Why the distinction between host definition and hostextinfo definition?

[Ethan Galstad]

On 3 Feb 2006 at 12:42, Marc Haber wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> to me, the distinction between host definition and hostextinfo
> definition seems artificial, awkward and clumsy - and it prevents some
> of the more powerful features from being used with the information
> that belongs into hostextinfo. 
> 
> Hostextinfo doesn't seem to support templates, and it doesn't seem to
> be possible to set information that is set as hostextinfo from a host
> group or via wildcards.
> 
> This makes it extraordinarily hard to - for example - set host icons
> for the status map, since it needs a dedicated hostextinfo definition
> setting icon_image and statusmap_image for each host which might have
> all other properties set from a template.
> 
> Is there any reason for keeping this distinction and not including
> hostextinfo into main configuration?
> 
> Am I missing something here?
> 
> Greetings
> Marc

The distinction has been maintained primarily for historical reasons. 
 I will most likely be moving host/service extended info definitions 
into the host/service definitions in Nagios 3.0.



Ethan Galstad,
Nagios Developer
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