Catch up on the latest product updates, best practices, and expert insights from the Checkmk Conference #12 – Watch the livestream recordings now
back to website

Werk #8959: Piggybacked hosts: 'Check_MK' service shows more detailed information

Component Checks & agents
Title Piggybacked hosts: 'Check_MK' service shows more detailed information
Date Sep 10, 2019
Level Trivial Change
Class New Feature
Compatibility Compatible - no manual interaction needed
Checkmk versions & editions
2.0.0i1 Checkmk Community, Checkmk Pro, Checkmk Ultimate MT
1.6.0b10 Checkmk Community, Checkmk Pro, Checkmk Ultimate MT

Piggybacked hosts get their data from source hosts. The source hosts save the piggyback data to files. There's also a status file written by the source in order to know whether the source host has sent piggyback data at all. There may be several situations such that the piggybacked hosts cannot processed their data:

  • Piggyback file is too old
  • Source is not sending piggyback data
  • Piggyback data file is not updated by source
  • Piggyback file age cannot be determined

Now the 'Check_MK' service of piggybacked hosts show these messages.

To the list of all Werks