BI special agent

With Werk #6679 we introduced the new BI special agent. The special agents receives the key directly via stdin.

If you want to execute the special agent from the command line, please run the following command.

Step-by-step guide

If you use special agents installed from a Feature Pack, you can find the special agents in:
```
OMD[mysite]:~$ ~/local/share/check_mk/agents/special/
```
The special agents which are already shipped with Checkmk can be found here:
```
OMD[mysite]:~$ ~/share/check_mk/agents/special/
```

How to execute the special agent manually?

OMD[mysite]:~$ cmk -D bi |head -n15

bi                                                                             
Addresses:              No IP
Tags:                   [address_family:no-ip], [agent:cmk-agent], [checkmk-agent:checkmk-agent], [criticality:prod], [networking:lan], [piggyback:auto-piggyback], [site:bi], [snmp_ds:no-snmp], [tcp:tcp]
Labels:                 [cmk/site:mysite]
Host groups:            check_mk
Contact groups:         all
Agent mode:             Normal Checkmk agent, or special agent if configured
Type of agent:          
  Program: /omd/sites/mysite/share/check_mk/agents/special/agent_bi 
  Program stdin:
[{'site': 'local', 'credentials': 'automation', 'filter': {'groups': ['Hosts']}, 'assignments': {'querying_host': 'querying_host'}}]
  Process piggyback data from /omd/sites/bi/tmp/check_mk/piggyback/bi
Services:
  checktype                 item                                 params                                             description                               groups

With this command, you will get the special agent call. Now you can continue the debugging.

Execute the command

echo "[{'site': 'local', 'credentials': 'automation', 'filter': {'groups': ['Hosts']}, 'assignments': {'querying_host': 'querying_host'}}]" | /omd/sites/mysite/share/check_mk/agents/special/agent_bi

BI special agent

Step-by-step guide

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