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Werk #5396: Nagios: Log external commands to nagios.log by default

Component Core & setup
Title Nagios: Log external commands to nagios.log by default
Date Oct 13, 2017
Level Trivial Change
Class Bug Fix
Compatibility Compatible - no manual interaction needed
Checkmk versions & editions
1.5.0i1 Checkmk Raw (CRE), Checkmk Enterprise (CEE), Checkmk MSP (CME)

Nagios is now logging external commands to the core log (nagios.log) in the default configuration. This makes Nagios behave like the Microcore in this case.

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