Werk #10056: Windows Agent command line option 'reload_config' starts/stops plugins

Component

Checks & agents

Title

Windows Agent command line option 'reload_config' starts/stops plugins

Date

Sep 6, 2019

Level

Trivial Change

Class

New Feature

Compatibility

Compatible - no manual interaction needed

Checkmk versions & editions

1.6.0b9	Checkmk Raw (CRE), Checkmk Enterprise (CEE), Checkmk MSP (CME)

Earlier 'reload_config' did not try to run asynchronous plugins.

Thus, the option was useless for the automatic update of the agent with the Agent Updater plugin.

The Windows Agent now starts and stops asynchronous plugins according to the configuration just loaded.