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Integrate "ntfy" for push notifications in RAW Edition
https://ntfy.sh/ - Send push notifications to your phone or desktop via PUT/POST
ntfy (pronounce: notify) is a simple HTTP-based pub-sub notification service. It ...
Under consideration
Extend filter in views to support custom attributes
Extend the filter capabilities to support filtering for custom attributes
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Make Linux agent configurable regarding waitmax time for livestatus queries
The Linux agent automatically detects CMK sites at the local system and runs several livestatus queries against these. For those queries, it has configured a maximum ...
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Add Link to new Linux Server Dashboard in e.g. "Services of Host" View
Hi, you have built super nice new host dashboards and unfortunately you can't seem to get to this dashboard from the "Services of Host" view. Also I don't see any ...
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Simplify complex permission management
Challenge: If I have many users, which require only a very limited set of permissions, it is quite challenging to take existing rules and remove the unnecessary ...
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LDAP Sync - set defaults per connection
Unfortunately it is not always possible to define the user attributes like groups, roles etc. in the LDAP.
Therefore it would be very helpful if you could define ...
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LDAP Sync: Failsafe in case of too many deleted Users
Suddenly all users have disappeared from the LDAP Group and the LDAP sync removed them from Checkmk including all manually entered settings. Even if the users are ...
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Enforce description and comment for rules - as an option in global settings
In larger environments there is mostly not only one admin working on the system.
Sometimes rules are implemented without a comment/description which makes it hard ...
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Add central administration option to the appliance webconf
Atm the situation does not allow central administration of appliances (virt/rack). If you happen to have a config change, you need to address every appliance ...
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Event Console: Suppress notifications in case a service is in downtime
Similar to the rule to suppress a notification in case a host is in downtime, it should also possible to suppress a notification, if a service is in downtime. ...
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Add better handling of inventory during the "simulation mode"
The simulation mode is often used as an option, to clone an instance and test the update or other changes. Currently, the simulation mode has the limitation: The ...
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Add Filter for Comments
It is currently only possible to filter for set state "acknowledged", but I can't filter on services that have a comment but no acknowledgement. This would be helpful ...
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BI: Indicate stale services in BI View
Currently, the BI view does not indicate that data is coming from stale services, which can lead to the wrong assumption about the state of a service
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Add host names for hosts with additional IP adresses
A host with "Additional IPv4/6 addresses" might also have additional names. Please pull them via DNS lookup, so an admin can query for these names using the quick ...
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Make the timescale of attached graphs in notification mails selectable
Currently there is no way to select the timescale of graphs attached in notification mails. Currently it is fixed at 24 hours, which makes fast happening metric ...
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Add HW/SW Inventory data to the REST API
It would be nice to access the result data from HW/SW inventory via the REST API.
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Add alternative time periods like "start at last day of month 20:00 and end 12 hours later"
We have many measurement points that have much higher levels over the month, quarter or year end than during the rest of the time. This leads to many false alarms ...
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When deleting a host, also remove rules that are only for that host
Especially the ruleset "disabled services" accumulates a large number of rules when users are manually disabling services in the configuration.
When hosts are ...
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Allow custom host variables in Icons&Actions
Currently, only the following variables are available if defining a URL:
$HOSTNAME$: Contains the name of the host
$HOSTNAME_URL_ENCODED$: Same as above but URL ...
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Use all data from hardware/software inventory in Views/Dashboards
Today when creating a field from HW/SW inventory only a subset of sections are available. I would like to show, for example data from physical chassis on a router in ...
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Distributed setup: select which parts of ~/local/ folder to synchronize
In distributed setups one usually selects to synchronize "MKP and local files" to remote sites.
The generic behavior resulting from this can lead to problems, e.g.: ...
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AgentUpdater: Allow waves of updating
In our enviroment we use update waves, to decide if an update is good.
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Improve handling of files with date or numbers in Logwatch Event Console Forwarding
There are many cases where log files contain a date or a sequence number in the name.
Unfortunately, the "Logwatch Event Console Forwarding" service does not ...
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More BI aggregation functions
Add BI rule to match "Count exact number of OK nodes". At the moment a rule counts "minimum number of OK nodes".
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mk_oracle: search for tnsnames.ora also in the default ORACLE_HOME/network/admin directory
By default, the tnsnames.ora file is located in the ORACLE_HOME/network/admin directory.
But mk_oracle uses by default the path from $TNS_ADMIN (if set) or ...
Under consideration
Allow regular expression while searching for contact groups in views/dashboards
Currently, it's only possible to select specific contact groups in a drop-down. On the other side, it's possible to use a regular expression to search for specific ...
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Windows service discovery: Add discover Service by description
The Windows Service discovery allows for now only matching Services by its Name but not by its description:
lqasb stopped/demand App_Superduper brocker
mlqas ...
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Alert handlers - Add options to consider Downtimes, Acknowledgements and notifications periods
Alert handlers are independent of Downtimes, notifications periods, Acknowledgements and similar controls. However, it is not always desired that an alert handler is ...
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Alert handlers - show condition in alert_handler list view
Please show the configured conditions in the Alert handler rule list in the same way as you show them in the notification rules list.
It is extremely time ...
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Make the topic of a view/dashboard/custom graph/etc available in the "Customize" overview
Currently, the user needs to open a (built-in) element of views, dashboards and others to see the topic. Especially, if the user configured a lot of custom ...
Under consideration
Add possibility to use REST API to add connections for distributed monitoring
Since beginning (2017) we have a process to fully automatic deploy new remote sites. This also includes the configuration of the connection to the new remote site via ...
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Allow adding a context in a ruleset or ruleset overview, to see the matching rules
It is possible to navigate through a host or service to a specific ruleset. In this case, a user sees the matching rules and gets detailed information about the ...
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Support transport encryption for Solaris agent
Support transport encryption of agents running on Solaris
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Time periods: Provide public holidays out of the box
As a customer I would like to find common public holidays in major countries and states out-of-the-box in Checkmk to select
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Support redundant checkmk installations on slave sites
Currently only OS redundancy within the appliance is supported.
IMHO products such as pacemaker and DRBD are componens of a typical datacenter. Nowadays with cloud ...
Under consideration
Enhance builtin printer monitoring for Kyocera
The builtin printer monitoring could be easiely for Kyocera.
The service SNMP Info shows only "KYOCERA Document Solutions Printing System". -> SCREENSHOT
To show ...
Under consideration
WATO: make rule lists filterable by folder again
In versions prior to 2.0.0 it was possible to filter a list of rules in the WATO by a folder. That way you could focus on a small set of rules to edit. This filter is ...
Under consideration
Show comment for scheduled downtimes
If a downtime is active, the comment is not shown, as it is for an acknowledgment. As a user, I would expect the same behavior as in Acknowledgments and see a comment ...
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Limit users to do commands & actions for hosts in the own contactgroup
Although the visibility can be larger, users should only be able to do actions and commands on hosts, which are in the contact group of the user
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SNMP Data Fetching and Processing using Web Interface
Enable a ruleset to retrieve SNMP information (Custom OIDs) and create some basic queries and maybe a logic to process retrieved data:
- Single OID data retrieval ...
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"Exclude Host Groups" in Notification Rules
Add a feature to notification rules to exclude a host group. Currently, only include is possible.
For service groups exclude and include is available (including regexp)
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Dynamically grow the width of the search field
The search field in the Monitor and Setup menu is small, so it fits in a one column menu representation. In case of a larger representation (e.g. with show more), it ...
Implemented
Use cluster IP address for SNMP traffic
The IP address used for SNMP traffic in a cluster setup is the address of the node, nut the cluster. Please change this
Under consideration
Wato: Highlight not matching hosts in rule conditions for better identification
Hosts that don't match because they are misspelled or no longer exist are difficult to identify.
Please highlight not matching host in the rule condition so that ...
Under consideration
Support for Microsoft SQL Server 2022
Our Checkmk Version shows the new released SQL Server 2022 as
Version: unknown[16.0.1000.6] (RTM) (16.0.1000.6) - Developer Edition (64-bit)
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Add less and vim to official container images
... because less is more, and more is painful to use.
Also, having a text editor simplifies working with files inside the container.
Under consideration
omd start <site> --rescue --- The ability to launch a site in all off mode
The ability to launch a site for debugging or disabling checks in a Resuce Mode.
z. e.g. omd start <site> --rescue
starts the site without hostchecks, ...
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pause/resume page refresh with a klick on the page refresh circle.
In older versions of CMK, you could easily change the automatic page refresh interval with the mouse wheel if needed.
Starting with version 2.0, you must first ...
Under consideration
Create dynamic custom graphs using filters
Currently it's not possible to create dynamic graphs. If I'd like to have a graph showing interface bandwidth using host labels, for example I might have the vendor ...
Under consideration
Alert handlers - make Custom host/service attributes available
Please make the custom host/service attributes available for the event handlers as well, so that they can be used in the scripts to execute actions.
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