Template-based extened host info

[Mike McClure]

When you define a template, you use the "name" directive to identify it later. 
"host_name" won't work for that.

This is the correct way to do what you want:

define hostextinfo {
name SUN                       <---- "name", not "host_name"
icon_image sun40.png
vrml_image sun40.png
statusmap_image sun40.png
register 0
}

define hostextinfo {
use SUN
host_name BLADE100
}

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> Hi there,
>
> i have some problems in defining some templated hostinfo definitions, here
> is my example:
>
> define hostextinfo {
> host_name SUN
> icon_image sun40.png
> vrml_image sun40.png
> statusmap_image sun40.png
> register 0
> }
>
> define hostextinfo {
> use SUN
> host_name BLADE100
> }
>
> This example does not work, for example in the status map the default ?-logo
> appears. When i change the example to
>
> define hostextinfo {
> host_name BLADE100
> icon_image sun40.png
> vrml_image sun40.png
> statusmap_image sun40.png
> }
>
> everything works fine.
>
> I thought about some problems with the template mechanism here (although i
> thought is is enabled by default), so i recompiled nagios with the
> --with-template-extinfo option:
>
>  External Data Routines:
>  ------------------------
>               Status data:  Default (text file)
>               Object data:  Template-based (text file)
>              Comment data:  Default (text file)
>             Downtime data:  Default (text file)
>            Retention data:  Default (text file)
>           Peformance data:  Default (external commands)
>        Extended info data:  Template-based (text file)
>
> But this had no effect, the problem still occurs (btw i noticed the
> resulting binaries (nagios & *.cgi) to be exactly identical??)
>
> Did i miss something?
>
> Thx & regards,
> Eyck
>
>
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