Bug? Was: "Re: cgi.cfg & logo problem"

[Ethan Galstad]

On 18 Sep 2002 at 18:27, C. Bensend wrote:

> 
> On Wed, 18 Sep 2002, Danny Shurett wrote:
> 
> > Found this and it solved my problem:
> >
> > > >>> "Steve Loughran" <stevelml1 at sc...> 07/19/02 04:09PM >>>
> >  > in cgi.cfg, i removed all references to
> >  >
> >  >     hostextinfo[whatever]=......
> >  >
> >  > and added:
> >  >
> >  >     xedtemplate_config_file=/usr/local/nagios/etc/hostextinfo.cfg
> >  >
> >  > then in that file specified above, i added my host extended info details:
> >  >
> >  >     define hostextinfo {
> >  >             host_name       host1
> >  >             icon_image      workstation.png
> >  >             statusmap_image workstation.png
> >  >             }
> >  >
> >  >     <etc>
> >  >
> >  > BTW i couldnt get GIFs or JPGs to work with this (1.03b), only PNG files.
> 
> I too had been wrestling with this, and it fixed my installation.
> 
> HOWEVER:  Something that might be noted for the next release, is
> the following:
> 
> I accidentally added the "xedtemplate_config_file=" line to the
> nagios.cfg file (brainfart).  It did not complain when I did a
> preflight check, but it also did not work.  It _does_ work when
> that line is added to cgi.cfg.
> 
> I personally would consider this a minor bug - if it's not going
> to work in nagios.cfg, I think it would be useful to complain
> about it during preflight check.  It would have saved me a few
> minutes of head-scratching, anyway.  :)
> 
> If the developers don't see things this way, that's fine too.
> I have no right to "demand" anything.  :)
> 
> Benny


Any directive that starts with an 'x' is ignored by the core process 
right now.  I'll add a warning message for this in 2.0.  


Ethan Galstad,
Nagios Developer
---
Email: nagios at nagios.org
Website: http://www.nagios.org



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