resource.cfg variables in services as arguments
Jan Scholten
Jan.Scholten at iconz.net
Wed Nov 10 22:18:27 CET 2004
I don't know if nagios expands the Arguments in the check_command line.
I use $USER3$ in the checkcommands for the read community.
So i don't pass resources Variables in Service statements (since most of
our read community is the same, if not i would define a new checkcommand.
Jan
> Hello. I would like to be able to have several community strings for
> the same check_command, without exposing them in my service
> configuration files. I would really like to be able to say
>
> check_command my_snmp_check!$USER1$
>
> in a "service" statement. I believe "$USER1$" is treated as a literal
> in this context.
>
> When I replace $ARG1$ with $USER1$ in the check itself, or $USER1$ in
> the service with the actual community string, then the SNMP query finds
> the community string and works fine.
>
> Am I doing anything wrong? Is the above (treating "$USER1$" as a
> literal) the intended action? Do people just not pass resource strings
> inside service statements?
>
> Thank you very much.
>
> Yours,
> John
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