[PATCH] Fix to allow incomplete service dependency templates
Gaspar, Carson
Carson.Gaspar at gs.com
Tue Dec 12 02:28:07 CET 2006
>-----Original Message-----
>From: nagios-devel-bounces at lists.sourceforge.net
>[mailto:nagios-devel-bounces at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf
>Of Ethan Galstad
>Sent: Monday, December 11, 2006 4:46 PM
>To: Nagios-Devel
>Subject: Re: [Nagios-devel] [PATCH] Fix to allow incomplete
>service dependency templates
>
>Gaspar, Carson wrote:
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: nagios-devel-bounces at lists.sourceforge.net
>>> [mailto:nagios-devel-bounces at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of
>>> Ethan Galstad
>>> Sent: Monday, December 11, 2006 3:05 PM
>>> To: Nagios-Devel
>>> Subject: Re: [Nagios-devel] [PATCH] Fix to allow incomplete service
>>> dependency templates
>>>
>>> Jason Hoos wrote:
>>>> Since it's not a registered object, the servicedependency template
>>>> should be valid, but Nagios reports "Could not expand dependent
>>>> hostgroups and/or hosts specified in service dependency" instead.
>
>You are partially correct. Templates are usually incomplete,
>but they should not contain incorrect data. In your example
>the template references a hostgroup, which in turn has a bad
>membership list (one host does not exist).
Actually it was Jason's example... I misunderstood the issue, and
withdraw my objection as bogus. I agree that _bad_ data should flag an
error (but missing data should not).
--
Carson
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