~ubuntu-branches/ubuntu/trusty/check-mk/trusty : revision 7

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1.1.12p7:

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1.2.2p2:

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Core:

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* FIX: better error message in case of exception in SNMP handling

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* FIX: livecheck: fixed handling of one-line plugin outputs and missing \n

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(Thanks to Florent Peterschmitt)

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Checks & Agents:

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* FIX: apache_status: use (also) apache_status.cfg instead of apache_status.conf

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* FIX: jolokia_info: ignore ERROR instances

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* FIX: f5_bigip_vserver: fix wrong OID (13 instead of 1), thanks to Miro Ramza

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* FIX: f5_bigip_psu: handle more than first power supply, thanks to Miro Ramza

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* FIX: ipmi_sensors: ignore sensors in state [NA] (not available)

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* FIX: aix_lvm: handle agents that output an extra header line

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* FIX: zfsget: do not assume that devices begin with /, but mountpoints

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* FIX: ipmi_sensors: handle two cases for DELL correctly (thanks to Sebastian Talmon)

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* FIX: check_dns: enable performance data

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* FIX: free_ipmi: fix name of sensor cache file if hostname contains domain part

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* FIX: ad_replication plugin: Fixed typo (Thanks to Dennis Honke)

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Multisite:

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* List of views: Output the alias of a datasource instead of internal name

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* FIX: fix column editor for join columns if "SERVICE:" is l10n'ed

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* FIX: fix invalid request in livestatus query after reconnect

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WATO:

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* FIX: convert editing of global setting to POST. This avoid URL-too-long

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when defining lots of Event Console actions

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* FIX: LDAP configuration: allow DNs without DC=

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Event Console:

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

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* Renamed "Delete Event" to "Archive Event" to clearify the meaning

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Notifications:

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* FIX: contacts with notifications disabled no longer receive

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custom notifications, unless forced

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1.2.2p1:

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Core:

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* FIX: correctly quote ! and \ in active checks for Nagios

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* FIX: Performing regular inventory checks at configured interval even

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when the service is in problem state

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* Check_MK core now supports umlauts in host-/service- and contactgroup names

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Checks & Agents:

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* FIX: vsphere_agent: fix problems whith ! and \ in username or password

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* FIX: check_mk_agent.aix: fix shebang: was python, must be ksh

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* FIX: cisco_qos: Be compatible to newer IOS-XE versions (Thanks to Ken Smith)

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* FIX: mk_jolokia: Handling spaces in application server instances correctly

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Multisite:

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* FIX: do not remove directories of non-exisant users anymore. This lead to

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a deletion of users' settings in case of an external authentication

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(like mod_ldap).

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* FIX: Fixed handling of dashboards without title in sidebar view snapin

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* FIX: titles and services got lost when moving join-columns in views

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* FIX: Fixed exception during initial page rendering in python 2.6 in special cases

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(Internal error: putenv() argument 2 must be string, not list)

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Livestatus:

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

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Notifications:

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* FIX: HTML mails: Handle the case where plugin argument is not set

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* FIX: HTML mails: remove undefinded placeholders like $GRAPH_CODE$

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WATO:

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* Improved handling of valuespec validations in WATO rule editor. Displaying a

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warning message when going to throw away the current settings.

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* FIX: fix bug where certain settings where not saved on IE. This was mainly

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on IE7, but also IE8,9,10 in IE7 mode (which is often active). Affected

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was e.g. the nodes of a cluster or the list of services for service

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inventory

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1.2.2:

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Core:

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* Added $HOSTURL$ and $SERVICEURL$ to notification macros which contain an

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URL to the host/service details views with /check_mk/... as base.

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Checks & Agents:

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* FIX: blade_bx_load: remove invalid WATO group

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* FIX: lnx_bonding: handle also 802.3ad type bonds

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Notifications:

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* FIX: Removing GRAPH_CODE in html mails when not available

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* Using plugin argument 1 for path to pnp4nagios index php to render graphs

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* Little speedup of check_mk --notify

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Multisite:

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* FIX: Fixed umlaut handling in reloaded snapins

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WATO:

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* FIX: Fix several cases where WATO rule analyser did not hilite all matching rules

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* Added tcp port parameter to SSL certificate check (Thanks to Marcel Schulte)

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Event Console:

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

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1.2.2b7:

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Checks & Agents:

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

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WATO:

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* FIX: syntax error in check_parameters

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1.2.2b6:

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Core:

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* FIX: setup: detect check_icmp also on 64-Bit CentOS

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(thanks to あきら)

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* FIX: setup.sh: create auth.serials, fix permissions of htpasswd

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* FIX: livecheck: now able to handle check output up to 16kB

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Checks & Agents:

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* FIX: apc_symmetra_power: resurrect garble PNP template for

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* FIX: check_mk_agent.freebsd: remove garble from output

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(Thanks to Mathias Decker)

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* FIX: check_mk-mssql_counters.locks: fix computation, was altogether wrong

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* FIX: check_mk-mssql_counters.transactions: fix computation also

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* check_http: now support the option -L (urlizing the result)

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* Added mem section to Mac OSX agent (Thanks to Brad Davis)

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* FIX: mssql.vbs (agent plugin) now sets auth options for each instance

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* FIX: jolokia_metrics.mem: error when missing max values

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* Make levels for SMART temperature editable via WATO

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Multisite:

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* FIX: fix localization in non-OMD environment

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(thanks to あきら)

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* FIX: hopefully fix computation of Speed-O-Meter

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* Add $SERVICEOUTPUT$ and $HOSTOUTPUT$ to allowed macros for

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custom notes

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* FIX: Writing one clean message to webserver error_log when write fails

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* FIX: Escaping html entities when displaying comment fields

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* FIX: Monitored on site attribute always has valid default value

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Notifications:

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* FIX: fix event type for recoveries

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* FIX: fix custom notifications on older nagios versions

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* FIX: handle case where type HOST/SERVICE not correctly detected

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Livestatus:

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* FIX: memory leak when removing downtime / comment

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WATO:

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* FIX: Removed "No roles assigned" text in case of unlocked role attribute

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in user management dialog

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* FIX: Fix output of rule search: chapters appeared twice sometimes

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Event Console:

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* FIX: check_mkevents: fix usage help if called with illegal options

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* check_mkevents now allows specification of a UNIX socket

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This is needed in non-OMD environments

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* setup.py now tries to setup Event Console even in non-OMD world

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1.2.2b5:

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Core:

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* Checks can now omit the typical "OK - " or "WARN -". This text

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will be added automatically if missing.

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* FIX: livecheck: fixed compilation bug

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* FIX: avoid simultanous activation of changes by means of a lock

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* FIX: check_mk: convert service description unicode into utf-8

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Checks & Agents:

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* FIX: jolokia_metrics.mem - now able to handle negative/missing max values

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* ADD: tcp_conn_stats: now additionally uses /proc/net/tcp6

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* ADD: wmic_processs: cpucores now being considered when calculating

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user/kernel percentages. (thanks to William Baum)

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* FIX: UPS checks support Eaton Evolution

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* FIX: windows agent plugin: mssql now exits after 10 seconds

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Notifications:

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

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Livestatus:

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* FIX: possible crash with VERY long downtime comments

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* FIX: now able to handle equal comment id of host and service

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WATO:

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* FIX: Fix hiliting of errors in Nagios output

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* FIX: localisation error

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Multisite:

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* FIX: Avoid duplicate "Services" button in host detail views

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* FIX: fix rescheduling icon for services with non-ASCII characters

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* New filter for IP address of a host

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* Quicksearch: allow searching for complete IP addresses and IP

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address prefixes

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* Add logentry class filter to view 'Host- and Service events'

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BI:

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* FIX: fix exception with expansion level being 'None'

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* FIX: speedup for single host tables joined by hostname (BI-Boxes)

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* FIX: avoid closing BI subtree while tree is being loaded

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Event Console:

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* FIX: make hostname matching field optional. Otherwise a .* was

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neccessary for the rule in order to match

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* FIX: event_simulator now also uses case insensitive matches

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1.2.2b4:

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Core:

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* FIX: Fix output of cmk -D: datasource programs were missing

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* FIX: allow unicode encoded extra_service_conf

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* FIX: no default PING service if custom checks are defined

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* FIX: check_mk_base: fixed rounding error in get_bytes_human_readable

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* FIX: check_mk: improved support of utf-8 characters in extra_service_conf

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* FIX: livestatus: table statehist now able to check AuthUser permissions

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* New configuration variable contactgroup_members

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Checks & Agents:

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* FIX: smart - not trying to parse unhandled lines to prevent errors

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* FIX: WATO configuration of filesystem trends: it's hours, not days!

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* FIX: winperf_processor - fixed wrong calculations of usage

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* FIX: mysql: fixed crash on computing IO information

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* FIX: diskstat: fix local variable 'ios_per_sec' referenced before assignment

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* FIX: multipath: ignore warning messages in agent due to invalid multipath.conf

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* FIX: megaraid_bbu: deal with broken output ("Adpater"), found in Open-E

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* FIX: megaraid_pdisk: deal with special output of Open-E

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* FIX: jolokia_metrics.mem: renamed parameter totalheap to total

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* FIX: check_ldap: added missing host address (check didn't work at all)

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* FIX: check_ldap: added missing version option -2, -3, -3 -T (TLS)

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* FIX: mssql: Agent plugin now supports MSSQL Server 2012

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* FIX: hr_mem: fix max value in performance data (thanks to Michaël COQUARD)

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* FIX: f5_bigip_psu: fix inventory function (returned list instead of tuple)

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* FIX: mysql.connections: avoid crash on legacy agent output

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* FIX: tcp_conn_stats: use /proc/net/tcp instead of netstat -tn. This

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should avoid massive performance problems on system with many

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connections

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* Linux agent: limit netstat to 10 seconds

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* ps: Allow %1, %2, .. instead of %s in process_inventory. That allows

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reordering of matched groups

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* FIX: f5_bigip_psu - fixed inventory function

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* FIX: printer_supply - fixed inventory function for some kind of OKI printers

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Multisite:

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* FIX: Fixed problem with error during localization scanning

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* FIX: Fixed wrong localization right after a user changed its language

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* FIX: Improved handling of error messages in bulk inventory

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* FIX: fixed focus bug in transform valuespec class

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* FIX: sidebar snapins which refresh do not register for restart detection anymore

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* FIX: stop doing snapin refreshes after they have been removed

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* FIX: fix user database corruption in case of a race condition

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* FIX: added checks wether or not a contactgroup can be deleted

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* FIX: Avoid deadlock due to lock on contacts.mk in some situations

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* Changed sidebar snapin reload to a global interval (option:

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sidebar_update_interval), defaults to 30 seconds

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* Sidebar snapins are now bulk updated with one HTTP request each interval

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BI:

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* FIX: fixed invalid links to hosts and services in BI tree view

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* FIX: fix exception in top/down and bottom/up views

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* FIX: fix styling of top/down and bottom/up views (borders, padding)

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* FIX: fix style of mouse pointer over BI boxes

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* FIX: list of BI aggregates was incomplete in some cases

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* FIX: single host aggregations didn't work for aggregations += [...]

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* FIX: top-down and bottom-up was broken in case of "only problems"

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* FIX: BI see_all permission is now working again

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* Do not handle PENDING as "problem" anymore

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* Make titles of non-leaf tree nodes klickable

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WATO:

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* FIX: flexible notification valuespec is now localizable

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* FIX: Alias values of host/service/contact groups need to be set and unique

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within the group

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* FIX: Fixed exception when editing contactgroups without alias

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* FIX: Fix localization of rule options

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* FIX: ValueSpec OptionalDropDown: fix visibility if default is "other"

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* Suggest use default value for filesystem levels that make sense

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* Valuespec: CascadingDropdown now able to process choice values from functions

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* Freshness checking for classical passive Nagios checks (custom_checks)

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1.2.2b3:

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Checks & Agents:

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* FIX: Fixed date parsing code ignoring the seconds value in several checks

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(ad_replication, cups_queues, heartbeat_crm, mssql_backup, smbios_sel)

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* FIX: Fixed pnp template for apc_symmetra check when using multiple rrds

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Multisite:

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* FIX: Removed uuid module dependency to be compatible to python < 2.5

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* FIX: remove Javascript debug popup from multi-string input fields

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* FIX: list of strings (e.g. host list in rule editor) didn't work anymore

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* Added dynamic thresholds to the oracle_tablespace check depending on the

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size of the tablespaces.

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* FIX: fix exception in BI-Boxes views of host groups

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* FIX: fix problem where BI-Boxes were invisible if not previously unfolded

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* FIX: support non-Ascii characters in matching expressions. Note:

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you need to edit and save each affected rule once in order

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to make the fix work.

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* FIX: Fixed exception when logging actions exectuted by mkeventd

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* FIX: etc/init.d/mkeventd flush did not work when mkeventd was stopped

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* FIX: Fixed several minor IE7 related layout bugs

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* Add: Improved navigation convenience when plugin output contains [running on ... ]

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* FIX: title of pages was truncated and now isn't anymore

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* Cleanup form for executing commands on hosts/services

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* FIX: Fixed layout of rulelist table in IE*

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* FIX: Fixed adding explicit host names to rules in IE7

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* cmk --notify: added notification script to generate HTML mails including

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the performance graphs of hosts and services

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* cmk --notify: added the macros NOTIFY_LASTHOSTSTATECHANGE, NOTIFY_HOSTSTATEID,

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NOTIFY_LASTSERVICESTATECHANGE, NOTIFY_SERVICESTATEID, NOTIFY_NOTIFICATIONCOMMENT,

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NOTIFY_NOTIFICATIONAUTHOR, NOTIFY_NOTIFICATIONAUTHORNAME, NOTIFY_NOTIFICATIONAUTHORALIAS

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* FIX: more robust deletion of precompiled files to ensure the correct

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creation of the files (Thanks to Guido Günther)

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* FIX: Inventory for cluster nodes who are part of multiple clusters

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* cmk --notify: added plugin for sms notification

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* FIX: precompiled checks: correct handling of sys.exit() call when using python2.4

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* cmk --notify: improved logging on wrong notification type

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* RPM: Added check_mk-agent-scriptless package (Same as normal agent rpm,

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but without RPM post scripts)

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* winperf_processor now outputs float usage instead of integer

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* FIX: mssql_counters.file_sizes - Fixed wrong value for "Log Files" in output

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* FIX: drbd: Parameters for expected roles and disk states can now be set to

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None to disable alerting on changed values

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* printer_supply_ricoh: New check for Ricoh printer supply levels

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* jolokia_metrics.mem: now supports warn/crit levels for heap, nonheap, totalheap

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* jolokia_metrics.mem: add dedicated PNP graph

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* FIX: logwatch.ec: use UNIX socket instead of Pipe for forwarding into EC

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* FIX: logwatch.ec: fixed exception when forwarding "OK" lines

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* FIX: logwatch.ec: fixed forwarding of single log lines to event console

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* Improved performance of logwatch.ec check in case of many messages

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* livestatus_status: new check for monitoring performance of monitoring

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* FIX: diskstat.include: fix computation of queue length on windows

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(thanks to K.H. Fiebig)

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* lnx_bonding: new check for bonding interfaces on Linux

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* ovs_bonding: new check for bonding interfaces on Linux / Open vSwitch

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* if: Inventory settings can now be set host based

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* FIX: lnx_bonding/ovs_bonding: correct definition of bonding.include

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* Add: if check now able to handle interface groups (if_groups)

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* Add: New check for DB2 instance memory levels

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* Add: winperf_phydisk can now output IOPS

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* Add: oracle_tablespace now with flexible warn/crit levels(magic number)

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* Add: new column in hosts/services table: comments_with_extra_info

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Adds the entry type and entry time

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* Added comment painter to notification related views

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* Added compatibility code to use hashlib.md5() instead of md5.md5(), which

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is deprecated in python > 2.5 to prevent warning messages in apache error log

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* Added host filter for "last host state change" and "last host check"

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* FIX: Preventing autocomplete in password fields of "edit profile" dialog

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* The ldap member attribute of groups is now configruable via WATO

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* Added option to enforce lower User-IDs during LDAP sync

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* Improved debug logging of ldap syncs (Now writing duration of queries to log)

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* Displaying date/time of comments in comment icon hover menu (Please

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note: You need to update your livestatus to current version to make this work)

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* FIX: Making "action" context link unclickable during handling actions / confirms

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BI:

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* Use Ajax to delay rendering of invisible parts of the tree (this

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saves lots of HTML code)

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WATO:

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* Added hr_mem check to the memory checkgroup to make it configurable in WATO

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* Make page_header configurable in global settings

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* FIX: Fixed some typos in ldap error messages

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* FIX: Fixed problem on user profile page when no alias set for a user

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* FIX: list valuespecs could not be extended after once saving

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* FIX: fix title of foldable areas contained in list valuespecs

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* FIX: Fixed bug where pending log was not removed in multisite setup

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* FIX: Fixed generation of auth.php (Needed for NagVis Multisite Authorisation)

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* FIX: Fixed missing general.* permissions in auth.php on slave sites in

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case of distributed WATO setups

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* Added oracle_tablespaces configuration to the application checkgroup

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* FIX: Fixed synchronisation of mkeventd configs in distributed WATO setups

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* FIX: "Sync & Restart" did not perform restart in distributed WATO setups

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* FIX: Fixed exception in editing code of ldap group to rule plugin

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* FIX: Don't execute ldap sync while performing actions on users page

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* Added UNIX socket for sending events to the EC

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* Speed up rule matches in some special cases by factor of 100 and more

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* Init-Script: Improved handling of stale pidfiles

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* Init-Script: Detecting and reporting already running processes

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* WATO: Added hook to make the mkeventd reload in distributed WATO setups

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during "activate changes" process

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* Added hook mkeventd-activate-changes to add custom actions to the mkeventd

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"activate changes" GUI function

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* FIX: When a single rule matching raises an exception, the line is now

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matched agains the following rules instead of being skipped. The

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exception is logged to mkeventd.log

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* Improved handling of CTRL+C (SIGINT) to terminate long runnining tasks

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(e.g. inventory of SNMP hosts)

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* FIX: PING services on clusters are treated like the host check of clusters

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* cmk --notify: new environment variable NOTIFY_WHAT which has HOST or SERVICE as value

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* cmk --notify: removing service related envvars in case of host notifications

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* cmk --notify: added test code to help developing nitofication plugins.

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Can be called with "cmk --notify fake-service debug" for example

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* Linux Agent, diskstat: Now supporting /dev/emcpower* devices (Thanks to Claas Rockmann-Buchterkirche)

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* FIX: winperf_processor: Showing 0% on "cmk -nv" now instead of 100%

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* FIX: win_dhcp_pools: removed faulty output on non-german windows 2003 servers

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with no dhcp server installed (Thanks to Mathias Decker)

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* Add: fileinfo is now supported by the solaris agent. Thanks to Daniel Roettgermann

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* Logwatch: unknown eventlog level ('u') from windows agent treated as warning

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* FIX: logwatch_ec: Added state undefined as priority

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* Add: New Check for Raritan EMX Devices

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* Add: mailman_lists - New check to gather statistics of mailman mailinglists

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* FIX: megaraid_bbu - Handle missing charge information (ignoring them)

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* FIX: myssql_tablespaces - fix PNP graph (thanks to Christian Zock)

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* kernel.util: add "Average" information to PNP graph

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* Windows Agent: Fix startup crash on adding a logfiles pattern, but no logfile specified

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* Windows Agent: check_mk.example.ini: commented logfiles section

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* FIX: Fixed rendering of dashboard globes in opera

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* When having row selections enabled and no selected and performing

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actions an error message is displayed instead of performing the action on

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all rows

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* Storing row selections in user files, cleaned up row selection

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handling to single files. Cleaned up GET/POST mixups in confirm dialogs

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* Add: New user_options to limit seen nagios objects even the role is set to see all

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* Fix: On site configaration changes, only relevant sites are marked as dirty

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* Fix: Distributed setup: Correct cleanup of pending changes logfile after "Activate changes"

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* FIX: LDAP: Fixed problem with special chars in LDAP queries when having

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contactgroup sync plugin enabled

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* FIX: LDAP: OpenLDAP - Changed default filter for users

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* FIX: LDAP: OpenLDAP - Using uniqueMember instead of member when searching for groups of a user

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* FIX: LDAP: Fixed encoding problem of ldap retrieved usernames

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* LDAP: Role sync plugin validates the given group DNs with the group base dn now

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* LDAP: Using roles defined in default user profile in role sync plugin processing

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* LDAP: Improved error handling in case of misconfigurations

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* LDAP: Reduced number of ldap querys during a single page request / sync process

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* LDAP: Implemnted some kind of debug logging for LDAP communication

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* FIX: Re-added an empty file as auth.py (wato plugin) to prevent problems during update

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* CPU load ruleset does now accept float values

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* Added valuespec for cisco_mem check to configure thresholds via WATO

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* FIX: Fixed displaying of tag selections when creating a rule in the ruleeditor

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* FIX: Rulesets are always cloned in the same folder

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* Flexibile notifications: removed "debug notification" script from GUI (you can make it

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executable to be choosable again)

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* Flexibile notifications: added plain mail notification which uses the

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mail templates from global settings dialog

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* Added FOREACH_SERVICE capability to leaf nodes

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* Add: Bi views now support debug of livestatus queries

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* Better exception handling when executing "Check_MK"-Check. Printing python

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exception to status output and traceback to long output now.

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* Added HOSTTAGS to notification macros which contains all Check_MK-Tags

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separated by spaces

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* Output better error message in case of old inventory function

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* Do object cache precompile for monitoring core on cmk -R/-O

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* Avoid duplicate verification of monitoring config on cmk -R/-O

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* FIX: Parameter --cleanup-autochecks (long for -u) works now like suggested in help

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* FIX: Added error handling when trying to --restore with a non existant file

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* Fix flexible notifications on non-OMD systems

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* Linux Agent, mk_postgres: Supporting pgsql and postgres as user

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* Linux Agent, mk_postgres: Fixed database stats query to be compatible

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with more versions of postgres

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* apache_status: Modified to be usable on python < 2.6 (eg RHEL 5.x)

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* apache_status: Fixed handling of PIDs with more than 4 numbers

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* Add: New Check for Rittal CMC PSM-M devices

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* Smart plugin: Only use relevant numbers of serial

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* Add: ibm_xraid_pdisks - new check for agentless monitoring of disks on IBM SystemX servers.

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* Add: hp_proliant_da_cntlr check for disk controllers in HP Proliant servers

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* Add: Check to monitor Storage System Drive Box Groups attached to HP servers

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* Add: check to monitor the summary status of HP EML tape libraries

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* Add: apc_rackpdu_status - monitor the power consumption on APC rack PDUs

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* Add: sym_brightmail_queues - monitor the queue levels on Symantec Brightmail mail scanners.

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* Add: plesk_domains - List domains configured in plesk installations

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* Add: plesk_backups - Monitor backup spaces configured for domains in plesk

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* Add: mysql_connections - Monitor number of parallel connections to mysql daemon

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* Add: flexible notifcations: filter by hostname

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* New script multisite_to_mrpe for exporting services from a remote system

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* FIX: postgres_sessions: handle case of no active/no idle sessions

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* FIX: correct backslash representation of windows logwatch files

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* FIX: postgres_sessions: handle case of no active/no idle sessions

498

* FIX: zfsget: fix exception on snapshot volumes (where available is '-')

499

* FIX: zfsget: handle passed-through filesystems (need agent update)

500

* FIX: loading notification scripts in local directory for real

501

* FIX: oracle_version: return valid check result in case of missing agent info

502

* FIX: apache_status: fixed bug with missing 'url', wrote man page

503

* FIX: fixed missing localisation in check_parameteres.py

504

* FIX: userdb/ldap.py: fixed invalid call site.getsitepackages() for python 2.6

505

* FIX: zpool_status: fixed crash when spare devices were available

506

* FIX: hr_fs: handle negative values in order to larger disks (thanks to Christof Musik)

507

* FIX: mssql_backup: Fixed wrong calculation of backup age in seconds

508

509

510

Multisite:

511

* Implemented LDAP integration of Multisite. You can now authenticate your

512

users using the form based authentication with LDAP. It is also possible

513

to synchronize some attributes like mail addresses, names and roles from

514

LDAP into multisite.

515

* Restructured cookie auth cookies (all auth cookies will be invalid

516

after update -> all users have to login again)

517

* Modularized login and cookie validation

518

* Logwatch: Added buttons to acknowledge all logs of all hosts or really

519

all logs which currently have a problem

520

* Check reschedule icon now works on services containing an \

521

* Now showing correct representation of SI unit kilo ( k )

522

* if perfometer now differs between byte and bit output

523

* Use pprint when writing global settings (makes files more readable)

524

* New script for settings/removing downtimes: doc/treasures/downtime

525

* New option when setting host downtimes for also including child hosts

526

* Option dials (refresh, number of columns) now turnable by mouse wheel

527

* Views: Commands/Checkboxes buttons are now activated dynamically (depending on data displayed)

528

* FIX: warn / crit levels in if-check when using "bit" as unit

529

* FIX: Fixed changing own password when notifications are disabled

530

* FIX: On page reload, now updating the row field in the headline

531

* FIX: ListOfStrings Fields now correctly autoappend on focus

532

* FIX: Reloading of sidebar after activate changes

533

* FIX: Main Frame without sidebar: reload after activate changes

534

* FIX: output_format json: handle newlines correctly

535

* FIX: handle ldap logins with ',' in distinguished name

536

* FIX: quote HTML variable names, fixes potential JS injection

537

* FIX: Sidebar not raising exceptions on configured but not available snapins

538

* FIX: Quicksearch: Fixed Up/Down arrow handling in chrome

539

* FIX: Speedometer: Terminating data updates when snapin is removed from sidebar

540

* FIX: Views: toggling forms does not disable the checkbox button anymore

541

* FIX: Dashboard: Fixed wrong display options in links after data reloads

542

* FIX: Fixed "remove all downtimes" button in views when no downtimes to be deleted

543

* FIX: Services in hosttables now use the service name as header (if no custom title set)

544

* New filter for host_contact and service_contact

545

546

WATO:

547

* Add: Creating a new rule immediately opens its edit formular

548

* The rules formular now uses POST as transaction method

549

* Modularized the authentication and user management code

550

* Default config: add contact group 'all' and put all hosts into it

551

* Reverse order of Condition, Value and General options in rule editor

552

* Allowing "%" and "+" in mail prefixes of contacts now

553

* FIX: Fixed generated manual check definitions for checks without items

554

like ntp_time and tcp_conn_stats

555

* FIX: Persisting changing of folder titles when only the title has changed

556

* FIX: Fixed rendering bug after folder editing

557

558

Event Console:

559

* Replication slave can now copy rules from master into local configuration

560

via a new button in WATO.

561

* Speedup access to event history by earlier filtering and prefiltering with grep

562

* New builtin syslog server! Please refer to online docu for details.

563

* Icon to events of host links to view that has context button to host

564

* FIX: remove event pipe on program shutdown, prevents syslog freeze

565

* FIX: hostnames in livestatus query now being utf8 encoded

566

* FIX: fixed a nastiness when reading from local pipe

567

* FIX: fix exception in rules that use facility local7

568

* FIX: fix event icon in case of using TCP access to EC

569

* FIX: Allowing ":" in application field (e.g. needed for windows logfiles)

570

* FIX: fix bug in Filter "Hostname/IP-Address of original event"

571

572

Livestatus:

573

* FIX: Changed logging output "Time to process request" to be debug output

574

575

1.2.1i3:

576

Core:

577

* added HOST/SERVICEPROBLEMID to notification macros

578

* New configuration check_periods for limiting execution of

579

Check_MK checks to a certain time period.

580

581

Checks & Agents:

582

* Windows agent: persist offsets for logfile monitoring

583

584

Notifications:

585

* fix two errors in code that broke some service notifications

586

587

Event Console:

588

* New performance counter for client request processing time

589

* FIX: fixed bug in rule optimizer with ranges of syslog priorities

590

591

WATO:

592

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

593

594

Checks & Agents:

595

* logwatch: Fixed confusion with ignore/ok states of log messages

596

* AIX Agent: now possible to specify -d flag. Please test :)

597

598

1.2.1i2:

599

Core:

600

* Improved validation of inventory data reported by checks

601

* Added -d option to precompiled checks to enable debug mode

602

* doc/treasures: added script for printing RRD statistics

603

604

Notifications:

605

* New system of custom notification, with WATO support

606

607

Event Console:

608

* Moved source of Event Console into Check_MK project

609

* New button for resetting all rule hits counters

610

* When saving a rule then its hits counter is always reset

611

* New feature of hiding certain actions from the commands in the status GUI

612

* FIX: rule simulator ("Try out") now handles cancelling rules correctly

613

* New global option for enabling log entries for rule hits (debugging)

614

* New icon linking to event views for the event services

615

* check_mkevents outputs last worst line in service output

616

* Max. number of queued connections on status sockets is configurable now

617

* check_mkevents: new option -a for ignoring acknowledged events

618

* New sub-permissions for changing comment and contact while updating an event

619

* New button for generating test events directly via WATO

620

* Allow Event Console to replicate from another (master) console for

621

fast failover.

622

* Allow event expiration also on acknowledged events (configurable)

623

624

Multisite:

625

* Enable automation login with _username= and _secret=, while

626

_secret is the content of var/check_mk/web/$USER/automation.secret

627

* FIX: Fixed releasing of locks and livestatus connections when logging out

628

* FIX: Fixed login/login confusions with index page caching

629

* FIX: Speed-o-meter: Fixed calculation of Check_MK passive check invervals

630

* Removed focus of "Full name" attribute on editing a contact

631

* Quicksearch: Convert search text to regex when accessing livestatus

632

* FIX: WATO Folder filter not available when WATO disabled

633

* WATO Folder Filter no longer available in single host views

634

* Added new painters "Service check command expanded" and

635

"Host check command expanded"

636

* FIX: Corrected garbled description for sorter "Service Performance data"

637

* Dashboard globes can now be filtered by host_contact_group/service_contact_group

638

* Dashboard "iframe" attribute can now be rendered dynamically using the

639

"iframefunc" attribute in the dashlet declaration

640

* Dashboard header can now be hidden by setting "title" to None

641

* Better error handling in PNP-Graph hover menus in case of invalid responses

642

643

Livestatus:

644

* Added new table statehist, used for SLA queries

645

* Added new column check_command_expanded in table hosts

646

* Added new column check_command_expanded in table services

647

* New columns livestatus_threads, livestatus_{active,queued}_connections

648

649

BI:

650

* Added missing localizations

651

* Added option bi_precompile_on_demand to split compilations of

652

the aggregations in several fragments. If possible only the needed

653

aggregations are compiled to reduce the time a user has to wait for

654

BI based view. This optimizes BI related views which display

655

information for a specific list of hosts or aggregation groups.

656

* Added new config option bi_compile_log to collect statistics about

657

aggregation compilations

658

* Aggregations can now be part of more than one aggregation group

659

(just configure a list of group names instead of a group name string)

660

* Correct representation of (!), (!!) and (?) markers in check output

661

* Corrected representation of assumed state in box layout

662

* Feature: Using parameters for hosttags

663

664

WATO:

665

* Added progress indicator in single site WATO "Activate Changes"

666

* Users & Contacts: Case-insensitive sorting of 'Full name' column

667

* ntp/ntp.time parameters are now configurable via WATO

668

* FIX: Implemented basic non HTTP 200 status code response handling in interactive

669

progress dialogs (e.g. bulk inventory mode)

670

* FIX: Fixed editing of icon_image rules

671

* Added support of locked hosts and folders ( created by CMDB )

672

* Logwatch: logwatch agents/plugins now with ok pattern support

673

* Valuespec: Alternative Value Spec now shows helptext of its elements

674

* Valuespec: DropdownChoice, fixed exception on validate_datatype

675

676

Checks & Agents:

677

* New check mssql_counters.locks: Monitors locking related information of

678

MSSQL tablespaces

679

* Check_MK service is now able to output additional performance data

680

user_time, system_time, children_user_time, children_system time

681

* windows_updates agent plugin: Fetching data in background mode, caching

682

update information for 30 minutes

683

* Windows agent: output ullTotalVirtual and ullAvailVirtual (not yet

684

being used by check)

685

* Solaris agent: add <<<uptime>>> section (thanks to Daniel Roettgermann)

686

* Added new WATO configurable option inventory_services_rules for the

687

windows services inventory check

688

* Added new WATO configurable option inventory_processes_rules for the

689

ps and ps.perf inventory

690

* FIX: mssql_counters checks now really only inventorize percentage based

691

counters if a base value is set

692

* win_dhcp_pools: do not inventorize empty pools any more. You can switch

693

back to old behaviour with win_dhcp_pools_inventorize_empty = True

694

* Added new Check for Eaton UPS Devices

695

* zfsget: new check for monitoring ZFS disk usage for Linux, Solaris, FreeBSD

696

(you need to update your agent as well)

697

* Added new Checks for Gude PDU Units

698

* logwatch: Working around confusion with OK/Ignore handling in logwatch_rules

699

* logwatch_ec: Added new subcheck to forward all incoming logwatch messages

700

to the event console. With this check you can use the Event Console

701

mechanisms and GUIs instead of the classic logwatch GUI. It can be

702

enabled on "Global Settings" page in WATO for your whole installation.

703

After enabling it you need to reinventorize your hosts.

704

* Windows Update Check: Now with caching, Thanks to Phil Randal and Patrick Schlüter

705

* Windows Check_MK Agent: Now able to parse textfiles for logwatch output

706

* Added new Checks sni_octopuse_cpu, sni_octopuse_status, sni_octopuse_trunks: These

707

allow monitoring Siemens HiPath 3000/5000 series PBX.

708

* if-checks now support "bit" as measurement unit

709

* winperf_phydisk: monitor average queue length for read/write

710

711

1.2.0p5:

712

Checks & Agents:

713

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

714

715

BI:

716

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

717

718

1.2.0p4:

719

WATO:

720

* FIX: fixed detection of existing groups when creating new groups

721

* FIX: allow email addresses like test@test.test-test.com

722

* FIX: Fixed Password saving problem in user settings

723

724

Checks & Agents:

725

* FIX: postgres_sessions: handle case of no active/no idle sessions

726

* FIX: winperf_processor: handle parameters "None" (as WATO creates)

727

* FIX: mssql_counters: remove debug output, fix bytes output

728

* FIX: mssql_tablespaces: gracefully handle garbled agent output

729

730

Multisite:

731

* FIX: performeter_temparature now returns unicode string, because of °C

732

* FIX: output_format json in webservices now using " as quotes

733

734

Livestatus:

735

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

736

737

1.2.0p3:

738

Mulitisite

739

* Added "view" parameter to dashlet_pnpgraph webservice

740

* FIX: BI: Assuming "OK" for hosts is now possible

741

* FIX: Fixed error in makeuri() calls when no parameters in URL

742

* FIX: Try out mode in view editor does not show context buttons anymore

743

* FIX: WATO Folder filter not available when WATO disabled

744

* FIX: WATO Folder Filter no longer available in single host views

745

* FIX: Quicksearch converts search text to regex when accessing livestatus

746

* FIX: Fixed "access denied" problem with multisite authorization in PNP/NagVis

747

in new OMD sites which use the multisite authorization

748

* FIX: Localize option for not OMD Environments

749

750

WATO:

751

* FIX: Users & Contacts uses case-insensitive sorting of 'Full name' column

752

* FIX: Removed focus of "Full name" attribute on editing a contact

753

* FIX: fix layout bug in ValueSpec ListOfStrings (e.g. used in

754

list of explicit host/services in rules)

755

* FIX: fix inheritation of contactgroups from folder to hosts

756

* FIX: fix sorting of users, fix lost user alias in some situations

757

* FIX: Sites not using distritubed WATO now being skipped when determining

758

the prefered peer

759

* FIX: Updating internal variables after moving hosts correctly

760

(fixes problems with hosts tree processed in hooks)

761

762

BI:

763

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

764

765

Livestatus:

766

* FIX: check_icmp: fixed calculation of remaining length of output buffer

767

* FIX: check_icmp: removed possible buffer overflow on do_output_char()

768

769

Livecheck:

770

* FIX: fixed problem with long plugin output

771

* FIX: added /0 termination to strings

772

* FIX: changed check_type to be always active (0)

773

* FIX: fix bug in assignment of livecheck helpers

774

* FIX: close inherited unused filedescriptors after fork()

775

* FIX: kill process group of called plugin if timeout is reached

776

-> preventing possible freeze of livecheck

777

* FIX: correct escaping of character / in nagios checkresult file

778

* FIX: fixed SIGSEGV on hosts without defined check_command

779

* FIX: now providing correct output buffer size when calling check_icmp

780

781

Checks & Agents:

782

* FIX: Linux mk_logwatch: iregex Parameter was never used

783

* FIX: Windows agent: quote '%' in plugin output correctly

784

* FIX: multipath check now handles '-' in "user friendly names"

785

* New check mssql_counters.locks: Monitors locking related information of

786

MSSQL tablespaces

787

* FIX: mssql_counters checks now really only inventorize percentage based

788

counters if a base value is set

789

* windows_updates agent plugin: Fetching data in background mode, caching

790

update information for 30 minutes

791

* FIX: netapp_vfiler: fix inventory function (thanks to Falk Krentzlin)

792

* FIX: netapp_cluster: fix inventory function

793

* FIX: ps: avoid exception, when CPU% is missing (Zombies on Solaris)

794

* FIX: win_dhcp_pools: fixed calculation of perc_free

795

* FIX: mssql_counters: fixed wrong log size output

796

797

1.2.0p3:

798

Multisite:

799

* Added "view" parameter to dashlet_pnpgraph webservice

800

801

WATO:

802

* FIX: It is now possible to create clusters in empty folders

803

* FIX: Fixed problem with complaining empty ListOf() valuespecs

804

805

Livestatus:

806

* FIX: comments_with_info in service table was always empty

807

808

1.2.1i1:

809

Core:

810

* Allow to add options to rules. Currently the options "disabled" and

811

"comment" are allowed. Options are kept in an optional dict at the

812

end of each rule.

813

* parent scan: skip gateways that are reachable via PING

814

* Allow subcheck to be in a separate file (e.g. foo.bar)

815

* Contacts can now define *_notification_commands attributes which can now

816

override the default notification command check-mk-notify

817

* SNMP scan: fixed case where = was contained in SNMP info

818

* check_imap_folder: new active check for searching for certain subjects

819

in an IMAP folder

820

* cmk -D shows multiple agent types e.g. when using SNMP and TCP on one host

821

822

Checks & Agents:

823

* New Checks for Siemens Blades (BX600)

824

* New Checks for Fortigate Firewalls

825

* Netapp Checks for CPU Util an FC Port throughput

826

* FIX: megaraid_pdisks: handle case where no enclosure device exists

827

* FIX: megaraid_bbu: handle the controller's learn cycle. No errors in that period.

828

* mysql_capacity: cleaned up check, levels are in MB now

829

* jolokia_info, jolokia_metrics: new rewritten checks for jolokia (formerly

830

jmx4perl). You need the new plugin mk_jokokia for using them

831

* added preliminary agent for OpenVMS (refer to agents/README.OpenVMS)

832

* vms_diskstat.df: new check file usage of OpenVMS disks

833

* vms_users: new check for number of interactive sessions on OpenVMS

834

* vms_cpu: new check for CPU utilization on OpenVMS

835

* vms_if: new check for network interfaces on OpenVMS

836

* vms_system.ios: new check for total direct/buffered IOs on OpenVMS

837

* vms_system.procs: new check for number of processes on OpenVMS

838

* vms_queuejobs: new check for monitoring current VMS queue jobs

839

* FIX: mssql_backup: Fixed problems with datetime/timezone calculations

840

* FIX: mssql agent: Added compatibility code for MSSQL 9

841

* FIX: mssql agent: Fixed connection to default instances ("MSSQLSERVER")

842

* FIX: mssql agent: Fixed check of databases with names starting with numbers

843

* FIX: mssql agent: Fixed handling of databases with spaces in names

844

* f5_bigip_temp: add performance data

845

* added perf-o-meters for a lot of temperature checks

846

* cmctc_lcp.*: added new checks for Rittal CMC-TC LCP

847

* FIX: diskstat (linux): Don't inventorize check when data empty

848

* Cisco: Added Check for mem an cpu util

849

* New check for f5 bigip network interfaces

850

* cmctc.temp: added parameters for warn/crit, use now WATO rule

851

"Room temperature (external thermal sensors)"

852

* cisco_asa_failover: New Check for clustered Cisco ASA Firewalls

853

* cbl_airlaser.status: New Check for CBL Airlaser IP1000 laser bridge.

854

* cbl_airlaser.hardware: New Check for CBL Airlaser IP1000 laser bridge.

855

Check monitors the status info and allows alerting based on temperature.

856

* df, hr_fs, etc.: Filesystem checks now support grouping (pools)

857

Please refer to the check manpage of df for details

858

* FIX: windows agent: try to fix crash in event log handling

859

* FreeBSD Agent: Added swapinfo call to mem section to make mem check work again

860

* windows_multipath: Added the missing check for multipath.vbs (Please test)

861

* carel_uniflair_cooling: new check for monitoring datacenter air conditioning by "CAREL"

862

* Added Agent for OpenBSD

863

* Added Checks for UPS devices

864

* cisco_hsrp: New Check for monitoring HSRP groups on Cisco Routers. (SMIv2 version)

865

* zypper: new check and plugin mk_zypper for checking zypper updates.

866

* aironet_clients: Added support for further Cisco WLAN APs (Thanks to Stefan Eriksson for OIDs)

867

* aironet_errors: Added support for further Cisco WLAN APs

868

* apache_status: New check to monitor apache servers which have the status-module enabled.

869

This check needs the linux agent plugin "apache_status" installed on the target host.

870

871

WATO:

872

* Added permission to control the "clone host" feature in WATO

873

* Added new role/permission matrix page in WATO to compare

874

permissions of roles

875

* FIX: remove line about number of rules in rule set overview

876

(that garbled the logical layout)

877

* Rules now have an optional comment and an URL for linking to

878

documntation

879

* Rule now can be disabled without deleting them.

880

* Added new hook "sites-saved"

881

* Allow @ in user names (needed for some Kerberos setups)

882

* Implemented new option in WATO attributes: editable

883

When set to False the attribute can only be changed during creation

884

of a new object. When editing an object this attribute is only displayed.

885

* new: search for rules in "Host & Service Configuration"

886

* parent scan: new option "ping probes", that allows skipping

887

unreachable gateways.

888

* User managament: Added fields for editing host/service notification commands

889

* Added new active check configuration for check_smtp

890

* Improved visualization of ruleset lists/dictionaries

891

* Encoding special chars in RegExp valuespec (e.g. logwatch patterns)

892

* Added check_interval and retry_interval rules for host checks

893

* Removed wmic_process rule from "inventory services" as the check does not support inventory

894

* Made more rulegroup titles localizable

895

* FIX: Fixed localization of default permissions

896

* FIX: Removed double collect_hosts() call in activate changes hook

897

* FIX: Fixed double hook execution when using localized multisite

898

* FIX: User list shows names of contactgroups when no alias given

899

* FIX: Reflecting alternative mode of check_http (check ssl certificate

900

age) in WATO rule editor

901

* FIX: Fixed monitoring of slave hosts in master site in case of special

902

distributed wato configurations

903

* FIX: Remove also user settings and event console rule on factory reset

904

* FIX: complex list widgets (ListOf) failed back to old value when

905

complaining

906

* FIX: complex list widgets (ListOf) lost remaining entries after deleting one

907

* FIX: Fixed error in printer_supply valuespec which lead to an exception

908

when defining host/service specific rules

909

* FIX: Fixed button url icon in docu-url link

910

911

BI:

912

* Great speed up of rule compilation in large environments

913

914

Multisite:

915

* Added css class="dashboard_<name>" to the dashboard div for easier

916

customization of the dashboard style of a special dashboard

917

* Dashboard: Param wato_folder="" means WATO root folder, use it and also

918

display the title of this folder

919

* Sidebar: Sorting aggregation groups in BI snapin now

920

* Sidebar: Sorting sites in master control snapin case insensitive

921

* Added some missing localizations (error messages, view editor)

922

* Introducted multisite config option hide_languages to remove available

923

languages from the multisite selection dialogs. To hide the builtin

924

english language simply add None to the list of hidden languages.

925

* FIX: fixed localization of general permissions

926

* FIX: show multisite warning messages even after page reload

927

* FIX: fix bug in Age ValueSpec: days had been ignored

928

* FIX: fixed bug showing only sidebar after re-login in multisite

929

* FIX: fixed logwatch loosing the master_url parameter in distributed setups

930

* FIX: Fixed doubled var "site" in view editor (site and siteopt filter)

931

* FIX: Don't crash on requests without User-Agent HTTP header

932

* Downtimes: new conveniance function for downtime from now for ___ minutes.

933

This is especially conveniant for scripting.

934

* FIX: fixed layout of login dialog when showing up error messages

935

* FIX: Fixed styling of wato quickaccess snapin preview

936

* FIX: Made printer_supply perfometer a bit more robust against bad perfdata

937

* FIX: Removed duplicate url parameters e.g. in dashboard (display_options)

938

* FIX: Dashboard: If original request showed no "max rows"-message, the

939

page rendered during reload does not show the message anymore

940

* FIX: Fixed bug in alert statistics view (only last 1000 lines were

941

processed for calculating the statistics)

942

* FIX: Added missing downtime icon for comment view

943

* FIX: Fixed handling of filter configuration in view editor where filters

944

are using same variable names. Overlaping filters are now disabled

945

in the editor.

946

* FIX: Totally hiding hidden filters from view editor now

947

948

Livecheck:

949

* FIX: Compile livecheck also if diet libc is missing

950

951

1.2.0p2:

952

Core:

953

* simulation_mode: legacy_checks, custom_checks and active_checks

954

are replaced with dummy checks always being OK

955

* FIX: Precisely define order of reading of configuration files. This

956

fixes a WATO rule precedence problem

957

958

Checks & Agents:

959

* FIX: Fixed syntax errors in a bunch of man pages

960

* if_lancom: silently ignore Point-To-Point interfaces

961

* if_lancom: add SSID to logical WLAN interface names

962

* Added a collection of MSSQL checks for monitoring MSSQL servers

963

(backups, tablespaces, counters)

964

* New check wut_webio_io: Monitor the IO input channels on W&T Web-IO

965

devices

966

* nfsmounts: reclassify "Stale NFS handle" from WARN to CRIT

967

* ORACLE agent/checks: better error handling. Let SQL errors get

968

through into check output, output sections even if no database

969

is running.

970

* oracle_version: new check outputting the version of an ORACLE

971

database - and using uncached direct SQL output.

972

* ORACLE agent: fix handling of EXCLUDE, new variable ONLY_SIDS

973

for explicitely listing SIDs to monitor

974

* mk_logwatch on Linux: new options regex and iregex for file selection

975

* remove obsolete ORACLE checks where no agent plugins where available

976

* FIX: printer_supply: Fix problem on DELL printers with "S/N" in output

977

(thanks to Sebastian Talmon)

978

* FIX: winperf_phydisk: Fix typo (lead to WATO rule not being applied)

979

* Windows agent: new [global] option crash_debug (see online docu)

980

* AIX agent: new check for LVM volume status in rootvg.

981

* PostgreSQL plugin: agent is now modified to work with PostgreSQL

982

versions newer than 8.1. (multiple reports, thanks!)

983

984

Multisite:

985

* Show number of rows and number of selected rows in header line

986

(also for WATO hosts table)

987

* FIX: fix problem in showing exceptions (due to help function)

988

* FIX: fixed several localization problems in view/command processing

989

* FIX: fixed duplicated settings in WATO when using localisation

990

* FIX: fixed exception when refering to a language which does not exist

991

* FIX: Removing all downtimes of a host/service is now possible again

992

* FIX: The refresh time in footer is updated now when changing the value

993

* FIX: view editor shows "(Mobile)" hint in view titles when linking to views

994

995

WATO:

996

* Main menu of ruleeditor (Host & Service Parameters) now has

997

a topic for "Used rules" - a short overview of all non-empty

998

rulesets.

999

* FIX: add missing context help to host details dialog

1000

* FIX: set new site dirty is host move due to change of

1001

folder attributes

1002

* FIX: fix exception on unknown value in DropdownChoice

1003

* FIX: add service specification to ruleset Delay service notifications

1004

* FIX: fixed problem with disabled sites in WATO

1005

* FIX: massive speedup when changing roles/users and activing changes

1006

(especially when you have a larger number of users and folders)

1007

* Add variable CONTACTPAGER to allowed macros in notifications

1008

* FIX: fixed default setting if "Hide names of configuration variables"

1009

in WATO

1010

* FIX: ListOfString Textboxes (e.g. parents of folders) do now extend in IE

1011

* FIX: fixed duplicated sections of permissions in rule editor

1012

1013

BI:

1014

* New iterators FOREACH_CHILD and FOREACH_PARENT

1015

* FIX: fix handling of FOREACH_ in leaf nodes (remove hard coded

1016

$HOST$, replace with $1$, $2$, ..., apply argument substitution)

1017

* New logical datatable for aggregations that have the same name

1018

as a host. Converted view "BI Boxes" to this new table. This allows

1019

for Host-Aggregations containing data of other hosts as well.

1020

* count_ok: allow percentages, e.g. "count_ok!70%!50%"

1021

1022

1.2.0p1:

1023

Core:

1024

* Added macros $DATE$, $SHORTDATETIME$ and $LONGDATETIME$' to

1025

notification macros

1026

1027

Checks & Agents:

1028

* FIX: diskstat: handle output 'No Devices Found' - avoiding exception

1029

* 3ware_units: Following states now lead to WARNING state instead of

1030

CRITICAL: "VERIFY-PAUSED", "VERIFYING", "REBUILDING"

1031

* New checks tsm_stagingpools, tsm_drive and tsm_storagepools

1032

Linux/UNIX

1033

* hpux_fchba: new check for monitoring FibreChannel HBAs und HP-UX

1034

1035

Multisite:

1036

* FIX: fix severe exception in all views on older Python versions

1037

(like RedHat 5.5).

1038

1039

WATO:

1040

* FIX: fix order of rule execution: subfolders now take precedence

1041

as they should.

1042

1043

1.2.0:

1044

Setup:

1045

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

1046

1047

Core:

1048

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

1049

1050

WATO:

1051

* FIX: add missing icon on cluster hosts to WATO in Multisite views

1052

* FIX: fix search field in host table if more than 10 hosts are shown

1053

* FIX: fix bulk edit and form properties (visibility of attributes was broken)

1054

* FIX: fix negating hosts in rule editor

1055

1056

Checks & Agents:

1057

* fileinfo: added this check to Linux agent. Simply put your

1058

file patterns into /etc/check_mk/fileinfo.cfg for configuration.

1059

* mysql.sessions: New check for MySQL sessions (need new plugin mk_mysql)

1060

* mysql.innodb_io: New check for Disk-IO of InnoDB

1061

* mysql_capacity: New check for used/free capacity of MySQL databases

1062

* postgres_sessions: New check for PostgreSQL number of sessions

1063

* postgres_stat_database: New check for PostgreSQL database statistics

1064

* postgres_stat_database.size: New check for PostgreSQL database size

1065

* FIX: hpux_if: convert_to_hex was missing on non-SNMP-hosts -replace

1066

with inline implementation

1067

* tcp_conn_stats: handle state BOUND (found on Solaris)

1068

* diskstat: support for checking latency, LVM and VxVM on Linux (needs

1069

updated agent)

1070

* avoid duplicate checks cisco_temp_perf and cisco_sensor_temp

1071

1072

1.2.0b6:

1073

Multisite:

1074

* FIX: Fixed layout of some dropdown fields in view filters

1075

* Make heading in each page clickable -> reload page

1076

* FIX: Edit view: couldn't edit filter settings

1077

* FIX: Fixed styling of links in multisite context help

1078

* FIX: Fixed "select all" button for IE

1079

* FIX: Context links added by hooks are now hidden by the display

1080

option "B" again

1081

* FIX: preselected "refresh" option did not reflect view settings

1082

but was simply the first available option - usually 30.

1083

* FIX: fixed exception with custom views created by normal users

1084

1085

WATO:

1086

* FIX: Fixed "select all" button in hosts & folders for IE

1087

* Optically mark modified variables in global settings

1088

* Swapped icons for rule match and previous rule match (makes for sense)

1089

1090

Core:

1091

* FIX: Fixed "make_utf is not defined" error when having custom

1092

timeperiods defined in WATO

1093

1094

Checks & Agents:

1095

* MacOS X: Agent for MacOS (Thanks to Christian Zigotzky)

1096

* AIX: New check aix_multipath: Supports checking native AIX multipathing from AIX 5.2 onward

1097

* Solaris: New check solaris_multipath: Supports checking native Solaris multipath from Solaris10 and up.

1098

* Solaris: The ZFS Zpool status check now looks more closely at the reported messages. (It's also tested to work on Linux now)

1099

1100

1.2.0b5:

1101

Core:

1102

* FIX: handle UTF-8 encoded binary strings correctly (e.g. in host alias)

1103

* FIX: fix configuration of passive checks via custom_checks

1104

* Added NOTIFICATIONTYPE to host/service mail bodies

1105

1106

WATO:

1107

* Site management: "disabled" only applies to Livestatus now

1108

* FIX: fix folding problems with dependent host tags

1109

* FIX: Detecting duplicate tag ids between regular tags and auxtags

1110

* FIX: Fixed layout problem of "new special rule" button in rule editor

1111

* FIX: Fixed layout problem on "activate changes" page

1112

* FIX: Added check if contacts belong to contactgroup before contactgroup deletion

1113

* FIX: fix site configuration for local site in Multisite environments

1114

* FIX: "(no not monitor)" setting in distributed WATO now works

1115

* FIX: Site management: replication setting was lost after re-editing

1116

* FIX: fixed problems after changing D/WATO-configuration

1117

* FIX: D/WATO: mark site dirty after host deletion

1118

* FIX: D/WATO: replicate auth.secret, so that login on one site also

1119

is valid on the replication slaves

1120

* FIX: implement locking in order to prevent data corruption on

1121

concurrent changes

1122

* FIX: Fixed handling of validation errors in cascading dropdown fields

1123

* FIX: fix cloning of users

1124

* Keep track of changes made by other users before activating changes,

1125

let user confirm this, new permission can be used to prevent a user

1126

from activating foreign changes.

1127

* FIX: Allowing german umlauts in users mail addresses

1128

* Allow list of aux tags to be missing in host tag definitions. This

1129

makes migration from older version easier.

1130

* FIX: user management modules can now deal with empty lines in htpasswd

1131

* FIX: Fixed js error on hostlist page with search form

1132

1133

Multisite:

1134

* New display type 'boxes-omit-root' for BI views

1135

* Hostgroup view BI Boxes omits the root level

1136

* Finalized layout if view options and commands/filters/painteroptions.

1137

* Broken plugins prevent plugin caching now

1138

* FIX: remove refresh button from dashboard.

1139

* FIX: remove use of old option defaults.checkmk_web_uri

1140

* FIX: fixed outgoing bandwidth in fc port perfometer

1141

* FIX: remove nasty JS error in sidebar

1142

* FIX: fix folding in custom links (directories would not open)

1143

* FIX: animation of rotation treeangle in trees works again

1144

* FIX: Logwatch: Changed font color back to black

1145

* FIX: show toggle button for checkboxes in deactivated state

1146

* FIX: fix repeated stacked refresh when toggling columns

1147

* FIX: disable checkbox button in non-checkboxable layouts

1148

* FIX: fix table layout for views (gaps where missing sometimes)

1149

* FIX: Fixed sorting views by perfdata values which contain floats

1150

* FIX: fix sometimes-broken sizing of sidebar and dashboard on Chrome

1151

* FIX: fix dashboard layout on iPad

1152

* FIX: Fixed styling issues of sidebar in IE7

1153

* FIX: fix problem where filter settings (of checkboxes) are not effective

1154

when it comes to executing commands

1155

* FIX: Fixed styling issues of view filters with dropdown fields

1156

* FIX: multisite login can now deal with empty lines in htpasswd

1157

* FIX: Fixed a bunch of js/css errors

1158

1159

Mobile:

1160

* FIX: Fixed logtime filter settings in all mobile views

1161

* FIX: fix some layout problems

1162

1163

BI:

1164

* New aggregation function count_ok, that counts the number

1165

of nodes in state OK.

1166

* FIX: Removed debug output int count_ok aggregation

1167

1168

Checks & Agents:

1169

* Linux: Modified cluster section to allow pacemaker/corosync clusters without heartbeat

1170

* AIX: convert NIC check to lnx_if (now being compatible with if/if64)

1171

* AIX: new check for CPU utilization (using section lparstat_aix)

1172

* ntp checks: Changed default value of time offsets to be 200ms (WARN) / 500ms (CRIT)

1173

* aironet_{errors,clients}: detect new kinds of devices (Thanks to Tiago Sousa)

1174

* check_http, check_tcp: allow to omit -I and use dynamic DNS name instead

1175

1176

1.2.0b4:

1177

Core:

1178

* New configuration variable snmp_timing, allowing to

1179

configure timeout and retries for SNMP requests (also via WATO)

1180

* New configuration variable custom_checks. This is mainly for

1181

WATO but also usable in main.mk It's a variant of legacy_checks that

1182

automatically creates the required "define command" sections.

1183

1184

WATO:

1185

* ps and ps.perf configurable via WATO now (without inventory)

1186

* New layout of main menu and a couple of other similar menus

1187

* New layout of ruleset overviews

1188

* Hide check_mk variable names per default now (change via global settings)

1189

* New layout of global settings

1190

* Folder layout: show contact groups of folder

1191

* Folder movement: always show complete path to target folder

1192

* Sidebar snapin: show pending changes

1193

* New rule for configuring custom_checks - allowing to run arbitrary

1194

active checks even if not yet formalized (like HTTP and TCP)

1195

* Added automation_commands to make automations pluginable

1196

* New layout and new internal implementation of input forms

1197

* New layout for view overview and view editor

1198

* Split up host search in two distinct pages

1199

* Use dynamic items in rule editor for hosts and items (making use

1200

of ListOfStrings())

1201

* FIX: audit log was not shown if no entry for today existed

1202

* FIX: fix parent scan on single site installations

1203

* FIX: fix folder visibility permission handling

1204

* FIX: honor folder-permissions when creating, deleting

1205

and modifiying rules

1206

* FIX: detect non-local site even if unix: is being used

1207

* FIX: better error message if not logged into site during

1208

action that needs remote access

1209

* FIX: send automation data via POST not GET. This fixes inventory

1210

on hosts with more than 500 services.

1211

* FIX: make config options directly active after resetting them

1212

to their defaults (didn't work for start_url, etc.

1213

* FIX: Fixed editing of ListOf in valuespec editors (e.g. used in logwatch

1214

pattern editor)

1215

* FIX: Reimplemented correct behaviour of the logwatch pattern "ignore"

1216

state which is used to drop the matching log lines

1217

1218

Multisite:

1219

* FIX: fixed filter of recent event views (4 hours didn't catch)

1220

* FIX: convert more buttons to new graphical style

1221

* FIX: Logwatch handles logs with only OK lines in it correctly in logfile list views

1222

* FIX: Fixed syntax error in "Single-Host Problems" view definition

1223

* New help button at top right of each page now toggles help texts

1224

* Snapin Custom Links allows to specify HTTP link target

1225

* Redesign of bar with Display/Filter/Commands/X/1,2,3,4,6,8/30,60,90/Edit

1226

1227

Mobile GUI:

1228

* FIX: commands can be executed again

1229

* FIX: fixed styling of buttons

1230

1231

Checks & Agents:

1232

* FIX: Logwatch: fixed missing linebreak during reclassifing lines of logfiles

1233

* FIX: Logwatch: Logwatch services in rules configured using WATO must be

1234

given as item, not as whole service name

1235

* New active check via WATO: check_ldap

1236

* printer_alerts: new configuration variable printer_alerts_text_map. Make

1237

'Energiesparen' on Brother printers an OK state.

1238

* services: This check can now be parameterized in a way that it warn if

1239

a certain service is running. WATO formalization is available.

1240

1241

BI:

1242

* FIX: make rotating folding arrows black (white was not visible)

1243

* Display format 'boxes' now in all BI views available

1244

* Display format 'boxes' now persists folding state

1245

1246

1.2.0b3:

1247

Core:

1248

* FIX: fixed SNMP info declaration in checks: could be garbled

1249

up in rare cases

1250

* avoid duplicate parents definition, when using 'parents' and

1251

extra_host_conf["parents"] at the same time. The later one has

1252

precedence.

1253

1254

Multisite:

1255

* Logwatch: Colorizing OK state blocks correctly

1256

* FIX: allow web plugins to be byte compiled (*.pyc). Those

1257

are preferred over *.py if existing

1258

* View Editor: Fixed jump to top of the page after moving painters during

1259

editing views

1260

* FIX: Fixed login redirection problem after relogging

1261

* Filter for times now accept ranges (from ... until)

1262

* New view setting for page header: repeat. This repeats the

1263

column headers every 20'th row.

1264

* FIX: Fixed problem with new eval/pickle

1265

* FIX: Fixed commands in host/service search views

1266

1267

Checks & Agents:

1268

* FIX: Made logwatch parsing mechanism a little more robust

1269

(Had problems with emtpy sections from windows agent)

1270

* FIX: brocade_fcport: Configuration of portsates now possible

1271

* if_lancom: special version for if64 for LANCOM devices (uses

1272

ifName instead of ifDescr)

1273

1274

1275

WATO:

1276

* Reimplemented folder listing in host/folders module

1277

* Redesigned the breadcrumb navigation

1278

* Global settings: make boolean switches directly togglable

1279

* New button "Recursive Inventory" on folder: Allows to do

1280

a recursive inventory over all hosts. Also allows to selectively

1281

retry only hosts that have failed in a previous inventory.

1282

* You can configure parents now (via a host attribute, no rules are

1283

neccessary).

1284

* You can now do an automated scan for parents and layer 3 (IP)

1285

* You can configure active checks (check_tcp, ...) via WATO now

1286

* FIX: fix page header after confirmation dialogs

1287

* FIX: Fixed umlaut problem in host aliases and ip addresses created by WATO

1288

* FIX: Fixed exception caused by validation problems during editing tags in WATO

1289

* FIX: create sample config only if both rules.mk and hosttags.mk are missing

1290

* FIX: do not loose host tags when both using WATO-configured and

1291

manual ones (via multisite.mk)

1292

* Timeperiods: Make list of exceptions dynamic, not fixed to 10 entries

1293

* Timeperiods: Configure exclusion of other timeperiods

1294

* Configuration of notification_delay and notification_interval

1295

1296

1.2.0b2:

1297

Core:

1298

* FIX: Cluster host checks were UNKNOWN all the time

1299

* FIX: reset counter in case of (broken) future time

1300

* FIX: Automation try-inventory: Fixed problem on where checks which

1301

produce equal service descriptions could lead to invalid inventory

1302

results on cluster hosts.

1303

* FIX: do not create contacts if they won't be assigned to any host

1304

or service. Do *not* assign to dummy catch-all group "check_mk".

1305

1306

WATO:

1307

* Added new permission "move hosts" to allow/deny moving of hosts in WATO

1308

* Also write out contact definitions for users without contactgroups to

1309

have the mail addresses and other notification options persisted

1310

* FIX: deletion of automation accounts now works

1311

* FIX: Disabling notifications for users does work now

1312

* New main overview for rule editor

1313

* New multisite.mk option wato_hide_varnames for hiding Check_MK

1314

configuration variable names from the user

1315

* New module "Logwatch Pattern Analyzer" to verify logwatch rules

1316

* Added new variable logwatch_rules which can also be managed through the

1317

WATO ruleset editor (Host/Service Parameters > Parameters and rules for

1318

inventorized checks > Various applications > Logwatch Patterns)

1319

* Users & Contacts: Added new option wato_hidden_users which holds a list

1320

of userids to hide the listed users from the WATO user management GUI.

1321

* WATO API: Added new method rewrite_configuration to trigger a rewrite of

1322

all host related wato configuration files to distribute changed tags

1323

* Added new internal hook pre-activate-changes to execute custom

1324

code BEFORE Check_MK is called to restart Nagios

1325

* FIX: Only showing sudo hint message on sudo error message in automation

1326

command

1327

* FIX: Fixed js eror in IE7 on WATO host edit page

1328

* FIX: Using pickle instead of repr/eval when reading data structures from

1329

urls to prevent too big security issues

1330

* Rule editor: improve sorting of groups and rulesets

1331

* FIX: Escaping single quotes in strings when writing auth.php

1332

* FIX: Fix resorting of host tags (was bug in ListOf)

1333

1334

Multisite

1335

* Added config option default_ts_format to configure default timestamp

1336

output format in multisite

1337

* Layout and design update

1338

* Quicksearch: display site name if more than one different site

1339

is present in the current search result list

1340

* FIX: Fixed encoding problem in "custom notification" message

1341

* New configuration parameter page_heading for the HTML page heads

1342

of the main frameset (%s will be replaced with OMD site name)

1343

* FIX: Fix problem where snapins where invisible

1344

* FIX: Fixed multisite timeout errors when nagios not running

1345

* Sidebar: some new layout improvements

1346

* Login page is not shown in framesets anymore (redirects framed page to

1347

full screen login page)

1348

* FIX: fix exception when disallowing changing display options

1349

* FIX: Automatically redirect from login page to target page when already

1350

logged in

1351

* FIX: Updating the dashboard header time when the dashlets refresh

1352

1353

BI:

1354

* Added new painter "affected hosts (link to host page)" to show all

1355

host names with links to the "hosts" view

1356

* FIX: Fixed filtering of Single-Host Aggregations

1357

* New sorter for aggregation group

1358

* FIX: fix sorting of Single-Host Aggregations after group

1359

* Avoid duplicate rule incarnations when using FOREACH_*

1360

* BI Boxes: allow closing boxes (not yet persisted)

1361

* New filter for services (not) contained in any aggregate

1362

* Configure sorting for all BI views

1363

1364

Checks & Agents:

1365

* FIX: snmp_uptime handles empty snmp information without exception

1366

* FIX: Oracle checks try to handle ORA-* errors reported by the agent

1367

All oracle checks will return UNKNOWN when finding an ORA-* message

1368

* FIX: filesystem levels set via WATO didn't work, but do now

1369

* FIX: Group filters can handle groups without aliases now

1370

* nfsmounts: Added nfs4 support thanks to Thorsten Hintemann

1371

* megaraid_pdisks megaraid_ldisks: Support for Windows. Thanks to Josef Hack

1372

1373

1.2.0b1:

2

1374

Core, Setup, etc.:

3

* FIX: honor extra_summary_host_conf (was ignored)

1375

* new tool 'livedump' for dumping configuration and status

1376

information from one monitoring core and importing this

1377

into another.

1378

* Enable new check registration API (not yet used in checks)

1379

* FIX: fix handling of prefix-tag rules (+), needed for WATO

4

1380

* FIX: handle buggy SNMP devices with non-consecutive OIDS

5

1381

(such as BINTEC routers)

6

1382

* Check API allows a check to get node information

1383

* FIX: fix problem with check includes in subchecks

1384

* Option --checks now also applies to ad-hoc check (e.g.

1385

cmk --checks=mrpe,df -v somehost)

1386

* check_mk_templates.cfg: added s to notification options

1387

of host and service (= downtime alerts)

1388

1389

WATO:

1390

* Hosttag-editor: allow reordering of tags

1391

* Create very basic sample configuration when using

1392

WATO the first time (three tag groups, two rules)

1393

* Much more checks are configurable via WATO now

1394

* Distributed WATO: Made all URL calls using curl now

1395

* FIX: fix bug in inventory in validate_datatype()

1396

* Better output in case of inventory error

1397

* FIX: fix bug in host_icon rule on non OMD

1398

* FIX: do not use isdisjoint() (was in rule editor on Lenny)

1399

* FIX: allow UTF-8 encoded permission translations

1400

* FIX: Fixed several problems in OMD apache shared mode

1401

* FIX: Do not use None$ as item when creating new rules

1402

* FIX: Do load *all* users from htpasswd, so passwords from

1403

users not created via WATO will not be lost.

1404

* FIX: honor site disabling in replication module

1405

* FIX: honor write permissions on folder in "bulk delete"

1406

* FIX: honor permissions for "bulk cleanup" and "bulk edit"

1407

* FIX: honor write permissions and source folder when moving hosts

1408

* FIX: honor permissions on hosts also on bulk inventory

1409

* Only create contacts in Nagios if they are member of at

1410

least one contact group.

1411

* It is now possible to configure auxiliary tags via WATO

1412

(formerly also called secondary tags)

1413

* FIX: Fixed wrong label "Main Overview" shown for moved WATO folders

1414

in foldertree snapin

1415

* FIX: Fixed localization of empty host tags

1416

* FIX: User alias and notification enabling was not saved

1417

1418

Checks & Agents:

1419

* hpux_if: fix missing default parameter errors

1420

* hpux_if: make configurable via WATO

1421

* if.include: fix handling of NIC with index 0

1422

* hpux_lunstats: new check for disk IO on HP-UX

1423

* windows - mk_oracle tablespace: Added missing sid column

1424

* diskstat: make inventory mode configurable via WATO

1425

* added new checks for Fujitsu ETERNUS DX80 S2

1426

(thanks to Philipp Höfflin)

1427

* New checks: lgp_info, lgp_pdu_info and lgp_pdu_aux to monitor Liebert

1428

MPH/MPX devices

1429

* Fix Perf-O-Meter of fileage

1430

* hpux_snmp_cs.cpu: new SNMP check for CPU utilization

1431

on HP-UX.

1432

* if/if64: inventory also picks up type 62 (fastEther). This

1433

is needed on Cisco WLC 21xx series (thanks to Ralf Ertzinger)

1434

* FIX: fix inventory of f5_bigip_temp

1435

* mk_oracle (lnx+win): Fixed TEMP tablespace size calculations

1436

* ps: output node process is running on (only for clusters)

1437

* FIX: Linux Agent: Fixed ipmi-sensors handling of Power_Unit data

1438

* hr_mem: handle rare case where more than one entry is present

1439

(this prevents an exception of pfSense)

1440

* statgrab_load: level is now checked against 15min average -

1441

in order to be consistent with the Linux load check

1442

* dell_powerconnect_cpu: hopefully correctly handle incomplete

1443

output from agent now.

1444

* ntp: do not check 'when' anymore since it can produce false

1445

alarms.

1446

* postfix_mailq: handle output with 'Total requests:' in last line

1447

* FIX: check_mk-hp_blade_psu.php: allow more than 4 power supplies

1448

* FIX: smart plugin: handle cases with missing vendor (thanks

1449

to Stefan Kärst)

1450

* FIX: megaraid_bbu: fix problem with alternative agent output

1451

(thanks to Daniel Tuecks)

1452

* mk_oracle: fix quoting problem, replace sessions with version,

1453

use /bin/bash instead of /bin/sh

1454

1455

Multisite:

1456

* Added several missing localization strings

1457

* IE: Fixed problem with clicking SELECT fields in the new wato foldertree snapin

1458

* Fixed problem when trying to visit dashboards from new wato foldertree snapin

1459

* Chrome: Fixed styling problem of foldertree snapin

1460

* Views: Only show the commands and row selection options for views where

1461

commands are possible

1462

* The login mask honors the default_language definition now

1463

* check_bi_local.py: works now with cookie based authentication

1464

* FIX: Fixed wrong redirection after login in some cases

1465

* FIX: Fixed missing stats grouping in alert statistics view

1466

* FIX: Fixed preview table styling in view editor

1467

* FIX: Multisite authed users without permission to multisite are

1468

automatically logged out after showing the error message

1469

* Retry livestatus connect until timeout is used up. This avoids

1470

error messages when the core is being restarted

1471

* Events view now shows icon and text for "flapping" events

1472

* Use buffer for HTML creation (this speeds up esp. HTTPS a lot)

1473

* FIX: Fixed state filter in log views

1474

1475

Livestatus:

1476

* Add missing column check_freshness to services table

1477

1478

BI:

1479

* New column (painter) for simplistic box display of tree.

1480

This is used in a view for a single hostgroup.

1481

1482

1.1.13i3:

1483

Core, Setup, etc.:

1484

* *_contactgroups lists: Single group rules are all appended. When a list

1485

is found as a value this first list is used exclusively. All other

1486

matching rules are ignored

1487

* cmk -d does now honor --cache and --no-tcp

1488

* cmk -O/-R now uses omd re{start,load} core if using OMD

1489

* FIX: setup.sh now setups up permissions for conf.d/wato

1490

correctly

1491

* cmk --localize update supports an optional ALIAS which is used as

1492

display string in the multisite GUI

1493

* FIX: Fixed encoding problems with umlauts in group aliases

1494

* FIX: honor extra_summary_host_conf (was ignored)

1495

* new config variable snmpv2c_hosts that allows to enable SNMP v2c

1496

but *not* bulkwalk (for some broken devices). bulkwalk_hosts still

1497

implies v2c.

1498

1499

Checks & Agents:

1500

* Windows agent: output eventlog texts in UTF-8 encoding. This

1501

should fix problems with german umlauts in message texts.

1502

* Windows agent: Added installer for the windows agent (install_agent.exe)

1503

* Windows agent: Added dmi_sysinfo.bat plugin (Thanks to Arne-Nils Kromer for sharing)

1504

* Disabled obsolete checks fc_brocade_port and fc_brocade_port_detailed.

1505

Please use brocade_fcport instead.

1506

* aironet_errors, statgrab_disk, statgrab_net: Performance data has

1507

been converted from counters to rates. You might need to delete your

1508

existing RRDs of these checks. Sorry, but these have been that last

1509

checks still using counters...

1510

* ibm_imm_health: added last missing scan function

1511

* Filesystem checks: trend performance data is now normalized to MB/24h.

1512

If you have changed the trend range, then your historic values will

1513

be displayed in a wrong scale. On the other hand - from now on changes

1514

in the range-setting will not affect the graph anymore.

1515

* if/if64/lnx_if: pad port numbers with zeros in order to sort correctly.

1516

This can be turned off with if_inventory_pad_portnumbers = False.

1517

* Linux agent: wrap freeipmi with lock in order to avoid cache corruption

1518

* New check: megaraid_bbu - check existance & status of LSI MegaRaid BBU module

1519

* HP-UX Agent: fix mrpe (remove echo -e and test -e, thanks to Philipp Lemke)

1520

* FIX: ntp checks: output numeric data also if stratum too high

1521

* Linux agent: new check for dmraid-based "bios raid" (agent part as plugin)

1522

* FIX: if64 now uses ifHighSpeed instead of ifSpeed for determining the

1523

link speed (fixes speed of 10GBit/s and 20GBit/s ports, thanks Marco Poet)

1524

* cmctc.temp: serivce has been renamed from "CMC Temperature %s" to just

1525

"Temperature %s", in order to be consistent with the other checks.

1526

* mounts: exclude changes of the commit option (might change on laptops),

1527

make only switch to ro critical, other changes warning.

1528

* cisco_temp_sensor: new check for temperature sensors of Cisco NEXUS

1529

and other new Cisco devices

1530

* oracle_tablespace: Fixed tablespace size/free space calculations

1531

* FIX: if/if64: omit check result on counter wrap if bandwidth traffic levels

1532

are used.

1533

1534

Multisite:

1535

* Improve transaction handling and reload detection: user can have

1536

multiple action threads in parallel now

1537

* Sounds in views are now enabled per default. The new configuration

1538

variable enable_sounds can be set to False in multisite.mk in order

1539

to disable sounds.

1540

* Added filter for log state (UP,DOWN,OK,CRIT...) to all log views

1541

* New painter for normal and retry check interval (added to detail views)

1542

* Site filter shows "(local)" in case of non multi-site setup

1543

* Made "wato folder" columns sortable

1544

* Hiding site filter in multisite views in single site setups

1545

* Replaced "wato" sidebar snapin which mixed up WATO and status GUIs with

1546

the new "wato_foldertree" snapin which only links to the status views

1547

filtered by the WATO folder.

1548

* Added "Dashboard" section to views snapin which shows a list of all dashboards

1549

* FIX: Fixed auth problem when following logwatch icon links while using

1550

the form based auth

1551

* FIX: Fix problem with Umlaut in contact alias

1552

* FIX: Creating auth.php file on first login dialog based login to ensure

1553

it exists after login when it is first needed

1554

* Dashboard: link problem views to *unhandled* views (this was

1555

inconsistent)

1556

* Localization: Fixed detection of gettext template file when using the

1557

local/ hierarchy in OMD

1558

1559

Mobile:

1560

* Improved sorting of views in main page

1561

* Fix: Use all the availiable space in header

1562

* Fix: Navigation with Android Hardwarekeys now working

1563

* Fix: Links to pnp4nagios now work better

1564

* Fix: Host and Service Icons now finger friendly

1565

* Fix: Corrected some buildin views

1566

1567

WATO:

1568

* Removed IP-Address attribute from folders

1569

* Supporting localized tag titles

1570

* Using Username as default value for full names when editing users

1571

* Snapshot/Factory Reset is possible even with a broken config

1572

* Added error messages to user edit dialog to prevent notification problems

1573

caused by incomplete configuration

1574

* Activate Changes: Wato can also reload instead of restarting nagios

1575

* Replication: Can now handle replication sites which use the form based auth

1576

* Replication: Added option to ignore problems with the ssl certificates

1577

used in ssl secured replications

1578

* WATO now supports configuring Check_MK clusters

1579

* FIX: Fixed missing folders in "move to" dropdown fields

1580

* FIX: Fixed "move to target folders" after CSV import

1581

* FIX: Fixed problem with duplicate extra_buttons when using the i18n of multiisite

1582

* FIX: Fixed problem with duplicate permissions when using the i18n of multiisite

1583

* FIX: Writing single host_contactgroups rules for each selected

1584

contactgroup in host edit dialog

1585

* FIX: Fixed wrong folder contacgroup related permissions in auth.php api

1586

* FIX: Fixed not up-to-date role permission data in roles_saved hook

1587

* FIX: Fixed duplicate custom columns in WATO after switching languages

1588

1589

BI:

1590

* improve doc/treasures/check_bi_local.py: local check that creates

1591

Nagios services out of BI aggregates

1592

1593

Livestatus:

1594

* ColumnHeaders: on is now able to switch column header on even if Stats:

1595

headers are used. Artifical header names stats_1, stats_2, etc. are

1596

begin used. Important: Use "ColumnHeaders: on" after Columns: and

1597

after Stats:.

1598

1599

1.1.13i2:

1600

Core, Setup, etc.:

1601

* cmk -I: accept host tags and cluster names

1602

1603

Checks & Agents:

1604

* linux agent - ipmi: Creating directory of cache file if not exists

1605

* dell_powerconnect_cpu: renamed service from CPU to "CPU utilization", in

1606

order to be consistent with other checks

1607

1608

Multisite:

1609

* Several cleanups to prevent css/js warning messages in e.g. Firefox

1610

* Made texts in selectable rows selectable again

1611

* Adding reschedule icon to all Check_MK based services. Clicks on these

1612

icons will simply trigger a reschedule of the Check_MK service

1613

* FIX: ship missing CSS files for mobile GUI

1614

* FIX: rename check_mk.js into checkmk.js in order to avoid browser

1615

caching problems during version update

1616

1617

WATO:

1618

* Optimized wraps in host lists tag column

1619

* Bulk inventory: Remove leading pipe signs in progress bar on main

1620

folder inventory

1621

* NagVis auhtorization file generation is also executed on activate_changes

1622

* Implemented a new inclusion based API for using multisite permissions

1623

in other addons

1624

* Inventory of SNMP devices: force implicit full scan if no services

1625

are configured yet

1626

* FIX: Calling activate_changes hook also in distributed WATO setups

1627

* FIX: Fixed display bug in host tags drop down menu after POST of form

1628

* FIX: Fixed javascript errors when doing replication in distributed

1629

wato environments when not having the sidebar open

1630

* FIX: Fixed search form dependant attribute handling

1631

* FIX: Fixed search form styling issues

1632

* You can now move folders to other folders

1633

* FIX: Distributed WATO: Supressing site sync progress output written in

1634

the apache error log

1635

1636

1.1.13i1:

1637

Multisite:

1638

* New nifty sidebar snapin "Speed-O-Meter"

1639

* Implemented new cookie based login mechanism including a fancy login GUI

1640

* Implemented logout functionality for basic auth and the new cookie based auth

1641

* Implemented user profile management page for changing the user password and

1642

the default language (if available)

1643

* New filter for the (new) state in host/service alerts

1644

* New command for sending custom notifications

1645

* FIX: Fixed encoding problem when opening dashboard

1646

* New icon on a service whos host is in downtime

1647

* Only show most frequently used context buttons (configurable

1648

in multisite.mk via context_buttons_to_show)

1649

* Show icon if user has modified a view's filter settings

1650

* New config option debug_livestatus_queries, normal debug

1651

mode does not include this anymore

1652

* Icons with link to page URL at bottom of each page

1653

* Logwatch: Switched strings in logwatch to i18n strings

1654

* Logwatch: Fixed styling of context button when acknowleding log messages

1655

* Logwatch: Implemented overview page to show all problematic logfiles

1656

* Add Snapin page: show previews of all snapins

1657

* Add Snapin page: Trying to prevent dragging confusions by using other click event

1658

* New (hidden) button for reloading a snapin (left to the close button)

1659

* Automatically falling back to hardcoded default language if configured

1660

language is not available

1661

* Repair layout of Perf-O-Meter in single dataset layout

1662

* FIX: Fixed duplicate view plugin loading when using localized multisite

1663

* FIX: Host-/Servicegroup snapin: Showing group names when no alias is available

1664

* FIX: Removed double "/" from pnp graph image urls in views

1665

1666

BI:

1667

* Host/Service elements are now iterable via FOREACH_HOST, e.g.

1668

(FOREACH_HOST, ['server'], ALL_HOSTS, "$HOST$", "Kernel" ),

1669

* FIX: Assuming host states is possible again (exception: list index "3")

1670

1671

WATO:

1672

* Evolved to full featured monitoring configuration tool!

1673

* Major internal code cleanup

1674

* Hosts can now be created directly in folders. The concept of host lists

1675

has been dropped (see migration notes!)

1676

* Configuration of global configuration variables of Check_MK via WATO

1677

* Configuration of main.mk rules

1678

* Configuration of Nagios objects and attributes

1679

* Configuration of users and roles

1680

* Configuration of host tags

1681

* Distributed WATO: replication of the configuration to slaves and peers

1682

* Added missing API function update_host_attributes() to change the

1683

attributes of a host

1684

* Added API function num_hosts_in_folder() to count the number of hosts

1685

below the given folder

1686

* Added option to download "latest" snapshot

1687

* extra_buttons can now register a function to gather the URL to link to

1688

* Implemented NagVis Authorisation management using WATO users/permissions

1689

1690

Livestatus:

1691

* Experimental feature: livecheck -> super fast active check execution

1692

by making use of external helper processes. Set livecheck=PATH_TO_bin/livecheck

1693

in nagios.cfg where you load Livestatus. Optional set num_livecheck_helpers=NUM

1694

to set number of processes. Nagios will not fork() anymore for check exection.

1695

* New columns num_hosts and num_services in status table

1696

* New aggregation functions suminv and avginv (see Documentation)

1697

1698

Core, Setup, etc.:

1699

* New configuration variable static_checks[] (used by WATO)

1700

* New configuration variable checkgroup_parameters (mainly for WATO)

1701

* check_submission defaults now to "file" (was "pipe")

1702

* Added pre-configured notification via cmk --notify

1703

* Drop RRA-configuration files for PNP4Nagios completely

1704

* New configuration variable ping_levels for configuring parameters

1705

for the host checks.

1706

* cmk --notify: new macros $MONITORING_HOST$, $OMD_ROOT$ and $OMD_SITE$

1707

* make ping_levels also apply to PING services for ping-only hosts

1708

(thanks to Bernhard Schmidt)

1709

1710

Checks & Agents:

1711

* if/if64: new ruleset if_disable_if64_hosts, that force if on

1712

hosts the seem to support if64

1713

* Windows agent: new config variable "sections" in [global], that

1714

allows to configure which sections are being output.

1715

* Windows agent: in [logwatch] you can now configure which logfiles

1716

to process and which levels of messages to send.

1717

* Windows agent: new config variable "host" in all sections that

1718

restricts the folling entries to certain hosts.

1719

* Windows agent: finally implemented <<<mrpe>>. See check_mk.ini

1720

for examples.

1721

* Windows agent: do not execute *.txt and *.dir in <<<plugins>>> and

1722

<<<local>>>

1723

* Windows agent: make extensions to execute configurable (see

1724

example check_mk.ini)

1725

* Windows agent: agent now reuses TCP port even when taskkill'ed, so

1726

a system reboot is (hopefully) not neccessary anymore

1727

* Windows agent: section <<<df>>> now also outputs junctions (windows

1728

mount points). No external plugin is needed.

1729

* Windows agent: new section <<<fileinfo>>> for monitoring file sizes

1730

(and later possible ages)

1731

* logwatch: allow to classify messages based on their count (see

1732

man page of logwatch for details)

1733

* fileinfo: new check for monitoring age and size of files

1734

* heartbeat_crm: apply patches from Václav Ovsík, so that the check

1735

should work on Debian now.

1736

* ad_replication: added warninglevel

1737

* fsc_*: added missing scan functions

1738

* printer_alerts: added further state codes (thanks to Matthew Stew)

1739

* Solaris agent: changed shell to /usr/bin/bash (fixes problems with LC_ALL=C)

1740

1741

1.1.12p7:

7

1742

Multisite:

8

1743

* FIX: detail view of host was missing column headers

9

1744

* FIX: fix problem on IE with background color 'white'