[Release] Checkmk stable release 2.4.0p14

Dear friends of Checkmk,

the new stable release 2.4.0p14 of Checkmk is ready for download.

This stable release ships with 54 changes affecting all editions of Checkmk,
8 changes for the Enterprise editions, 10 Cloud Edition specific and
1 Managed Services Edition specific changes.

Changes in all Checkmk Editions:

Checks & agents

  • 18537 Open Hardware Monitor is removed from Distro…
    NOTE: Please refer to the migration notes!
  • 18708 agent_kube: relax annotation value character restriction…
  • 18525 bgp_peer: Add support for Fortinet FortiGate devices…
  • 18301 ibm_mq: Support remote request to mqsc mainframe…
  • 18527 FIX: check-http: Incorrect expected response time leading to long-running check…
    NOTE: Please refer to the migration notes!
  • 18642 FIX: check_cert URL Parameter Renamed…
    NOTE: Please refer to the migration notes!
  • 18591 FIX: 3par_capacity: Various UX improvements…
  • 18902 FIX: Azure monitoring: Solve parsing issue with plugin azure_resource_health…
  • 18470 FIX: Fix false critical on OMD backup job when check is delayed…
  • 18692 FIX: Fix missing item in Azure storage monitoring…
  • 18246 FIX: Optimize query of NetApp LIFs…
  • 18157 FIX: Redfish: FIX “[special_redfish] KeyError: ‘@odata.id’”…
  • 18136 FIX: Show disabled active and custom services in service discovery…
  • 18133 FIX: Stop redfish agent from crashing when retries are exceeded…
  • 18134 FIX: Stop synology_disk check from crashing when data is missing…
  • 18184 FIX: UPS: Fix lower levels for output phase frequency checks…
  • 18535 FIX: Windows binaries are properly signed…
  • 18593 FIX: agent_alertmanager: Fix password store usage…
  • 18155 FIX: apache_status.py: TypeError: urlopen() got an unexpected keyword argument ‘cafile’…
  • 18477 FIX: cephstatus: Remap monitoring state of Ceph cluster state…
  • 18475 FIX: db2_logsizes: fix crash when write is suspended…
  • 18522 FIX: gcp_run: Avoid crash when Cloud Run Jobs can be queried…
  • 18183 FIX: hp_proliant: Add new memory types for installed memory modules…
  • 18323 FIX: inventory_win_reg_uninstall: Fix missing software packages, ie. without size, date and language entries
  • 18530 FIX: mk_docker: Allow fallback to previous node disk usage data…
  • 18476 FIX: mk_oracle.ps1: show full version…
  • 18722 FIX: mk_sap_hana: Add timeouts to prevent hanging processes…
  • 18689 FIX: netapp_ontap: handle snapmirrors with no policy…
  • 18691 FIX: netapp_ontap_aggr: handle missing aggregates gracefully…
  • 18688 FIX: netapp_ontap_cpu: revision of CPU Utilization Calculation…
  • 18674 FIX: ups_modulys_inphase: Unbreak parsing of device data with NULL values…

Notifications

  • 18663 FIX: Correct Pushover receipt handling and make receipt optional…
    NOTE: Please refer to the migration notes!
  • 18658 FIX: Event Console alert and host/service event matching…
    NOTE: Please refer to the migration notes!
  • 18857 FIX: ASCII Email: Preserve line breaks in message body…
  • 18858 FIX: Fix missing “Check types” filter when reopening notification rules…
  • 18659 FIX: HTML Email: Add alias to hostname…
  • 18660 FIX: HTML Email: Align event date with UI…
  • 18661 FIX: HTML Email: Fix escaped links in custom HTML section…
  • 18580 FIX: Microsoft Teams: Set EVENT_TXT macro…
  • 18651 FIX: Show correct results for forwarded remote site spoolfiles…

Other components

  • 18156 FIX: Prevent site Apache stopped with syntax error due to undefined symbol…

REST API

  • 16731 FIX: Fix Grafana datasource connection…
  • 18290 FIX: REST-API: re-use existing notification parameters…

Setup

  • 18655 FIX: Fix Ensure Inpage-Search in Setup shows only relevant results…
  • 18135 FIX: Fix site-related ruleset pre-validation failing when upgrading to 2.5…
  • 18698 FIX: Hide “edit host” action if not permitted for the user…
  • 18683 FIX: Ignore more blank lines when bulk importing hosts from a CSV file…
  • 18697 FIX: Rename monitoring rules for assigning contact groups…

Site management

  • 18158 FIX: cmk-migrate-http: Handle virtual host without host correctly…

User interface

  • 17998 SEC: Add option to configure trust between central and remote site…
  • 18090 FIX: Ensure access to built-in pages if “See user…” permission is missing…
  • 18647 FIX: Ensure default topic “Other” is always permitted…
  • 18649 FIX: Forecast graphs: Show own even if “See user” permission is missing…
  • 18656 FIX: Load all graphs in scrollable dashlet…

Changes in the Checkmk Enterprise Edition:

Agent Bakery

  • 18676 FIX: Avoid UI glitches in the agent bakery with agent packages that include managed robots…

Checks & agents

  • 18533 Add possibility to exclude system databases when monitoring Microsoft SQL Server…
  • 18592 FIX: TSM - IBM Tivoli Storage Manager (Linux, Unix): Fix broken password format…
  • 18357 FIX: extension packages: Fix MKPs generate error messages when activating if they contain rules that use the Password Store…

Metrics system

  • 18608 FIX: Fix “Memory Average Usage” Metric in the “Main memory usage (UNIX / Other Devices)” rule…

Notifications

  • 18665 FIX: Servicenow: Fix handling of “Use site ID prefix” option…
    NOTE: Please refer to the migration notes!

Reporting & availability

  • 18662 FIX: Prevent crash when scheduling reports with relative time ranges…

User interface

  • 18657 FIX: Enable log filter choices for timeline dashlets…

Changes in the Checkmk Cloud Edition:

Checks & agents

  • 18528 OTel: Dedicated service to monitor collector…
    NOTE: Please refer to the migration notes!
  • 18526 OTel: Monitor collector automatically on site host…
    NOTE: Please refer to the migration notes!
  • 18529 OTel: Avoid opening TCP port when sending logs to Event Console…
  • 18358 OTel: Enable OpenTelemetry collector configuration via UI…
  • 18185 OTel: Recalculate cumulative histogram data into delta data…
  • 18359 OTel: Split OpenTelemetry collector configuration into Receivers and Prometheus scraping…
  • 18182 FIX: OTel: Sanitze metric name for high cardinality metrics…
    NOTE: Please refer to the migration notes!
  • 18682 FIX: Azure Recovery Services vaults: Fix monitoring for several types of backup containers…
  • 18360 FIX: OTel: Enable octet counting for syslog exporter to prevent pseudo events in EC…
  • 18310 FIX: OTel: Fix ZeroDivisionError for histogram…

Changes in the Checkmk Cloud (SaaS):

NO CHANGES

Changes in the Checkmk Managed Services Edition:

User interface

  • 18364 FIX: Fixed vanishing views and bookmarks for customer users on remote sites…

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

List of all changes: Werks

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

Your Checkmk Team

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