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44 votes

Checkmk soll den Vorgaben des IT-Grundschutzchecks SYS.1.3.A10.1 & SYS.1.3.A10.3 der BSI entsprechen

Das BSI empfiehlt für den Betrieb von Servern einige Standards. Wir hätten gerne, das Checkmk und die Appliance diese Standards erfüllt ...

Suggested by: Thomas Lippert (02 May, '22) • Upvoted: 28 Mar • Comments: 1

Under consideration Appliance

28 votes

add redfish support in the appliance

Hallo, the appliance should contain all packages to use all checks. In my case redfish isn t supported

Suggested by: Ralf Prengel (12 May, '22) • Upvoted: 22 Mar • Comments: 3

Under consideration Appliance

16 votes

Delivering jq within the firmware of the appliance

It would be handy to have jq on the appliances to print the bigger json files.

Suggested by: Marcus Klein (05 May, '22) • Upvoted: 22 Feb • Comments: 6

Under consideration Appliance

16 votes

Appliance: Support the configuration of network routes

Customer needs to define different routes to access certain networks or devices. Unfortunately, these routes cannot be configured in the UI and are removed after an ...

Suggested by: Thomas Lippert (24 May, '22) • Upvoted: 16 Nov, '22 • Comments: 1

Under consideration Appliance

14 votes

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 ...

Suggested by: thomml (22 Aug, '22) • Upvoted: 21 Dec, '22 • Comments: 0

Under consideration Appliance

13 votes

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.

Suggested by: Thierry T. (04 Nov, '22) • Upvoted: 17 Feb • Comments: 0

Under consideration Appliance

12 votes

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 ...

Suggested by: Marc (12 Aug, '22) • Upvoted: 01 Sep, '22 • Comments: 3

Under consideration Appliance

9 votes

Appliance: Enable management through Rest-API or command line

In a modern and high automated environment, I want to be able to configure my appliances also in an automated way. This could be done via Rest-API or by providing ...

Suggested by: Marcel Arentz (28 Jul, '22) • Upvoted: 16 Mar • Comments: 2

Under consideration Appliance

9 votes

Appliance: Implement real users on the appliance

With real users, it is possible to track, which user has made a particular change. At the moment, all changes appear under the same name

Suggested by: Thomas Lippert (18 May, '22) • Upvoted: 28 Feb • Comments: 1

Under consideration Appliance

9 votes

Add support for SAML authentiation to the appliances web interface and it's containing sites

The appliance is a closed system and does not support a user based log in for its web interface. Through the ongoing migration to SAML based authentications in many ...

Suggested by: Marcel Arentz (13 Jul, '22) • Upvoted: 10 Dec, '22 • Comments: 0

Under consideration Appliance

7 votes

Appliance: Support certificate upload in appliance

Support the upload and usage of customer certificates on the appliance to have a TLS 1.2 secured email transport

Suggested by: Thomas Lippert (24 May, '22) • Upvoted: 24 Oct, '22 • Comments: 0

Under consideration Appliance

7 votes

Full IPv6 support for the appliance

Suggested by: Thomas Lippert (08 May, '22) • Upvoted: 16 Aug, '22 • Comments: 0

Under consideration Appliance

6 votes

Appliance: Check password via web UI

Currently, the appliance password can only be changed using the "orange console". Please change this and make the PW changeable via the browser UI

Suggested by: Thomas Lippert (23 May, '22) • Upvoted: 31 May, '22 • Comments: 1

Under consideration Appliance

5 votes

Autoupdate MSPs customers appliances to same Version as the MSP is running on central System

At the moment the MSPs have to update the appliances on the Customer side manually. This is kind of a nightmare and wasting a lot of time. The Appliances should do ...

Suggested by: Ralf Schwarzmaier (09 Jun, '22) • Upvoted: 15 Jul, '22 • Comments: 2

Under consideration Appliance

5 votes

Ability to Upload Firmware Updates to the Appliance before Stopping Sites

I would like to be able to Upload the Firmware Updates to the Appliance before Stopping the sites, because we have locations with really slow Internet ...

Suggested by: Florian Krieger (20 Jul, '22) • Upvoted: 25 Jan • Comments: 0

Under consideration Appliance

4 votes

appliance ssh management

Hallo, I ve to configure a ssh based check. https://github.com/righter83/checkmk-synology-activebackup The appliance has no option to configue ssh-keys using the ...

Suggested by: Ralf Prengel (04 Nov, '22) • Upvoted: 19 Nov, '22 • Comments: 0

Under consideration Appliance

4 votes

Allow HA setups with more than 2 appliances

The current support for high availability works with two appliances in hot/warm setup. Please extend this concept to support up to 4 appliances and give the failover ...

Suggested by: Thomas Lippert (09 Oct, '22) • Upvoted: 25 Oct, '22 • Comments: 0

Under consideration Appliance

4 votes

Extend the logging of nullmailer in appliance

If a mail is sent to a smtp server, the logs just save the information of the destination server, the internal ID of the mail and delivery status. Usually it is also ...

Suggested by: Marcel Arentz (13 Jul, '22) • Upvoted: 28 Jul, '22 • Comments: 0

Under consideration Appliance

3 votes

Appliance: Offer access via iDRAC

I'm in the process of setting up the appliance however I can't seem to access the appliance via the iDRAC as it appears the bios is passworded, so I can't configure ...

Suggested by: Thomas Lippert (21 Jun, '22) • Upvoted: 22 Jun, '22 • Comments: 1

Under consideration Appliance

3 votes

Hyper-V support for the checkmk appliance

The virtual appliance currently has no official support for running on Microsoft Hyper-V. Windows-only customers would benefit from an officially supported ...

Suggested by: Robert Sander (20 May, '22) • Upvoted: 13 Aug, '22 • Comments: 1

Under consideration Appliance

3 votes

(Virtual) Appliance WebGUI Agent TLS / Backery Configuration

Suggested by: Jan (08 Dec, '22) • Upvoted: 09 Dec, '22 • Comments: 0

Under consideration Appliance

3 votes

cmk-passwd etc. via appliance web-interface

the new tool cmk-passwd and other security featured should be useable in the appliance web-interface. Rakf

Suggested by: Ralf Prengel (09 Nov, '22) • Upvoted: 19 Jan • Comments: 0

Under consideration Appliance

3 votes

Allow the configuration of a default sender in the appliance

When configuring the mail client for sending mails through the appliance, it is not possible to add a default sender. This is necessary, if the mail server only ...

Suggested by: Marcel Arentz (13 Jul, '22) • Upvoted: 28 Jul, '22 • Comments: 0

Under consideration Appliance

3 votes

REST API for the checkmk Appliance

It would be awesome, if all configuration options of the checkmk Appliance and additionally checkmk updates / installs were configurable with a rest api for easier ...

Suggested by: Andre Eckstein (29 Jun, '22) • Upvoted: 11 Oct, '22 • Comments: 0

Under consideration Appliance

3 votes

Add "Download" option for checkmk and appliance firmware in the checkmk appliance

For easier management of the virtual appliance it would be great, if current versions of checkmk and appliance firmware could be directly downloaded from the tribe29 ...

Suggested by: Andre Eckstein (29 Jun, '22) • Upvoted: 02 Jul, '22 • Comments: 0

Under consideration Appliance

3 votes

Appliance: Extend network configuration to support LACP

Please extend the appliance UI to configure the network settings to support LACP

Suggested by: Thomas Lippert (22 May, '22) • Upvoted: 11 Oct, '22 • Comments: 0

Under consideration Appliance

2 votes

Add logging of client IP in appliance even if the appliance is behind a load balancer

To investigate problems of users, it is necessary to log information about the client IP address. This becomes a problem as the configuration of the internal web ...

Suggested by: Marcel Arentz (13 Jul, '22) • Upvoted: 28 Jul, '22 • Comments: 0

Planned Appliance

2 votes

Ansible support for the checkmk appliance

It would be great to have "official" Ansible scripts to manage setup and deployment of the checkmk appliance and checkmk instances

Suggested by: Andre Eckstein (29 Jun, '22) • Upvoted: 02 Sep, '22 • Comments: 0

Under consideration Appliance

1 votes

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

Suggested by: Thomas Lippert (2 days ago) • Upvoted: 2 days ago • Comments: 0

Under consideration Appliance