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Werk #18606: Invalid rules of active checks and special agents are removed

Component Core & setup
Title Invalid rules of active checks and special agents are removed
Date Jun 12, 2026
Level Trivial Change
Class New Feature
Compatibility Compatible - no manual interaction needed
Checkmk versions & editions
3.0.0b1
Not yet released
Checkmk Community, Checkmk Pro, Checkmk Ultimate, Checkmk Cloud, Checkmk Ultimate MT

Since the introduction of the server-side calls API in Checkmk 2.3, the values of rules of Active checks and Special agents rulesets must be dictionaries. Rules with other value types (left over from old versions or custom plug-ins) have been silently ignored when the configuration was loaded.

cmk-update-config now deletes such rules from your Setup configuration for good and logs every deleted rule. Since these rules never had any effect, your monitoring does not change.

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