Werk #7357: wmi.include: Check_MK Discovery does not report 'vanished services' for WMI services if WMI timeout
| Component | Checks & agents |
| Title | wmi.include: Check_MK Discovery does not report 'vanished services' for WMI services if WMI timeout |
| Date | Apr 1, 2019 |
| Checkmk Edition | Checkmk Raw (CRE) |
| Checkmk Version | 1.5.0p14 |
| Level | Trivial Change |
| Class | Bug Fix |
| Compatibility | Compatible - no manual interaction needed |
If a timeout occurs in a Windows agent section while executing WMI queries the related services were handled as vanished services by the Check_MK Discovery service. This may be misleading because this timeout is short-lived.
The WMI query timeouts are a known problem in Windows and can not be solved by the Check_MK agent. Please see https://github.com/martinlindhe/wmi_exporter/issues/89 for further information.
Now the Check_MK Discovery does not take WMI timeouts into account. Thus the Check_MK Discovery does not report "vanished services" any more. The Check_MK service handles services with WMI timeouts as "stale" further on.
