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.

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. xyz

      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
      Downloaded agent has size 13111604 bytes.
      Signature check OK.
      Invoking package manager: dpkg -i /tmp/check-mk-agent-tq29w24g
      Output from dpkg:
        (Reading database ... 158559 files and directories currently installed.)
        Preparing to unpack /tmp/check-mk-agent-tq29w24g ...
        Disable Checkmk agent in systemd (if active)...
        Unpacking check-mk-agent (2.0.0b4-20.67f84ee7e41b73aa) over (2.0.0b4-20.67f84ee7e41b73aa) ...
        Reloading xinetd...
        Setting up check-mk-agent (2.0.0b4-20.67f84ee7e41b73aa) ...
        Reloading xinetd...
        Enable Checkmk agent in systemd...
        Created symlink /etc/systemd/system/sockets.target.wants/check-mk-agent.socket → /etc/systemd/system/check-mk-agent.socket.
        
      Successfully installed agent 67f84ee7e41b73aa.
      root@ip-172-31-34-134:/home/ubuntu# 
      
      

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