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Werk #17626: Discovery check failed to recognise changed services

Component Checks & agents
Title Discovery check failed to recognise changed services
Date Feb 21, 2025
Level Trivial Change
Class Bug Fix
Compatibility Compatible - no manual interaction needed
Checkmk versions & editions
2.2.0p41 Checkmk Community, Checkmk Pro, Checkmk Ultimate, Checkmk Ultimate MT

This only affects users that have the "Periodic service discovery" rule configred to "Automatically update service configuration" and set the mode to "Refresh all services and host labels (tabula rasa)".

With this setting it is expected that not only new services are added and vanished ones are removed, but also changed service properties (discovered parameters and service labels) are updated.

While the autodiscovery was doing this correctly, the periodic service discovery check failed to trigger the autodiscovery in case there where only changed services (but no new or vanished ones).

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