[Release] Checkmk beta release 2.4.0b6

Dear friends of Checkmk,

the new beta release 2.4.0b6 of Checkmk is ready for download.

This beta release ships with 22 changes affecting all editions of Checkmk,
3 changes for the Enterprise editions, 2 Cloud Edition specific and
0 Managed Services Edition specific changes.

Changes in all Checkmk Editions:

Checks & agents

  • 17877 Distributed piggyback: Allow the piggyback-hub to be enabled via GUI…
  • 17716 check_cert: service output enhancement…
  • 17947 haproxy: make status MAINT (via) & MAINT (resolution) configurable…
  • 17793 redfish: Add OK state for disabled devices…
  • 17790 redfish: Add SSD life counters as metric…
  • 17792 redfish: Add service tag for Dell Devices in System State Details…
  • 17879 FIX: Distributed piggyback: Central hub is required for distributed piggybacking…
    NOTE: Please refer to the migration notes!
  • 17881 FIX: if64/interfaces: Duplicate service description…
    NOTE: Please refer to the migration notes!
  • 17791 FIX: redfish: Add controller ID in discovery for HPE drives…
    NOTE: Please refer to the migration notes!
  • 15360 FIX: Add Multi-Regions to gcp_status…
  • 14248 FIX: Rulesets did not work in certain scenarios…
  • 17873 FIX: informix_dbspaces: Fix logic to calculate total and free blobspace…
  • 17948 FIX: kube cronjob pods: resolve memory check plugin…
  • 17794 FIX: redfish: Correctly handle HPE devices without manager in data…
  • 17795 FIX: redfish: Fix memory summary to revert to 2.3 behavior…

Setup

  • 14246 Improved performance on updating configuration during a software update…
  • 15362 FIX: Improve autocompleter in vuejs context…
  • 17950 FIX: Quick setup: Hide setup menu entries for users with insufficient permissions…
  • 17916 FIX: Render no_elements_text in Dictionary input view…
  • 17824 FIX: clusters: IPv6 clusters should allow for No IP as the address family…

Site management

  • 17348 SEC: Disable access to check_mk/local/agents/…
    NOTE: Please refer to the migration notes!

User interface

  • 17915 FIX: Fix broken central site label matching…
    NOTE: Please refer to the migration notes!

Changes in the Checkmk Enterprise Edition:

Checks & agents

  • 17732 FIX: smart: Deprecate legacy plug-in…
    NOTE: Please refer to the migration notes!

Core & setup

  • 17940 FIX: Unbreak “cmk --convert-rrds” / “cmk-convert-rrds” for migration from Nagios to CMC RRDs…

Reporting & availability

  • 17715 FIX: SLA reporting: respect configured float precision in views…

Changes in the Checkmk Cloud Edition:

Dynamic host configuration

  • 17574 FIX: otel dcd: add new defaults for host creation options…
  • 17935 FIX: otel dcd: remove ‘Restrict source hosts’ config field…

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