[Release] Checkmk stable release 1.6.0p14

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Dear friends of Checkmk,

the new stable release 1.6.0p14 of Checkmk is ready for download.

This maintenance release ships with 52 changes affecing all editions of Checkmk,
2 Enterprise Edition specific changes and 0 Managed Services Edition specific changes.

Changes in all Checkmk Editions:

Checks & agents:

  • 11045 Optional package: Replace Kubernetes extension package
  • 11220 ps: Add option to specify minimum age of processes
  • 11229 FIX: Check_MK discovery: Was not always able to discover new snmp checks
  • 11231 FIX: Management Board: Use IPv6 address of the host if no management address is configured and host is IPv6
  • 11232 FIX: Management Boards: Use DNS cache while looking up IP address
  • 11233 FIX: Manual checks: Do not overwrite static parameters with check group parameters
  • 10999 FIX: Optional package: Update fortigate_sslvpn-1.0: Fix crash if old-style parameters
  • 10542 FIX: Site maintenance: Cleanup crashed checks files older than 90 days
  • 11210 FIX: Update AWS EC2 instance type list
  • 10694 FIX: Windows Agent supports log file paths which contain white spaces
  • 11206 FIX: Wrong age reported for ESX snapshots
  • 11227 FIX: [mgmt_]hp_proliant_temp: Fix unknown temperature sensor condition state
  • 11209 FIX: aws_ec2_limits crashes on unhandled KeyError
  • 11213 FIX: ceph_status: OSDS check crashed when ‘full’ or ‘nearfull’ indicators are not available
  • 7886 FIX: dell_om_sensors: Fix crashing temperature check for certain devices not reporting crit values
  • 10998 FIX: df.include: Fix discovery of empty filesystem groups
  • 10996 FIX: f5_bigip_vserver: Fixed scaling of connections duration min/max/mean
  • 11212 FIX: fortigate_sslvpn: could run into unhandled exception
  • 11226 FIX: hitachi_hus_dku: Fixed informational text about component: “Processor” -> “Power Supply”
  • 11296 FIX: juniper_alarm: crashed when not applicable to device
  • 11133 FIX: mk_logwatch: no longer resolve symlinks
  • 10847 FIX: mk_oracle: Broken instance specific login in some cases
  • 10997 FIX: mk_postgres: Fixed query “Last vaccum”
  • 7887 FIX: mssql_counters.file_sizes: Add missing performance value log_files_used
  • 11141 FIX: netapp_api_if: crashed when parsing virtual interfaces on ONTAP
  • 11132 FIX: salesforce agent: fix encoding bug
  • 11211 FIX: systemd_units.services could run into unhandled TypeError
  • 11221 FIX: systemtime: Offset for vSphere special agent
  • 11134 FIX: ucd check: discover Microsens devices
  • 11222 FIX: apc_rackpdu_power: Discover correct bank numbers
    NOTE: Please refer to the migration notes!
  • 11198 FIX: mk-job.solaris: Fixed MK_VARDIR
    NOTE: Please refer to the migration notes!
  • 10852 FIX: mk_oracle.ps1: Fixed missing sqls in rman section
    NOTE: Please refer to the migration notes!

Core & setup:

  • 11086 FIX: Docker container: Fix usage behind reverse proxies

Event console:

  • 10849 FIX: Increased size of field for syslog application tag in new rule
  • 11250 FIX: mkeventd_status: Check was showing wrong list of active host limits
  • 11087 FIX: mkeventd_status: Check was showing wrong list of active rule limits

HW/SW inventory:

  • 11139 FIX: FIX ESX inventory plugin
  • 10995 FIX: mk_inventory.vbs: Fixed date time format

Notifications:

  • 11193 FIX: Opsgenie: Fixed help text for domain
    NOTE: Please refer to the migration notes!

Other components:

  • 11251 FIX: NagVis: Updated to 1.9.21

User interface:

  • 11046 FIX: Fix infinite reloads of views when the number of columns is changed
  • 11191 FIX: Fixed misleading snmp error message
  • 11188 FIX: Fixed non functional “discovery state” filter
  • 10543 FIX: Fixed slow GUI when using custom host attributes from versions <= 1.5
  • 11195 FIX: Fixed wrong filter in different hostgroup views
  • 11196 FIX: Improved speed of loading of rows shown in table
  • 11275 FIX: ps - Size of processes: Change graph visual display order

WATO:

  • 11085 SEC: Icon upload: Add missing transaction validation
  • 10539 FIX: Activate changes: Improved speed of site snapshot packaging
  • 11225 FIX: Add permissions for rulesets which can have access to commandline execution
  • 11194 FIX: Fixed visualization of warnings while activation of changes in dark theme
  • 11002 FIX: Hostname Translation: Fix wrongly detected IP address if drop domain

Changes in the Checkmk Enterprise Edition:

Livestatus proxy:

  • 10541 FIX: HW/SW Inventory: Inventory data from remote sites was not always up-to-date

Notifications:

  • 11047 FIX: mknotifyd, mknotifyd.connection: resolve wrong warnings

Changes in the Checkmk Managed Services Edition:

NO CHANGES

You can download Checkmk from our download page:

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

Your Checkmk Team

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I updated to p14cee today. Vcenter Check_MK now returns:

CRIT - [special_vsphere] Agent exited with code 1: Error while processing received data

All of our VMs went into a WARN state probably due to same (?).

WARN - [agent] Version: 1.6.0p13, OS: linux, Missing agent sections: esx_vsphere_vm

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Maybe it’s just a thing with our Vcenter? Anyway, I tried “updating” back to p13cee, but the check is still failing (same message).

Edit: We’re attempting a reboot of our vcenter appliance to see if that fixes things.

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Didn’t fix. We’re stuck!

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What happens on the command line with enabled “tracefile” option on the special agent?
This helped me a lot with vcenter problems in the past.

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It was on our end. Evil 90 day expiration in Vcenter. Sorry about the false alarm.

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Some of our machines started showing WARN - Missing: data=ordered for the service Mount options of / after upgrading to 1.6.0p14. Would that be related? (Otherwise I’m happy to create a new thread.)

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The mount options have changed since your first inventory. You may have to do a re inventory if you want cmk to know that this is OK.

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We had to roll back to 1.6.0p13 because of a crash during ESXi inventory.

In file share/check_mk/inventory/esx_systeminfo function inv_esx_systeminfo, the parsed parameter is treated as a dict, but in our case it is a nested list:

'parsed': [[u'vendor', u'VMware,', u'Inc.'],
            [u'name', u'VMware', u'ESXi'],
            [u'propertyCollector', u'ha-property-collector'],
            [u'apiVersion', u'6.0'],
            [u'sessionManager', u'ha-sessionmgr'],
            [u'osType', u'vmnix-x86'],
            [u'version', u'6.0.0'],
            [u'build', u'6921384'],
            [u'licenseManager', u'ha-license-manager'],
            [u'perfManager', u'ha-perfmgr'],
            [u'rootFolder', u'ha-folder-root']]