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Werk #8788: "Periodic service discovery" breaks Nagios config generation

Component Core & setup
Title "Periodic service discovery" breaks Nagios config generation
Date Aug 23, 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
1.6.0b8 Checkmk Community, Checkmk Pro, Checkmk Ultimate MT

A rule in the ruleset "Periodic service discovery" that is configured with the option "Do not perform service discovery check" resulted in a exception when updating the Nagios core config (e.g. with cmk -U).

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