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Werk #11472: Added agent based discovery of host labels

Component Checks & agents
Title Added agent based discovery of host labels
Date Sep 9, 2020
Level Trivial Change
Class New Feature
Compatibility Incompatible - Manual interaction might be required
Checkmk versions & editions
2.0.0i1 Checkmk Raw (CRE), Checkmk Enterprise (CEE), Checkmk MSP (CME)

All agents now support the automatic discovery of the following host labels:

AgentHost label
AIX cmk/os_family:aix
FreeBSD cmk/os_family:freebsd
HP-UX cmk/os_family:hpux
LINUX cmk/os_family:linux
Mac OS X cmk/os_family:macosx
NetBSD cmk/os_family:netbsd
OpenBSD cmk/os_family:openbsd
OpenVMS cmk/os_family:openvms
OpenWrt cmk/os_family:openwrt
Solaris cmk/os_family:solaris
Windows cmk/os_family:windows

The Linux agent can also gather the following host labels, if the host is virtualized or a Linux container:

  • "cmk/device_type:vm"
  • "cmk/device_type:container"

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