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Werk #8341: Closing SNMP socket file handles during bulk actions

Component Inline SNMP
Title Closing SNMP socket file handles during bulk actions
Date Oct 30, 2015
Level Trivial Change
Class Bug Fix
Compatibility Compatible - no manual interaction needed
Checkmk versions & editions
1.2.7i4 Checkmk Pro, Checkmk Ultimate MT

e.g. when doing "cmk -II" for a larger number of hosts, it could happen that the process runs out of file descriptors when having a lot of SNMP devices. This was caused by the fact that all SNMP sessions were kept open during this bulk actions. The sessions are closed now after each host during most common bulk actions (inventory, discovery, snmpwalk).

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