Set labels based on software inventory

54 votes

It would be a great help if labels for inventory-informations could be set by rules.
This would help to configure for example alerts for unwanted software or too old versions.

Under consideration Checks&Agents Suggested by: Thomas Lippert (28 Jun, '22) • Upvoted: 04 May • Comments: 7

Comments: 7

29 Jun, '22
Christian
Or to deploy agent plugins when a specific app is found!
29 Jun, '22
Robert Sander
You can use our data2label tool for that purpose.

https://github.com/HeinleinSupport/check_mk_extensions/tree/cmk2.0/data2label
30 Jun, '22
Gerd
I really like data2label - but that is a workaround :)
Depending on the size of the customer installation some searches needed to get information from the software inventory take way too long and run into GUI timeouts making data2label unable to set the labels correctly. If checkmk can set the labels while processing the HW/SW inventory it would be much better.
It would also be easier for the user (as no text config file as in data2label would be needed) and quicker as a change in HW/SW Inventory would be directly reflected.
21 Mar, '23
Doc
merge with "Add automatic Label depending on Linux Distribution"
21 Mar, '23
Thomas Lippert Admin
Hi Doc,
The two feature requests are not really equal. One can be achieved with the other, but not the other way around. And the inventory might not be the only source for adding labels
14 Jan
Stefan Mayr Merged
Checkmk already collects information with the HW/SW inventory but can not create host labels or tags from that information.
Currently additional plugins like LabelPicker or data2label have to be used. It would be great to have this as a builtin feature with rules to create those labels and tags natively.
24 Jan
Niklas Pulina Admin
"Add rules to generate tags or labels from HW/SW inventory" (suggested by <Hidden> on 2024-01-14), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.