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Werk #368: Generating selection id is hopefully now compatible to more systems

Component User interface
Title Generating selection id is hopefully now compatible to more systems
Date Dec 16, 2013
Level Trivial Change
Class Bug Fix
Compatibility Compatible - no manual interaction needed
Checkmk versions & editions
1.2.5i1 Checkmk Community, Checkmk Pro, Checkmk Ultimate MT

The default mechanism to get a selection id is to generate a UUID by reading the contents of the file /proc/sys/kernel/random/uuid. This might be not existing on some special systems. So we use the uuid python module as fallback now.

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