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Werk #7895: Download agent output: Fix timeouts in distributed setups

Component User interface
Title Download agent output: Fix timeouts in distributed setups
Date Jun 25, 2019
Level Trivial Change
Class Bug Fix
Compatibility Compatible - no manual interaction needed
Checkmk versions & editions
2.0.0i1 Checkmk Community, Checkmk Pro, Checkmk Ultimate MT
1.6.0b3 Checkmk Community, Checkmk Pro, Checkmk Ultimate MT

When executing the action "Download agent output" (or SNMP walk) for a host that is montored by a remote site, this action could result in a timeout when it takes longer than 120 seconds to fetch the data from the monitored system.

This has now been fixed by moving the background job execution to the remote site.

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