ID: 3728 Title: Automatically creating automation user for Check_MK internal use with WATO default config Component: WATO Level: 1 Class: New Feature Version: 1.4.0i1 We are adding now a default automation user named <i>cmkautomation</i> to Check_MK with the WATO default configuration. This user will currently only be added to new sites, but may be added to existing sites in future, too. The user has the administrative role to be able to access all hosts and do all actions. The authentication secret is randomly created for each site. In distributed setups the authentication secret will be synchronized from the central site. The idea of this user is, that components of Check_MK can automatically authenticate with the Web GUI using an always existing user. This is currently not used, but may be used for the internal cron job, fetching of graphs and performing checks against the GUI. If you don't like this user, you are free to disable or delete it. But this may lead to issues in future when we start using the user for internal things.