Werk #1012: Fix quoting of backslashes in custom checks with nagios core

Component Core & setup
Title Fix quoting of backslashes in custom checks with nagios core
Date Jun 26, 2014
Checkmk Edition Checkmk Raw (CRE)
Checkmk Version 1.2.5i5
Level Prominent Change
Class Bug Fix
Compatibility Incompatible - Manual interaction might be required

When you are using Nagios as montitoring core then backslashes contained in custom_checks (Classical active and passive Nagios checks) would be interpreted by Nagios. That way single backslashes would usually vanish und you would have to duplicate them.

The Check_MK Micro Core never interpreted these backslashes so it was transparent for the user.

This fix changes the behaviour of Check_MK in a way that also with the Nagios core you need only one backslash. Backslashes are transparent now.

NOTE: If you have custom checks that contain backslashes (for example as part of names or passwords) then you need to remove duplicate backslashes after this update!

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