Werk #15535: IPMI sensors: Do not discover single absent sensors

Component

Checks & agents

Title

IPMI sensors: Do not discover single absent sensors

Date

May 6, 2023

Level

Trivial Change

Class

New Feature

Compatibility

Compatible - no manual interaction needed

Checkmk versions & editions

2.3.0b1 Not yet released	Checkmk Raw (CRE), Checkmk Enterprise (CEE), Checkmk Cloud (CCE), Checkmk MSP (CME)
2.3.0b1	Checkmk Raw (CRE), Checkmk Enterprise (CEE), Checkmk Cloud (CCE), Checkmk MSP (CME)
2.2.0b8	Checkmk Raw (CRE), Checkmk Enterprise (CEE), Checkmk Cloud (CCE), Checkmk MSP (CME)
2.1.0p28	Checkmk Raw (CRE), Checkmk Enterprise (CEE), Checkmk MSP (CME)
2.0.0p36	Checkmk Raw (CRE), Checkmk Enterprise (CEE), Checkmk MSP (CME)

When configured to discover one service per sensor in the rule set IPMI sensor discovery, the IPMI check plugins now ignore absent sensors.

A sensor is considered absent if its status description contains any of the strings "Device Removed" "Device Absent" or "Entity Absent".