templates or USERx in hostgroups.cfg not working?

[Marc Powell]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net [mailto:nagios-users-
> admin at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of Brian Smith
> Sent: Thursday, July 28, 2005 7:04 PM
> To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: [Nagios-users] templates or USERx in hostgroups.cfg not
working?
> 
> 
> I'm banging my head on a wall with this so any help is greatly
> appreciated...  Nagios version is 1.2 Stable Release.
> 
> Problem:  I cannot seem to get template definitions or $USERx$ vars
> defined in resource.cfg to apply settings in hostgroups.cfg.  Are
these
> not supported for that config file or something?

The config file name doesn't matter. As long as it's listed as a
cfg_file in nagios.cfg then it's treated the same as any other cfg_file.


> I've tried the following for templates:
> 
> ###  in central hostgroups.cfg
> 
> define hostgroup {
> 	hostgroup_name	gengroup
> 	contact_groups		people
> 	register			0
> }

You probably mean to change 'hostgroup_name' to 'name'. You reference a
template called 'gengroup' below, but there is no corresponding template
named 'gengroup'.

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

define hostgroup {
	name				gengroup
	contact_groups		people
	register			0
}

> 
> 
> ###  in site specific hostgroups.cfg
> 
> define hostgroup {
> 	use			gengroup
> 	hostgroup_name	sitename
> 	alias			descriptive stuff
> 	members		list_of_hosts, more_hosts, etc_hosts
> }
> 
> 
> 
> and also tried the following for the $USERx$ variable:
> 
> ###  in resource.cfg
> 
> $USER1$=/usr/nagios/libexec
> $USER2$=people
> 
> 
> ###  in site specific hostgroups.cfg
> 
> define hostgroup {
> 	use			gengroup
> 	hostgroup_name	sitename
> 	alias			descriptive stuff
> 	contact_groups		$USER2$
> 	members		list_of_hosts, more_hosts, etc_hosts
> }

To the best of my knowledge, and a review of the documentation on using
them, macros are only available for use in the command definitions (e.g.
command_line); therefore the above would not be valid.

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

"One of the features available in Nagios is the ability to use macros in
command definitions. Immediately prior to the execution of a command,
Nagios will replace all macros in the command with their corresponding
values. This allows you to define a few generic commands to handle all
your needs."

I would say that your test confirms that.

--
Marc


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