Werk #15545: Introduce Python 3 compatibilty for mk_sap agent plugin

Component

Agent bakery

Title

Introduce Python 3 compatibilty for mk_sap agent plugin

Date

Apr 18, 2023

Level

Trivial Change

Class

New Feature

Compatibility

Incompatible - Manual interaction might be required

Checkmk versions & editions

2.3.0b1	Checkmk Raw (CRE), Checkmk Enterprise (CEE), Checkmk Cloud (CCE), Checkmk MSP (CME)
2.2.0p2	Checkmk Raw (CRE), Checkmk Enterprise (CEE), Checkmk Cloud (CCE), Checkmk MSP (CME)

The mk_sap agent plugin can now be used with Python 3.

Previous to this werk, mk_sap could only be used with Python 2, as it was dependent on the sapnwrfc library which is not compatible with python3.

This werk ports mk_sap to use pyrfc which is only compatible with Python 3

The old mk_sap plugin can still be used with Python 2 and is now called mk_sap_2

If the host this agent plugin is executed on has Python 3 installed:

install pyrfc on this host (for more details have a look at the mk_sap.py agent plugin source code)
redeploy agent via bakery or manually

If the host this agent plugin is executed on has only Python 2 installed nothing changes. The Python 2 agent plugin will automatically be used in this case.

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