Werk #18033: HW/SW Inventory: Add script & cronjob for transforming inventory trees
| Component | HW/SW inventory | ||
| Title | HW/SW Inventory: Add script & cronjob for transforming inventory trees | ||
| Date | May 14, 2025 | ||
| Level | Trivial Change | ||
| Class | New Feature | ||
| Compatibility | Compatible - no manual interaction needed | ||
| Checkmk versions & editions |
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See werk 18032 for basic information.
The transformation of all inventory trees of all hosts may take very long in large environments.
Thus it cannot be done during cmk-update-config and we have to choose another way. There are two
mechanisms in place:
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a cronjob runs once per day at midnight and transforms a bundle of inventory trees one by one
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you may use the transformation command
cmk-transform-inventory-fileson your own in order to execute the transformation manually, eg. for specific hosts.
If you are interested in the results then run cmk-transform-inventory-trees --show-results. This
might be helpful in order to get a feel for some statistics like the duration of these
transformations.