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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 ...
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Improve and consolidate folder selector
The folder dropdown selector is implemented differently across Checkmk. Some implementations use a simple text representations for the folders, like on the command ...
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Additional levels on bookmarks, dashboards and views
For example, the build-in Linux dashboard might show 1000 hosts and making the dashboard quite useless due to all the "clutter".
Allowing to create sub-dashboard ...
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Enhanced Rule Information (Creation Date, Creator, Modified Date, …)
Hello,
it would be useful to be able to see who created a rule and who changed it and when.
At the moment it is possible to manually ad a timestamp and the ...
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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 ...
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Make 'pending baking' more visible
'Pending changes' ist quite good visible, pending baking and signing is not, thus can easily be forgotten.
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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 ...
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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 ...
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Usability
Allow predefined filter in dashboards/views to enable users to filter faster and more effectively
Currently, it is possible to specify which filter to show in a dashboard when opening the filter menu. This already allows providing only useful filters to a user on ...
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Service Parameters: Show discovery rules and evaluation of the matching rule
Some data of the agents are not used by default. The reason is, sometimes, because it is a huge amount of data and there is no default way to convert them into always ...
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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 ...
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Setup: periodic service discovery rule - change from "first matching" to "all matching"
If you have several periodic service discovery Rules that perform different discovery tasks and they match the same Host only one of the Rule is executed. Because of ...
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Usability
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 ...
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Suggest recent searches in quick search and other search fields
Especially for more complex searches it would be helpfull, to get the recent searches suggested. Currently it is usually a good idea to copy the search string or ...
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Setup folders: sort case insensitive
The Setup folders are currently sorted case-sensitive. This results in folders starting with lowercase letters being sorted after folders starting with uppercase ...
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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
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Downtime: Log user cancelling a downtime
Setting a downtime will be logged with the user, but cancelling it not. Please make this consistent
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Show all timebased thresholds in the "parameters for this service" View
If you open the parameter for this service View you can only see the thresholds that are active for the time when you opend the View. You can't see which thresholds ...
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Show last login also on central site in a distributed setup
It may happen in a distributed setup, that users will log in on a remote instance of Checkmk, only. In this case, the last login is also logged on the remote ...
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Simpler selection of multiple lines using the shift key
I want to be able to select multiple subsequent check boxes in a “from, to” manner by selecting the first and then selecting the last checkbox with the shift key pressed.
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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.
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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 the definition of n months back in time as a considered time range
Currently, it is possible to select a time range in various pages/views, to display data. E.g. in a report, one may consider values of this month and values of last ...
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 ...
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Replace date time entry for scheduled downtimes with a proper date/time picker
The current implementation to enter a date and a time for a scheduled downtime is a list of fields. Please replace it with a proper date/time selector
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deactivating a rule after reaching end of life.
Hallo,
it would be helpful to to activate a rule for a month or another time period. After reaching „end of lifetime“ the rule should be deactivated automatically. ...
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Settings for opening links from the service description (open in new tab or in the same tab)
Currently, links in a service description are always attempted to open in the active frame. It would be nice if there was an option to set links from certain services ...
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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.
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Improve the selection of contact groups to share views/dashboards/etc with other users
If creating a view or a dashboard, a user is able to share the result with other users. To do this, one may provide one or several contact groups. In many cases, the ...
Setup: show error message if rule changes don't get saved
Since Tribe29 considers this a feature and not a bug, I'm placing it here at their request:
If multiple rules in the same file are edited by different users or in ...
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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 ...
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Use the password store consistently across all special agents
Use the password store consistently across all special agents as a secure option to same them
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Usability
Make Host searchable and visible for directly assigned contacts of a service
In everyday life, customers talk about servers and applications. That's why most customers tend to search for a hostname or alias in the GUI rather than for a service ...
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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 ...
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Setup: 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 ...
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Colored folders with icons
When using the main directory folder or subfolders it would be very nice to create colored folders with icon support. It makes it easier to see different folders.
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Allow time based state escalation for problematic services
Sometimes a service becomes WARN and stays for a long time in this state. As an administrator, I would benefit from a functionality, that allows changing the state ...
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Add INCLUDE option to timeperiod configuration, not just exclude
When configuring timeperiods, you currently can only EXCLUDE other timeperiods, for example to exclude national holidays from a work hour timeperiod. But often it ...
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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 ...
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 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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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 ...
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Usability
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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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 ...
Hide Setup rules within folders without permission to users
As of now, Setup folders can be hidden from users, so that hosts within these folders are invisible to them.
This does not apply to Setup rules for said hidden ...
Views: Add Limit for Number of Rows
In many cases it is sufficient to display only the first x rows in the view. Especially in dashboards where space is already limited.
It would be very helpful if ...
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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 ...
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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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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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Usability
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 ...
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Usability