SNMP community in hostconfiguration

Patrick Proy nagios at proy.org
Mon Dec 20 00:03:09 CET 2004


Hi,

Making labels with this type of macro would be a lot of work, as the Nagios
code is not made this way for macros (it is an array of macros, not a hash).
But it is a good idea... for next release...

Patrick Proy
nagios AT proy.org

> [mailto:nagios-devel-admin at lists.sourceforge.net] De la part 
> de Matthew Kent
> 
> I'd be nice if you could use labels in their definitions as 
> well. Like 
> hostmacro:inventory 244 -> $HOSTMACRO:inventory$. This also 
> ties nicely
> into the next point:
> > Ofcourse, the presence of hostmacros sort of voids the 
> necessity for the 
> > snmp_* variables, but the decision is Ethan's, so I can only air my 
> > opinions.
> 
> With labels you could still get the same effect without 
> adding length to
> the documentation and config checks :) Plus the idea in the past seems
> to have been to keep things separated to a degree like host and
> hostextinfo definitions.
> -- 
> Matthew Kent <mkent at magoazul.com>
> http://magoazul.com
> 



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