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Werk #7259: Fixed bug with host discovery causing steadily increasing CPU load on the monitoring system.

Component Checks & agents
Title Fixed bug with host discovery causing steadily increasing CPU load on the monitoring system.
Date May 6, 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)
1.5.0p17 Checkmk Raw (CRE), Checkmk Enterprise (CEE), Checkmk MSP (CME)

A host service discovery could modify the monitoring cores live configuration. The monitoring core detects this deviation and restarts the Check_MK helper. However, the restarted helper uses the new configuration, whereas the core still uses the old configuration - causing another restart...

This has been fixed.

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