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Werk #20236: Setup GIT integration: track MKP rule packs and configuration outside of the wato directories

Component Setup
Title Setup GIT integration: track MKP rule packs and configuration outside of the wato directories
Date Sep 3, 2026
Level Trivial Change
Class Bug Fix
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
2.5.0p14
Not yet released 		Checkmk Community, Checkmk Pro, Checkmk Ultimate, Checkmk Cloud, Checkmk Ultimate MT
2.4.0p37
Not yet released 		Checkmk Community, Checkmk Pro, Checkmk Ultimate, Checkmk Cloud, Checkmk Ultimate MT

With the global setting "Use GIT version control for Setup" enabled, only the wato subdirectories below etc/check_mk/*.d/ were put under version control.

As a result the following Setup managed configuration was silently missing from the commits created on activate changes:

  • Event Console rule packs that were made available for MKP packaging. Those are stored in etc/check_mk/mkeventd.d/mkp/rule_packs/.
  • Configuration files written directly into an etc/check_mk/*.d/ directory, for example multisite.d/sites.mk or conf.d/distributed_wato.mk.

Both are now tracked. On the first activate changes after the update the previously untracked files show up as a regular commit.

Everything that is not written by Setup stays excluded: the generated files etc/check_mk/*.mk, the files managed by omd config (conf.d/microcore.mk, conf.d/mkeventd.mk, conf.d/pnp4nagios.mk, multisite.d/liveproxyd.mk, multisite.d/mkeventd.mk) as well as temporary *.mk.new, *.pkl and swap files.

Note that multisite.d/sites.mk holds the automation secrets of the connected remote sites. As with the already tracked conf.d/wato/passwords.mk, those secrets now remain in the history of the repository even after a rotation. Keep this in mind if you push this repository to a central GIT server.

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