[Release] Checkmk beta release 2.4.0b3

Dear friends of Checkmk,

the new beta release 2.4.0b3 of Checkmk is ready for download.

This beta release ships with 36 changes affecting all editions of Checkmk,
5 changes for the Enterprise editions, 1 Cloud Edition specific and
0 Managed Services Edition specific changes.

Changes in all Checkmk Editions:

Checks & agents

  • 17346 Deprecation of “Check State of BI Aggregation”…
    NOTE: Please refer to the migration notes!
  • 17835 Printer Supply: switch to color-based toner metrics…
  • 17534 Windows agent insert missing newline symbols…
  • 17634 FIX: Agent Vsphere: Fix broken commandline call…
  • 17497 FIX: Fix aruba_wlc_aps check from failing with utf-8 SSID…
  • 17714 FIX: Fix change detection of clustered services for discovered changes…
  • 17535 FIX: Fixed Windows version check in Windows agent installer…
  • 17372 FIX: Handle missing disk IO from running docker container…
  • 17636 FIX: KeyErrors in plugins when accessing the value store…
  • 17726 FIX: Microsoft Azure: Rework ‘Import tags as host/service labels’…
  • 17786 FIX: Network Interface and switch port discovery ruleset: MICROSENSE G6 and Cisco Cataclyst 9200L switches alias naming…
  • 17633 FIX: Predictive levels: Crashed in case of livestatus timeout…
  • 17635 FIX: Wrong user agents reported by some special agents…
  • 17875 FIX: agent_aws: Do not crash for invalid proxy server details…
  • 17584 FIX: check-http: add support for IPv6 address macros in the url…
  • 17632 FIX: local: Don’t create crash reports for invalid user data…
  • 17631 FIX: sap_hana_status: Always discover the Status service…

DEB packaging

  • 16576 FIX: Fix startup during system boot…

HW/SW Inventory

  • 17655 FIX: Fix inventory of docker node networks…

Other components

  • 17554 Deprecated: EMC VNX storage systems special agent…
    NOTE: Please refer to the migration notes!

Setup

  • 17552 Two-factor changes now synchronize across distributed monitoring setups…
  • 17836 FIX: Disallow Conditions with Empty Tag ID…
  • 17841 FIX: Effective parameters of logwatch_ec_single can not be shown…
  • 17553 FIX: Fix: Removed password change notification when creating users…
  • 14243 FIX: Improved performance of host attributes processing in very large setups…
  • 14244 FIX: Improved performance when working with host attributes
  • 17589 FIX: quick_setup: introduce localization…

Site management

  • 17729 FIX: Fix misbehaving check plugins after a reboot…
  • 17730 FIX: cmk-migrate-http: Improve user experience…
  • 17727 FIX: omd update: Don’t notify about unacknowledged Werks…
  • 17728 FIX: omd update: Don’t query target version indefinitely…
  • 17731 FIX: omd update: Notify about unacknowledged Werks only on central site…

User interface

  • 17808 SEC: Prevent session from loosing logged out state…
  • 17860 FIX: Azure Quick Setup: Handle proxy connection errors…
  • 17843 FIX: Publish permissions not needed to view published visuals…
  • 17008 FIX: View rendering: Prevent scrollbars from blocking view content…

Changes in the Checkmk Enterprise Edition:

Checks & agents

  • 17533 Add disabled schedule status to MS SQL Job service…

Dynamic host configuration

  • 17530 Enhanced Dynamic Host Management(DCD)…
    NOTE: Please refer to the migration notes!
  • 17532 Introduce DCD command line tool…
  • 17531 Remove Dynamic host configuration from Global settings…

User interface

  • 17784 FIX: Avoid error in host icons columns of host views…

Changes in the Checkmk Cloud Edition:

Checks & agents

  • 17654 FIX: Agent registration: Fix TLS registration removal…

Changes in the Checkmk Cloud (SaaS):

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

We would like to ask all users to try out the new version and help us ensure that Checkmk 2.4.0 becomes a success.

  • Anyone with a Checkmk subscription directly purchased from Checkmk: Beta support portal
  • Anyone with a Checkmk subscription purchased via an official Checkmk partner: please submit via your partner the tickets (they can report issues free of charge in the beta support portal)
  • Anyone without a subscription (and only these please): in this forum category

We greatly thank you for using Checkmk and wish you a successful monitoring,

Your Checkmk Team

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