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Mobile App for Checkmk
Create an iOS and Android app for Checkmk, which is focused on monitoring (not setup). It should address 2 common use cases:
* Receive notifications and allow drill ...
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 ...
Enhance Notification Rule Conditions
It would be nice to have the same filter options for Tags and Labels (one of, none of) like in Monitoring configuration rules to get more flexible Notification Rules ...
a simple page for changing the notifications recipients
it would be also very practical if there would be a page with simply 2 dropdown menus
with the notification as 1st dropdown and the recipient(s) as 2nd dropdown to ...
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
Network Scan: Scan now button
In order to be able to control when the network scan is carried out and not have to wait 24 hours, a "Scan Now" button could be introduced.
option to select labels in a view
Hallo,
it would be helpful to select only some lables in a view. Actually all labels are show for every host.
The usecase here is that I m using a tag to define the ...
Exclude and Include in Notification Rules
In the "conditions" section in the notification area, there are several match (include) and exclude Options.
But not all objects that can be matched can be ...
Crash Report: Add Filter the the Crash Report overview
As of now you can't use any Filter in the Cresh report view.
You can't quickly see on which sites a particular crash has occurred, how often a particular crash ...
Make 'pending baking' more visible
'Pending changes' ist quite good visible, pending baking and signing is not, thus can easily be forgotten.
Create hosts in bulk via API without failing if some of the hosts do not meet requirements
When using the Checkmk Rest API to create hosts in bulk, if one host does not meet requirements, the entire list of hosts fails.
For example, if one host already ...
Overview of labels used
I think, when we are use a lot of labels, is good to have an overview for the used labels in the system
Just when the label are created, they will be put in a ...
New custom theme, canvas graphs: foreground color or light/dark setting
If you make a custom theme, performance graphs get the foreground color default set to the light theme facelift, which makes the text in the canvas black. When your ...
Open new Tab with/without enabled Navigation
When opening a link in a new tab on a page with navigation enabled, the navigation in the new tab is always disabled.
It would be nice if the page in the new tab ...
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 ...
Better naming for helper processes
# Settings:
Maximum concurrent active checks
Maximum concurrent Checkmk fetchers
Maximum concurrent Checkmk checkers
# Graphs:
Checkmk helper usage
Fetcher ...
Eigenen Username wieder prominent anzeigen
Hallo Team,
früher pre 2.0: oben rechts stand immer der aktuelle User, den man benutzte
jetzt 2.0.0p29: keine Anzeige
Für einen Admin wie mich, der ...
Show column header once at top and option to fix
When scrolling in views it would be nice that the headers can get fixed and only the rows are moving.
GUI: User Comment field for all configuration views and rules, etc.
Please implement in all configuration views and rules, etc. the comment part, so that we are able to comment all changes.
All Changes we made are important for ...
Show agent receiver port in Web-GUI
Currently the configured agent receiver port (8000 ff) for the site is only visible on the command line (omd config show or an API request).
It would be good to ...
Renaming a service should include moving perfdata
There are multiple reasons why a service gets renamed: Either because tribe29 changed the way the service name gets generated (mostly to make it more defined, ie ...
Improve Report Scheduling Options
similar to idea https://ideas.checkmk.com/suggestions/463158/same-report-scheduler-and-recurring-downtimes-options
We have a client who requires a 6 monthly report ...
Same report scheduler and recurring downtimes options
To automate reporting after recurring downtime of hosts / services it would be nice to have the same schedule possibilities in report scheduler and recurring ...
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 ...
Move multiple rules to another folder
Currently, if I have to move a rule, I have to edit each rule and select a new folder. Can we make this operation simpler:
- Enable the checkbox at the beginning to ...
With pending changes, allow to activate / discard a selection
When there are changes, now I only have the option to either activate or discard them all. Even if there are changes by another user. It would be nice if I could ...
Renaming of folders should rename the internal folder names too
When renaming a folder in WATO the "old" internal name remains. This leads to problems when accessing devices to folders in background programs.
Availability Timeline - Improvements
We stumbled across some parts of the Availability Timeline, which can get very time consuming / annoying and can be easily improved to make it more useable, get ...
Downtime: Log user cancelling a downtime
Setting a downtime will be logged with the user, but cancelling it not. Please make this consistent
Easy rename hosts
Renaming hosts is a technically complex task. It involves a core restart and often fails on large deployments due to Checkmk having to search through all logs and ...
Make a Column in Views that Displays the Value of a single Label
Currently ist only possible to view all labels of a Host/Service, it would be nice to select a label-key and the values of that key become visible in the column.
Add "Topic" to "Host groups" and "Servic groups" sidebar element
If you have a large number of host and/or server groups, the list in the corresponding sidebar element can become very unmanageable.
It would make navigation much ...
Additional information in case of failed updates
Update fail with the error below.
More informations how to solve this problem in the message would be helpful.
Fehler während des Updates:
OMD-Befehl omd -f -V ...
simple host down don t do anything switch would be helpful (especially for beginners)
Hallo,
monitoring only temporarily active sytems like some NAS-Storages etc. causes alerts.
A simple switch in the host configuration "host down do nothing" would ...
CME: Enable All Disable all for customers, like the Site status has
In Distributed Monitoring setup you have the option below the sites to Enable All and Disable all, so you don't have to manually enable/disable each site if you want ...
Add a Filter to the Edit Service View
For servers with a few thousand services, the "Edit Services" view can quickly become crowded.
It would be a great simplification if you could filter the ...
Add a Filter to the Ruleset View
In a larger environment you can have quickly a lot of rules.
A filter in the Ruleset View to show only the rules that contain a certain string like in the ...
Crash Report: Add Delete Button th the Crash Report Detailview
When you open the crash report detail view, you can download and/or submit it, but you cannot delete the report directly if the crash data is no longer needed. ...
Show only writeable folder on bulk move
When moving multiple hosts all folders are shown in the dropdown for the selection of the destination.
When moving a single host only writeable folders are shown ...
protect the sidebar against unwanted changes by admin
Hallo,
it would be helpful to protect the sidebar against unwanted changes made accidentally.
A lock function with an icon to unlock?
Audit log - show Attributes of delete Object in Details
In the current audit log, no useful information on deleted objects is displayed, the link to the object leads to an error message and the rule number is also of no ...
Acknowledge Text Templates
It would be very useful if we can select a predefined text for acknowledging problems instead of typing it every time.
The most of the acknowledge texts are the same ...
GUI: Show in Service and Host (Cluster) GUI that it is a cluster and not a host
Currently it is not outlined that the presented services or hosts is/are a cluster(s).
Please show clearly in the GUI in Service and Host overview that the ...
Define "contact group" in "LDAP Connection" like roles
Migrated from the forum.
Reference: https://forum.checkmk.com/t/define-contact-group-in-ldap-connection/15249
Currently, to associate “contact groups” with LDAP ...
Force host-tag selection
I'd like to get the option of forcing our users to select a specific host-tag when trying to create a host.
This is useful in environments which for example define ...
Authors column for Downtime history view
This does not seem to be possible right now (either with checkmk 1.6 or 2.0), since “Downtimes” view does show authors, but only for ongoing and future downtimes and ...
Virtual Host Trees: allow custom host attributes and/or labels as tree level
Currently, only host tags or folders can be used as tree levels for a virtual host tree.
Host tags are of limited use as the require all possible values to be ...
User Information Popup in the WebGUI
It would be very helpful if it would be possible to inform all users via popup window about upcoming maintenance work or current problems as it is possible for ...
Keep table header, while scrolling in long lists (e.g. hosts)
Keep the table header visible, while scrolling in long lists, allows to see the column names
Clone Folders
It would be great if it would be possible to clone a complete subfolder tree including all assigned tags/labels but obviously without hosts.
This way it would be ...