object inheritance - overwrite custom variables?
Yueh-Hung Liu
yuehung.liu at gmail.com
Wed Nov 16 02:15:23 CET 2011
When you use multiple inheritance sources, Nagios will use the
variable/value from the first source that is specified in the use
directive.
On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 2:13 AM, Anders Kvist <anders at kvistmail.dk> wrote:
> Hey
>
> I have tried to use object inheritance in my nagios config, but a few
> things are bugging me:
>
> I have a linux-server which uses generic-server and sets up default
> settings for all my linux servers. I have some templates for tasks, in
> this case: storage, kvm and hardware. They only add the hostgroup (and
> gets services this way) and have some custom variables. Here is an example:
>
> define host{
> name storage-server
> hostgroups +storage-servers
> register 0
>
> __PROCS_WARN 500
> __PROCS_CRIT 750
> }
>
> A kvm host is defined with 'use linux-server,kvm-server,hardware-server'
> and storage host with 'use linux-server,storage-server,hardware-server'.
> Here is an example of a storage host:
>
> define host{
> use linux-server,storage-server,hardware-server
> host_name storage01.domain.tld
> alias storage01
> address xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
> }
>
>
> Hostgroups work fine (even tough the lists of hostgroups on a host in
> the webinterface isn't in the same order as the use-line), but custom
> variables doesn't. I have a __PROCS_WARN and __PROCS_CRIT in
> linux-servers with a default number of max processes before warning and
> critical - this needs to be overwritten for kvm-server and
> storage-server, because they have more processes - but the one from
> linux-server is used in both cases...
>
> What do I need to do to make this work as expected?
>
> /Anders
>
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