Contact Template Not Working?

[Marc Powell]

Paul L. Allen <mailto:pla at softflare.com> wrote:
> 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...  

You _did_ ask --

http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/1_0/xodtemplate.html

"Introduction 

One of the benefits of using the template-based config file format is
that you can create object definitions that have some of their
properties inherited from other object definitions. The notion of object
inheritence, along with documentation on how to do it, is described
<here>. I strongly suggest that you familiarize yourself with object
inheritence once you read over the documentation presented below, as
inheritence will make the job of creating and maintaining object
definitions much easier than it otherwise would be. "
  

> > 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.  

I concur.

--
Marc


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