[Checkmk Announce] New Checkmk stable release 1.5.0p25

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From: Checkmk Announcements <checkmk-announce@lists.mathias-kettner.de>

Date: Fri, Aug 21, 2020 at 3:52 AM

This maintenance release ships with 29 changes affecing all editions of Checkmk,

1 Enterprise Edition specific changes and 1 Managed Services Edition specific changes.

WATO:

* 11030 FIX: Service Discovery: Skip not existing checks

* 11027 FIX: LDAP: Validate usage of suffix

* 11024 FIX: Analyze configuration: Avoid crash on timeout when contacting remote sites

User interface:

* 10750 FIX: Reduce long waiting times for some users when loading sites

* 11035 FIX: Fixed pnp4nagios graphs on systems with php-7.4

* 11191 FIX: Fixed misleading snmp error message

HW/SW inventory:

* 10987 FIX: HW/SW Inventory Service: Fix "State when inventory fails"

Event console:

* 11029 FIX: Prevent duplicated rule packs when updating mkp

Core & setup:

* 11263 SEC: Fix piggyback path traversal

NOTE: Please refer to the migration notes!

* 10620 FIX: Fix parsing of invalid state history files

* 10621 FIX: Fix bug where scheduler would become inactive

Checks & agents:

* 10497 FIX: solaris_services: Fixed discovery of services if output additionally contains time information

* 10633 FIX: skype: fixed magnitude of latency value

* 10835 FIX: mssql_counters.cache_hits: Services go stale if no data is sent from agent

* 10997 FIX: mk_postgres: Fixed query "Last vaccum"

* 11228 FIX: hp_proliant_temp: Do not discover temperature sensors if temperature could not be determined

* 11226 FIX: hitachi_hus_dku: Fixed informational text about component: "Processor" -> "Power Supply"

* 10996 FIX: f5_bigip_vserver: Fixed scaling of connections duration min/max/mean

* 10073 FIX: f5_bigip_vserver: Fixed ValueError while ip parsing

NOTE: Please refer to the migration notes!

* 10994 FIX: f5_bigip_mem: Discover only if memory total and used values are available

* 10998 FIX: df.include: Fix discovery of empty filesystem groups

* 10817 FIX: check_dns: Act case-insensitive

* 10692 FIX: Windows Agent supports UNC-like paths in section fileinfo

* 10984 FIX: Show upper levels in bandwidth graph

* 10988 FIX: Periodic service discovery: Fix not working "rediscovery scheduled" on clusters

* 10831 FIX: HW/SW Inventory: Unsorted branches may pollute inventory archive

* 11028 FIX: Fixed plugins README

* 10840 FIX: Fix evaluation of time specific parameters if default parameters are tuple based

* 10992 FIX: Check_MK Service: Fix "'ascii' codec can't decode byte" while collecting service results

You can download Checkmk from our download page:

 * https://checkmk.com/download.php

[Checkmk Announce] New Checkmk stable release 1.6.0p16

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From: Checkmk Announcements <checkmk-announce@lists.mathias-kettner.de>

Date: Fri, Aug 21, 2020 at 3:54 AM

Dear friends of Checkmk,

the new stable release 1.6.0p16 of Checkmk is ready for download.

This maintenance release ships with 11 changes affecing all editions of Checkmk,

0 Enterprise Edition specific changes and 0 Managed Services Edition specific changes.

Changes in all Checkmk Editions:

Checks & agents:

* 11234 Check_MK service: State if "Unexpected allowed IP ranges" is configurable

* 11302 FIX: Azure Storage: egress data levels wrongly labelled on user interface

* 11239 FIX: Check_MK Discovery: Revert werks 10534, 11229 and 11238

* 11238 FIX: Check_MK Discovery: Was unable to discover new SNMP check types

* 11144 FIX: Display graph for SAP HANA License

* 11303 FIX: mem.linux: false CRIT status when VmallocChunk is set to 0 kB

Core & setup:

* 11263 SEC: Fix piggyback path traversal

NOTE: Please refer to the migration notes!

Event console:

* 11261 FIX: Fix performance regression caused by too many live status queries between EC and core

Notifications:

* 11051 FIX: crash in notifications if "Exclude Service Groups (regex)" is used

Site management:

* 11341 FIX: Make omd restore work with hardlinks in local dir

User interface:

* 10544 FIX: Quicksearch: Fixed incorrect result page when querying host tags

You can download Checkmk from our download page:

 * https://checkmk.com/download.php

[USN-4410-1] Net-SNMP vulnerability

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From: Paulo Flabiano Smorigo <pfsmorigo@canonical.com>

Date: Jul 3, 2020 7:00AM

A double-free bug was discovered in snmpd server. An authenticated user could

potentially cause a DoS by sending a crafted request to the server.

(CVE-2019-20892)

Update instructions:

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following

package versions:

Ubuntu 20.04 LTS:

  libsnmp-base                    5.8+dfsg-2ubuntu2.1

  libsnmp-perl                    5.8+dfsg-2ubuntu2.1

  libsnmp35                       5.8+dfsg-2ubuntu2.1

  snmpd                           5.8+dfsg-2ubuntu2.1

After a standard system update you need to restart snmpd to make

all the necessary changes.

References:

  https://usn.ubuntu.com/4410-1

  CVE-2019-20892

[Checkmk Announce] New Checkmk stable release 1.6.0p11

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From: Checkmk Announcements
Date: Fri, Apr 3, 2020 at 2:09 AM

Checks & agents:
* 10691 mk_logwatch supports UTF-16 LE BOM encoded files
* 10753 FIX: Allow more printable ASCII characters in email addresses
* 10534 FIX: Check_MK discovery: Was not always able to discover new snmp checks
* 10840 FIX: Fix evaluation of time specific parameters if default parameters are tuple based
* 10984 FIX: Show upper levels in bandwidth graph
* 10942 FIX: agent_graylog: Updated mkp of feature pack to version 1.1
* 10944 FIX: agent_jira: Updated mkp of feature pack to version 1.2
* 10983 FIX: check_dns: Fix "DNS CRITICAL - expected 'A,B,...' but got 'B,A,...'"
* 10839 FIX: if.include: Fix missing performance data of interface groups on clusters
* 10838 FIX: lnx_if: Fix grouping of interfaces on clusters
* 10898 FIX: lnx_if: Fix unity parsing bug
* 10985 FIX: systemd_units: Fix single service discovery
* 10948 FIX: systemd_units: WATO rules modification to allow compability

User interface:
* 10754 Remove failed notifications immediately
* 11010 FIX: Fixed missleading host attribute help text
* 11009 FIX: Fixed possible ValueError while searching for werk id in release notes
* 11011 FIX: Fixed title for copied rulesets
* 10879 FIX: View CSV export: Add titles of icons to exported columns

WATO:
* 10533 WATO Rule Search: Performance Improvements
* 10869 FIX: Fix potential "Request-URI Too Long" error when editing huge tag groups
* 10874 FIX: Notification rules: Fix empty "Notification method" dropdown field
* 10875 FIX: Services: Escape service details equal to status views
* 10870 FIX: Tags: Fix exception when renaming an existing tag choice

You can download Checkmk from our download page:
 * https://checkmk.com/download.php

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[Checkmk Announce] New Checkmk stable release 1.6.0p8

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From: Checkmk Announcements
Date: Thu, Jan 16, 2020 at 10:47 PM

Checks & agents:
* 10419 AWS EC2 Limits graphs collects now all instance types in a single graph
* 10418 Update AWS EC2 Limits to use new vCPU-based instance limits
* 10417 FIX: AWS EC2 default limits are preserved for unconfigured instances
* 10519 FIX: Autochecks files of cluster nodes will no longer contain duplicates from other nodes
* 10674 FIX: Interface bandwith: Add missing perf-O-meter for in/out measured in bits/s
* 10737 FIX: Kubernetes: don't crash if resized PVCs exist
* 10676 FIX: OpenHardwareMonitor: Fixed a bug that prevented the generation of the section
* 10679 FIX: Windows Agent installs correctly cap file with empty files inside
* 10757 FIX: agent_ucs_bladecenter: Always output faultinst section
* 10665 FIX: brocade_optical: Do not crash if device does not send temperature values for some interfaces
* 10649 FIX: ceph_status.pgs: Fixed Unknown service state for 'peering'
* 10716 FIX: if64_tplink: Improve support for interface aliases of TP-LINK switches
* 10650 FIX: job: Fixed wrong state marker
* 10736 FIX: k8s_resources.pods: don't count finished pods
* 10576 FIX: mem.used: Fix graph of pagetables metric
* 10672 FIX: mk_oracle: Bugfix for wrong sid definition in Custom SQL
* 10670 FIX: mssql_transactionlogs, mssql_datafiles: Do not apply percentual levels if the reference size is zero
* 10669 FIX: mtr: Fixed applying levels configured in WATO which had no effect
* 10668 FIX: mtr: Fixed summary state which is always OK if at least one partial result is OK
* 10673 FIX: oracle_instance: Fixed evaluating amount of logins if Oracle DB is a PDB
* 10662 FIX: oracle_jobs: Fixed IndexError while discovery
* 10756 FIX: storeonce_servicesets.capacity: Fixed handling of old format

Core & setup:
* 10701 FIX: Fix possible timeout exception during site update

HW/SW inventory:
* 10663 FIX: HW/SW Inventory: Fixed "Cannot update tree" on clusters
* 10502 FIX: oracle_instance: Skip uptime and DB creation time entries if they cannot be converted

Site management:
* 10664 FIX: Cleanup piggyback: Do not throw exception if piggyback folders are missing

User interface:
* 10699 FIX: Filtering "Alert Statistics" view resulted in empty page
* 10416 FIX: Fix GUI network topology view with IE11
* 10697 FIX: Fix possible issue with custom GUI config plugins since #10565
* 10645 FIX: Problem Hosts sidebar snapin was not refreshed regularly

WATO:
* 10700 FIX: "Tags using this auxiliary tag" was not listing the referencing tag IDs
* 10696 FIX: Fix rule analyzation issues on service object parameter page
* 10698 FIX: LDAP: Fix possible "TypeError: 'bool' object is not iterable" during LDAP config test
* 10654 FIX: hacmp_resources.py: allowing to save the any node option in the WATO configuration

You can download Checkmk from our download page:
 * https://checkmk.com/download.php

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[Checkmk Announce] New Checkmk stable release 1.5.0p22

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From: Checkmk Announcements
Date: Mon, Sep 9, 2019 at 8:47 PM

Livestatus:
* 8954 FIX: livestatus: Fixed possible decode error

HW/SW inventory:
* 8825 FIX: win_wmi_updates: Do not inventorize header line
* 8951 FIX: HW/SW inventory: Fixed active service state if software/packages information is missing

Event console:
* 7939 FIX: Fixed address => host name mapping for events

Checks & agents:
* 8808 FIX: zfsget: readd fallback for very old zfs pool versions
* 8938 FIX: websphere_mq_queues: Skip lines if agent sends testing or invalid data
* 8922 FIX: veeam_tapejobs: Fixed crash because of missing columns
* 8831 FIX: ups_test: Show generic message 'Item not found' if needed values (UPS diagnostics) are missing
* 8936 FIX: tsm_scratch: Do not crash and skip check if agent sends invalid data
* 7959 FIX: statgrab_mem,aix_memory,docker_conteiner_mem,solaris_mem,mem: Fixed wrong unit of SWAP in service output
* 8977 FIX: skype.mobile: Fix crash in case of missing counters
* 8921 FIX: sansymphony_serverstatus: Do not discover if info empty
* 8934 FIX: rstcli: Skip check plugin if command rstcli is not found
* 8829 FIX: netapp_api_volumes: Fixed wrong scaling of latency values
* 8925 FIX: netapp_api_aggr: Do not discover if needed values about available and total size are missing
* 8900 FIX: mysql_capacity: Fix problem with warn/crit size
NOTE: Please refer to the migration notes!
* 8947 FIX: mq_queues: Fixed crash because default parameters were not discovered correctly
* 8950 FIX: mknotifyd: Do not crash if agent output contains invalid lines
* 8806 FIX: mk_oracle: Fixed discovery of XE instances on Oracle 18c
NOTE: Please refer to the migration notes!
* 8804 FIX: mk_oracle: Fixed compatibility to oracle 19c
* 8920 FIX: megaraid_ldisks: Show generic message 'Item not found' if state information is missing
* 8940 FIX: mbg_lantime_ng_refclock: Fixed crash if field strength cannot be calculated
* 8943 FIX: kemp_loadmaster_services: Treat unknown service state as UNKNOWN
* 8939 FIX: juniper_trpz_aps_sessions: Skip radios which do not provide useful data
* 8792 FIX: ipmi_sensors: Fix crash in the parse function
* 8956 FIX: ipmi_common.include: Fixed detecting temperature performance data
* 8927 FIX: hp_psu.temp: Use generic 'Item not found' if data of an item is missing
* 8807 FIX: hp_proliant_temp: crash if temp device is not known
* 8833 FIX: hp_msa_fan: Translate status and health status regardless of language
* 8948 FIX: heartbeat_crm: Fixed crash while checking status of the resource
* 8785 FIX: fileinfo.groups: don't crash if the service is clustered
* 8933 FIX: fast_lta_headunit: Do not crash if states about head unit, slave and replication are missing
* 7961 FIX: f5_bigip_vserver: Handle imcomplete information
* 8955 FIX: esx_vsphere_hostsystem: Fixed evaluating additional CPU levels
* 8834 FIX: enterasys_powersupply: Do not crashed while translating redundancy and supply types
* 8980 FIX: docker_node_info: Support yet another output format
* 8935 FIX: dell_om_processors: Unknown device or CPU state cause an UNKNOWN service state
* 8926 FIX: dell_idrac_info: Fixed crash if BIOS date cannot be converted or is missing
* 8957 FIX: dell_compellent_controller, dell_compellent_disks, dell_compellent_enclosure: Fixed unknown device state crash
* 8941 FIX: db2_bp_hitratios: Do not crash if no hit ratio data is available on the related node
* 8931 FIX: cmctc_state: Handle unknown states
* 8928 FIX: citrix_controller: Add the licensing grace state 'Expired'
* 8944 FIX: cisco_wlc_clients: Fixed crash if lower levels but no upper levels are set
* 8945 FIX: cisco_temperature: If the SNMP device does not send a temperature value, use the device state instead
* 8929 FIX: cisco_fan: Fixed crash if device status is unknown
* 7932 FIX: check_sftp: support for custom ports for SFTP
* 8972 FIX: check_icmp: Bug fix for connecting option IPv6
* 8826 FIX: canon_pages: Fixed SNMP scan of Canon printers
* 8949 FIX: aws_ec2.disk_io: Do not crash if some values about disk IO are missing
* 8832 FIX: akcp_sensor_humidity: Do not crash if percentual value about humidity is missing
* 8937 FIX: aix_diskiod: Skip lines which do not contain data about DISK IO
* 7272 FIX: agent_netapp: now able to continue on malformed xml data
* 8830 FIX: MSSQL checks: Do not crash if line contains invalid data
* 8908 FIX: Fixes calculations of latency for netapp_api_vs_traffic
* 7962 FIX: Fix various bugs in the liebert* check plugins
* 7449 FIX: Fix Remove spurious perfdata in IF checks
* 8932 FIX: Do not crash if at least one data set of resources, groups, system or cluster is missing
* 8822 FIX: 3par_hosts: Do not crash if OS info is missing

You can download Checkmk from our download page:
 * https://checkmk.com/download.php

Icinga 2.11 Release Candidate

For months we have been working on one of the biggest and most important releases since the creation of Icinga 2. Icinga 2 version 2.11 includes improvements for performance, stability and scalability. After many changes of lines of code, additions and deletions we believe we’re finally there. But we want to have you on board, so we decided to go with a Release Candidate first. Today we’re happy to announce the general availability of this release!

REF: https://icinga.com/2019/07/25/icinga-2-11-release-candidate/

[Checkmk Announce] New Checkmk stable release 1.5.0p21

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From: Checkmk Announcements
Date: Wed, Jul 31, 2019 at 7:11 PM

Notifications:
* 8784 FIX: bulk notifications were sent multiple times

HW/SW inventory:
* 8820 FIX: lnx_packages: Do not crash if agent sends incomplete output

Checks & agents:
* 8823 FIX: stormshield_cluster, stormshield_cluster_node: Do not discover services if cluster info is missing
* 7957 FIX: msexchange: ignore invalid data in agent output
* 8821 FIX: emc_datadomain_temps: Do not discover missing temperature sensors
* 7270 FIX: Timespecific parameters: Some checks no longer loose discovered check parameters

You can download Checkmk from our download page:
 * https://checkmk.com/download.php

[Checkmk Announce] New Checkmk stable release 1.5.0p20

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From: Checkmk Announcements
Date: Mon, Jul 29, 2019 at 2:07 AM

WATO:
* 7979 FIX: Setting host tags correctly after editing hosts
* 8781 FIX: Fix traceback for builtin icon visibility
* 7900 FIX: BI: Fix "Request-URI Too Long" after creating BI rule

User interface:
* 7261 FIX: Quicksearch: Fixed exception shown with queries "sg: mysg s: .*"
* 7267 FIX: Multisite commands: Fixed empty followup page when pressing "Back to view"
* 7269 FIX: Increased LDAP user profile synchronisation timeout to remote sites
* 7985 FIX: IE: Some context buttons were not toggled correctly in some views

Other components:
* 6971 Bump shipped Python from 2.7.15 to 2.7.16.

Notifications:
* 7429 FIX: pushover: fix broken error handling
* 7433 FIX: mail: make the long output of HTML mails more readable
* 7428 FIX: email: don't escape email subject and addresses
* 8783 FIX: bulk notifications did not produce failed notifications

Linux distributions:
* 7989 Add build support for Debian Buster

HW/SW inventory:
* 8817 FIX: HW/SW inventory: Sort interfaces in order to avoid additional archive entries

DEB packaging:
* 7936 FIX: Fixed libevent dependency for Ubuntu Disco Dingo.

Checks & agents:
* 6762 FIX: zfsget: Fixed different behaviour of the plugin in Solaris and Linux
* 7923 FIX: websphere_mq_queues: Do not crash if timestamp of a queue could not be parsed
* 7945 FIX: veeam_tapejobs: treat idle background jobs like working ones
* 7493 FIX: veeam_tapejobs: fix mixed up running time for running jobs
* 7947 FIX: ps: Missing services for non-matching subexpressions
NOTE: Please refer to the migration notes!
* 8801 FIX: oracle_crs_res, oracle_crs_version, oracle_crs_voting: Fixed error in parameters view
* 7844 FIX: netapp-api-volumes: Fixed scaling of latency values
* 7431 FIX: mk_postgres: version detection may fail
NOTE: Please refer to the migration notes!
* 7753 FIX: esx_vsphere_counters: Fixed crash on missing values
* 7863 FIX: chrony: Fixed detection of unreachable NTP servers
* 7915 FIX: check_mk_agent.{aix,linux,openwrt}: Fixed accessing $SPOOLDIR
* 8815 FIX: ceph_df: Fixed wrong calculation of size and available space
* 7469 FIX: brocade_sfp: Fixed discovery crash if any value is -inf
* 7917 FIX: aws_costs_and_usage: Fixed missing service condition in related parameter set
NOTE: Please refer to the migration notes!
* 7862 FIX: Fix parsing of MongDB server status in cluster
NOTE: Please refer to the migration notes!
* 7446 FIX: EMKA checks did not recognize devices with recent sysObjectID

You can download Checkmk from our download page:
 * https://checkmk.com/download.php

[Checkmk Announce] New Checkmk stable release 1.5.0p19

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From: Checkmk Announcements
Date: Sat, Jun 29, 2019 at 1:18 AM

This maintenance release ships with 26 changes affecting all editions of Checkmk,
4 Enterprise Edition specific changes and 0 Managed Services Edition specific changes.

Notifications:
* 7427 FIX: mail: don't escape state markers in emails
NOTE: Please refer to the migration notes!
* 7442 FIX: Pagerduty notification host identifier to hostname when IP address is uknown

HW/SW inventory:
* 7838 FIX: oracle_instance: Fixed conversion of DB creation time
* 7840 FIX: aix_packages lnx_packages win_exefiles win_reg_uninstall win_wmi_software win_wmi_updates, solaris_pkginfo: Do not crash if package has no 'name' information
* 7822 FIX: HW/SW filter did not work: Network interface: Last Change

Checks & agents:
* 7847 FIX: win_printers: Fixed discovery of printers which include spaces in the printer name; This also fixes 'Printer not found' while checking
* 7751 FIX: storeonce_servicesets: Do not crash on capacity checking
* 7832 FIX: storeonce_clusterinfo: Do not crash if deduplication ratio is missing
* 7843 FIX: pfsense_if: Return 'Item not found in SNMP data' instead of crashing
* 7830 FIX: nimble_latency, nimble_latency.write: Fixed interpretation of read values as write values
* 7836 FIX: msexch_autodiscovery: Fixed configuration error: Found '%s' in service description
* 7833 FIX: mongodb_flushing: Fixed scaling and missing titles for performance values 'Flush time', '#Flushes' and 'Average flush time'
* 7426 FIX: mk_postgres: fix the version detection when using an MK_CONFFILE
NOTE: Please refer to the migration notes!
* 7423 FIX: mk_postgres: fix syntax error
NOTE: Please refer to the migration notes!
* 7424 FIX: mk_postgres: add missing database parameter
NOTE: Please refer to the migration notes!
* 7799 FIX: mcafee_webgateway_misc: Fixed crash if SNMP agent sends an empty string for clients or sockets
* 7690 FIX: lnx_thermal: Skip sensors which do not contain valid temperature values
* 7841 FIX: lnx_if: Fixed parsing interface address of tunnels on OpenBSD
* 7834 FIX: liebert*: Do not crash if value could not be converted to float
* 7797 FIX: fsc_fans: Do not discover fans for which the SNMP agent sends 'NULL'
* 7798 FIX: citrix_licenses: Fixed crash if agent plugin sends errors because it could not be executed
* 7837 FIX: citrix_controller: Fixed several problems if some values are missing
* 7835 FIX: apc_symmetra: Treat unknown battery status as UNKNOWN instead of crashing
* 7846 FIX: apache_status: Add missing SLES12 process 'httpd-prefork'
* 7796 FIX: aix_if: Do not crash if agent does not send information about 'flags'
* 7713 FIX: Pipe-char is used as separator for Windows WMI

[Checkmk Announce] New Checkmk stable release 1.5.0p18

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From: Checkmk Announcements
Date: Fri, Jun 14, 2019 at 3:49 PM

This maintenance release ships with 13 changes affecing all editions of Checkmk,
1 Enterprise Edition specific changes and 0 Managed Services Edition specific changes.

User interface:
* 7260 FIX: Virtual Host Tree: Fixed sorting by topic

Checks & agents:
* 7793 FIX: watchdog_sensors: Do not proceed parsing sensor data if no version information is available
* 7790 FIX: statgrab_cpu: Fixed parsing CPU values; Some values may be missing
* 7789 FIX: rds_licenses: Skip check plugin if no data available
* 7786 FIX: printer_pages: Fixed parsing total amount of pages if not available
* 7794 FIX: oracle_sessions: Fixed parsing invalid lines containg 'FAILURE' instead of amount of current sessions
* 7785 FIX: oracle_crs_res: Fixed parsing old agent output where node name as first column is missing
* 7792 FIX: mssql_instance: Fixed parsing invalid lines containing DB connection errors
* 7791 FIX: msexch_autodiscovery: Fixed WMI time handling if frequency is empty which caused a ValueError
* 7787 FIX: informix_status: Display server version or port if available - avoid crash if not
* 7784 FIX: hp_proliant_da_phydrv: Fixed missing smart status translation and made states readable
* 7788 FIX: emcvnx_mirrorview: Skip invalid data: 'Error occurred during HTTP request/response from the target'
* 7783 FIX: db2_bp_hitratios: Fixed parsing instances in DPF mode: 'KeyError: None'; only gather real instances

You can download Checkmk from our download page:
 * https://checkmk.com/download.php

Please mail bug reports and qualified feedback to feedback@check-mk.org.
We greatly thank you for using Checkmk and wish you a successful monitoring,

[Check_mk Announce] New Check_MK stable release 1.5.0p15

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From: Check_mk Announcements
Date: Thu, Apr 18, 2019 at 8:22 AM
...
WATO:
* 7257 WATO: The host diagnose page now also indicates if there are errors in the agent datasource

User interface:
* 7258 SLA configuration: Percentage values are now always shown with three decimal places
* 7337 FIX: Fix handling of dashlet exception breaking whole dashboard

Notifications:
* 7339 FIX: Fixed broken mail notifications with Nagios core (1.5.0p14 regression)

HW/SW inventory:
* 7367 FIX: oracle_tablespaces: Fixed wrong scaling of free space and increment size

Checks & agents:
* 7438 Perf-O-Meter and Graphs for CPU Utilization in statgrab_cpu check
* 7050 FIX: nginx_status: Add missing metric definitions
* 7364 FIX: check_mk_agent.{aix,solaris}: Fixed possibly disappeared inventory entries
* 7399 FIX: apache_status: regression for local hosts with python < 2.7
* 7372 FIX: agent_aws: Fixed restriction of services by tags
...
You can download Check_MK from our download page:
 * http://mathias-kettner.de/check_mk_download.html

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[Check_mk Announce] New Check_MK stable release 1.5.0p13

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From: Check_mk Announcements
Date: Tue, Mar 19, 2019 at 5:08 PM

Dear friends of Check_MK,

the new stable release 1.5.0p13 of Check_MK is ready for download.

This maintenance release ships with 48 changes affecting all editions of Check_MK,
5 Enterprise Edition specific changes and 0 Managed Services Edition specific changes.
...
You can download Check_MK from our download page:
 * http://mathias-kettner.de/check_mk_download.html

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[Check_mk Announce] New Check_MK stable release 1.5.0p12

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From: Check_mk Announcements
Date: Mon, Feb 18, 2019 at 2:43 AM

Dear friends of Check_MK,

the new stable release 1.5.0p12 of Check_MK is ready for download.

We are proud to announce the release of Check_MK version 1.5.0p12 also known as
1.5.0+, because it ships with several new features we wanted you to be able to
use as soon as possible.

With the new release, Check_MK provides a connector to Amazon Web Services
(AWS) and a large set of off-the-shelf plug-ins to monitor metrics of some of
the most popular AWS services. These includethe Simple Storage Service (S3),
Elastic Compute Cloud(EC2), Elastic Block Store (EBS), and Elastic Load
Balancing (ELB) and Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS). Furthermore,
users can also monitor the costs of their AWS services.

Check_MK 1.5+ also provides plug-ins for Microsoft Azure services via
a special agent to monitor Azure Virtual Machines, Azure Storage Accounts,
Azure SQL Databases, Azure Webservers and Azure Virtual Network Gateways.

The new release also enhances the monitoring of container environments beyond
the already existing Docker monitoring. With Check_MK 1.5+, users will be able
to monitor Kubernetes, one of the most prominent container orchestration tools,
and see detailed metrics on Kubernetes clusters, nodes and pods.

Another interesting part of this release are the new notification plug-ins that
Check_MK 1.5+ is introducing. We have added plug-ins for the incident
management systems VictorOps and PagerDuty and also for the collaboration and
communication platform Slack.

Have a look at the Check_MK handbook for further information:

https://mathias-kettner.de/cms_monitoring_kubernetes.html
https://mathias-kettner.de/cms_monitoring_aws.html
https://mathias-kettner.de/cms_monitoring_azure.html

Besides these features, this maintenance release ships with 40 changes affecing
all editions of Check_MK, 8 Enterprise Edition specific changes and 0 Managed
Services Edition specific changes.

[Check_mk Announce] New Check_MK stable release 1.4.0p38

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From: Check_mk Announcements
Date: Wed, Jan 30, 2019 at 8:09 PM

Changes in all Check_MK Editions:

Checks & agents:
* 6995 FIX: oracle_undostat: Fixed crash if state in case of positive space error count is set to OK
* 6994 FIX: oracle_tablespaces: ignore warn/crit for read only Tablespaces
* 6818 FIX: netapp_api_volumes: Added forgotten 'operations/s' metrics
* 6826 FIX: kemp_loadmaster_services: Do not discover disabled services
* 6999 FIX: ipmi_sensors: Treat "S0/G0" as "System full operational, working" state
* 6754 FIX: if_lancom: Fixed correct interface discovery for newer lancom router
NOTE: Please refer to the migration notes!
* 6814 FIX: hp_msa_if: Do not crash if no speed information is available
* 6991 FIX: genua_carp, genua_fan, genua_pfstate, genua_state_correlation, genua_vpn: Also discover Genubox and Genuscript devices
* 7003 FIX: f5_bigip_pool: Fixed crash if no SNMP info
* 6893 FIX: diskstat: Make check compatible with addional kernel versions
* 6873 FIX: df: made rule being found when searching for "inodes"
* 7009 FIX: cpu.threads: On Solaris the number of threads was calculated incorrectly
* 6997 FIX: check_mk_agent.linux: Decryption of agent output fails if passphrase contains '&'. This may also occur in case of other special chars.
* 6809 FIX: aix_if: Transmit/Receive errors are no longer ignored
* 6961 FIX: Unbreak check_mkevents active check.

You can download Check_MK from our download page:
 * http://mathias-kettner.de/check_mk_download.html

ADMIN: Installing and operating the Graylog SIEM solution

Figure 1: Graylog comprises a web interface, a server, MongoDB, and Elasticsearch.
REF: http://www.admin-magazine.com/Articles/Installing-and-operating-the-Graylog-SIEM-solution