Distributed Agent Bakery

It is now possible to deploy baked agents via remote sites within a distributed monitoring configuration.

Prerequisites

Prerequisites for this feature are a monitoring setup using distributed WATO and the possibility to establish a connection from remote sites to the central site via HTTP/HTTPS.

Also you need to configure the distributed agent bakery.

Step-by-step guide

1. Configure the connection to the central agent bakery
   

   1. Setup → General → Global settings → AUTOMATIC AGENT UPDATES → Connection to the central agent bakery

      

   2. Now you can register and update the host

      root@ip-172-31-34-134:/home/ubuntu# cmk-update-agent register -v
      
      +-------------------------------------------------------------------+
      |                                                                   |
      |  Check_MK Agent Updater v2.0.0b4 - Registration                   |
      |                                                                   |
      |  Activation of automatic agent updates. Your first step is to     |
      |  register this host at your deployment server for agent updates.  |
      |  For this step you need an administration account on WATO for     |
      |  that server.                                                     |
      |                                                                   |
      +-------------------------------------------------------------------+
      Using previous settings from /etc/cmk-update-agent.state.
      Password for user 'cmkadmin': 
      
      
      Going to register agent at deployment server
      Successfully registered agent of host "slave2" for deployment.
      You can now update your agent by running 'cmk-update-agent -v'
      Saved your registration settings to /etc/cmk-update-agent.state.
      
      root@ip-172-31-34-134:/home/ubuntu# cmk-update-agent -v 
      
      +-------------------------------------------------------------------+
      |                                                                   |
      |  Check_MK Agent Updater v2.0.0b4 - Update                         |
      |                                                                   |
      +-------------------------------------------------------------------+
      Getting target agent configuration for host 'slave2' from deployment server
      Target state (from deployment server):
        Agent Available:     True
        Signatures:          1
        Target Hash:         67f84ee7e41b73aa
      Agent 67f84ee7e41b73aa already installed.
      root@ip-172-31-34-134:/home/ubuntu# 
      
      

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