is it possible to disable the whole piggyback mechanism for a specific source host (the host which provides the piggyback data)? I get also piggyback data from other source hosts, so disabling piggyback data at all for all target hosts is no option.
Background: I have configured two sites in checkmk. One normal monitoring site and one for vulnerabilities. For the vulnerabilities I have created a local check on the vulnerability scanner. The local check just returns piggyback data with the found vulnerabilities. Now I want to process this data only on my vulnerability site and not on the monitoring site. Is this possible?
usually, piggyback data is not transferred from one site to another, so if you have host_b on site_b there should be no piggyback data on site_a.
But to answer the question “can piggyback data from a specific host be disabled”?
Yes: you can use the rule “Hostname translation for piggybacked hosts” to e.g. rename all the incoming piggyback data to an invalid hostname, i.e.
first of all, thank you for your fast reply and for a working solution!
I wouldn’t say that the piggyback data is transfered from one site to another. Both sites are using the checkmk agent of the source host, so both sites get all the piggyback data. With the renaming I am now able to ignore the piggyback data for one site which is exactly what I wanted.
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