complaining empty ListOf() valuespecs

Livestatus

• FIX: comments_with_info in service table was always empty

New in version 1.2.1i1

Core

• Allow to add options to rules. Currently the options "disabled" and "comment" are allowed. Options are kept in an optional dict at the end of each rule.
• parent scan: skip gateways that are reachable via PING
• Allow subcheck to be in a separate file (e.g. foo.bar)
• Contacts can now define *_notification_commands attributes which can now override the default notification command check-mk-notify
• SNMP scan: fixed case where = was contained in SNMP info
• check_imap_folder: new active check for searching for certain subjects in an IMAP folder
• cmk -D shows multiple agent types e.g. when using SNMP and TCP on one host

Checks & Agents

• New Checks for Siemens Blades (BX600)
• New Checks for Fortigate Firewalls
• Netapp Checks for CPU Util an FC Port throughput
• FIX: megaraid_pdisks: handle case where no enclosure device exists
• FIX: megaraid_bbu: handle the controller's learn cycle. No errors in that period.
• mysql_capacity: cleaned up check, levels are in MB now
• jolokia_info, jolokia_metrics: new rewritten checks for jolokia (formerly jmx4perl). You need the new plugin mk_jokokia for using them
• added preliminary agent for OpenVMS (refer to agents/README.OpenVMS)
• vms_diskstat.df: new check file usage of OpenVMS disks
• vms_users: new check for number of interactive sessions on OpenVMS
• vms_cpu: new check for CPU utilization on OpenVMS
• vms_if: new check for network interfaces on OpenVMS
• vms_system.ios: new check for total direct/buffered IOs on OpenVMS
• vms_system.procs: new check for number of processes on OpenVMS
• vms_queuejobs: new check for monitoring current VMS queue jobs
• FIX: mssql_backup: Fixed problems with datetime/timezone calculations
• FIX: mssql agent: Added compatibility code for MSSQL 9
• FIX: mssql agent: Fixed connection to default instances ("MSSQLSERVER")
• FIX: mssql agent: Fixed check of databases with names starting with numbers
• FIX: mssql agent: Fixed handling of databases with spaces in names
• f5_bigip_temp: add performance data
• added perf-o-meters for a lot of temperature checks
• cmctc_lcp.*: added new checks for Rittal CMC-TC LCP
• FIX: diskstat (linux): Don't inventorize check when data empty
• Cisco: Added Check for mem an cpu util
• New check for f5 bigip network interfaces
• cmctc.temp: added parameters for warn/crit, use now WATO rule "Room temperature (external thermal sensors)"
• cisco_asa_failover: New Check for clustered Cisco ASA Firewalls
• cbl_airlaser.status: New Check for CBL Airlaser IP1000 laser bridge.
• cbl_airlaser.hardware: New Check for CBL Airlaser IP1000 laser bridge. Check monitors the status info and allows alerting based on temperature.
• df, hr_fs, etc.: Filesystem checks now support grouping (pools) Please refer to the check manpage of df for details
• FIX: windows agent: try to fix crash in event log handling
• FreeBSD Agent: Added swapinfo call to mem section to make mem check work again
• windows_multipath: Added the missing check for multipath.vbs (Please test)
• carel_uniflair_cooling: new check for monitoring datacenter air conditioning by "CAREL"
• Added Agent for OpenBSD
• Added Checks for UPS devices
• cisco_hsrp: New Check for monitoring HSRP groups on Cisco Routers. (SMIv2 version)
• zypper: new check and plugin mk_zypper for checking zypper updates.
• aironet_clients: Added support for further Cisco WLAN APs (Thanks to Stefan Eriksson for OIDs)
• aironet_errors: Added support for further Cisco WLAN APs
• apache_status: New check to monitor apache servers which have the status-module enabled. This check needs the linux agent plugin "apache_status" installed on the target host.

WATO

• Added permission to control the "clone host" feature in WATO
• Added new role/permission matrix page in WATO to compare permissions of roles
• FIX: remove line about number of rules in rule set overview (that garbled the logical layout)
• Rules now have an optional comment and an URL for linking to documntation
• Rule now can be disabled without deleting them.
• Added new hook "sites-saved"
• Allow @ in user names (needed for some Kerberos setups)
• Implemented new option in WATO attributes: editable When set to False the attribute can only be changed during creation of a new object. When editing an object this attribute is only displayed.
• new: search for rules in "Host & Service Configuration"
• parent scan: new option "ping probes", that allows skipping unreachable gateways.
• User managament: Added fields for editing host/service notification commands
• Added new active check configuration for check_smtp
• Improved visualization of ruleset lists/dictionaries
• Encoding special chars in RegExp valuespec (e.g. logwatch patterns)
• Added check_interval and retry_interval rules for host checks
• Removed wmic_process rule from "inventory services" as the check does not support inventory
• Made more rulegroup titles localizable
• FIX: Fixed localization of default permissions
• FIX: Removed double collect_hosts() call in activate changes hook
• FIX: Fixed double hook execution when using localized multisite
• FIX: User list shows names of contactgroups when no alias given
• FIX: Reflecting alternative mode of check_http (check ssl certificate age) in WATO rule editor
• FIX: Fixed monitoring of slave hosts in master site in case of special distributed wato configurations
• FIX: Remove also user settings and event console rule on factory reset
• FIX: complex list widgets (ListOf) failed back to old value when complaining
• FIX: complex list widgets (ListOf) lost remaining entries after deleting one
• FIX: Fixed error in printer_supply valuespec which lead to an exception when defining host/service specific rules
• FIX: Fixed button url icon in docu-url link

BI

• Great speed up of rule compilation in large environments

Multisite

• Added css class="dashboard_<name>" to the dashboard div for easier customization of the dashboard style of a special dashboard
• Dashboard: Param wato_folder="" means WATO root folder, use it and also display the title of this folder
• Sidebar: Sorting aggregation groups in BI snapin now
• Sidebar: Sorting sites in master control snapin case insensitive
• Added some missing localizations (error messages, view editor)
• Introducted multisite config option hide_languages to remove available languages from the multisite selection dialogs. To hide the builtin english language simply add None to the list of hidden languages.
• FIX: fixed localization of general permissions
• FIX: show multisite warning messages even after page reload
• FIX: fix bug in Age ValueSpec: days had been ignored
• FIX: fixed bug showing only sidebar after re-login in multisite
• FIX: fixed logwatch loosing the master_url parameter in distributed setups
• FIX: Fixed doubled var "site" in view editor (site and siteopt filter)
• FIX: Don't crash on requests without User-Agent HTTP header
• Downtimes: new conveniance function for downtime from now for ___ minutes. This is especially conveniant for scripting.
• FIX: fixed layout of login dialog when showing up error messages
• FIX: Fixed styling of wato quickaccess snapin preview
• FIX: Made printer_supply perfometer a bit more robust against bad perfdata
• FIX: Removed duplicate url parameters e.g. in dashboard (display_options)
• FIX: Dashboard: If original request showed no "max rows"-message, the page rendered during reload does not show the message anymore
• FIX: Fixed bug in alert statistics view (only last 1000 lines were processed for calculating the statistics)
• FIX: Added missing downtime icon for comment view
• FIX: Fixed handling of filter configuration in view editor where filters are using same variable names. Overlaping filters are now disabled in the editor.
• FIX: Totally hiding hidden filters from view editor now

Livecheck

• FIX: Compile livecheck also if diet libc is missing

New in version 1.2.0p2

Core

• simulation_mode: legacy_checks, custom_checks and active_checks are replaced with dummy checks always being OK
• FIX: Precisely define order of reading of configuration files. This fixes a WATO rule precedence problem

Checks & Agents

• FIX: Fixed syntax errors in a bunch of man pages
• if_lancom: silently ignore Point-To-Point interfaces
• if_lancom: add SSID to logical WLAN interface names
• Added a collection of MSSQL checks for monitoring MSSQL servers (backups, tablespaces, counters)
• New check wut_webio_io: Monitor the IO input channels on W&T Web-IO devices
• nfsmounts: reclassify "Stale NFS handle" from WARN to CRIT
• ORACLE agent/checks: better error handling. Let SQL errors get through into check output, output sections even if no database is running.
• oracle_version: new check outputting the version of an ORACLE database - and using uncached direct SQL output.
• ORACLE agent: fix handling of EXCLUDE, new variable ONLY_SIDS for explicitely listing SIDs to monitor
• mk_logwatch on Linux: new options regex and iregex for file selection
• remove obsolete ORACLE checks where no agent plugins where available
• FIX: printer_supply: Fix problem on DELL printers with "S/N" in output (thanks to Sebastian Talmon)
• FIX: winperf_phydisk: Fix typo (lead to WATO rule not being applied)
• Windows agent: new [global] option crash_debug (see online docu)
• AIX agent: new check for LVM volume status in rootvg.
• PostgreSQL plugin: agent is now modified to work with PostgreSQL versions newer than 8.1. (multiple reports, thanks!)

Multisite

• Show number of rows and number of selected rows in header line (also for WATO hosts table)
• FIX: fix problem in showing exceptions (due to help function)
• FIX: fixed several localization problems in view/command processing
• FIX: fixed duplicated settings in WATO when using localisation
• FIX: fixed exception when refering to a language which does not exist
• FIX: Removing all downtimes of a host/service is now possible again
• FIX: The refresh time in footer is updated now when changing the value
• FIX: view editor shows "(Mobile)" hint in view titles when linking to views

WATO

• Main menu of ruleeditor (Host & Service Parameters) now has a topic for "Used rules" - a short overview of all non-empty rulesets.
• FIX: add missing context help to host details dialog
• FIX: set new site dirty is host move due to change of folder attributes
• FIX: fix exception on unknown value in DropdownChoice
• FIX: add service specification to ruleset Delay service notifications
• FIX: fixed problem with disabled sites in WATO
• FIX: massive speedup when changing roles/users and activing changes (especially when you have a larger number of users and folders)
• Add variable CONTACTPAGER to allowed macros in notifications
• FIX: fixed default setting if "Hide names of configuration variables" in WATO
• FIX: ListOfString Textboxes (e.g. parents of folders) do now extend in IE
• FIX: fixed duplicated sections of permissions in rule editor

BI

• New iterators FOREACH_CHILD and FOREACH_PARENT
• FIX: fix handling of FOREACH_ in leaf nodes (remove hard coded $HOST$, replace with $1$, $2$, ..., apply argument substitution)
• New logical datatable for aggregations that have the same name as a host. Converted view "BI Boxes" to this new table. This allows for Host-Aggregations containing data of other hosts as well.
• count_ok: allow percentages, e.g. "count_ok!70%!50%"

New in version 1.2.0p1

Core

• Added macros $DATE$, $SHORTDATETIME$ and $LONGDATETIME$' to notification macros

Checks & Agents

• FIX: diskstat: handle output 'No Devices Found' - avoiding exception
• 3ware_units: Following states now lead to WARNING state instead of CRITICAL: "VERIFY-PAUSED", "VERIFYING", "REBUILDING"
• New checks tsm_stagingpools, tsm_drive and tsm_storagepools Linux/UNIX
• hpux_fchba: new check for monitoring FibreChannel HBAs und HP-UX

Multisite

• FIX: fix severe exception in all views on older Python versions (like RedHat 5.5).

WATO

• FIX: fix order of rule execution: subfolders now take precedence as they should.

New in version 1.2.0

Setup

• FIX: fix building of RPM packages (due to mk_mysql, mk_postgres)

Core

• FIX: fix error message in case of duplicate custom check

WATO

• FIX: add missing icon on cluster hosts to WATO in Multisite views
• FIX: fix search field in host table if more than 10 hosts are shown
• FIX: fix bulk edit and form properties (visibility of attributes was broken)
• FIX: fix negating hosts in rule editor

Checks & Agents

• fileinfo: added this check to Linux agent. Simply put your file patterns into /etc/check_mk/fileinfo.cfg for configuration.
• mysql.sessions: New check for MySQL sessions (need new plugin mk_mysql)
• mysql.innodb_io: New check for Disk-IO of InnoDB
• mysql_capacity: New check for used/free capacity of MySQL databases
• postgres_sessions: New check for PostgreSQL number of sessions
• postgres_stat_database: New check for PostgreSQL database statistics
• postgres_stat_database.size: New check for PostgreSQL database size
• FIX: hpux_if: convert_to_hex was missing on non-SNMP-hosts -replace with inline implementation
• tcp_conn_stats: handle state BOUND (found on Solaris)
• diskstat: support for checking latency, LVM and VxVM on Linux (needs updated agent)
• avoid duplicate checks cisco_temp_perf and cisco_sensor_temp

New in version 1.2.0b6

Multisite

• FIX: Fixed layout of some dropdown fields in view filters
• Make heading in each page clickable -> reload page
• FIX: Edit view: couldn't edit filter settings
• FIX: Fixed styling of links in multisite context help
• FIX: Fixed "select all" button for IE
• FIX: Context links added by hooks are now hidden by the display option "B" again
• FIX: preselected "refresh" option did not reflect view settings but was simply the first available option - usually 30.
• FIX: fixed exception with custom views created by normal users

WATO

• FIX: Fixed "select all" button in hosts & folders for IE
• Optically mark modified variables in global settings
• Swapped icons for rule match and previous rule match (makes for sense)

Core

• FIX: Fixed "make_utf is not defined" error when having custom timeperiods defined in WATO

Checks & Agents

• MacOS X: Agent for MacOS (Thanks to Christian Zigotzky)
• AIX: New check aix_multipath: Supports checking native AIX multipathing from AIX 5.2 onward
• Solaris: New check solaris_multipath: Supports checking native Solaris multipath from Solaris10 and up.
• Solaris: The ZFS Zpool status check now looks more closely at the reported messages. (It's also tested to work on Linux now)

New in version 1.2.0b5

Core

• FIX: handle UTF-8 encoded binary strings correctly (e.g. in host alias)
• FIX: fix configuration of passive checks via custom_checks
• Added NOTIFICATIONTYPE to host/service mail bodies

WATO

• Site management: "disabled" only applies to Livestatus now
• FIX: fix folding problems with dependent host tags
• FIX: Detecting duplicate tag ids between regular tags and auxtags
• FIX: Fixed layout problem of "new special rule" button in rule editor
• FIX: Fixed layout problem on "activate changes" page
• FIX: Added check if contacts belong to contactgroup before contactgroup deletion
• FIX: fix site configuration for local site in Multisite environments
• FIX: "(no not monitor)" setting in distributed WATO now works
• FIX: Site management: replication setting was lost after re-editing
• FIX: fixed problems after changing D/WATO-configuration
• FIX: D/WATO: mark site dirty after host deletion
• FIX: D/WATO: replicate auth.secret, so that login on one site also is valid on the replication slaves
• FIX: implement locking in order to prevent data corruption on concurrent changes
• FIX: Fixed handling of validation errors in cascading dropdown fields
• FIX: fix cloning of users
• Keep track of changes made by other users before activating changes, let user confirm this, new permission can be used to prevent a user from activating foreign changes.
• FIX: Allowing german umlauts in users mail addresses
• Allow list of aux tags to be missing in host tag definitions. This makes migration from older version easier.
• FIX: user management modules can now deal with empty lines in htpasswd
• FIX: Fixed js error on hostlist page with search form

Multisite

• New display type 'boxes-omit-root' for BI views
• Hostgroup view BI Boxes omits the root level
• Finalized layout if view options and commands/filters/painteroptions.
• Broken plugins prevent plugin caching now
• FIX: remove refresh button from dashboard.
• FIX: remove use of old option defaults.checkmk_web_uri
• FIX: fixed outgoing bandwidth in fc port perfometer
• FIX: remove nasty JS error in sidebar
• FIX: fix folding in custom links (directories would not open)
• FIX: animation of rotation treeangle in trees works again
• FIX: Logwatch: Changed font color back to black
• FIX: show toggle button for checkboxes in deactivated state
• FIX: fix repeated stacked refresh when toggling columns
• FIX: disable checkbox button in non-checkboxable layouts
• FIX: fix table layout for views (gaps where missing sometimes)
• FIX: Fixed sorting views by perfdata values which contain floats
• FIX: fix sometimes-broken sizing of sidebar and dashboard on Chrome
• FIX: fix dashboard layout on iPad
• FIX: Fixed styling issues of sidebar in IE7
• FIX: fix problem where filter settings (of checkboxes) are not effective when it comes to executing commands
• FIX: Fixed styling issues of view filters with dropdown fields
• FIX: multisite login can now deal with empty lines in htpasswd
• FIX: Fixed a bunch of js/css errors

Mobile

• FIX: Fixed logtime filter settings in all mobile views
• FIX: fix some layout problems

BI

• New aggregation function count_ok, that counts the number of nodes in state OK.
• FIX: Removed debug output int count_ok aggregation

Checks & Agents

• Linux: Modified cluster section to allow pacemaker/corosync clusters without heartbeat
• AIX: convert NIC check to lnx_if (now being compatible with if/if64)
• AIX: new check for CPU utilization (using section lparstat_aix)
• ntp checks: Changed default value of time offsets to be 200ms (WARN) / 500ms (CRIT)
• aironet_{errors,clients}: detect new kinds of devices (Thanks to Tiago Sousa)
• check_http, check_tcp: allow to omit -I and use dynamic DNS name instead

New in version 1.2.0b4

Core

• New configuration variable snmp_timing, allowing to configure timeout and retries for SNMP requests (also via WATO)
• New configuration variable custom_checks. This is mainly for WATO but also usable in main.mk It's a variant of legacy_checks that automatically creates the required "define command" sections.

WATO

• ps and ps.perf configurable via WATO now (without inventory)
• New layout of main menu and a couple of other similar menus
• New layout of ruleset overviews
• Hide check_mk variable names per default now (change via global settings)
• New layout of global settings
• Folder layout: show contact groups of folder
• Folder movement: always show complete path to target folder
• Sidebar snapin: show pending changes
• New rule for configuring custom_checks - allowing to run arbitrary active checks even if not yet formalized (like HTTP and TCP)
• Added automation_commands to make automations pluginable
• New layout and new internal implementation of input forms
• New layout for view overview and view editor
• Split up host search in two distinct pages
• Use dynamic items in rule editor for hosts and items (making use of ListOfStrings())
• FIX: audit log was not shown if no entry for today existed
• FIX: fix parent scan on single site installations
• FIX: fix folder visibility permission handling
• FIX: honor folder-permissions when creating, deleting and modifiying rules
• FIX: detect non-local site even if unix: is being used
• FIX: better error message if not logged into site during action that needs remote access
• FIX: send automation data via POST not GET. This fixes inventory on hosts with more than 500 services.
• FIX: make config options directly active after resetting them to their defaults (didn't work for start_url, etc.
• FIX: Fixed editing of ListOf in valuespec editors (e.g. used in logwatch pattern editor)
• FIX: Reimplemented correct behaviour of the logwatch pattern "ignore" state which is used to drop the matching log lines

Multisite

• FIX: fixed filter of recent event views (4 hours didn't catch)
• FIX: convert more buttons to new graphical style
• FIX: Logwatch handles logs with only OK lines in it correctly in logfile list views
• FIX: Fixed syntax error in "Single-Host Problems" view definition
• New help button at top right of each page now toggles help texts
• Snapin Custom Links allows to specify HTTP link target
• Redesign of bar with Display/Filter/Commands/X/1,2,3,4,6,8/30,60,90/Edit

Mobile GUI

• FIX: commands can be executed again
• FIX: fixed styling of buttons

Checks & Agents

• FIX: Logwatch: fixed missing linebreak during reclassifing lines of logfiles
• FIX: Logwatch: Logwatch services in rules configured using WATO must be given as item, not as whole service name
• New active check via WATO: check_ldap
• printer_alerts: new configuration variable printer_alerts_text_map. Make 'Energiesparen' on Brother printers an OK state.
• services: This check can now be parameterized in a way that it warn if a certain service is running. WATO formalization is available.

BI

• FIX: make rotating folding arrows black (white was not visible)
• Display format 'boxes' now in all BI views available
• Display format 'boxes' now persists folding state

New in version 1.2.0b3

Core

• FIX: fixed SNMP info declaration in checks: could be garbled up in rare cases
• avoid duplicate parents definition, when using 'parents' and extra_host_conf["parents"] at the same time. The later one has precedence.

Multisite

• Logwatch: Colorizing OK state blocks correctly
• FIX: allow web plugins to be byte compiled (*.pyc). Those are preferred over *.py if existing
• View Editor: Fixed jump to top of the page after moving painters during editing views
• FIX: Fixed login redirection problem after relogging
• Filter for times now accept ranges (from ... until)
• New view setting for page header: repeat. This repeats the column headers every 20'th row.
• FIX: Fixed problem with new eval/pickle
• FIX: Fixed commands in host/service search views

Checks & Agents

• FIX: Made logwatch parsing mechanism a little more robust (Had problems with emtpy sections from windows agent)
• FIX: brocade_fcport: Configuration of portsates now possible
• if_lancom: special version for if64 for LANCOM devices (uses ifName instead of ifDescr)

WATO

• Reimplemented folder listing in host/folders module
• Redesigned the breadcrumb navigation
• Global settings: make boolean switches directly togglable
• New button "Recursive Inventory" on folder: Allows to do a recursive inventory over all hosts. Also allows to selectively retry only hosts that have failed in a previous inventory.
• You can configure parents now (via a host attribute, no rules are neccessary).
• You can now do an automated scan for parents and layer 3 (IP)
• You can configure active checks (check_tcp, ...) via WATO now
• FIX: fix page header after confirmation dialogs
• FIX: Fixed umlaut problem in host aliases and ip addresses created by WATO
• FIX: Fixed exception caused by validation problems during editing tags in WATO
• FIX: create sample config only if both rules.mk and hosttags.mk are missing
• FIX: do not loose host tags when both using WATO-configured and manual ones (via multisite.mk)
• Timeperiods: Make list of exceptions dynamic, not fixed to 10 entries
• Timeperiods: Configure exclusion of other timeperiods
• Configuration of notification_delay and notification_interval

New in version 1.2.0b2

Core

• FIX: Cluster host checks were UNKNOWN all the time
• FIX: reset counter in case of (broken) future time
• FIX: Automation try-inventory: Fixed problem on where checks which produce equal service descriptions could lead to invalid inventory results on cluster hosts.
• FIX: do not create contacts if they won't be assigned to any host or service. Do *not* assign to dummy catch-all group "check_mk".

WATO

• Added new permission "move hosts" to allow/deny moving of hosts in WATO
• Also write out contact definitions for users without contactgroups to have the mail addresses and other notification options persisted
• FIX: deletion of automation accounts now works
• FIX: Disabling notifications for users does work now
• New main overview for rule editor
• New multisite.mk option wato_hide_varnames for hiding Check_MK configuration variable names from the user
• New module "Logwatch Pattern Analyzer" to verify logwatch rules
• Added new variable logwatch_rules which can also be managed through the WATO ruleset editor (Host/Service Parameters > Parameters and rules for inventorized checks > Various applications > Logwatch Patterns)
• Users & Contacts: Added new option wato_hidden_users which holds a list of userids to hide the listed users from the WATO user management GUI.
• WATO API: Added new method rewrite_configuration to trigger a rewrite of all host related wato configuration files to distribute changed tags
• Added new internal hook pre-activate-changes to execute custom code BEFORE Check_MK is called to restart Nagios
• FIX: Only showing sudo hint message on sudo error message in automation command
• FIX: Fixed js eror in IE7 on WATO host edit page
• FIX: Using pickle instead of repr/eval when reading data structures from urls to prevent too big security issues
• Rule editor: improve sorting of groups and rulesets
• FIX: Escaping single quotes in strings when writing auth.php
• FIX: Fix resorting of host tags (was bug in ListOf) Multisite
• Added config option default_ts_format to configure default timestamp output format in multisite
• Layout and design update
• Quicksearch: display site name if more than one different site is present in the current search result list
• FIX: Fixed encoding problem in "custom notification" message
• New configuration parameter page_heading for the HTML page heads of the main frameset (%s will be replaced with OMD site name)
• FIX: Fix problem where snapins where invisible
• FIX: Fixed multisite timeout errors when nagios not running
• Sidebar: some new layout improvements
• Login page is not shown in framesets anymore (redirects framed page to full screen login page)
• FIX: fix exception when disallowing changing display options
• FIX: Automatically redirect from login page to target page when already logged in
• FIX: Updating the dashboard header time when the dashlets refresh

BI

• Added new painter "affected hosts (link to host page)" to show all host names with links to the "hosts" view
• FIX: Fixed filtering of Single-Host Aggregations
• New sorter for aggregation group
• FIX: fix sorting of Single-Host Aggregations after group
• Avoid duplicate rule incarnations when using FOREACH_*
• BI Boxes: allow closing boxes (not yet persisted)
• New filter for services (not) contained in any aggregate
• Configure sorting for all BI views

Checks & Agents

• FIX: snmp_uptime handles empty snmp information without exception
• FIX: Oracle checks try to handle ORA-* errors reported by the agent All oracle checks will return UNKNOWN when finding an ORA-* message
• FIX: filesystem levels set via WATO didn't work, but do now
• FIX: Group filters can handle groups without aliases now
• nfsmounts: Added nfs4 support thanks to Thorsten Hintemann
• megaraid_pdisks megaraid_ldisks: Support for Windows. Thanks to Josef Hack

New in version 1.2.0b1

Core, Setup, etc.

• new tool 'livedump' for dumping configuration and status information from one monitoring core and importing this into another.
• Enable new check registration API (not yet used in checks)
• FIX: fix handling of prefix-tag rules (+), needed for WATO
• FIX: handle buggy SNMP devices with non-consecutive OIDS (such as BINTEC routers)
• Check API allows a check to get node information
• FIX: fix problem with check includes in subchecks
• Option --checks now also applies to ad-hoc check (e.g. cmk --checks=mrpe,df -v somehost)
• check_mk_templates.cfg: added s to notification options of host and service (= downtime alerts)

WATO

• Hosttag-editor: allow reordering of tags
• Create very basic sample configuration when using WATO the first time (three tag groups, two rules)
• Much more checks are configurable via WATO now
• Distributed WATO: Made all URL calls using curl now
• FIX: fix bug in inventory in validate_datatype()
• Better output in case of inventory error
• FIX: fix bug in host_icon rule on non OMD
• FIX: do not use isdisjoint() (was in rule editor on Lenny)
• FIX: allow UTF-8 encoded permission translations
• FIX: Fixed several problems in OMD apache shared mode
• FIX: Do not use None$ as item when creating new rules
• FIX: Do load *all* users from htpasswd, so passwords from users not created via WATO will not be lost.
• FIX: honor site disabling in replication module
• FIX: honor write permissions on folder in "bulk delete"
• FIX: honor permissions for "bulk cleanup" and "bulk edit"
• FIX: honor write permissions and source folder when moving hosts
• FIX: honor permissions on hosts also on bulk inventory
• Only create contacts in Nagios if they are member of at least one contact group.
• It is now possible to configure auxiliary tags via WATO (formerly also called secondary tags)
• FIX: Fixed wrong label "Main Overview" shown for moved WATO folders in foldertree snapin
• FIX: Fixed localization of empty host tags
• FIX: User alias and notification enabling was not saved

Checks & Agents

• hpux_if: fix missing default parameter errors
• hpux_if: make configurable via WATO
• if.include: fix handling of NIC with index 0
• hpux_lunstats: new check for disk IO on HP-UX
• windows - mk_oracle tablespace: Added missing sid column
• diskstat: make inventory mode configurable via WATO
• added new checks for Fujitsu ETERNUS DX80 S2 (thanks to Philipp Höfflin)
• New checks: lgp_info, lgp_pdu_info and lgp_pdu_aux to monitor Liebert MPH/MPX devices
• Fix Perf-O-Meter of fileage
• hpux_snmp_cs.cpu: new SNMP check for CPU utilization on HP-UX.
• if/if64: inventory also picks up type 62 (fastEther). This is needed on Cisco WLC 21xx series (thanks to Ralf Ertzinger)
• FIX: fix inventory of f5_bigip_temp
• mk_oracle (lnx+win): Fixed TEMP tablespace size calculations
• ps: output node process is running on (only for clusters)
• FIX: Linux Agent: Fixed ipmi-sensors handling of Power_Unit data
• hr_mem: handle rare case where more than one entry is present (this prevents an exception of pfSense)
• statgrab_load: level is now checked against 15min average - in order to be consistent with the Linux load check
• dell_powerconnect_cpu: hopefully correctly handle incomplete output from agent now.
• ntp: do not check 'when' anymore since it can produce false alarms.
• postfix_mailq: handle output with 'Total requests:' in last line
• FIX: check_mk-hp_blade_psu.php: allow more than 4 power supplies
• FIX: smart plugin: handle cases with missing vendor (thanks to Stefan Kärst)
• FIX: megaraid_bbu: fix problem with alternative agent output (thanks to Daniel Tuecks)
• mk_oracle: fix quoting problem, replace sessions with version, use /bin/bash instead of /bin/sh

Multisite

• Added several missing localization strings
• IE: Fixed problem with clicking SELECT fields in the new wato foldertree snapin
• Fixed problem when trying to visit dashboards from new wato foldertree snapin
• Chrome: Fixed styling problem of foldertree snapin
• Views: Only show the commands and row selection options for views where commands are possible
• The login mask honors the default_language definition now
• check_bi_local.py: works now with cookie based authentication
• FIX: Fixed wrong redirection after login in some cases
• FIX: Fixed missing stats grouping in alert statistics view
• FIX: Fixed preview table styling in view editor
• FIX: Multisite authed users without permission to multisite are automatically logged out after showing the error message
• Retry livestatus connect until timeout is used up. This avoids error messages when the core is being restarted
• Events view now shows icon and text for "flapping" events
• Use buffer for HTML creation (this speeds up esp. HTTPS a lot)
• FIX: Fixed state filter in log views

Livestatus

• Add missing column check_freshness to services table

BI

• New column (painter) for simplistic box display of tree. This is used in a view for a single hostgroup.

New in version 1.1.13i3

Core, Setup, etc.

• *_contactgroups lists: Single group rules are all appended. When a list is found as a value this first list is used exclusively. All other matching rules are ignored
• cmk -d does now honor --cache and --no-tcp
• cmk -O/-R now uses omd re{start,load} core if using OMD
• FIX: setup.sh now setups up permissions for conf.d/wato correctly
• cmk --localize update supports an optional ALIAS which is used as display string in the multisite GUI
• FIX: Fixed encoding problems with umlauts in group aliases
• FIX: honor extra_summary_host_conf (was ignored)
• new config variable snmpv2c_hosts that allows to enable SNMP v2c but *not* bulkwalk (for some broken devices). bulkwalk_hosts still implies v2c.

Checks & Agents

• Windows agent: output eventlog texts in UTF-8 encoding. This should fix problems with german umlauts in message texts.
• Windows agent: Added installer for the windows agent (install_agent.exe)
• Windows agent: Added dmi_sysinfo.bat plugin (Thanks to Arne-Nils Kromer for sharing)
• Disabled obsolete checks fc_brocade_port and fc_brocade_port_detailed. Please use brocade_fcport instead.
• aironet_errors, statgrab_disk, statgrab_net: Performance data has been converted from counters to rates. You might need to delete your existing RRDs of these checks. Sorry, but these have been that last checks still using counters...
• ibm_imm_health: added last missing scan function
• Filesystem checks: trend performance data is now normalized to MB/24h. If you have changed the trend range, then your historic values will be displayed in a wrong scale. On the other hand - from now on changes in the range-setting will not affect the graph anymore.
• if/if64/lnx_if: pad port numbers with zeros in order to sort correctly. This can be turned off with if_inventory_pad_portnumbers = False.
• Linux agent: wrap freeipmi with lock in order to avoid cache corruption
• New check: megaraid_bbu - check existance & status of LSI MegaRaid BBU module
• HP-UX Agent: fix mrpe (remove echo -e and test -e, thanks to Philipp Lemke)
• FIX: ntp checks: output numeric data also if stratum too high
• Linux agent: new check for dmraid-based "bios raid" (agent part as plugin)
• FIX: if64 now uses ifHighSpeed instead of ifSpeed for determining the link speed (fixes speed of 10GBit/s and 20GBit/s ports, thanks Marco Poet)
• cmctc.temp: serivce has been renamed from "CMC Temperature %s" to just "Temperature %s", in order to be consistent with the other checks.
• mounts: exclude changes of the commit option (might change on laptops), make only switch to ro critical, other changes warning.
• cisco_temp_sensor: new check for temperature sensors of Cisco NEXUS and other new Cisco devices
• oracle_tablespace: Fixed tablespace size/free space calculations
• FIX: if/if64: omit check result on counter wrap if bandwidth traffic levels are used.

Multisite

• Improve transaction handling and reload detection: user can have multiple action threads in parallel now
• Sounds in views are now enabled per default. The new configuration variable enable_sounds can be set to False in multisite.mk in order to disable sounds.
• Added filter for log state (UP,DOWN,OK,CRIT...) to all log views
• New painter for normal and retry check interval (added to detail views)
• Site filter shows "(local)" in case of non multi-site setup
• Made "wato folder" columns sortable
• Hiding site filter in multisite views in single site setups
• Replaced "wato" sidebar snapin which mixed up WATO and status GUIs with the new "wato_foldertree" snapin which only links to the status views filtered by the WATO folder.
• Added "Dashboard" section to views snapin which shows a list of all dashboards
• FIX: Fixed auth problem when following logwatch icon links while using the form based auth
• FIX: Fix problem with Umlaut in contact alias
• FIX: Creating auth.php file on first login dialog based login to ensure it exists after login when it is first needed
• Dashboard: link problem views to *unhandled* views (this was inconsistent)
• Localization: Fixed detection of gettext template file when using the local/ hierarchy in OMD

Mobile

• Improved sorting of views in main page
• Fix: Use all the availiable space in header
• Fix: Navigation with Android Hardwarekeys now working
• Fix: Links to pnp4nagios now work better
• Fix: Host and Service Icons now finger friendly
• Fix: Corrected some buildin views

WATO

• Removed IP-Address attribute from folders
• Supporting localized tag titles
• Using Username as default value for full names when editing users
• Snapshot/Factory Reset is possible even with a broken config
• Added error messages to user edit dialog to prevent notification problems caused by incomplete configuration
• Activate Changes: Wato can also reload instead of restarting nagios
• Replication: Can now handle replication sites which use the form based auth
• Replication: Added option to ignore problems with the ssl certificates used in ssl secured replications
• WATO now supports configuring Check_MK clusters
• FIX: Fixed missing folders in "move to" dropdown fields
• FIX: Fixed "move to target folders" after CSV import
• FIX: Fixed problem with duplicate extra_buttons when using the i18n of multiisite
• FIX: Fixed problem with duplicate permissions when using the i18n of multiisite
• FIX: Writing single host_contactgroups rules for each selected contactgroup in host edit dialog
• FIX: Fixed wrong folder contacgroup related permissions in auth.php api
• FIX: Fixed not up-to-date role permission data in roles_saved hook
• FIX: Fixed duplicate custom columns in WATO after switching languages

BI

• improve doc/treasures/check_bi_local.py: local check that creates Nagios services out of BI aggregates

Livestatus

• ColumnHeaders: on is now able to switch column header on even if Stats: headers are used. Artifical header names stats_1, stats_2, etc. are begin used. Important: Use "ColumnHeaders: on" after Columns: and after Stats:.

New in version 1.1.13i2

Core, Setup, etc.

• cmk -I: accept host tags and cluster names

Checks & Agents

• linux agent - ipmi: Creating directory of cache file if not exists
• dell_powerconnect_cpu: renamed service from CPU to "CPU utilization", in order to be consistent with other checks

Multisite

• Several cleanups to prevent css/js warning messages in e.g. Firefox
• Made texts in selectable rows selectable again
• Adding reschedule icon to all Check_MK based services. Clicks on these icons will simply trigger a reschedule of the Check_MK service
• FIX: ship missing CSS files for mobile GUI
• FIX: rename check_mk.js into checkmk.js in order to avoid browser caching problems during version update

WATO

• Optimized wraps in host lists tag column
• Bulk inventory: Remove leading pipe signs in progress bar on main folder inventory
• NagVis auhtorization file generation is also executed on activate_changes
• Implemented a new inclusion based API for using multisite permissions in other addons
• Inventory of SNMP devices: force implicit full scan if no services are configured yet
• FIX: Calling activate_changes hook also in distributed WATO setups
• FIX: Fixed display bug in host tags drop down menu after POST of form
• FIX: Fixed javascript errors when doing replication in distributed wato environments when not having the sidebar open
• FIX: Fixed search form dependant attribute handling
• FIX: Fixed search form styling issues
• You can now move folders to other folders
• FIX: Distributed WATO: Supressing site sync progress output written in the apache error log

New in version 1.1.13i1

Multisite

• New nifty sidebar snapin "Speed-O-Meter"
• Implemented new cookie based login mechanism including a fancy login GUI
• Implemented logout functionality for basic auth and the new cookie based auth
• Implemented user profile management page for changing the user password and the default language (if available)
• New filter for the (new) state in host/service alerts
• New command for sending custom notifications
• FIX: Fixed encoding problem when opening dashboard
• New icon on a service whos host is in downtime
• Only show most frequently used context buttons (configurable in multisite.mk via context_buttons_to_show)
• Show icon if user has modified a view's filter settings
• New config option debug_livestatus_queries, normal debug mode does not include this anymore
• Icons with link to page URL at bottom of each page
• Logwatch: Switched strings in logwatch to i18n strings
• Logwatch: Fixed styling of context button when acknowleding log messages
• Logwatch: Implemented overview page to show all problematic logfiles
• Add Snapin page: show previews of all snapins
• Add Snapin page: Trying to prevent dragging confusions by using other click event
• New (hidden) button for reloading a snapin (left to the close button)
• Automatically falling back to hardcoded default language if configured language is not available
• Repair layout of Perf-O-Meter in single dataset layout
• FIX: Fixed duplicate view plugin loading when using localized multisite
• FIX: Host-/Servicegroup snapin: Showing group names when no alias is available
• FIX: Removed double "/" from pnp graph image urls in views

BI

• Host/Service elements are now iterable via FOREACH_HOST, e.g. (FOREACH_HOST, ['server'], ALL_HOSTS, "$HOST$", "Kernel" ),
• FIX: Assuming host states is possible again (exception: list index "3")

WATO

• Evolved to full featured monitoring configuration tool!
• Major internal code cleanup
• Hosts can now be created directly in folders. The concept of host lists has been dropped (see migration notes!)
• Configuration of global configuration variables of Check_MK via WATO
• Configuration of main.mk rules
• Configuration of Nagios objects and attributes
• Configuration of users and roles
• Configuration of host tags
• Distributed WATO: replication of the configuration to slaves and peers
• Added missing API function update_host_attributes() to change the attributes of a host
• Added API function num_hosts_in_folder() to count the number of hosts below the given folder
• Added option to download "latest" snapshot
• extra_buttons can now register a function to gather the URL to link to
• Implemented NagVis Authorisation management using WATO users/permissions

Livestatus

• Experimental feature: livecheck -> super fast active check execution by making use of external helper processes. Set livecheck=PATH_TO_bin/livecheck in nagios.cfg where you load Livestatus. Optional set num_livecheck_helpers=NUM to set number of processes. Nagios will not fork() anymore for check exection.
• New columns num_hosts and num_services in status table
• New aggregation functions suminv and avginv (see Documentation)

Core, Setup, etc.

• New configuration variable static_checks[] (used by WATO)
• New configuration variable checkgroup_parameters (mainly for WATO)
• check_submission defaults now to "file" (was "pipe")
• Added pre-configured notification via cmk --notify
• Drop RRA-configuration files for PNP4Nagios completely
• New configuration variable ping_levels for configuring parameters for the host checks.
• cmk --notify: new macros $MONITORING_HOST$, $OMD_ROOT$ and $OMD_SITE$
• make ping_levels also apply to PING services for ping-only hosts (thanks to Bernhard Schmidt)

Checks & Agents

• if/if64: new ruleset if_disable_if64_hosts, that force if on hosts the seem to support if64
• Windows agent: new config variable "sections" in [global], that allows to configure which sections are being output.
• Windows agent: in [logwatch] you can now configure which logfiles to process and which levels of messages to send.
• Windows agent: new config variable "host" in all sections that restricts the folling entries to certain hosts.
• Windows agent: finally implemented <<<mrpe>>. See check_mk.ini for examples.
• Windows agent: do not execute *.txt and *.dir in <<<plugins>>> and <<<local>>>
• Windows agent: make extensions to execute configurable (see example check_mk.ini)
• Windows agent: agent now reuses TCP port even when taskkill'ed, so a system reboot is (hopefully) not neccessary anymore
• Windows agent: section <<<df>>> now also outputs junctions (windows mount points). No external plugin is needed.
• Windows agent: new section <<<fileinfo>>> for monitoring file sizes (and later possible ages)
• logwatch: allow to classify messages based on their count (see man page of logwatch for details)
• fileinfo: new check for monitoring age and size of files
• heartbeat_crm: apply patches from Václav Ovsík, so that the check should work on Debian now.
• ad_replication: added warninglevel
• fsc_*: added missing scan functions
• printer_alerts: added further state codes (thanks to Matthew Stew)
• Solaris agent: changed shell to /usr/bin/bash (fixes problems with LC_ALL=C)

New in version 1.1.12p7

Multisite

• FIX: detail view of host was missing column headers
• FIX: fix problem on IE with background color 'white'
• FIX: fix hitting enter in host search form on IE
• FIX: fix problem in ipmi_sensors perfometer

Checks & Agents

• FIX: fixed man pages of h3c_lanswitch_sensors and statgrab_cpu
• FIX: netapp_volumes: added raid4 as allowed state (thanks to Michaël Coquard) Livestatus
• FIX: fix type column in 'GET columns' for dict-type columns (bug found by Gerhard Lausser)

New in version 1.1.12p6

Checks & Agents

• FIX: lnx_if: remove debug output (left over from 1.1.12p5)

New in version 1.1.12p5

Multisite

• FIX: fix hitting enter in Quicksearch on IE 8
• FIX: event/log views: reverse sorting, so that newest entries are shown first
• FIX: fix dashboard dashlet background on IE
• FIX: fix row highlight in status GUI on IE 7/8
• FIX: fix row highlight after status page reload
• FIX: single dataset layout honors column header settings
• FIX: quote '#' in PNP links (when # is contained in services)
• FIX: quote '#' in PNP image links also
• FIX: add notifications to host/service event view

Checks & Agents

• FIX: lnx_if: assume interfaces as up if ethtool is missing or not working but interface has been used since last reboot. This fixes the problem where interface are not found by inventory.
• FIX: snmp_uptime: handels alternative timeformat
• FIX: netapp_*: scan functions now detect IBM versions of firmware
• FIX: bluecoat_diskcpu: repair scan function
• FIX: mem.vmalloc: fix default levels (32 and 64 was swapped)
• FIX: smart: make levels work (thanks to Bernhard Schmidt)
• FIX: PNP template if if/if64: reset LC_ALL, avoids syntax error
• FIX: dell_powerconnect_cpu: handle sporadic incomplete output from SNMP agent

New in version 1.1.12p4

Multisite

• FIX: sidebar snapin Hostgroups and Servicegroups sometimes failed with non-existing "available_views".
• FIX: Fix host related WATO context button links to point to the hosts site
• FIX: Fixed view editor redirection to new view after changing the view_name
• FIX: Made icon painter usable when displaying hostgroup rows
• Logwatch: Switched strings in logwatch to i18n strings
• Logwatch: Fixed styling of context button when acknowleding log messages
• Logwatch: Implemented overview page to show all problematic logfiles

WATO

• FIX: add missing icon_csv.png
• FIX: WATO did not write values of custom macros to extra_host_conf definitions

New in version 1.1.12p3

Core, Setup, etc.

• FIX: really suppress precompiling on PING-only hosts now

New in version 1.1.12p2

Core, Setup, etc.

• FIX: fix handling of empty suboids
• FIX: do not create precomiled checks for host without Check_MK services

Checks & Agents

• FIX: mem.win: Default levels now works, check not always OK
• FIX: blade_health: fix OID specification
• FIX: blade_bays: fix naming of item and man page

Multisite

• FIX: Fixed styling of view header in older IE browsers
• FIX: Do not show WATO button in views if WATO is disabled
• FIX: Remove WATO Folder filter if WATO is disabled
• FIX: Snapin 'Performance': fix text align for numbers
• FIX: Disallow setting downtimes that end in the past
• FIX: Fix links to downtime services in dashboard
• FIX: Fix popup help of reschedule icon

New in version 1.1.12p1

Core, Setup, etc.

• FIX: fix aggregate_check_mk (Summary host agent status)

Checks & Agents

• FIX: mk_oracle now also detects XE databases
• FIX: printer_alerts: handle 0-entries of Brother printers
• FIX: printer_supply: fix Perf-O-Meter if no max known
• FIX: Added id parameter to render_statistics() method to allow more than one pie dashlet for host/service stats
• FIX: drbd: fixed inventory functions
• FIX: printer_supply: handle output of Brother printers
• FIX: ps.perf PNP template: show memory usage per process and not summed up. This is needed in situations where one process forks itself in irregular intervals and rates but you are interested just in the memory usage of the main process.

Multisite

• FIX: finally fixed long-wanted "NagStaMon create hundreds of Apache processes" problem!
• FIX: query crashed when sorting after a join columns without an explicit title.
• FIX: filter for WATO file/folder was not always working.
• Added filter for hard services states to search and service problems view
• FIX: dashboard problem views now ignore notification period, just as tactical overview and normal problem views do
• FIX: Loading dashboard plugins in dashboard module

New in version 1.1.12

Checks & Agents

• dell_powerconnect_*: final fixed, added PNP-templates
• ps.perf: better error handling in PNP template

Multisite

• Dashboard: fix font size of service statistics table
• Dashboard: insert links to views into statistics
• Dashboard: add links to PNP when using PNP graphs

New in version 1.1.12b2

Core, Setup, etc.

• FIX: fix crash with umlauts in host aliases
• FIX: remove duplicate alias from Nagios config

Checks & Agents

• services: better handling of invalid patterns
• FIX: multipath: fix for another UUID format
• AIX agent: fix implementation of thread count
• blade_bays: detect more than 16 bays
• statgrab_*: added missing inventory functions
• FIX: fix smart.temp WARN/CRIT levels were off by one degree

Multisite

• Remove Check_MK logo from default dashboard
• Let dashboard use 10 more pixels right and bottom
• FIX: do not show WATO icon if no WATO permission
• Sidebar sitestatus: Sorting sites by sitealias
• FIX: removed redundant calls of view_linktitle()

WATO

• FIX: fix update of file/folder title after title property change

Livestatus

• FIX: fix crash on imcomplete log lines (i.e. as as result of a full disk)
• FIX: Livestatus-API: fix COMMAND via persistent connections

New in version 1.1.12b1

Core, Setup, etc.

• FIX: fix cmk -D on cluster hosts
• Made profile output file configurable (Variable: g_profile_path)

Checks & Agents

• FIX: j4p_performance: fix inventory functions
• FIX: mk_oracle: fix race condition in cache file handling (agent data was missing sections in certain situations)
• mrpe: make check cluster-aware and work as clustered_service
• cups_queues: Run agent part only on directly on CUPS servers, not on clients
• FIX: mbg_lantime_state: Fixed output UOM to really be miliseconds
• FIX: ntp: Handling large times in "poll" column correctly
• New check dmi_sysinfo to gather basic hardware information
• New check bintec_info to gather the software version and serial number of bintec routers

Multisite

• FIX: fix rescheduling of host check
• FIX: fix exception when using status_host while local site is offline
• FIX: Fixed not updating pnp graphs on dashboard in some browsers (like chrome)
• FIX: fix URL-too-long in permissions page
• FIX: fix permission computation
• FIX: fixed sorting of service perfdata columns
• FIX: fixed sorting of multiple joined columns in some cases
• FIX: fixed some localisation strings
• Cleanup permissions page optically, add comments for views and snapins
• Added some missing i18n strings in general HTML functions
• Added display_option "w" to disable limit messages and livestatus errors in views
• Service Perfdata Sorters are sorting correctly now
• Added "Administration" snapin to default sidebar
• Tactical Overview: make link clickable even if count is zero
• Minor cleanup in default dashboard
• Dashboard: new dashlet attribute title_url lets you make a title into a link
• Dashboard: make numbers match "Tactical Overview" snapin

Livestatus

• Write messages after initialization into an own livestatus.log

WATO

• FIX: "bulk move to" at the top of wato hostlists works again
• FIX: IE<9: Fixed problem with checkbox events when editing a host
• FIX: "move to" dropdown in IE9 works again

New in version 1.1.11i4

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 <<<ps>>>

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 version 1.1.11i3

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 version 1.1.11i2

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 <<<netctr>>> 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_<sid>=ALL or EXCLUDE_<sid>=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 version 1.1.11i1

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 --profile: 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
• FIX: 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

• FIX: 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 version 1.1.10

Core, Setup, etc.

• --flush now also deletes all autochecks

Checks & Agents

• FIX: hr_cpu: fix inventory on 1-CPU systems (thanks to Ulrich Kiermayr)

New in version 1.1.10b2

Core, Setup, etc.

• FIX: setup.sh on OMD: fix paths for cache and counters
• FIX: check_mk -D did bail out if host had no ip address
• cleanup: all OIDs in checks now begin with ".1.3.6", not "1.3.6"

WATO

• FIX: Fixed bug that lost autochecks when using WATO and cmk -II together

Checks & Agents

• Added check man pages for systemtime, multipath, snmp_info, sylo, ad_replication, fsc_fans, fsc_temp, fsc_subsystems
• Added SNMP uptime check which behaves identical to the agent uptime check

New in version 1.1.10b1

Core, Setup, etc.

• FIX: do not assume 127.0.0.1 as IP address for usewalk_hosts if they are not SNMP hosts.
• FIX: precompile: make sure check includes are added before actual checks
• FIX: setup.sh: do not prepend current directory to url_prefix
• FIX: output agent version also for mixed (tcp|snmp) hosts
• RPM: use BuildArch: noarch in spec file rather than as a command line option (thanks to Ulrich Kiermayr)
• setup.sh: Allow to install Check_MK into existing OMD site (>= 0.46). This is still experimental!

Checks & Agents

• FIX: Windows agent: fix output of event ID of log messages
• FIX: if/if64: output speed correctly (1.50MB/s instead of 1MB/s)
• FIX: drbd now handles output of older version without an ep field
• FIX: repaired df_netapp32
• FIX: Added SNMP scan function of df_netapp and df_netapp32
• FIX: repaired apc_symmetra (was broken due to new option -Ot for SNMP)
• FIX: df, hr_fs and other filesystem checks: fix bug if using magic number. levels_low is now honored.
• FIX: scan function avoids hr_cpu and ucd_cpu_utilization at the same time
• FIX: HP-UX agent: fixed output of df for long mount points (thanks to Claas Rockmann-Buchterkirche)
• FIX: df_netapp/32: fixed output of used percentage (was always 0% due to integer division)
• FIX: fixed manual of df (magic_norm -> magic_normsize)
• FIX: removed filesystem_trend_perfdata. It didn't work. Use now df-parameter "trend_perfdata" (see new man page of df)
• FIX: cisco_temp_perf: fix return state in case of WARNING (was 0 = OK)
• FIX: repair PNP template for df when using trends
• FIX: cisco_qos: fix WATO exception (was due to print command in check)
• FIX: check_mk check: fixed template for execution time
• FIX: blade_health, fc_brocade_port_detailed removed debug outputs
• FIX: netapp_volumes: The check handled 64-bit aggregates correctly
• FIX: netapp_volumes: Fixed snmp scan function
• FIX: blade_*: Fixed snmp scan function
• FIX: nfsmount: fix exception in check in case of 'hanging'
• systemtime: new simple check for time synchronization on Windows (needs agent update)
• Added Perf-O-Meter for non-df filesystem checks (e.g. netapp)
• hp_proliant_*: improve scan function (now just looks for "proliant")

Multisite

• FIX: fix json/python Webservice

New in version 1.1.9i9

Core, Setup, etc.

• FIX: check_mk_templates.cfg: add missing check_period for hosts (needed for Shinken)
• FIX: read *.include files before checks. Fixes df_netapp not finding its check function
• FIX: inventory checks on SNMP+TCP hosts ignored new TCP checks
• local.mk: This file is read after final.mk and *not* backup up or restored
• read all files in conf.d/*.mk in alphabetical order now.
• use snmp commands always with -Ot: output time stamps as UNIX epoch (thanks to Ulrich Kiermayr)

Checks & Agents

• ucd_cpu_load: new check for CPU load via UCD SNMP agent
• ucd_cpu_util: new check for CPU utilization via UCD SNMP agent
• steelhead_status: new check for overall health of Riverbed Steelhead appliance
• steelhead_connections: new check for Riverbed Steelhead connections
• df, df_netapp, df_netapp32, hr_fs, vms_df: all filesystem checks now support trends. Please look at check manpage of df for details.
• FIX: heartbeat_nodes: Fixed error handling when node is active but at least one link is dead
• 3ware_units: Handling INITIALIZING state as warning now
• FIX: 3ware_units: Better handling of outputs from different tw_cli versions now
• FIX: local: PNP template for local now looks in all template directories for specific templates (thanks to Patrick Schaaf)

Multisite

• FIX: fix "too many values to unpack" when editing views in single layout mode (such as host or service detail)
• FIX: fix PNP icon in cases where host and service icons are displayed in same view (found by Wolfgang Barth)
• FIX: Fixed view column editor forgetting pending changes to other form fields
• FIX: Customlinks snapin persists folding states again
• FIX: PNP timerange painter option field takes selected value as default now
• FIX: Fixed perfometer styling in single dataset layouts
• FIX: Tooltips work in group headers now
• FIX: Catching exceptions caused by unset bandwidth in interface perfometer

WATO

• FIX: fix problem with vanishing services on Windows. Affected were services containing colons (such as fs_C:/).

Livestatus

• FIX: fix most compiler warnings (thanks to patch by Sami Kerola)
• FIX: fix memory leak. The leak caused increasing check latency in some situations

New in version 1.1.9i8

Multisite

• New "web service" for retrieving data from views as JSON or Python objects. This allows to connect with NagStaMon (requires patch in NagStaMon). Simply add &output_format=json or &output_format=python to your view URL.
• Added two builtin views for NagStaMon.
• Acknowledgement of problem now has checkboxes for sticky, send notification and persisten comment
• Downtimes: allow to specify fixed/flexible downtime
• new display_options d/D for switching on/off the tab "Display"
• Improved builtin views for downtimes
• Bugfix: Servicegroups can be searched with the quicksearch snapin using the 'sg:' prefix again

WATO

• Fixed problem appearing at restart on older Python version (RH)

New in version 1.1.9i7

Core, Setup, etc.

• Fix crash on Python 2.4 (e.g. RedHat) with fake_file
• Fixed clustering of SNMP hosts
• Fix status output of Check_MK check in mixed cluster setups

Checks & Agents

• PNP templates for if/if64: fix bugs: outgoing packets had been same as incoming, errors and discards were swapped (thanks to Paul Freeman)
• Linux Agent: Added suport for vdx and xvdx volumes (KVM+Virtio, XEN+xvda)

Multisite

• Fix encoding problem when host/service groups contain non-ascii characters.

WATO

• Fix too-long-URL problem in cases of many services on one host

New in version 1.1.9i6

INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES

• Removed out-dated checks blade_misc, ironport_misc and snia_sml. Replaced with dummy checks begin always UNKNOWN.

Core, Setup, etc.

• cmk -D: show ip address of host
• Fix SNMP inventory find snmp misc checks inspite of negative scan function
• Fix output of MB and GB values (fraction part was zero)

Checks & Agents

• megaraid_ldisks: remove debug output
• fc_brocade_port: hide on SNMP scan, prefer fc_brocade_port_detailed
• fc_brocade_port_detailed: improve scan function, find more devices
• New agent for HP-UX
• hpux_cpu: new check for monitoring CPU load average on HP-UX
• hpux_if: New check for monitoring NICs on HP-UX (compatible to if/if64)
• hpux_multipath: New check for monitoring Multipathing on HP-UX
• hpux_lvm: New check for monitoring LVM mirror state on HP-UX
• hpux_serviceguard: new check for monitoring HP-UX Serviceguard
• drbd: Fixed var typo which prevented inventory of drbd general check (Thanks to Andreas Behler)
• mk_oracle: new agent plugin for monitoring ORACLE (currently only on Linux and HP-UX, but easily portable to other Unices)
• oracle_sessions: new check for monitoring the current number of active database sessions.
• oracle_logswitches: new check for monitoring the number of logswitches of an ORACLE instances in the last 60 minutes.
• oracle_tablespaces: new check for monitoring size, state and autoextension of ORACLE tablespaces.
• h3c_lanswitch_cpu: new check for monitoring CPU usage of H3C/HP/3COM switches
• h3c_lanswitch_sensors: new check for monitoring hardware sensors of H3C/HP/3COM switches
• superstack3_sensors: new check for monitoring hardware sensors of 3COM Superstack 3 switches

Multisite

• Fixed aligns/widths of snapin contents and several small styling issues
• Fixed links and border-styling of host matrix snapin
• Removed jQuery hover menu and replaced it with own code

New in version 1.1.9i5

Multisite

• custom notes: new macros $URL_PREFIX$ and $SITE$, making multi site setups easier
• new intelligent logwatch icon, using url_prefix in multi site setups

New in version 1.1.9i4

Core, Setup, etc.

• added missing 'register 0' to host template
• setup: fix creation of symlink cmk if already existing

Multisite

• New reschedule icon now also works for non-local sites.
• painter options are now persisted on a per-user-base
• new optional column for displaying host and service comments (not used in shipped views but available in view editor)

Livestatus

• Check for buffer overflows (replace strcat with strncat, etc.)
• Reduce number of log messages (reclassify to debug)

Checks & Agents

• apc_symmetra: handle empty SNMP variables and treat as 0.

New in version 1.1.9i3

INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES

• You need a current version of Livestatus for Multisite to work!
• Multisite: removed (undocumented) view parameters show_buttons and show_controls. Please use display_options instead.
• Finally removed deprecated filesystem_levels. Please use check_parameters instead.
• Livestatus: The StatsGroupBy: header is still working but now deprecated. Please simply use Columns: instead. If your query contains at least one Stats:- header than Columns: has the meaning of the old StatsGroupBy: header

Core, Setup, etc.

• Create alias 'cmk' for check_mk in bin/ (easier typing)
• Create alias 'mkp' for check_mk -P in bin/ (easier typing)

Multisite

• Each column can now have a tooltip showing another painter (e.g. show the IP address of a host when hovering over its name)
• Finally show host/services icons from the nagios value "icon_image". Put your icon files in /usr/share/check_mk/web/htdocs/images/icons. OMD users put the icons into ~/local/share/check_mk/web/htdocs/images/icons.
• New automatic PNP-link icons: These icons automatically appear, if the new livestatus is configured correctly (see below).
• new view property "hidebutton": allow to hide context button to a view.
• Defaults views 'Services: OK', 'Services: WARN, etc. do now not create context buttons (cleans up button bar).
• new HTML parameter display_options, which allows to switch off several parts of the output (e.g. the HTML header, external links, etc).
• View hoststatus: show PNP graph of host (usually ping stats)
• new tab "Display": here the user can choose time stamp display format and PNP graph ranges
• new column "host_tags", showing the Check_MK host tags of a host
• new datasource "alert_stats" for computing alert statistics
• new view "Alert Statistics" showing alert statistics for all hosts and services
• Sidebar: Fixed snapin movement to the bottom of the snapin list in Opera
• Sidebar: Fixed scroll position saving in Opera
• Fixed reloading button animation in Chrome/IE (Changed request to async mode)
• Sidebar: Removed scrollbars of in older IE versions and IE8 with compat mode
• Sidebar: Fixed scrolling problem in IE8 with compat mode (or maybe older IE versions) which broke the snapin titles and also the tactical overview table
• Sidebar: Fixed bulletlist positioning
• Sidebar: The sidebar quicksearch snapin is case insensitive again
• Fixed header displaying on views when the edit button is not shown to the user
• View pages are not refreshed when at least one form (Filter, Commands, Display Options) is open
• Catching javascript errors when pages from other domain are opened in content frame
• Columns in view editor can now be added/removed/moved easily

Checks & Agents

• Fixed problem with OnlyFrom: in Linux agent (df didn't work properly)
• cups_queues: fixed plugin error due to invalid import of datetime, converted other checks from 'from datetime import...' to 'import datetime'.
• printer_supply: handle the case where the current value is missing
• megaraid_ldisks: Fixed item detection to be compatible with different versions of megaraid
• Linux Agent: Added new 3ware agent code to support multiple controllers (Re-inventory of 3ware checks needed due to changed check item names)

Livestatus

• new column pnpgraph_present in table host and service. In order for this column to work you need to specify the base directory of the PNP graphs with the module option pnp_path=, e.g. pnp_path=/omd/sites/wato/var/pnp4nagios/perfdata
• Allow more than one column for StatsGroupBy:
• Do not use function is_contact_member_of_contactgroup anymore (get compatible with Nagios CVS)
• Livestatus: log timeperiod transitions (active <-> inactive) into Nagios log file. This will enable us to create availability reports more simple in future.

Multisite

• allow include('somefile.mk') in multisite.mk: Include other files. Paths not beginning with '/' are interpreted relative to the directory of multisite.mk

Livestatus

• new columns services_with_info: similar to services_with_state but with the plugin output appended as additional tuple element. This tuple may grow in future so do not depend on its length!

New in version 1.1.9i2

Checks & Agents

• ibm_imm_health: fix inventory function
• if/if64: fix average line in PNP-template, fix display of speed for 20MBit lines (e.g. Frame Relay)

Multisite

• WATO: Fixed omd mode/site detection and help for /etc/sudoers
• WATO: Use and show common log for pending changes
• Sidebar Quicksearch: Now really disabling browser built-in completion dropdown selections

New in version 1.1.9i1

INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES

• TCP / SNMP: hosts using TCP and SNMP now must use the tags 'tcp' and 'snmp'. Hosts with the tag 'ping' will not inventorize any service. New configuration variable tcp_hosts.
• Inventory: The call syntax for inventory has been simplified. Just call check_mk -I HOSTNAME now. Omit the "tcp" or "snmp". If you want to do inventory just for certain check types, type "check_mk --checks=snmp_info,if -I hostnames..." instead
• perfdata_format now defaults to "pnp". Previous default was "standard". You might have to change that in main.mk if you are not using PNP (only relevant for MRPE checks)
• inventory_check_severity defaults to 1 now (WARNING)
• aggregation_output_format now defaults to "multiline"
• Removed non_bulkwalk_hosts. You can use bulkwalk_hosts with NEGATE instead (see docu)
• snmp_communites is now initialized with [], not with {}. It cannot be a dict any longer.
• bulkwalk_hosts is now initizlized with []. You can do += here just as with all other rule variables.
• Configuration check (-X) is now always done. It is now impossible to call any Check_MK action with an invalid configuration. This saves you against mistyped variables.
• Check kernel: converted performance data from counters to rates. This fixes RRD problems (spikes) on reboots and also allows better access to the peformance data for the Perf-O-Meters. Also changed service descriptions. You need to reinventurize the kernel checks. Your old RRDs will not be deleted, new ones will be created.
• Multisite: parameters nagios_url, nagios_cgi_url and pnp_url are now obsolete. Instead the new parameter url_prefix is used (which must end with a /).

Core, Setup, etc.

• Improve error handling: if hosts are monitored with SNMP *and* TCP, then after an error with one of those two agents checks from the other haven't been executed. This is fixed now. Inventory check is still not complete in that error condition.
• Packages (MKP): Allow to create and install packages within OMD! Files are installed below ~/local/share/check_mk. No root permissions are neccessary
• Inventory: Better error handling on invalid inventory result of checks
• setup.sh: fix problem with missing package_info (only appears if setup is called from another directory)
• ALL_SERVICES: Instead of [ "" ] you can now write ALL_SERVICES
• debug_log: also output Check_MK version, check item and check parameters
• Make sure, host has no duplicate service - this is possible e.g. by monitoring via agent and snmp in parallel. duplicate services will make Nagios reject the configuration.
• --snmpwalk: do not translate anymore, use numbers. All checks work with numbers now anyway.
• check_mk -I snmp will now try all checktypes not having an snmp scan function. That way all possible checks should be inventorized.
• new variable ignored_checks: Similar to ignored_checktypes, but allows per-host configuration
• allow check implementations to use common include files. See if/if64 for an example
• Better handling for removed checks: Removed exceptions in check_mk calls when some configured checks have been removed/renamed

Checks & Agents

• Renamed check functions of imm_health check from test_imm to imm_health to have valid function and check names. Please remove remove from inventory and re-inventory those checks.
• fc_brocade_port_detailed: allow to specify port state combinations not to be critical
• megaraid_pdisks: Using the real enclosure number as check item now
• if/if64: allow to configure averaging of traffic over time (e.g. 15 min) and apply traffic levels and averaged values. Also allow to specify relative traffic levels. Allow new parameter configuration via dictionary. Also allow to monitor unused ports and/or to ignore link status.
• if/if64: Added expected interface speed to warning output
• if/if64: Allow to ignore speed setting (set target speed to None)
• wut_webtherm: handle more variants of WuT Webtherms (thanks to Lefty)
• cisco_fan: Does not inventorize 'notPresent' sensors anymore. Improved output
• cisco_power: Not using power source as threshold anymore. Improved output
• cisco_fan: Does not inventorize 'notPresent' sensors anymore. Improved output
• cisco_power: Not using power source as threshold anymore. Improved output
• cisco_power: Excluding 'notPresent' devices from inventory now
• cisco_temp_perf: Do not crash if device does not send current temperature
• tcp_conn_stats: new check for monitoring number of current TCP connections
• blade_*: Added snmp scan functions for better automatic inventory
• blade_bays: Also inventorizes standby blades and has a little more verbose output.
• blade_blowers: Can handle responses without rpm values now. Improved output
• blade_health: More detailed output on problems
• blade_blades: Added new check for checking the health-, present- and power-state of IBM Bladecenter blades
• win_dhcp_pools: Several cleanups in check
• Windows agent: allow restriction to ip addresses with only_hosts (like xinetd)
• heartbeat_rscstatus: Catching empty output from agent correctly
• tcp_conn_stats: Fixed inventory function when no conn stats can be inventoried
• heartbeat_nodes: fix Linux agent for hostname with upper case letters (thanks to Thorsten Robers)
• heartbeat_rscstatus: Catching empty output from agent correctly
• heartbeat_rscstatus: Allowing a list as expected state to expect multiple OK states
• win_dhcp_pools agent plugin: Filtering additional error message on systems without dhcp server
• j4p_performance: Added experimental agent plugin fetching data via jmx4perl agent (does not need jmx4perl on Nagios)
• j4p_performance.mem: added new experimental check for memory usage via JMX.
• if/if64: added Perf-O-Meter for Multisite
• sylo: fix performance data: on first execution (counter wrap) the check did output only one value instead of three. That lead to an invalid RRD.
• Cleaned up several checks to meet the variable naming conventions
• drbd: Handling unconfigured drbd devices correctly. These devices are ignored during nventory
• printer_supply: In case of OKI c5900 devices the name of the supply units ins not unique. The color of the supply unit is reported in a dedicated OID and added to the check item name to have a unique name now.
• printer_supply: Added simple pnp template to have better graph formating for the check results
• check_mk.only_from: new check for monitoring the IP address access restriction of the agent. The current Linux and Windows agents provide this information.
• snmp_info check: Recoded not to use snmp_info_single anymore
• Linux Agent: Fixed <<<cpu>>> output on SPARC machines with openSUSE
• df_netapp/df_netapp32: Made check inventory resistant against empty size values
• df_netapp32: Added better detection for possible 32bit counter wrap
• fc_brocade_port_detailed: Made check handle phystate "noSystemControlAccessToSlot" (10) The check also handles unknown states better now
• printer_supply: Added new parameter "printer_supply_some_remaining_status" to configure the reported state on small remaining capacity.
• Windows agent: .vbs scripts in agents plugins/ directory are executed automatically with "cscript.exe /Nologo" to prevent wrong file handlers
• aironet_clients: Only counting clients which don't have empty values for strength
• statgrab_disk: Fixed byte calculation in plugin output
• statgrab_disk: Added inventory function
• 3ware_disks: Ignoring devices in state NOT-PRESENT during inventory

Multisite

• The custom open/close states of custom links are now stored for each user
• Setting doctype in sidebar frame now
• Fixed invalid sidebar css height/width definition
• Fixed repositioning the sidebar scroll state after refreshing the page
• Fixed mousewheel scrolling in opera/chrome
• Fixed resize bug on refresh in chrome
• New view for all services of a site
• Sidebar snapin site_status: make link target configurable
• Multisite view "Recently changed services": sort newest first
• Added options show_header and show_controls to remove the page headers from views
• Cool: new button for an immediate reschedule of a host or service check: the view is redisplayed exactly at the point of time when Nagios has finished the check. This makes use of MK Livestatus' unique waiting feature.

Livestatus

• Added no_more_notifications and check_flapping_recovery_notification fields to host table and no_more_notifications field to service table. Thanks to Matthew Kent

New in version 1.1.8

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 version 1.1.8b3

Core, Setup, etc.

• Added some Livestatus LQL examples to documentation
• Removed cleanup_autochecks.py. Please use check_mk -u now.
• RRA configuration for PNP: install in separate directory and do not use per default, since they use an undocumented feature of PNP.

Checks & Agents

• postfix_mailq: Changed limit last 6 lines which includes all needed information
• hp_proliant_temp/hp_proliant_fans: Fixed wrong variable name
• hp_procurve_mem: Fixed wrong mem usage calculation
• ad_replication: Works no with domain controller hostnames like DC02,DC02
• aironet_client: fix crash on empty variable from SNMP output
• 3ware_disks, 3ware_units: hopefully repaired those checks
• added rudimentary agent for HP-UX (found in docs/)

Multisite

• added Perf-O-Meter to "Problems of Host" view
• added Perf-O-Meter to "All Services" view
• fix bug with cleaning up persistent connections
• Multisite now only fetches the available PNP Graphs of hosts/services
• Quicksearch: limit number of items in dropdown to 80 (configurable via quicksearch_dropdown_limit)
• Views of hosts: make counts of OK/WARN/CRIT klickable, new views for services of host in a certain state
• Multisite: sort context buttons in views alphabetically
• Sidebar drag scrolling: Trying to compensate lost mouse events when leaving the sidebar frame while dragging

Livestatus

• check for event_broker_options on start
• Fix memory leakage caused by Filter: headers using regular expressions
• Fix two memory leaks in logfile parser

New in version 1.1.8b2

Core, Setup, etc.

• Inventory: skip SNMP-only hosts on non-SNMP checktypes (avoids timeouts)
• Improve error output for invalid checks

Checks & Agents

• fix bug: run local and plugins also when spaces are in path name (such as C:\Program Files\Check_MK\plugins
• mem.vmalloc: Do not create a check for 64 bit architectures, where vmalloc is always plenty
• postfix_mailq: limit output to 1000 lines
• multipath: handle output of SLES 11 SP1 better
• if/if64: output operstatus in check output
• if/if64: inventory now detects type 117 (gigabitEthernet) for 3COM
• sylo: better handling of counter wraps.

Multisite

• cleanup implementation of how user settings are written to disk
• fix broken links in 'Edit view -> Try out' situation
• new macros $HOSTNAME_LOWER$, $HOSTNAME_UPPER$ and $HOSTNAME_TITLE$ for custom notes

New in version 1.1.8b1

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 version 1.1.7i5

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 version 1.1.7i4

Core, Setup, etc.

• Fixed automatic creation of host contactgroups
• templates: make PNP links work without rewrite

Multisite

• Make page handler modular: this allows for custom pages embedded into the Multisite frame work and thus using Multisite for other tasks as well.
• status_host: new state "waiting", if status host is still pending
• make PNP links work without rewrite
• Fix visibility problem: in multisite setups all users could see all objects.

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
• New check netapp_volumes: Checks on/offline-condition and states of netapp volumes

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_$HOSTNAME' 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