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Werk #3130: periodic service discovery can now be configured to not activate specific service changes

Component Setup
Title periodic service discovery can now be configured to not activate specific service changes
Date May 9, 2016
Level Trivial Change
Class New Feature
Compatibility Compatible - no manual interaction needed
Checkmk versions & editions
1.4.0i1 Checkmk Community, Checkmk Pro, Checkmk Ultimate MT

The rule "Periodic service discovery" now allows setting a whitelist and a blacklist on service description. A service for which a change was automatically discovered that doesn't match any whitelist or one that does match any blacklist will still show up in the discovery service but it will not be activated automatically.

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