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Werk #8890: Windows Agent 1.6: Configuration reloading had been restructured

Component Checks & agents
Title Windows Agent 1.6: Configuration reloading had been restructured
Date Aug 1, 2019
Level Trivial Change
Class New Feature
Compatibility Compatible - no manual interaction needed
Checkmk versions & editions
1.6.0b5 Checkmk Raw (CRE), Checkmk Enterprise (CEE), Checkmk MSP (CME)

By default the Agent reloads the configuration files only on the start.

To manually reload all configuration files you can use command line: check_mk_agent.exe reload_config

To automatically reload configuration files on every connect(the behavior from beta 4 and earlier) you can set the environment variable CMA_AUTO_RELOAD to yes

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