[Release] Checkmk stable release 2.5.0p9

Dear friends of Checkmk,

the new stable release 2.5.0p9 of Checkmk is ready for download.

This stable release ships with 48 changes affecting all editions of Checkmk,
6 changes for all commercial editions, 6 Ultimate specific,
0 Ultimate with multi-tenancy specific and 1 Cloud specific changes.

Support periods can be found here: Checkmk versions

Changes in all Checkmk editions:

Agent Bakery

  • 19216 FIX: Windows agent: Fix excessive restarts of the agent updater plugin…

BI

  • 20152 BI aggregations now support removing scheduled downtimes…
  • 16918 SEC: Fix Business Intelligence API Pack permission not respected in API requests…

Checks & agents

  • 19218 mk-oracle: Migrate legacy Oracle plugin configuration to new format…
  • 18753 UPS / PDU phases and nominal frequencies: configure upper voltage and frequency levels…
    NOTE: Please refer to the migration notes!
  • 16922 Detect ifAlias on Nera Evolution XPAND IP devices…
  • 18496 extend hp_hh3c_ext_* to also detect HPE 5130 48G PoE+ 4SFP+ EI
  • 20104 SEC: mk_sap_hana: Privilege escalation via crafted sapstartsrv process name…
  • 20143 FIX: Azure VM and database CPU utilization: configured thresholds now take effect…
    NOTE: Please refer to the migration notes!
  • 19250 FIX: Oracle scheduler jobs: handle job class SCHED$_LOG_ON_ERRORS_CLASS…
    NOTE: Please refer to the migration notes!
  • 19327 FIX: systemd unit: emit one host label per discovered unit…
    NOTE: Please refer to the migration notes!
  • 19328 FIX: systemd unit: only create host labels for matching units…
    NOTE: Please refer to the migration notes!
  • 20134 FIX: Aruba switches: keep device type label after firmware upgrade…
  • 20145 FIX: Azure: Fix shifted timestamps and possible crash on non-UTC sites…
  • 19220 FIX: Exchange DAG: crash on empty agent section…
  • 19540 FIX: Fix crash in GCP Quick Setup connection test…
  • 20155 FIX: Fix wrong bandwidth usage for Cisco Meraki appliance uplinks…
  • 20154 FIX: Fix wrong ethernet port speed for Cisco Meraki wireless APs…
  • 19982 FIX: Infoblox DNS statistics: Fix crash on empty counter values…
  • 16923 FIX: Parsing of section inv_lldp_cache failed…
  • 19251 FIX: PostgreSQL monitoring broken by util-linux 2.42…
  • 19991 FIX: Redfish: fix discovery crash for power supplies without a name…
  • 19986 FIX: Redfish: retry transient Systems failures and keep previous data instead of dropping services…
  • 20142 FIX: Rename the “CPU utilization for appliances” ruleset…
  • 20035 FIX: Service discovery: Fix timeout when enabling/disabling a service on hosts with many disabled services…
  • 20015 FIX: check_cert: Remove duplicated error details on connection failure…
  • 20153 FIX: df: Fix crash when a filesystem’s usable capacity is 0…
  • 18756 FIX: ups_bat_temp: Fix crash when UPS reports an empty battery temperature…

Core & setup

  • 20078 Enforce CSRF token verification on global settings toggle buttons…
  • 20144 FIX: Distributed monitoring: fix message broker connection breaking on remote sites…
  • 19589 FIX: Fixed crash in RRD creation for service names containing a null byte…
  • 20037 FIX: No superfluous DNS lookups for hosts without an IP address…

HW/SW Inventory

  • 19833 FIX: Checkmk sites view: Fix numeric sorting of #Hosts and #Services columns…

Metrics system

  • 20106 FIX: Cisco CPU memory: show the growth and trend graphs…
  • 20105 FIX: Growth graphs displayed values in a far too small unit…

Notifications

  • 20052 FIX: HTML email notifications: show address and site only when configured…
    NOTE: Please refer to the migration notes!
  • 20058 FIX: HTTP proxy ignored for custom notification plug-ins configured via the REST API…

Other components

  • 20013 FIX: NagVis: Updated to 1.10.5…

REST API

  • 19884 FIX: Fix crash in REST API host endpoints when inventory data is JSON-encoded…

Setup

  • 19931 Clarify purpose of the Microsoft Entra ID connections page…
  • 19828 FIX: Fix crash when saving “Read only mode for configuration” form…
  • 19590 FIX: Fixed cloning of time periods…
  • 20057 FIX: Install Checkmk agent slideout registered agent on wrong site…
  • 20094 FIX: Reverting changes now reverts settings that require a site restart…

Site management

  • 19712 FIX: omd restore: Fix inverted vulnerability warning for Werk #18891…

User interface

  • 20051 FIX: Custom snap-ins in the default sidebar no longer crash the user interface…
  • 20135 FIX: Display custom metric names without altered capitalization…
  • 20193 FIX: Fix table column headers being overlapped by rows in scrollable grouped views…

Changes in Checkmk commercial editions:

Agent Bakery

  • 20071 FIX: Agent Bakery: Rework signature key expiry notifications…

Checks & agents

  • 19217 Windows Updates: Override and remove monitoring state, rename reboot notification option…
  • 20070 FIX: Windows agent: Ensure Python is ready before starting agent updater…

Dynamic host configuration

  • 19219 FIX: DCD: cmk-dcd error handler crashes on args.debug, masking real DCD error…

Metrics system

  • 20194 FIX: Restore presentation option for combined graph dashboard widgets…

REST API

  • 19734 FIX: Fix wrong response fields for SLA outage-count and state-percentage computations…

Changes in Checkmk Ultimate:

Checks & agents

  • 20146 Azure dashboards: navigable drill-down breadcrumb…

Relay

  • 19541 Relay installer: refresh systemd units without re-registering…

Setup

  • 20103 Metric backend: configure metric consolidation inline…
  • 18755 Guided Quick Setup for OpenTelemetry and Prometheus…
  • 19465 FIX: Fix managed robot replacement failing with Windows path error…

Telemetry

  • 19912 FIX: Metric Backend: samples now contribute to all covered grid points…

Changes in Checkmk Cloud:

Setup

  • 20172 FIX: Cloud edition: parent scan is no longer available…
    NOTE: Please refer to the migration notes!

Changes in Checkmk Ultimate with multi-tenancy:

NO CHANGES

You can download Checkmk from our download page: https://checkmk.com/download

List of all changes: https://checkmk.com/werks?product=cmk&version=2.5.0p9

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

Your Checkmk Team

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