Werk #13833: Checkmk agent controller: allow unencrypted pulling for fresh installations

Component Checks & agents
Title Checkmk agent controller: allow unencrypted pulling for fresh installations
Date Mar 16, 2022
Checkmk Edition Checkmk Raw (CRE)
Checkmk Version 2.1.0b3 2.2.0b1
Level Trivial Change
Class New Feature
Compatibility Compatible - no manual interaction needed

On linux hosts new installations now allow the unencrypted pulling of agent data, just as the old agent did. This is done to ease the installation process.

The Check_MK Agent service will issue a warning until the connections is secured by TLS, or the service is explicitly configured to ignore the unencrypted connection.

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