Werk #16144: Ignore piggybacked host names starting with a period

Component

Core & setup

Title

Ignore piggybacked host names starting with a period

Date

Nov 10, 2023

Level

Trivial Change

Class

Bug Fix

Compatibility

Incompatible - Manual interaction might be required

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)
2.2.0p15	Checkmk Raw (CRE), Checkmk Enterprise (CEE), Checkmk Cloud (CCE), Checkmk MSP (CME)

We now skip piggybacked data for hosts names starting with a period. Examples of such invalid names are ".", ".hostname", and ".hostname.domain.com".

Users must rename such hosts if they should remain in the monitoring.