Werk #18154: omd update: More fine-grained control over non-interactive updates

Component Site management
Title omd update: More fine-grained control over non-interactive updates
Date Sep 9, 2025
Level Prominent Change
Class New Feature
Compatibility Compatible - no manual interaction needed
Checkmk versions & editions
2.5.0b1
Not yet released
Checkmk Raw (CRE), Checkmk Enterprise (CEE), Checkmk Cloud (CCE), Checkmk MSP (CME)

During an update via omd update, interactive prompts can be suppressed via the options --force and --conflict. However, the usage of --force is problematic. It enables updates to editions and versions of Checkmk, which will break the site.

This change introduces new command line options to give callers more control on which prompts should be confirmed, which checks be disabled and what to keep still active. The new options are alternatives to the so far existing --force.

  • --confirm-version,
  • --confirm-edition,
  • --ignore-editions-incompatible and
  • --ignore-versions-incompatible.

For example, the following command will not prompt the user.

omd -V 2.5.0b1.pro update --confirm-edition --confirm-version --conflict install

For the up-to-date information on these flags, omd update -h should be consulted.

The new options cannot be used without the -V option, currently.

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