Werk #4939: Always use DNS when looking up the IP of Graphite servers

Component

Core & setup

Title

Always use DNS when looking up the IP of Graphite servers

Date

Jun 29, 2017

Level

Trivial Change

Class

Bug Fix

Compatibility

Compatible - no manual interaction needed

Checkmk versions & editions

1.5.0i1	Checkmk Enterprise (CEE), Checkmk MSP (CME)
1.4.0p8	Checkmk Enterprise (CEE), Checkmk MSP (CME)

There were a few configurations where the IP used for Graphite servers was always 127.0.0.1: Simulation mode, using store SNMP walks, and few more highly obscure configurations used only for development. This was wrong, the Graphite servers have nothing to do with the monitoring in itself.

This has been fixed, the lookup for Graphite servers is now always being done via DNS.

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