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Werk #6658: Differentiation of host & service problems notifications

Component Notifications
Title Differentiation of host & service problems notifications
Date Mar 15, 2019
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
1.5.0p13 Checkmk Community, Checkmk Pro, Checkmk Ultimate MT

For REST notification plugins like Slack, PagerDuty and VictorOPS. Problems where classified by the presence of the SERVICESTATE context variable. But in the RAW edition this variable is completed by its macro and thus the classification leads to host problems to be described as service problems too. Classifying after the WHAT context variable solves the issue.

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