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Werk #13758: ipmi_sensors: Fix crash due to incomplete IPMI data

Component Checks & agents
Title ipmi_sensors: Fix crash due to incomplete IPMI data
Date Mar 7, 2022
Level Trivial Change
Class Bug Fix
Compatibility Compatible - no manual interaction needed
Checkmk versions & editions
2.2.0b1 Checkmk Community, Checkmk Pro, Checkmk Ultimate, Checkmk Ultimate MT
2.1.0b2 Checkmk Community, Checkmk Pro, Checkmk Ultimate MT
2.0.0p22 Checkmk Community, Checkmk Pro, Checkmk Ultimate MT

The check plugin ipmi_sensors crashed with AttributeError ('NoneType' object has no attribute 'startswith') in case the IPMI datasource started to deliver incomplete data. This can happen for example due to bugs in IPMI firmwares related to SDR caching.

With this werk, the corresponding services go stale instead of a crash.

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