Upgrade to 1.1 - max length 63 characters

[Mark Waterhouse]

Hi

My services.cfg file was beginning to grow very large and so I decided to
employ some of the tricks as detailed at
http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/1_0/templatetricks.html#hostgroup

Basically, all hosts in one hostgroup can be checked for the same service at
the same time.

Now, this seemed like a good idea but gave me strange errors.  I therefore
decided to upgrade to version 1.1

However, there seems to be a hard limit set on the length of the hostname
when nagios does its preflight checks.

The relevant configs are as follows;

services.cfg
============
default service{
	service_description	Description to be added
	contact_groups		nagios-admin
	service_description	Check Ping Status
	check_command		check_ping!500!1000
	name				service_template
	register			0
	}

define service{
	hostgroup_name		MailServers
	contact_groups		nagios-admin
	use				service_template
	}


hostgroups.cfg
==============
define hostgroup{
	hostgroup_name		MailServers
	alias				All Mail Servers
	contact_groups		nagios-admin
	members			<snip> a list of 21 mail servers with a FQDN
</snip>
	}



When I run 'nagios -v ../etc/nagios.cfg', I get the following output

Nagios 1.1
Copyright (c) 1999-2003 Ethan Galstad (nagios at nagios.org)
Last Modified: 06-02-2003
License: GPL

Reading configuration data...

Error: Host name '<snip> List of all mail servers </snip>' for service
'Check Ping Status' exceeds maximum length of 63 characters

Error: Could not register service (config file
'/usr/local/nagios/etc/services.cfg', line 11)

***> One or more problems was encountered while processing the config
files...




I suspect that this is a coded limit and wondered if someone could post a
diff to remove it.

Thanks
Mark
	


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