Werk #2923: SNMP community in WATO is now always displayed with ******

Component

Setup

Title

SNMP community in WATO is now always displayed with ******

Date

Jan 14, 2016

Level

Trivial Change

Class

New Feature

Compatibility

Compatible - no manual interaction needed

Checkmk versions & editions

1.2.7i4	Checkmk Raw (CRE), Checkmk Enterprise (CEE), Checkmk MSP (CME)
1.2.8b1	Checkmk Raw (CRE), Checkmk Enterprise (CEE), Checkmk MSP (CME)

This is due to security. SNMP communities are basically passwords and should not be shown in plaintext in the GUI. Of course this change makes it harder to read existing rules. If that is a problem for you then you can add the plaintext community to the comment field of a rule. Alas - security is always linked with inconveniance...

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