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Rule active analyse check at list open and edit mode (plausibility check)
Due to a problem we need such action:
We opened a rule list, the hosts, groups, tags, labels, etc. where all in bold shown. So we think that all hosts or groups, ...
Under consideration
Add Service and Host states as a search option in the quicksearch sidebar element
I really like the current implementation of the quicksearch with all possible search options but additionally it would be great to combine the search with the current ...
Under consideration
List Rules from missing packages
If you remove/disable a extension package, checkmk recognizes on activation that some rules has no checks they are used for.
It should be possible to locate and ...
Under consideration
Rest-API and Ansible: Manage other Integrations ("Individual program call instead of agent access")
We use the CheckMK-Agent for linux without active services or Ports, but we have for specific instances custom ssh-keys. We need to automate the creation of custom ...
Under consideration
RestAPI
Show hosts and its services rule dependencies
Show hosts and its services rule dependencies
It is a pain to search for all the rule or definition dependencies in which a host and its defined services, are/is ...
Under consideration
Feature to see stale services and acknowledged services in BI aggregation
At the moment stale Services in a BI-Aggregation will stay green and the whole aggregation will also stay green. The documentation tells us to add the host as well to ...
Under consideration
BI
Delete rule: comment for audit report with user ID
We need by law a comment possibility with the user id who deletes a rule, which is currently not given.
Under consideration
Online site update without downtime
The site update to the next patch or version causes a downtime, which is causing missing monitoring data. So we need a solution for an online update to switch after ...
Under consideration
Host View: hosts created at date xxxx.yy.zz or between date xxxx.ay.bz and date xxxx.yy.zz
Host View: hosts created at date xxxx.yy.zz or between date xxxx.ay.bz and date xxxx.yy.zz
We got the information that some hosts are created by Rest-API:s. image ...
Under consideration
GUI::Setup::Rules Make automatically created rules visibility optional
In very large heterogeneous, weakly standardized environments, a large number of individual rules of the same type must be created automatically. If an administrator ...
Under consideration
logical dependency mapping feature
There are few tools on the market, that are able to scan a whole network and map dependencies between hosts (services) in a good manner. With checkMK you mostly have ...
Under consideration
Openstack monitoring support
Support for integration with Openstack for inventory, status, tenant usage, etc.
Under consideration
Checks&Agents
Support for DUO as 2FA authentication
Please support DUO as second factor to authenticate with Checkmk
Under consideration
Notification: Option: Using Service summary / Service output as trigger
Please implement a notification parameter in the notification rule which enables the possibility to trigger the notification based on the service summary/service ...
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Notifications
Enable check_sql to use DSN Connection String
It would be great if you could use a DSN connection string in check_sql.
At the moment you can only specify a combination of hostname, port and database name when ...
Under consideration
Checks&Agents
Export services without performance data to Influx DB
We have a need to display both performance issues and service issues in one Dashboard. Capturing service states on services that does not have any performance data ...
Under consideration
Integrations
Allow dashboards and views to be created / edited through REST API
Since Checkmk v2.1, it’s no longer possible to transfer or edit user_views.mk and user_dashboards.mk files between users, without tampering with the tmp files.
REST ...
Under consideration
RestAPI
Setup configuration of Citrix State
Currently, we only have Setup control of RegistrationState values but would like to add the remaining state information (maintenancemode, powerstate, vmtoolsstate, ...
Under consideration
Checks&Agents
Save agent output for later analysis in case of spontaneously occurring Agent problems
From time to time it happens that the transferred agent output contains wrong, unknown or corrupt section data which then leads to errors in the checks and ...
Under consideration
Checks&Agents
GUI: Selectbox: Commands/Actions: Select multiple hosts/services to perform arbitrary actions
As of today, it is possible to select multiple hosts/services via checkboxes and perform live status-based actions on them.
Custom actions, on the other hand, can ...
Under consideration
Translation form Datastore IO UUID to Datastore names
There should be option to get Datastore IO VMware Datastore names like you can see them in VMware and not UUID.
Manual "translation" is not option when you have ...
Under consideration
Enable integration of availability views and business aggregations (aggr. results) in dashboards
The integration of availability views and business aggregations / aggregation results in dashboards is currently not possible. This would be very useful.
Under consideration
Dashboards & Views
Allow for a Replaceable UI
I propose that all (UI) functionality be moved into the REST API, such that the browser UI can become a "thin" layer which only really presents what is in the API. ...
Under consideration
RestAPI
Allow Checkmk Data to be Stored on an NFS Share
I'd like to be able to run CheckMK on a VM, but have all the data stored on an NFS share. The point here is that the VM then becomes "cattle" rather than a "pet", and ...
Not planned
NetBox integration
Create a Dynamic Host Management connector for NetBox. Use the NetBox API to retrieve hosts, allowing the user to filter based on Role, Status and other host ...
Under consideration
REST-API: Manage event console paks/rules
Under consideration
RestAPI
REST-API: Manage notification rules
Under consideration
RestAPI
REST-API: Manage custom attributes (Host/Service/User)
Under consideration
RestAPI
REST-API: update phase of multiple services at once
Under consideration
RestAPI
REST-API: Manage Predefined Conditions
Under consideration
RestAPI
remote alert handler for Windows
For Unix there is a ruleset to create "remote alert handlers".
Why isn't there a corrosponding option for windows?
Under consideration
Add Label/Tag if Windows Service or Systemd Service is doscovered
In the process discovery rule you can add a label to the host when the searched process is found.
It would be very helpful if we could do the same in the Windows ...
Under consideration
Checks&Agents
Remove zero from Checkmk version
Checkmk version consists of three numbers + patch number, example 2.1.0p20. In my opinion the 0 in version is the useless, as you are using p20 for patch number and ...
Under consideration
Run 2 agents on a monitored host
Support the installation and operation of two completely separate Checkmk agents on a host. This allows e.g. an MSP to monitor everything up to the OS level, while ...
Under consideration
REST API: Add Possibility to retrieve members of a specific host group
Hello,
I would like to use an API Request for getting all members of a specific host group. In general it would be great, to use filters in API Requests.
Under consideration
RestAPI
availability data export limit hosts user is contact
Currently, even if a user is contact only for specific hosts, exporting availability data to CSV through webapi exports data for hosts that the user isn't contact. ...
Under consideration
Availability / SLA
MySQL plugin: enabling of several socket files by the agent backery
We've a multi instance servers which has several socket files. Please give in general the possibility to configure several socket files by using the agent backery
Under consideration
Checks&Agents
MySQL plugin: add socket detection by using netstat and mysqld
Please enhance the finding part of the plugin to find the socket file by using netstat and mysqld:
netstat -ln | grep mysql
unix 2 [ ACC ] STREAM ...
Under consideration
Checks&Agents
VM Information
It would be nice to have some more VM values of a virtual server.
Like Network Name, Datacenter, Cluster, Datastore or Guest Infos (OS in details). Having this on ...
Under consideration
Checks&Agents
Network information more unique.
The network information (interfaces, addresses, routes) using different object name for the same content (device, bonds, alias and gw information). So only with some ...
Under consideration
Checks&Agents
Put a version nummer into the response.
Because of small or big changes in the structure of the Rest Response, please out a verion nummer into this. If the admins do small update, it could causes a change ...
Under consideration
Include exclude for specific File-System types like OverlayFS
We have many docker clusters where the containers restart periodically that every day about 100 unknowns are shown, because we can't exclude specific Filesystems ...
Under consideration
Checks&Agents
Add the ability to restore encrypted backups from the command line.
Hello all,
I would like to be able to restore encrypted backups with omd restore via the command line.
Under consideration
REST API: Documantation: Request Examples with all Responses and name the example Python, etc.
REST API: Documantation: Request Examples with all Responses
It would be very good if all the responses are implemented in the examples.
Further it would be very ...
Under consideration
RestAPI
WEB API: Documantation: Request Examples with all Responses and name the example Python, etc.
WEB API: Documantation: Request Examples with all Responses
It would be very good if all the responses are implemented in the examples.
Further it would be very ...
Not planned
Clear logwatch logs via WebAPI
In some cases the ability of clearing logs from logwatch in bulk would be useful via WebAPI.
The opportunity to delete files on the filesystem is espacially in ...
Check API: Set Service Labels for other Services
Currently, it's only possible to set Service Labels from the Check, which actually creates the Service.
It would be helpful if every Check of the Host, can return ...
Under consideration
Logwatch: Windows Event Log: Auto-Remove Log entries after X days
We use the checkmk agent on Windows Server. The agent has the logwatch plugin builtin, to monitor the Windows event logs.
That is a good plugin, but it need some ...
Under consideration
Log monitoring / Event Console