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The mark differentiates between different generations of the same type. Consider, for example, our hardware vendor changes a significant part of the hardware layout, or we change the hardware vendor itself. While the sizing remains the same, we need to be able to express this change in the naming.
As a general rule of thumb, the “mark” needs to be increased, if we need to adapt the firmware to work with the updated hardware.
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Now to put things together, let's consider some examples:
- Checkmk rack1 Mark I: This is the very first generation of the smallest appliance available.
- Checkmk rack1 Mark V: This is the fifth generation of the smallest appliance available, which means the components built into the configuration have changed significantly, at least four times.
- Checkmk rack4 Mark I: This is the very first generation of the bigger appliance.
- Checkmk rack4 Mark III: This is the third generation of the bigger appliance, which means the components built into this configuration have changed significantly, at least two times.
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