contactgroup{ }, and contactgroups # bug?

[Chet Luther]

On 12/5/05, Cam <cameron.matheson at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> So I'm writing some scripts to help me maintain my nagios
> configuration (actually to help other people be able to add new hosts,
> change some configuration parameters, etc).  Anyway, I'm having a
> problem right now.  In the case of hosts/hostgroups, this works fine:
>
> define hostgroup{
> houstgroup_name  kiosks
> alias kiosks
> }
>
> define host{
> name host_template
> hostgroups kiosks
> ...
> }
>
> define host{
> host_name foobar
> use host_template
> ...
> }  #foobar will be put in the hostgroup kiosks
>
> however, doing an equivalent configuration w/ contacts/contactgroups
> doesn't work (i'm using nagios 2.0b4):
>
> define contactgroup{
>   contactgroup_name kiosk-folks
>   alias             Kiosk People
> }
>
> define contact{
>   name                          kiosk_contact
>   contactgroups                 kiosk-folks
>   ...
>   register                      0
>   }
>
> define contact{
>   use                   kiosk_contact
>   contact_name    jdoe
>   alias                 John Doe
>   ...
> }  # DOESN'T ADD TO KIOSK-FOLKS
>
> When try to verify my nagios configuration this is the error i get:
>
> Error: Contactgroup has no members (config file
> '/usr/local/opt/nagios/etc/contactgroups.cfg', starting on line 25)
>
> I don't understand why it works for the one, but not for the other.
> Is this a bug?

This is somewhere between a missing feature and a bug, but it is quite
inconsistent.  Here's a quick patch to fix it.  It is applied against
the current CVS tree.

diff -urN nagios-orig/xdata/xodtemplate.c nagios/xdata/xodtemplate.c
--- nagios-orig/xdata/xodtemplate.c     2005-11-16 03:49:35.000000000 -0500
+++ nagios/xdata/xodtemplate.c  2005-12-09 10:04:17.000000000 -0500
@@ -5874,6 +5874,8 @@
               
this_contact->contact_name=strdup(template_contact->contact_name);
        if(this_contact->alias==NULL && template_contact->alias!=NULL)
                this_contact->alias=strdup(template_contact->alias);
+       if(this_contact->contactgroups==NULL &&
template_contact->contactgroups!=NULL)
+              
this_contact->contactgroups=strdup(template_contact->contactgroups);
        if(this_contact->email==NULL && template_contact->email!=NULL)
                this_contact->email=strdup(template_contact->email);
        if(this_contact->pager==NULL && template_contact->pager!=NULL)

--
Chet Luther
chet.luther at gmail.com


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