Werk #14733: cmk-update-agent: Prevent the minutely timer from flooding the journalctl on Linux

Component

Agent bakery

Title

cmk-update-agent: Prevent the minutely timer from flooding the journalctl on Linux

Date

Aug 31, 2022

Level

Trivial Change

Class

Bug Fix

Compatibility

Compatible - no manual interaction needed

Checkmk versions & editions

2.2.0b1	Checkmk Enterprise (CEE), Checkmk Cloud (CCE), Checkmk MSP (CME)
2.1.0p12	Checkmk Enterprise (CEE), Checkmk MSP (CME)

The agent updater comes with a systemd timer unit that invokes cmk-update-agent minutely in order to check for a pending installation.

We now prevent the timer (or more precisely: the corresponding service unit) from writing status messages on every start and stop to journalctl.

A detailed log can already be found at /var/lib/check_mk_agent/cmk-update-agent.log