Werk #11841: Windows agent's Python module supports now Windows Server 2012 and Windows 8

Component

Checks & agents

Title

Windows agent's Python module supports now Windows Server 2012 and Windows 8

Date

Jan 22, 2021

Level

Trivial Change

Class

New Feature

Compatibility

Compatible - no manual interaction needed

Checkmk versions & editions

2.1.0b1	Checkmk Raw (CRE), Checkmk Enterprise (CEE), Checkmk MSP (CME)
2.0.0b5	Checkmk Raw (CRE), Checkmk Enterprise (CEE), Checkmk MSP (CME)

Older versions of the Windows may have no support for Visual Studio 2015 runtime, which is mandatory for the Python module.

With this release the Python module of Windows agent is distributed together with the above mentioned runtime thus resolving the problem.