Alias to start a terminal

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Johnston Michael J Contr AFRL/DES wrote:

> I was wondering if any of you use the "alias" command in your host 
> configurations to link something like a terminal.  I know that you can 
> add something to make a browser come up using something like "alias   
> Switch-1 <br><a href="http://10.10.10.100/">Settings</a>" but how 
> would you tell it to open a terminal and telnet to 10.10.10.100.  Does 
> anyone do that?  Thanks!
>
I think what you really mean to use is the action_url in a hostextinfo 
definition, not alias in a host definition.We've used it for ssh://, 
telnet:// and rdp://, amongst other things, successfully.

See http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/2_0/xodtemplate.html#hostextinfo

Cheers.
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