Werk #20190: Synthetic Monitoring: Remove root-deployment restriction for RCC
| Component | Checks & agents | ||||
| Title | Synthetic Monitoring: Remove root-deployment restriction for RCC | ||||
| Date | Sep 2, 2026 | ||||
| Level | Trivial Change | ||||
| Class | New Feature | ||||
| Compatibility | Compatible - no manual interaction needed | ||||
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Werk #19460 disallowed combining root agent deployment on Linux with RCC as environment creation mode, since RCC could otherwise break permissions on /opt (e.g. on SLES 16). Werk #20186 later added a checkbox "Allow agent deployment as root" to bypass this restriction for hosts that could not avoid a root-based setup.
Both the original restriction and the bypass checkbox are gone. Baking a Linux agent now always succeeds, regardless of the agent's user context or whether RCC is used. Instead, the affected rules now show clear inline help wherever RCC can be selected as the environment creation mode, so you can make an informed choice instead of being blocked or having to opt out via a checkbox.
This werk supersedes werk #20186; the checkbox it introduced no longer exists.