Werk #7217: HW/SW-Inventory: Execution order of plugins

Component

Checks & agents

Title

HW/SW-Inventory: Execution order of plugins

Date

Mar 15, 2019

Level

Trivial Change

Class

Bug Fix

Compatibility

Compatible - no manual interaction needed

Checkmk versions & editions

1.6.0b1	Checkmk Raw (CRE), Checkmk Enterprise (CEE), Checkmk MSP (CME)
1.5.0p13	Checkmk Raw (CRE), Checkmk Enterprise (CEE), Checkmk MSP (CME)

The order in which the HW/SW inventory plugins are executed is now deterministic. Previously dependencies between inventory plugins could lead to missing data if the plugins happend to be executed in the wrong order.

Plugins are now executed in alphabetical order by default. You can force a plugin to be executed after another plugin by setting the depends_on key in the inventory info variable inv_info. For instance writing inv_info['plugin_a'] = { ... 'depends_on' = ['plugin_b'], } will enforce "plugin_b" to be executed before "plugin_a".

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