[naemon-dev] Ideas about future features

[Matthias Eble]

>>> Dan wrote:
>>> whatever you want, like I want to define “applications” and assign
>>> whatever properties I want to them.
>>
>>
>> hmm. How would that possible? Hosts and services are quite different
>> when it comes to scheduling:
>>     * trigger host check if service check fails
>>     * trigger service checks when host goes down
>
>
> So, what you're saying is that if a service specifies a host_name, the same
> thing happens as when a host specifies the same host as a parent, i.e. an
> implicit dependency is created. So they're in fact not at all different.
> Right?

Maybe I don't get your idea entirely.
What i wanted to show is that "assign whatever properties" needs to
implement something
that can handle these properties differently. Without that, the new
type wouldn't be any different than
a service with some custom macros, would it?