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 |
| Checkmk Edition | Checkmk Raw (CRE) |
| Checkmk Version | 2.1.0p43 2.2.0p26 2.3.0b2 2.4.0b1 |
| Level | Trivial Change |
| Class | Bug Fix |
| Compatibility | Compatible - no manual interaction needed |
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.
