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Checkmk Agent supports installation and operation on SELinux protected hosts
As an administrator, I want to install Checkmk on my RedHat SELinux protected hosts
Under consideration
Make "omd cleanup" available on the appliance
For customers using Ansible to automate their Checkmk deployments, it would be helpful to offer omd cleanup also on the appliance
Under consideration
Appliance
Officially support Rancher and RKE2
For RKE2, the cadvisor has to run with an additional args (if configuted via values.yaml) as the location of the containerd.sock differs in Rancher vs. other ...
In progress
Dashboard - Perf-O-Meter rules
We should we able to make dashboards which display services sorted by Perf-o-Meter.
Or display them only if they are on WARN/CRIT based on the monitoring rules. ...
Not planned
Dashboards & Views
Add option to ignore dBm 0 for DOM monitoring
It would be nice if there was an option to ignore a DOM reading of 0.00. It is most likely a transceiver without a cable. I manually overrode it by modifying the ...
Under consideration
Checks&Agents
check-mk-agent-async systemd service should restart on failure
We had a machine run out of disk space which caused the check-mk-agent-async service to fail and it did not restart itself. The systemd unit should restart on ...
Under consideration
Gitlab Alerts Integration
An integration that connects checkmk with Gitlab (Alerts).
With this integration, checkmk alerts can be displayed and managed in Gitlab.
You could also change the ...
Under consideration
Checks&Agents
Grafana: time range filter : time range selection with mouse in graph
Besides the definable time windows (4 hours, 25 hours, etc,) it would be ingenious to be able to define a time range with date and hours or to select the desired ...
Under consideration
Graphing
Sidebar Snapin - User Overview
The Sidebar Snap in - User Overview is very helpful for CheckMK admins, but unfortunately only on CheckMK Exchange available for an older version of CheckMK.
As ...
Under consideration
Possibility to extend Rest-API with own Endpoints
Make the Rest-API extensible by own Endpoints in the local structure.
Under consideration
RestAPI
Make URLs clickable in Reports | Textparagraph section more customizable
it would be helpful if you can refer in Reports to URLs like a server status page or a Checkmk Dashboard..
The URL should be clickable and customizable. As an idea, ...
Under consideration
Reporting
Enable transfer of generic agents to distributed sites via config or API
Problem with new hosts in distributed setting.
There is an API endpoint to download the latest generic package. ...
Under consideration
Make "cmk-agent-ctl proxy-register" available every user
Currently, the cmk-agent-ctl forces himself to run as user 'cmk-agent', even when a proxy-registration is wanted. But for a proxy-registration no changes need to be ...
Under consideration
Mass editing of User attributes
If you have to add/change/remove attributes for a group of users, it can quickly become very time-consuming.
It would be very helpful if you could search for users ...
Under consideration
HCI Plugins based Hyper-V or vmware
Hello,
we would like to monitor HCI clusters via checkmk. Our current clusters are based on Hyper-V and vmware, and Dell hardware. As far as I read you currently ...
Under consideration
Checks&Agents
GUI: Rules which filter automatically the Explicit hosts based on Folder selected
It would be so helpful if when creating/modifying a rule, if we activate the Explicit Hosts option, to have it automatically filtered to the hosts inside of the ...
Under consideration
CMK AIX Agent
Please change the Memory service to reflect separate values for Memory and Swap, with individual thresholds and total thresholds.
If the AIX system uses 100% SWAP ...
Under consideration
Checks&Agents
VMware - vSphere - ESX sensors
via vSphere API special agent, please enlarge the data set by adding the psychical sensors of ESX machines
Also:
- Host has lost time synchronization
- ...
Under consideration
Checks&Agents
VM WIN - Maximum Memory for dynamic allocation
A basic feature that should have been implemented already:
For Windows Server VMs which have dynamic memory, calculate percentage used based on "Maximum Memory" ...
Under consideration
Checks&Agents
ESX Maintenance Mode Service Monitoring Rule Enhancement
Please consider adding ability to set service state for when ESX is in maintenance mode. Almost always, admins intentionally place a ESX host in maintenance mode. ...
Under consideration
Checks&Agents
ESX Snapshot Service Monitoring Rule
For the "ESX Snapshots" service, please create a service monitoring rule allowing us to set the thresholds for count and/or age of snapshots for alerting.
Planned
Checks&Agents
Username/Password for SSH Check
Currently, the "Check via SSH service" check only allows authentication through keyfile. Consider adding ability to use username/password as well.
Under consideration
Checks&Agents
Add inventory services/checks in most Linux plugins/agents
Hi
Check_MK server offers monitoring and inventory, but inventory only contains OS, SW and HW of the box.
I realized that jolokia plugin can be configured to ...
Under consideration
Checks&Agents
Setup rules: analyze ineffective rules, show all findings at every time after the edit/delete
Setup rules: analyze ineffective rules, show all findings at every time after the edit/delete
The problem is if you edit the analyzed and showed rules, the ...
Under consideration
Setup Rules: possibility to delete all rules from a host at analyses ineffective rules
Setup Rules: possibility to delete all rules from a host at analyses ineffective rules and in general:
The problem arises if you analyses the rules and you will find ...
Under consideration
Single-Site Mode
I want to sugest a Single-Site mode where omd would create a default instance called checkmk or even default or withtout a name redirecting the default site to ...
Under consideration
Graphical representation of host and service summary in reports
It will be helpful if we have a graphical representation of host and service summary in reports like pie chart.
Under consideration
Dashboard Buttons, with link to other dashboards, and with status of the other dashboard.
We have a main dashboard, there should be a way to get from this main dashboard to another dashboard with a click of a button.
It would be cool if this button would ...
Under consideration
Dashboards & Views
Set downtimes backdated
It would be good if downtimes can be set backdated. I know that this is possible via annotations on "availibilty detail view" but there should be a simplier way to ...
Under consideration
Support for NetApp REST-API instead of old NetApp ONTAPI (ZAPI)
NetApp ONTAP 9.13.1 software - which is expected to release in the second quarter (Q2) of calendar year 2023 - will be the final version to offer normal support of ...
In progress
Checks&Agents
Add a RRD Filesize Calculater in the Online Documentation or Checkmk Help
Please add a RRD file size calculator to the "Performance data and graphing" Checkmk documentation https://docs.checkmk.com/latest/en/graphing.html#data_rrds.
This ...
Under consideration
Graphing
Save current warn/crit thresholds in the RRD File and show history in graph
In the Checkmk GUI, only the current threshold value is displayed as a continuous line in the graphs. It is not visible when a threshold has changed and/or at what ...
Under consideration
Graphing
setting for change the default SNMP trap port of the site
Several sites in the same Check_MK server cannot receive SNMP traps because only one of them has got actually the real pipe from 162/UDP.
Under consideration
Log monitoring / Event Console
OAuth for mail loop check
Implement OAuth for Mail loop Check (similar to Werk #13263) as basic auth is not allowed for all mail provider.
Under consideration
Checks&Agents
Support monitoring OpenSearch
The inbuilt ElasticSearch support doesn't seem to be able to monitor OpenSearch clusters. Given the increasing popularity of OpenSearch it would be good for this to ...
Under consideration
Checks&Agents
Conditional Tags
I want to request conditional tags based on that forum post. The idea is to hide or show options based on tags selection, so if I selected a tag to classify my host ...
Under consideration
Disable HW/SW Inventory sections
We have a BGP router and want to get HW/SW inventory data for it but the HW/SW plugin also gathers routes of the device. The router has over 900.000 routes. We would ...
Under consideration
Option for choose color for each "service level" in views
Would be nice that service level can be highlighted with background colors.
Under consideration
allow different monitoring site for "Management Board"
We are currently implementing a zoned network setup (BSI). Each zone has its own Checkmk server/site, the information is collected via Distributed Monitoring on a ...
Under consideration
F5OS support for rSeries F5 devices
F5 has released a new series of "hosts" with brand new MIB set. They run "F5 OS" also known as VELOS. These hosts then run F5 LTM images as tenants.
These hosts ...
Under consideration
Checks&Agents
Setup: Users GUI: show users with insecure password in an upper Warning list
Like shown in the update message of (cmk-update-config):
16/29 Check for insecure password hashes, enforce password reset...
Please show up the info as upper ...
Under consideration
Support for LDAP via StartTLS
Currently, Checkmk has the option to securely connect to LDAP servers for user sync via “LDAPS”, also known as “LDAP over TLS/SSL”, which can be activated by ticking ...
Under consideration
User management
GUI/command line: activate changes with plausibility check for all rules and definitions
GUI/command line: activate changes with plausibility check for all rules and definitions:
We've seen so much good informations with the "cmk-update-config -v" ...
Under consideration
GUI: Activate Changes export (CSV)
We need the possibility to export the activate changes list.
In general in all GUI views it should be possible to export the GUI list.
Under consideration
Map TAGS via livestatus
We are currently limited to Hosts an Services further information such as TAGS are not mapped via livestatus. One goal would be to filter our hosts in our "display ...
Under consideration
Linux agent auto-detect mpt3sas RAID devices
The Linux agent currently detects the presence of a "lsi" raid device by the presence of the "cfggen" utility. This utility has been replaced in the newer ...
Under consideration
Checks&Agents
Rule: Network interfaces and sw ports > the possibility to ignore the real speed if manually is set
Rule: Network interfaces and switch ports
The possibility if the port speed is manually set to a certain value e.g. 200 MBit/s because the MPLS line delivers 200 ...
Under consideration
Checks&Agents
GUI > service or HOST search result > ADD TO Servicegroup or HOSTGROUP
the possibility to assign a result of a service or HOST search to a service or HOST group
Under consideration