[Release] Checkmk beta release 2.2.0b8

Dear friends of Checkmk,

the new beta release 2.2.0b8 of Checkmk is ready for download.

This test release ships with 31 changes affecting all editions of Checkmk,
2 changes for the Enterprise editions, 0 Cloud Edition specific and
0 Managed Services Edition specific changes.

Support periods can be found here: Checkmk versions

Changes in all Checkmk Editions:

Agent bakery:

  • 15475 FIX: agent_vsphere: Fix the IPv6 address format
  • 15749 FIX: apache_status: Add “httpd-worker” to the list of processes to detect…

Checks & agents:

  • 15535 IPMI sensors: Do not discover single absent sensors…
  • 15536 IPMI sensors: consider sensor state as reported by freeipmi…
  • 15612 omd_diskusage: Monitor more Locations
  • 15735 FIX: check_traceroute: Fix checking of routers specified by domain name…
  • 15736 FIX: check_traceroute: Report correct number of hops…
  • 15737 FIX: docker_node_info: Fix sporadic UNKN if host is monitored by multiple sites…
  • 15739 FIX: fortisandbox_disk_usage: Fix KeyError: ‘disk_used’…
  • 15738 FIX: ucs_c_rack_server_util_cpu: Take user-configured parameters into account…
  • 15266 FIX: Check plugin logwatch_ec: Improve detection of missing log files…
  • 15264 FIX: Check plugins logwatch, logwatch_ec: Notify about unreadable log file…
  • 14198 FIX: Cluster configuration: Fixed risk of missing services if a cluster resources switches between nodes
  • 14199 FIX: Rule evaluation: Fixed unnecessary reloading of host labels
  • 14955 FIX: Windows agent plugin hyperv_vms_guestinfos uses UTF-8
  • 15472 FIX: check_mail_loop, check_mail: Fix argument parsing
  • 15748 FIX: heartbeat_crm_resources: Check promotable clone resources…
  • 15613 FIX: omd_diskusage: Avoid Errors if Site Name is ‘log’ or ‘rrd’…
  • 15538 FIX: win_printers: Do not discover offline printers

Configuration generation:

  • 14200 Improved performance for some automation and command line calls…
  • 15747 FIX: Fix macro replacement in special agents…

HW/SW inventory:

  • 15395 FIX: cisco_meraki_org_device_info: Move inventory entries below hardware > system

Livestatus:

  • 15256 FIX: Fixed handling of unknown time periods when using the Nagios core…

REST API:

  • 15191 SEC: Livestatus command injection in RestAPI…
  • 13982 SEC: Reading host_config’s will now honour contact groups…
  • 15746 FIX: ‘mk_inventory’ column can now be returned from ‘host’ endpoints…

Setup:

  • 15492 FIX: Fix refresh of pending changes on bulk service discovery…

Site management:

  • 15562 FIX: Drop unsupported distros…
    NOTE: Please refer to the migration notes!

User interface:

  • 15846 New views for measuring IT utilization…
  • 15483 FIX: Fix missing metric history values on edit…
  • 15491 FIX: Fix possible crash on editing pagetypes…

Changes in the Checkmk Enterprise Edition:

Dynamic host configuration:

  • 15730 FIX: add proper error message when fetch remote call times out…

Site management:

  • 15611 FIX: Migrate Locked by during site renamings…

Changes in the Checkmk Cloud Edition:

NO CHANGES

Changes in the Checkmk Managed Services Edition:

NO CHANGES

You can download Checkmk from our download page: Download Checkmk for free | Checkmk

List of all changes: Werks

Please mail bug reports and qualified feedback to feedback-2.2-beta@checkmk.com.
We greatly thank you for using Checkmk and wish you a successful monitoring,

Your Checkmk Team