Contact Template Not Working?

[Paul L. Allen]

Marc Powell writes: 

> You can absolutely over-ride template defined variables. From
> http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/1_0/templaterecursion.html

I thought I'd followed every link in the docs, but I don't remember
seeing that page.  You've proved me wrong and I'm ecstatic.  Clearly
I was in error, but now I know it *should* be possible to over-ride
inheritance.  Now rub salt into the wounds and tell me it's a
prominent link on every page about Nagios templating... 

> "Remember, locally defined variables override variables that would
> normally be inherited from a template object."  The only question in my
> mind was whether you could have a host_name definition in a template and
> override that with a local host_name definition or contact_name in a
> template and override with a locate contact_name in a contact definition
> as a more pertinent example.

I have never had that work, and I wasn't trying to over-ride things like
host_name or contact_name.  I tried it several times, it didn't work for
me, I gave up on it.  I must have been doing something silly, but it was
so long ago I can't figure out what I might have been doing wrong.
Tomorrow, providing things are relatively quiet, I shall give it another
try. 

> From this thread it appears that is doable, but still questionable as to 
> why one would want to have something that specific in a template in the
> first place.

It wouldn't occur to me as something to try, but if inheritence worked
for me then I'd expect something like that to work too because to make
it not work would require special-case handlers in the code. 

-- 
Paul Allen
Softflare Support 




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