openITCOCKPIT 5.1.0 - Major Release

🎉 It’s time to celebrate! 🎉

We are excited to announce the release of our extraordinary new version – openITCOCKPIT 5.1.0! 🚀 This release comes packed with fresh improvements: Frontend Update to Angular 20, enhanced functionality across modules and improvements into the out of the box monitoring capabilities of openITCOCKPIT . ✨

Out of the box monitoring

Some of you may have noticed that with the introduction of VMWare 8, the VMWare Perl SDK will no longer be supported. Well-known plugins such as check_vmware_api or check_vmware_esx and others will no longer be usable overnight. This will of course also affect usage within openITCOCKPIT. We have recognised this problem and are very happy to announce that, starting with version 5.1.0, we are investing heavily in the further development of openITCOCKPIT’s out-of-the-box monitoring. We are kicking things off with two new wizards for VMWare and DELL iDrac. And if you are currently struggling with monitoring VMWare 8 and 9 and don’t know what to do, you should simply test our new version. And for the upcoming versions, you can keep an eye out for more plugins for Cisco, M365, Hyper-V, Proxmox, and a lot more.

New VMWare wizard including Datastore discovery

For easy to use monitoring

openITCOCKPIT 5.1.0 is only the first step towards making monitoring more powerful, intuitive, and ready for whatever your infrastructure needs. 💡

Organizational Trees

With the container visualization tree, containers can be arranged and visualized in a freely definable tree structure, independent of permissions. The assignment is done via parent/child relationships and serves exclusively for the clear presentation and grouping of containers, without affecting access rights.

On the browser overview /browser page, an alternative view of the container structure is displayed. This overview is used to visually represent the organizational structure and its dependencies.

Mailinglists for ScmModule

In the Resource Management Module, in addition to regular users, mailing lists can also be stored. This allows you to use multiple email addresses at once when sending emails, without having to create a openITCOCKPIT-user for each email address. As with user selection, the mailing lists can be assigned to users, managers, and also regional managers.

Frontend update to Angular 20 & Backend update to CakePHP 5

Of course, we always keep up with the latest stable developments in the programming frameworks we use, and we are happy to announce that we have successfully upgraded openITCOCKPIT to Angular 20 and CakePHP 5.

Docker: Own TLS certificates

By default, openITCOCKPIT will generate and use a self-signed certificate. With openITCOCKPIT 5.1.0 it is also possible to use own certificates like Let’s Encrypt for example.

Improvement: openITCOCKPIT 5 Design Module

In the first releases of openITCOCKPIT 5, we initially only implemented the most important elements. With openITCOCKPIT 5.1.0, more colour comes into play and you can also customise the colour of the front end to match your own CI.

Improvement: Date input fields aligned with user time zone

Previously, date input fields – for example when filtering the changelog – were interpreted based on the server’s time zone. This often caused confusion, especially in distributed teams or when user and server time zones differed. From now on, these fields consistently use the user’s configured time zone. This ensures that displayed time ranges match the individual working environment, making search results clearer and easier to follow.

🛠️ Changelog

For a complete list of new features, fixed bugs and improvements, please see the changelog

How to Update

Add Docker Repository to Ubuntu

curl -fsSL https://download.docker.com/linux/ubuntu/gpg -o /etc/apt/keyrings/docker.asc
echo "deb [arch=$(dpkg --print-architecture) signed-by=/etc/apt/keyrings/docker.asc] https://download.docker.com/linux/ubuntu $(. /etc/os-release && echo "${UBUNTU_CODENAME:-$VERSION_CODENAME}") stable" | tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/docker.list > /dev/null
apt-get update

Add Docker Repository to Debian

curl -fsSL https://download.docker.com/linux/debian/gpg -o /etc/apt/keyrings/docker.asc
echo "deb [arch=$(dpkg --print-architecture) signed-by=/etc/apt/keyrings/docker.asc] https://download.docker.com/linux/debian $(. /etc/os-release && echo "$VERSION_CODENAME") stable" | tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/docker.list > /dev/null
apt-get update

Please see the official documentation of how to update openITCOCKPIT.

Have fun with this brand new openITCOCKPIT release - Your openITCOCKPIT Team 🚀🔍📊