Checkmk Werk 11631: License usage report: How to exclude sites, hosts and services from license counting

ID: 11631 Title: License usage report: How to exclude sites, hosts and services from license counting Component: Setup Level: 1 Class: New feature Version: 2.1.0i1 The license usage report should NOT contain sites, hosts and services which are used for test scenarios. Due to a lot of different scenarios we need a flexible way for excluding these test scenarios from the reports. Let's begin at atom level. A service can be excluded by adding the label {cmk/licensing:excluded}. For example you can do that via the ruleset {Setup > Services > Service monitoring rules > Service labels}. In order to exclude a host and all it's services you only have to label this host with {cmk/licensing:excluded}. In this case you do not need additional labels for the host services. Adding a host label can be achieved with the ruleset {Setup > Hosts > Host monitoring rules > Host labels}. If you want to exclude a whole site you can use the host label ruleset {Setup > Hosts > Host monitoring rules > Host labels} for ALL hosts. Thus, the idea is the following: if a higher level entity (eg. a host) is already excluded then the lower level entities (eg. host services) do not have to be excluded again. This also may reduce the number of rulesets.