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Problem
Users and customers sometimes get confused with confuse the terms used to describe the Checkmk software and the Checkmk appliance.
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Solution
There is are two entirely different topics: The Checkmk appliance and the Checkmk software. Read on for the disambiguation of them.
Checkmk Appliance
The Checkmk appliance is an operating system in a can. It is merely a minimal platform to run the Checkmk software on, if your organization is not Linux-savy.
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savvy.
The appliance has two flavors: A virtual template in OVA format and a physical server.
Both flavors contain - among others - the following features:
- A preconfigured operating system, ready to support the Checkmk software
- A console interface for first boot and basic configuration
- A web interface for operating system level configuration, installing the Checkmk software, site management, and backup
Checkmk Software
The Checkmk software itself is the monitoring system you use most of the all day. It can be installed on all major Linux distributions as well as on and the Checkmk Applianceappliance and run as a Docker container.
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