Werk #16242: Kill forked processes by mk_oracle under AIX

Component

Checks & agents

Title

Kill forked processes by mk_oracle under AIX

Date

Mar 6, 2024

Level

Trivial Change

Class

Bug Fix

Compatibility

Compatible - no manual interaction needed

Checkmk versions & editions

2.4.0b1 Not yet released	Checkmk Raw (CRE), Checkmk Enterprise (CEE), Checkmk Cloud (CCE), Checkmk MSP (CME)
2.3.0b2	Checkmk Raw (CRE), Checkmk Enterprise (CEE), Checkmk Cloud (CCE), Checkmk MSP (CME)
2.2.0p26	Checkmk Raw (CRE), Checkmk Enterprise (CEE), Checkmk Cloud (CCE), Checkmk MSP (CME)
2.1.0p43	Checkmk Raw (CRE), Checkmk Enterprise (CEE), Checkmk MSP (CME)

The agent plugin mk_oracle creates forked processes, e.g. from sqlplus. In order to reliable clean up stale processes, we kill now the whole process chain under AIX which corresponds to the stored PID. We introduce this only for AIX now as we have customers which are affected under that OS.

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