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Werk #6458: IPMI Management board: Use USER privilege level for monitoring

Component Core & setup
Title IPMI Management board: Use USER privilege level for monitoring
Date Aug 28, 2018
Level Trivial Change
Class Bug Fix
Compatibility Compatible - no manual interaction needed
Checkmk versions & editions
1.6.0b1 Checkmk Community, Checkmk Pro, Checkmk Ultimate MT
1.5.0p3 Checkmk Community, Checkmk Pro, Checkmk Ultimate MT

Previous versions used the ADMIN privilege level for monitoring via IPMI which is way too much for this read-only access which is needed by Check_MK for monitoring.

When you tried to use a non ADMIN privileged user before, an error like this occured:

ERROR: Requested privilege level is not allowed over this channel while requesting privelege level 3 for [user]

You can now use less privileged users for monitoring.

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