[txemi2 at euskalnet.net: [Pkg-nagios-devel] Bug#294983: wishlist: not require alias and host_name in hosts.cfg]

[Subhendu Ghosh]

using templates you can define a default alias - alias is only used if you 
need it in notifications...

however host_names have to be unique and the address field can contain 
more than one address - so they have to be entered

also 1.x is in a bug fix mode only
development/features are in 2.x

It might be simpler to write a pre-init script that parses the config and 
writes out the address if needed from the hostname.

-sg

On Tue, 15 Feb 2005, sean finney wrote:

> hi nagios-devel,
>
> we have a feature request from a user that i think is pretty reasonable
> and not too big an effort to accomplish.  basically, nagios requires
> that all host objects have a host_name, address, and alias attribute.
>
> the user requested that as a default, if only the host_name is provided
> that it be used to derive the other two attributes.
>
> btw, this is for the 1.x cvs branch.
>
> thoughts?  comments?
>
> 	sean finney
> 	(debian nagios package maintainer)
>
> ps - i would appreciate it if you would maintain the CC field so that
>     further correspondance is kept with the bug record.
>
> ----- Forwarded message from txemi <txemi2 at euskalnet.net> -----
>
> From: txemi <txemi2 at euskalnet.net>
> To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit at bugs.debian.org>
> Subject: [Pkg-nagios-devel] Bug#294983: wishlist: not require alias and host_name in hosts.cfg
> Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2005 21:24:29 +0100
>
> Package: nagios
> Severity: wishlist
>
> wishlist: not require alias and host_name in hosts.cfg
>
> Most boring thing of setting up nagios is writting big configuration files.
> But some little changes could in my opinion short and increase readability of this files.
>
> In my hosts.cfg I have a lot of sections like this:
>
> define host{
>  use my-generic-host
>  host_name myhost.com
>  alias myhost.com
>  address myhost.com
>  check_command check_ssh
> }
>
> In most of my hosts host_name is equal to alias and address, so it could be written like this:
>
> define host{
>  use my-generic-host
>  address myhost.com
>  check_command check_ssh
> }
>
> But it cannot be done as host_name, alias and address are necessary.
>
> I would like that in host_name and alias absence they would take address 
> value. So I could say the same with less text making it easier to write, 
> read, change, mantain, understand...
>
> that is all...
>
> txemi <txemi2 at euskalnet.net>
> http://txemi.webhop.org
>
>
>
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