Werk #8092: Bake generic and vanilla agent
| Component | Agent bakery | ||
| Title | Bake generic and vanilla agent | ||
| Date | Nov 12, 2014 | ||
| Level | Prominent Change | ||
| Class | New Feature | ||
| Compatibility | Compatible - no manual interaction needed | ||
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The agent bakery used to always create a so called Generic agent. That was an agent with a default configuration.
Now the bakery per default creates two - possible identical - agents: The Vanilla-agent is what had been the generic agent. It is an agent without any plugins and with the default configuration. The Generic agent is an agent with all rulesets being applied that do not have any positive restrictions. It is the agent for a generic host, i.e. a host that has no tags and no name. All rules that do not require certain tags to be set or do require the host to have a certain name are being used. This allows you to create a proper agent without creating any host at the first place.