2 new feature requests -- your thoughts

[Ethan Galstad]

I was thinking about adding custom variables to object definitions in 
2.0, but am going to hold off til 3.0 before implementing this.  
Custom vars will probably start with an underscore (or something 
similar) to stay consistent with the way the rest of the directives 
are defined.

On 5 Dec 2003 at 8:34, Ian Holsman wrote:

> 
> I was wondering what people thought of the following:
> 
> 
> adding a new command/directive to the service definition to specifiy
> the arguments passed the reason for this would be to allow the command
> to be specified in the service template, and you could have the things
> which reference that template just overwrite the arguments passed
> (ie.. the port# or the timeout)
> 
> 
> the other idea I had was to add some meta data into some meta-data
> into the host configuration. for example
> 
> META location rack5-position3
> META switchport 4
> META partof SearchingFarm
> 
> which could be referenced by external utilities/guis to enhance the
> alerts/displays.
> 
> TIA
> ian
> 
> ps.. I don't mind doing this, but am unfamiliar with the code, so any
> pointers on how one would go about doing this would be appreciated.
> 
> 
> 
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