Why the distinction between host definition and hostextinfo definition?

[Frederik Vanhee]

Ethan Galstad wrote:

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


Why don't you use the hostgroup_name in the hostextinfo definition ? 
Then you don't have to define images for each and every host

define hostextinfo{
    hostgroup_name   
    notes        
    icon_image       
    statusmap_image   
    notes_url     
    }



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