[Release] Checkmk beta release 2.4.0b5

Dear friends of Checkmk,

the new beta release 2.4.0b5 of Checkmk is ready for download.

This beta release ships with 40 changes affecting all editions of Checkmk,
4 changes for the Enterprise editions, 1 Cloud Edition specific and
0 Managed Services Edition specific changes.

Changes in all Checkmk Editions:

BI

  • 17896 FIX: Log level for BI Compilation in Global Settings…

Checks & agents

  • 17639 FIX: Migration of setting “Disable SSL certificate validation” of UCS bladecenter…
    NOTE: Please refer to the migration notes!
  • 17570 FIX: Netapp Volumes and Snapshots: do not discover if SVM subtype is sync_destination…
    NOTE: Please refer to the migration notes!
  • 17571 FIX: netapp_ontap_ports: do not discover ports in state down…
    NOTE: Please refer to the migration notes!
  • 17640 FIX: Agent UCS Blade Center: Empty output upon missing attributes…
  • 17892 FIX: Avoid error in “Siemens PLC (SPS)” rule when updating to Checkmk 2.4…
  • 17880 FIX: Distributed piggyback - Move omd option from “Addons” menu to “Distributed Monitoring”
  • 17637 FIX: FortiGate Firewalls: Sensor Summary: Restore correct filtering of disconnected sensors…
  • 17942 FIX: Include “Guest operating systems” and “Steal” metrics in CPU utilization perfometer…
  • 17638 FIX: Invalid rule configuration “Fetch intervals for SNMP sections”…
  • 16514 FIX: Make level handling of check-cert more consistent with other checks…
  • 17569 FIX: Netapp SVM Status: set status as OK for sync_destination subtype…
  • 17641 FIX: Regression in Werk #17631 (SAP HANA Status)…
  • 17765 FIX: agent_datadog: Fix migration error…
  • 17878 FIX: apc_symmetra_test: Fix crash when “Time since last UPS selftest” is configured…
  • 15361 FIX: check_mk_agent.solaris: Fix missing memory services…
  • 17941 FIX: cisco_meraki_org_device_status_ps: Unbreak service discovery…
  • 17573 FIX: netapp_ontap_disk: do not monitor disks with container-type remote or partner…
  • 17572 FIX: netapp_ontap_disk: show spare disks also if no params are configured…

Livestatus

  • 17536 FIX: Graphs shows data with Nagios core…

Notifications

  • 17662 Send user messages if deprecations are found…
  • 17850 FIX: Also match service labels for active checks…
  • 17851 FIX: Notification test: Keep input values…
  • 17895 FIX: Notifications: move check types option to service filters…

REST API

  • 17911 host_config: improve performance of bulk-update endpoint…
  • 16727 FIX: Prevent updating a folder with an empty title…
  • 17513 FIX: REST API: Fix exclude field filters…

Setup

  • 17832 Added confirm window on leaving the “Edit role” page…
  • 17913 Cloud Quick Setups: addition of AWS Quick Setup…
  • 17914 Cloud Quick Setups: addition of Azure Quick Setup…
  • 17945 Cloud Quick Setups: addition of GCP Quick Setup…
  • 17910 FIX: Cloud Quick Setups: validate folder permissions…
  • 17499 FIX: Fix crash on rule search when searching for sub group…
  • 17663 FIX: Make titles of metrics ‘util_numcpu_as_max’ (Windows) and ‘util’ (others) distinguishable
  • 17514 FIX: Quick setup: Fix validation warning during update…

User interface

  • 17852 FIX: Correctly respecting permissions for visuals…
  • 17349 FIX: Don’t set Timeout for stunnel…
  • 17834 FIX: Fix parent / child topology node color of down hosts…
  • 17660 FIX: Graphs & metrics: Fix classification and legend of scalars…
  • 17833 FIX: Set auto focus on first form element of slidein…

Changes in the Checkmk Enterprise Edition:

Agent Bakery

  • 17389 FIX: runas: Concretize ruleset…

Checks & agents

  • 17936 FIX: extension packages: extension activation now triggers rule sets migration…

Setup

  • 17822 FIX: JIRA parameter: Host and Service custom field IDs should be required…
    NOTE: Please refer to the migration notes!

User interface

  • 17894 FIX: Unbreak adding combined graph to a dashboard via graph dropdown menu…

Changes in the Checkmk Cloud Edition:

Checks & agents

  • 17661 FIX: Replace OTEL data point namespace separator ‘.’ with ‘__’ when creating Checkmk metrics…

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