Subhendu Ghosh wrote:
using templates you can define a default alias - alias is only used if you need it in notifications...
Indeed. Perhaps define host{ name default-host-template .... alias $HOSTNAME$ address $HOSTNAME$ ... }
might work.
however host_names have to be unique and the address field can contain more than one address - so they have to be entered
No. Addresses are also unique, and if the short form (as determined by search and domain directives in /etc/resolv.conf) is entered as host_name that's all you really need for the host.
Clarification; So long as you don't add dummy-hosts, addresses are unique (really unique, not just forced to be by Nagios).
also 1.x is in a bug fix mode only development/features are in 2.x
It might be simpler to write a pre-init script that parses the config and writes out the address if needed from the hostname.
No. It would indeed be very simple to add this functionality to the core code (2 extra if()'s in the xodtemplate_add_host() function). I've suggested it myself for the alias variable which is only required for the cgi's.
-sg
On Tue, 15 Feb 2005, sean finney wrote:
hi nagios-devel,
we have a feature request from a user that i think is pretty reasonable and not too big an effort to accomplish. basically, nagios requires that all host objects have a host_name, address, and alias attribute.
the user requested that as a default, if only the host_name is provided that it be used to derive the other two attributes.
btw, this is for the 1.x cvs branch.
thoughts? comments?
sean finney (debian nagios package maintainer)
ps - i would appreciate it if you would maintain the CC field so that further correspondance is kept with the bug record.
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Subject: [Pkg-nagios-devel] Bug#294983: wishlist: not require alias and host_name in hosts.cfg
Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2005 21:24:29 +0100
Package: nagios Severity: wishlist
wishlist: not require alias and host_name in hosts.cfg
Most boring thing of setting up nagios is writting big configuration files.
But some little changes could in my opinion short and increase readability of this files.
In my hosts.cfg I have a lot of sections like this:
define host{ use my-generic-host host_name myhost.com alias myhost.com address myhost.com check_command check_ssh }
In most of my hosts host_name is equal to alias and address, so it could be written like this:
define host{ use my-generic-host address myhost.com check_command check_ssh }
But it cannot be done as host_name, alias and address are necessary.
I would like that in host_name and alias absence they would take address value. So I could say the same with less text making it easier to write, read, change, mantain, understand...
that is all...
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